Today in the 5 o’clock hour 105.3 The Fan will announce a new five-year contract extending its exclusive partnership as the official radio home of NASCAR and Texas Motor Speedway through 2013. As part of the new agreement, The Fan will broadcast live all seven major racing events held annually at…
Consider this my public apology to one J.J. Barea. Dude, I was dead wrong. You are not, in fact, a 5-foot-2 pick-up game liability whose shot I could block. Not a novely act nuisance; the obtuse opposite of Shawn Bradley. Not some twisted Criss Angel mind-fuck. And not, after further…
The good news: When the Mavs and Spurs begin their first-round playoff series this weekend it will be a renewal of a rivalry featuring talented, tested teams. The bad news: When the Mavs and Spurs finish their first-round playoff series, the loser will go home and the winner won’t be far…
Last night was one of those nights. In a season of 82 Mavericks’ games and 162 Rangers’ games, we’ll remember April 15. For it was last magical night that we were treated to two – almost simultaneous – rare individual athletic feats in our own back yard: Jason Kidd’s Triple-Double and Ian Kinsler’s Cycle…
Now, Texas Rangers second baseman Ian Kinsler doesn’t necessarily identify himself as Jewish — his dad is, his mom ain’t, and the guy was never bar mitzvahed. Though, as he told ESPN.com last August, he knows he’s beloved in the Jewish community: “If you have any kind of Jewish ancestry…
A Dallas Mavericks’ season that had more than its share of ups and downs and ups and downs enters the playoffs on a peak. Thank you – of all people – Michael Finley. The former Maverick’s overtime-forcing 3-pointer allowed the San Antonio Spurs to beat the New Orleans Hornets Wednesday night and allowed the Mavs…
If you claim to have witnessed the wildest game in Dallas Mavericks’ history, chances are you’re lying. Only 9,007 fans squeezed into the team’s makeshift home at SMU’s Moody Coliseum on April 26, 1984. The fifth and deciding game in Dallas’ first-round playoff series with the Seattle Supersonics was telecast…
Just when some of you – okay, and most of me – blamed the Texas Rangers’ weekend sweep in Detroit on the lack of a certain rosy-hued sartorial splendor, we’ve got a new scapegoat. The Rangers wore red again last night. But they also handed the ball to a left-handed reliever…
Granted only about 33 percent of the precincts are reporting, but The Sporatorium is projecting the 2009 Dallas Cowboys to win 10 games. Being that the Cowboys haven’t used any of their 11 draft picks or convened for the first quarterback school/minicamp/OTA/gee-ain’t-it-nice-not-to-have-T.O.-around meeting of 2009, I’d like to keep a mulligan in my…
While you were sleeping, the Dallas Mavericks officially succeeded in their lil’ game of Avoid The Noid. Thanks to the Lakers’ blowout of the Utah Jazz late last night, the Mavs won’t open this weekend’s NBA Playoffs as a no-way-in-hell-8th-seeded-underdog against Los Angeles. Not exactly how I planned it, but the Mavericks did…
Earlier this afternoon, I finally spoke with Steve Hatchell — president and CEO of the National Football Foundation, the parent organization of the College Football Hall of Fame — concerning yesterday’s press conference during which Mayor Tom Leppert, Roger Staubach, T. Boone Pickens and a host of other bold-faced names…
Twiddling – or I should say Tweeddling – my thumbs until the 6 p.m. release of the NFL schedule and the unveiling of the Dallas Cowboys’ path to 9-7, I stumbled upon a couple of things. 1. This year’s NFL Draft is extraordinarily weak. (More on that later.) 2. The…
Embarrassing that the Dallas Mavericks had to pull a leftover Easter rabbit out of their hat last night against the Minnesota Timberwolves at American Airlines Center. But in this economy … sorry, in this Western Conference playoff race, a two-point escape beats the hell out of laying an inexplicable, rotten…
At some point, no doubt, we’ll get an official statement. Till then, well, here’s what the Wall Street Journal (subscription-only, sorry) has to add to the story of Tom Hicks’s refusal to pay off Hicks Sports Group’s debt:Creditors to Texas financier Tom Hicks’s Hicks Sports Group have declared the company…
Here’s an interesting little fact left off the two press releases announcing the city’s efforts to lure the College Football Hall of Fame from South Bend, Indiana, to downtown Dallas: It was all Bob Sambol’s idea. Seriously. But the namesake of Bob’s Steak & Chop House on Lemmon Avenue figured,…
So, this one seemed to sneak past everyone’s radar — the media relations bigwigs didn’t even know about this at Dallas City Hall when we called this morning, though a Friend of Unfair Park did send word that Norm Hitzges made brief mention of this on KTCK-AM ’round 9:50 this…
Aside from the Almighty He/She/It having the audacity to conjure up a downpour and wash out sunrise services across the Metroplex, which Texas culprit laid an egg Sunday and did the leaster for your Easter? 1. Dallas Mavericks 2. Texas Rangers 3. Chad Campbell The evidence:…
I know other columnists disagree, but I think this is it. Tonight’s the final game in the Stars-studded hockey career of Mike Modano. Horrible season. Getting called out. A team-worst minus-14. Only one goal in his last 34 games. Turning 39 in June. Her waiting at home. Just a gut…
The Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York is hallowed ground. The Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio is a sacred shrine. The Basketball Hall of Fame is an absolute joke. I realize it’s weird timing, seeing that this year’s class – Michael Jordan, Jerry Sloan, David Robinson and John…
Seriously, who are these guys? With generally the same cast of characters that has face-planted out of the gate the last two seasons, the Texas Rangers are off to a dream start. Granted 2-0 gets only a subtle nod in Boston or New York or Anaheim, but in Arlington it’s cause…
Like the rest of us, Texas Rangers pitcher C.J. Wilson admitted to being a little confused during Monday’s Opening Day. “It didn’t look like us out there,” he said after throwing a scoreless inning in his team’s 9-1 victory over the Cleveland Indians at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. Of course,…
It’s all well and dandy that Jason Terry is all but guaranteeing a Dallas Mavericks’ victory tonight against the Utah Jazz and that Dirk Nowitzki is welcoming difficult games during the NBA season’s final week. They’re saying the right things. But will they do the right things? Who knows? In…
