Every few years, Dallas Mavericks fans are reminded of the team’s greatest failure — not the loss to Miami in the NBA Finals, not the one-and-done against Golden State in ’07, not the 11-win season under Gar Heard. Rather, it’s two simple words: “Roy” and “Tarpley,” whose travails and tragedies…
I give up. I admit, I expected the Dallas Mavericks to lose at Phoenix, lose at Portland, beat Golden State and get blown out by the Lakers. I went 0-4. In typically unpredictable, unsettling fashion, they went 2-2. I’ll go on Channel 52 tonight at 6:30 – fingers crossed -…
Put your popcorn down, the wicked witch is dead. Late on March 4 Terrell Owens sent a bulk text message that read, simply: “I’m no longer a Dallas Cowboy.” Rejoice, Dallas! It’s again safe to like your local football team. Without the sabotaging, self-aggrandizing receiver who for the last three…
Look, I can be as jaded as anyone. Cynical. Smartassy. Surly. Down right skeptical. Especially – in case you haven’t been paying attention – when it comes to the Dallas Mavericks. But tonight’s last night’s 93-89 victory in Portland, on the heels of Tuesday’s victory in Phoenix, should serve as a…
For the first time in a long time – at least away from American Airlines Center – the Dallas Mavericks played like a team that wanted in the NBA Playoffs. And wanted to avoid a first-round matchup with the Los Angeles Lakers. Their reward: With only 18 games remaining in the…
Back in September, as city officials were offering the contents of Reunion Arena in an everything-must-go auction, Patrick Michels and I were given a tour of the joint by Randy Barner, the facility’s operations manager since 1983 and, now, the last man standing at the venerable facility. Among the items…
For his first long-form, post-Terrell Owens interview, Cowboys owner/GM Jerry Jones chose … 105.3 The Fan. In appearing on the newbie station with Ben and Skin yesterday afternoon, Jones is hinting loud and clear that his team has all but shaken hands with The Fan as the team’s new flagship radio station. And…
More photos here in our slideshow.For most fans, there isn’t much of the last Cowboys season that’ll be remembered too fondly — but for the team’s cheerleaders, who gathered up for one last time for a year-end performance last week, 2008 drew a tearful adios. The crew of dancers, some…
The Dallas Mavericks can clinch a playoff spot tonight. Plain and simple. Leading the Suns by a full four games in the race for 8th in the NBA’s Western Conference, if the Mavs win in Phoenix tonight they’ll own a considerable – insurmountable? – gap heading into the season’s final…
Considering the Cowboys haven’t won a playoff game in 12 years, the Mavs and Stars are on the brink of missing the playoffs and the Rangers are looking toward 2010, seems a weird time to say it. But say it I must: Atta boy, owners! First Mark Cuban threatens to blow…
When we last left the Dallas Stars they were a mediocre, irrelevant team besieged by injuries, struggling to stay around .500 and in the Western Conference playoff hunt while blaming Sean Avery. This morning – after last night’s 3-1 loss to the Montreal Canadiens – the Dallas Stars are a mediocre, irrelevant team besieged…
The National Football League will release the ’09-’10 schedule next month — at which point, just maybe, Jerry Jones’s Enormodome will officially announce that it’s making its national prime-time bow on Monday Night Football, enh. Sports Business Journal reports that ESPN execs toured Jonestown a few days back in anticipation…
This morning’s Wall Street Journal tours three new luxury sports facilities — those belonging to the New York Yankees, the New York Mets and Your Dallas Cowboys — and deems them “a case of monumentally bad timing,” which, yeah, is a bit of a no-brainer. Notes the paper, the Cowboys…
Suitable for framing. PR News Release Header March 5, 2009 Cowboys Release Roy Williams and Terrell Owens The Dallas Cowboys announced the release of veteran safety Roy Williams today. Williams, who was the team’s first round draft choice out of Oklahoma in 2002, earned five Pro Bowl selections in his…
Was enjoying some second-hand smoke from Dale Hansen’s seegar down in Victory Plaza before last night’s Mavs-Spurs showdown. We were discussing this week’s Observer cover story, owner Mark Cuban’s unprecedented outburst, how Dale claims he’s “too shy” to serve as Grand Marshal for the Observer’s annual St. Patrick’s Day parade on…
We can cross our fingers real hard and go for the trifecta, but I don’t see Cowboys owner Jerry Jones firing Wade Phillips today. Let’s don’t get greedy. But let’s also be realistic. Gone from the roster that lost 44-6 in Philadelphia on Dec. 28 and went 9-7 last year…
The Sports Illustrated scribe was among the first to predict that Jerry Jones would cut Terrell Owens, even as Jones hemmed and hawed in recent days about what he was going to do with the wide receiver. Why come? A gut feeling, he writes this morning, as Dallas Cowboys fans…
Damn, maybe Jerry Jones took Channel 8’s poll to heart. Either that, or the Cowboys owner is suffering from spasms of lucidity and humility. Whatever, less than 12 hours after cutting Terrell Owens, the Cowboys have this morning released safety Roy Williams. Weird, huh? The Cowboys actually making prudent roster…
My new hero is Eric. He plays for my new favorite sports team: The special education squad from Dallas’ Conrad High School. Seemingly an odd choice, because this year Eric probably won’t score many baskets and Conrad likely won’t win many games. Utterly immaterial, because they’ve already completed a perfect…
Putcha popcorn down. The failed T.O. experiment is over. Finally. Altogether now: Toldja! It was way back on March 23, 2006 that I warned: “Terrell Owens will catch touchdowns, complain about everything and, ultimately, crater the Cowboys’ locker room without delivering a Super Bowl.” The end – better late than never…
If the Mavericks keep blowing games to friggin’ Oklahoma City, owner Mark Cuban will apparently blow a gasket and blow up his team. Says Cuban, in the most violent finger-pointing of his 9-year regime. “Not only did it look like we had no idea what we were doing, but we…
Before I run out the door to Arlington this afternoon for a sneak peek at the facelift applied to Rangers Ballpark, thought I’d make a quick to-do list: *Since the Mavs suck and the Stars suck and the Cowboys suck and the Rangers will in all likelihood suck, look into other…
