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I’d totally forgotten about this. Now I know why. Jeff Rohrer. Steve Pelluer. Mike Saxon. And, yes, even Herschel Walker. A true Christmas classic. – Richie Whitt  …

As we mentioned yesterday, Jon Daniels is entering his fourth year as Texas Rangers general manager. He started off with a bang in year one, trading Alfonso Soriano in his first move and dealing Chris Young and Adrian Gonzalez less than two weeks later. Unfortunately, he received very little in…

Your Dallas Mavericks are hosting some kind of karaoke contest — free tickets to Vegas, year’s worth of Coke (wait — you sure this isn’t a Dallas Cowboys contest? Hi-yo) and other spoils to the victor. But the promo video proves that we’re all winners. –Robert Wilonsky…

Texas Rangers general manager Jon Daniels, who spent most of last week his colleagues in Las Vegas for baseball’s Winter Meetings, has been relatively quiet as the offseason reaches the halfway point. Thus far, he has dealt Gerald Laird to the Detroit Tigers and Wes Littleton to the Boston Red…

I grew up reading Tank McNamara. In accordance, I grew up believing sports cartoon strips were ridiculously unfunny. Lo and behold, today we get another early Christmas present. My ol’ buddy Mike Fisher over at DallasBasketball.com just crafted this beauty. It’s local. It’s clever. It’s topical. And, like his initial offering, it’s…

Your hints: *His next NFL interception will be his first. *I had to drive 250 miles to interview him. *He’s a good guy who made a really bad decision. *One of the major players in his life story has a mangled left leg, resides in Israel and refused comment for…

  Fittingly, the stadium with the hole in the roof – so God could watch his favorite football team, duh – was christened by a 10-day Billy Graham crusade. A month later – Oct. 24, 1971 – Texas Stadium opened for Cowboys’ business. Come Saturday night, the ol’ joint at Loop…

The Dallas Cowboys’ Pro Bowl representation dwindled from 11 players last year to 5 this afternoon. Will their win total similarly decline from 13 to 11? … 10? … 9?   Tight end Jason Witten, center Andre Gurode, nose tackle Jay Ratliff, linebacker DeMarcus Ware and right guard Leonard Davis were…

T-Minus five days until the final Dallas Cowboys’ game at Texas Stadium. I have a vague recollection of climbing atop Dad’s shoulders and watching Don Meredith toss bombs to Bob Hayes at the Cotton Bowl, but basically my life’s screenplay starts in Texas Stadium.   Section 12. Row 24. Seat…

One more sportsy note this a.m. — a follow to last week’s item concerning the fate of the Arena Football League, in which Your Dallas Desperados play. Or played, rather, as this morning the league has announced that there will be no 2009 season, which shorts the American Airlines Center…

This morning, I sort of casually mentioned that Your Dallas Cowboys had come up with one of the worst ideas in the history of goodbyes: allowing fans to choose the last song ever played over the Texas Stadium public address system following the Ravens game. That’s the ballot pictured above…

Silly us, we thought the season-long comparison would be between Felix Jones and Rashard Mendenhall. But, in retrospect, the Cowboys’ best pick was Tashard Choice. With Jones (and Mendenhall) long ago sidelined with season-ending injuries, the fourth-round rookie from Georgia Tech has been a shockingly successful surprise. He filled in admirably…

The morning after his Dallas Cowboys find themselves two wins from clinching a wild-card spot, owner and general manager Jerry Jones is still pretty high — which is to say, he sits at No. 2 on Sports Business Journal’s list of sports’ 50 Most Influential figures. Jones is behind only…

After the two teammates who disconnected last week connected this week, it was a third-string lineman and a third-string running back who ran the Dallas Cowboys past the New York Giants and firmly into their own playoff destiny Sunday night. Running behind beleaguered left guard Cory Procter, Tashard Choice clinched the 20-8…

Sean Avery puts himself before his team, alienates his locker room and winds up disparaging players on other teams. Terrell Owens puts himself before his team, alienates his locker room and winds up disparaging players on his own team. So, you tell me, does it make sense that T.O. is suiting…

So, Sean Avery isn’t returning to the Dallas Stars — surprise, surprise, surprise. Says the organization in its official release this morning regarding the release: Avery’s return, following his sloppy seconds suspension, just wouldn’t be in anyone’s “best interest,” but “treatment and counseling” are in Avery’s, so that’s that. And…

Terrell Owens has had more passes thrown to him this season than Jason Witten. Terrell Owens was elected a team captain. But Terrell Owens, above all else, is the common denominator. Where there’s locker-room smoke, there’s always T.O.’s fire. If you’re surprised by this week’s shenanigans, you haven’t been paying attention…

Forbes this morning guesstimates that some half a million Tony Romo jerseys have been sold this year, would would make the Cowboys QB’s No. 9 the top-selling top of 2008, even when you factor in baseball, basketball and that other sport that involves some kind of frozen liquid and a…

Ironic, after all we expected and all he’s been through and all he exhibited during training camp, that Pacman Jones’ season is ended by this: A muffed punt. Back in Oxnard, Calif., Pacman dazzled us by catching six punts and holding all six balls without dropping a single one. In…

On the day when new jobless claims hit a 26-year high, word has come down that there’s one man in America who, apparently, will never go without a job: former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Quincy Carter. Down in Hidalgo, Carter yesterday signed a contract with the Rio Grande Valley Dorados of…

Your Texas Rangers are the type of guy who would go out and buy a classic ’57 Chevy – in ’67. They invite you over to check out their new 8-track tape player. And – 10 years after being left at the altar by an All-Star pitcher in his prime -…

He always loved running. Helped him clear his head. If only Steve Damm could turn that trick now. Unfortunately, a pair of New Balance shoes and 15 miles per week can’t combat inoperable brain cancer. Though a two-time (’01 and ’02) finisher of the Dallas White Rock Marathon, chances are…