ESPN the Magazine accompanied Terry “Tank” Johnson — the not-quite-yet-a Dallas Cowboy nose tackle — when he went to rent a Dallas apartment a couple of weeks back. Couple of things you learn from the story: One, he really wanted to live in The Ashton on Cedar Springs. And two,…
Mark Graham Steve Fleming, the former Special Olympics coach, laments the state of Lewisville’s delegation since his dismissal. The current issue of Sports Illustrated has a story on Steve Fleming, the firebrand Lewisville coach who tried to change the nature of the Special Olympics and was kicked out in the…
USA Boxing Duncanville’s Luis Yanez is already being hyped as USA Boxing’s best and brightest — we’ll find out this week in Chicago, just maybe. Duncanville High School product Luis Yanez turns a whopping 19 on Thursday, and as an early birthday present, the kid is the recipient of a…
Weird game yesterday: Dallas rolls into its bye week at 6-1 after yesterday’s 10-point victory over the Vikings that felt more than 30. Didn’t it? Tony Romo was 28 of 32 in the first half, yet somehow Dallas trailed by seven. The second half featured the Cowboys’ first return of…
Speaking of Tony Romo’s love life … A couple of weeks ago, Richie mentioned that Romo co-hosts a radio show every week from the Gaylord Texan. And it’s kind of awesome: Romo, usually dressed in a white tee and jeans, will talk about damned near anything he’s got on his…
In the upcoming issue of Entertainment Weekly, Carrie Underwood says, yeah, she and Dallas Cowboys QB Tony Romo were this close to being a couple. (This, after previously insisting they were just good friends.) But Romo wouldn’t commit — couldn’t, says the former American Idol, who’s now dating some other…
Dear Reporters, Because of the magnitude of yards and high volume of points surrendered by our defense this season, we will not be talking about our unit or the other unit. We will be taking all questions immediately following Sunday’s game against the Minnesota Vikings and second-year quarterback Tarvaris Jackson,…
The best reason to try out for the Dallas Desperados, we’re thinking. Scattershooting … while wondering whatever happened to this guy. The Lakers might be dumb enough to trade Kobe Bryant. But, sorry, Mavs fans, they aren’t stupid enough to deal him to a Western Conference team … If the…
Here’s a crazy story this morning — from no less a source than DomainNameNews, which is where Schutze and I used to work in the late 1970s. Apparently, the folks who own the domain name Cowboys.com — which is a “boot barn,” no less — were all ready to sell…
For those who missed it last night, ESPN interviewed Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban about the rumors that Kobe Bryant might be leaving Los Angeles for Dallas. Cuban talks about the Mavs being “opportunistic” and willing “to explore” their options, but the best part of this brief segment: It was…
Seven-year-old Caroline Turns, who was recently diagnosed with a rare form of pediatric cancer Not sure what’s more mind-blowing to Kelly Howell these days. the fact that a precious 7-year-old girl can get pancreatic cancer. Getting up at 5 a.m. to run 13 miles. Or the kindness of total strangers…
It was the feel-good story of the year: In late February, Everson Walls donated a kidney to his former Dallas Cowboys teammate Ron Springs. The two became, as the Associated Press reported in March, “the first former U.S. professional athletes to undergo an organ transplant.” Springs said Walls did it…
After the jump, Richie reviews — minute by painful minute — yesterday’s Dallas Cowboys-New England Patriots game at Texas Stadium, the highlight of which was an alleged Tom Cruise sighting, no sign of his hostage. Ah, well — to quote another visiting celebrity, “The rain on my car is a…
We doubt Quincy Carter’s rookie card is worth as much as Tony Romo’s. My old pal Jaime Aron, a longtime sports writer for the Associated Press, notes that tomorrow, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones will turn 65 — and, yes, expect big doings during halftime of the Cowboys-Patriots game on…
According to Beckett Media, Leaf only made 75 Tony Romo rookie cards in 2003 — which is why they’re worth $150 apiece. Two ways to deal with going 0-2 and coughing up a cool $385, thanks to closer-than-expected wins by Oklahoma and the Cowboys last weekend. One, I could take…
So, lesse — yesterday we featured a Zimbabwe-born Brookhaven College student about to become the biggest thing in rugby, and today we have a Zambian-born University of Texas at Dallas grad about to become the biggest thing in chess. How international of us — as in Newsweek International, which this…
Um, Terrell Owens, we found at least one “original 81” who ain’t you, pal. Response to last week’s homage to Blackie Sherrod was, well, yummier than a plate of scratch biscuits and red-eye gravy. So, yes, in fact, I’ll make this a weekly staple. Riddle me this: Buffalo’s Terrence McGee…
Takudzwa Ngwenya, just your average radiology student at Brookhaven College Remember the name Takudzwa Ngwenya. Fine, try to pronounce it, then remember it, because the Zimbabwe-born Dallasite is about to become the biggest thing in rugby. It’s more or less because of the one play below, which comes from the…
With minimal upgrades and a fragile psyche, this season could stroll off in any ol’ direction A. June 19, 2008—Inspired by a whiff of the trophy in ’06 and fueled by a colossal collapse after a record-setting regular season in ’07, the Dallas Mavericks tonight ultimately persevered and won their…
Gregg Eklin was one of the only guys on the Rangers’ payroll who did his job well. So of course Tom Hicks had him canned. Terrell Owens’ humility coach. Marion Jones’ image consultant. Lindsay Lohan’s liver. And at the top of the list of the world’s most difficult jobs: Senior…
The Washington Post reports this morning that the NCAA’s “death penalty” is dead — thanks to what it did to SMU, which hasn’t been to a bowl game since 1984 and is a woeful 1-4 this season. Coach Phil Bennett, who is 17-42 during his six years on the Hilltop,…
Hate to be the continual bearer of bad news regarding horse racing, a sport I truly do love and grew up around, so consider this a public service announcement to all you degenerate gamblers out there: Jockey Roman Chapa, who has been one of the top 10 riders at Lone…
