This story originally appeared on Deadspin. Last week, we got word that the Fritz Pollard Alliance, chaired by ex-NFL player John Wooten, was pushing a rule change in the league that would penalize players for the use of the word “nigger” on the football field. The proposal involves a 15-yard…
At least six people were injured by blocks of ice and snow sliding off the roof of Cowboys Stadium during Super Bowl Week in 2011. But in the aftermath, Arlington officials suggested that the guy who suffered the worst injuries had only himself to blame. In emails released by the…
In sports, as in life, it’s best to avoid unforced errors. Don’t fumble the snap. Don’t foul the three-point shooter. Don’t walk in the winning run. And for the love of God don’t, 15 years after the fact, piss on the graves of a dozen college kids who died in…
It may have been mostly a publicity stunt — see the press release and accompanying bicep-flexing, lipstick-wearing photo — but Jen Welter and the Texas Revolution made history in Allen on Saturday. Welter, a 36-year-old veteran of the Women’s Football Alliance, became the first-ever woman to play running back in…
There’s a formula — there has to be — that every sports columnist is taught during his or her days as a cub reporter that goes something like famous professional athlete + baseless speculation that he’ll land on local sports team = diamond-encrusted gold! That’s OK. When properly executed and…
In retrospect, the Dallas Country Club’s reluctance to admit then-Texas Ranger Alex Rodriguez seems less an expression of racial exclusivity than an act of justifiable caution regarding a man who would in short order become one of the most universally loathed figures in professional sports. That doesn’t make it any…
On Saturday night, SMU’s men’s basketball team beat a Top 10 opponent for the first time in 27 years, and it wasn’t even close. The Mustangs jumped to a 14-point halftime lead over Cincinnati and never looked back, ultimately winning by 21. It was the team’s biggest statement yet, proof…
Last week, University of North Texas grad Johnny Quinn was an unknown, just another one of the 1,200 or so Americans competing in the Winter Olympics America has never heard of. Then, the McKinney-raised bobsledder escaped a Sochi bathroom by busting Kool-Aid Man-style through the door…
There’s always been something pleasantly nostalgic about the name of the Texas Rangers’ stadium. The Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, like its red-brick facade, harkens back to simpler times, back before corporations plastered their names on every possible piece of sports-related real estate. Never mind that this peanut-and-Cracker Jack simplicity hasn’t…
Any creature can predict the winner of the Super Bowl. Those who have correctly done so include: an ape, a porcupine, a horde of puppies, a manatee, a seal, a panda, an octopus and a bunny. Add to that list the elusive “teen mystifier,” a 17-year-old Dallas magician named John…
It’s late in the morning, New Year’s Eve, and most of Dallas is still reeling from another of the Cowboys’ trademark December meltdowns, their team sent home early yet another year. For the city’s vast army of professional sports yappers, Christmas has come again. Inside the Central Expressway studios of…
ESPN Dallas’ Jean-Jacques Taylor has a glowing profile of SMU men’s basketball coach Larry Brown. Brown, Taylor explains, has built a recruiting pipeline that’s already funneling top local talent (Kimball’s Keith Frazier, Prime Prep’s Emmanuel Mudiay) to the Mustangs. He’s helped score a TV contract with ESPN. He’s put together…
Full disclosure: I don’t follow Major League Soccer, and I’ve never been to an FC Dallas game. The one and only time I’ve been to Frisco was when my future wife dragged me to IKEA. So, when I say that the coming season doesn’t look promising, I’m not passing judgment…
Fort Worth’s new “signature” West 7th Street Bridge may lack the flash of Dallas’ Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, but the pavement is perfectly serviceable for driving over and, as the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s video from this weekend shows, the concrete arches are perfectly sized for bicycles. The rider in the…
Dude Perfect, for those who are still unaware, is a quintet of A&M grads who found YouTube stardom after posting a clip of themselves hitting absurdly difficult basketball shots in a Texas backyard. Their few dozen encores have followed a similar pattern: make an elaborately conceived trick shot, celebrate it…
With Tony Romo sidelined, a last-in-the-league defense and an innate inability to deliver in the clutch, the Cowboys’ chances against the Eagles on Sunday aren’t looking good. So, rather than lose money betting on Dallas, we thought it would be more productive to wager on how the Cowboys will lose…
All week, ever since he re-injured a herniated disk in his back against the Redskins, Cowboys fans have waited for final word on whether Tony Romo will play in Sunday’s season-deciding matchup with Philadelphia. Now we know. Despite some brief glimmers of hope — vague pronouncements from Jerry Jones, a…
It started on Sunday in the closing minutes of the Eagles’ 54-11 shellacking of the Chicago Bears when Philly fans filled Lincoln Financial Field with chants of “We want Dallas!” The taunts have only increased in scope and volume as Sunday’s season-deciding Cowboys-Eagles grudge match has neared. Call it trolling…
The Washington Redskins got their comeuppance Sunday afternoon thanks to a near-miraculous fourth-quarter drive by the Cowboys. This Redskins fan, clad in a classy “Dallas Sucks” sweatshirt, got his just desserts some time before that at the hands of a Washington security guard. Deadspin provides some context. The man and…
On the bulletproof compound of the formidable College Sports Cartel, no one enjoys life quite like the football bowl executive, that shadowy Good Ol’ Boy who plans one football game a year in exchange for a mid-six-figure salary and fringe benefits fit for a Florida congressman. And in recent years,…
Jerry Jones talked to KRLD-FM 105.3 The Fan this morning, making about as much sense as the Fake Jerry Jones who no doubt graced KTCK-FM 96.7 The Ticket’s airwaves sometime yesterday. Here he is on why — despite his team’s unflagging mediocrity, total draft-day ineptitude and other traits with the…
The debate over who is most at fault for the Cowboys’ second-half collapse against the Packers will continue to simmer until Sunday, when fans and the media will presumably have a new debacle to grouse about. On YouTube, at least, the debate has been settled. Judging by the way the…
