It’s a painful year to be a Mavericks fan. Two years removed from winning the NBA championship, the team’s a disappointing 22-29, with its playoff chances dimming with each passing game. Some might blame Mark Cuban, who dragged the team from the NBA’ cellar to its apex before dismantling it…
So here’s what happened. Dallas-based SCA Promotions, a sports insurer, paid Lance Armstrong a $12 million bonus for winning three Tour de France titles between 2002 and 2004. Tailwind Sports, which owned the U.S. Postal Service (Armstrong’s) team, gave SCA Promotions $200,000 as insurance for the bonus. If Armstrong didn’t…
When SMU announced in April that it had hired Larry Brown, the only man to have coached teams to both the NCAA and NBA championships, to lead the Mustangs, a lot of head-scratching ensued. It was hard to fathom why SMU would put its basketball program in the hands of…
Editor’s note: What use is having a British contributor if you don’t get him to write about “football”? So less than a week after Brek Shea skulks off to Europe on transfer deadline day, FC Dallas has brought in two signings, at least one of which is a sizeable coup…
Sometimes — more often than he’d like, and even though he knows it’s not healthy, that it won’t change anything — Sean Bass thinks of all the different routes he could’ve taken to the store. It was a warm Friday night in late September. Sean had just mowed the lawn…
Last month Biogenesis, a nondescript clinic a short hop from the University of Miami, quietly closed its doors. It purported to be an anti-aging clinic offering medical treatments to boost energy and libido, but, as our sister paper the Miami New Times reports, it also offered professional athletes a one-stop…
The Fort Worth Cats were rescued from the brink of insolvency 13 months ago when former Congressman John Bryant led a group of investors in purchasing the minor league ball club. And things were going swimmingly for about six months ago until, in the middle of the 2012 season, vendors…
Starting at 7 a.m. on Sunday, April 21, all four lanes of Central Expressway will be shut down for several hours as some 10,000 cyclists pedal their way from downtown Dallas to McKinney. That’s at least what a group called Bike the City is promising. It’s an undeniably badass plan,…
It was a dark day in Dallas on October 29, when the Mavericks unceremoniously waived Delonte West just a day before the season opener. He was a solid player who held his own on both sides of the ball. He was also one of the few professional athletes whose public…
The above photo was snapped at last night’s Dallas Stars game by Twitter user @EdCahill before making its way to Deadspin. Together with the Stars’ recent handling of an exceedingly dickish Cowboys’ Tweet, we’re getting the impression the AAC’s hockey residents don’t give all that many shits. Kudos to them…
Johnny Manziel learned the hard way what happens when a suddenly famous college football player celebrates one of the more impressive individual performances in recent bowl game history by publicly guzzling Dom Perignon: People tsk-tsk and tell him to be a better role model. He’s now discovered what happens when…
Yesterday morning whoever handles the Dallas Cowboys official Twitter feed (probably Jerry Jones) let their feelings be known about the return of NHL hockey. They quickly deleted the Tweet, but not before it was captured by @D_LEED Whoops. This did not please the Stars, who responded in kind…
College football’s first playoff championship game may be coming to the Cotton Bowl. No, not the old, art-deco Cotton Bowl in Fair Park but the AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic, which has freed itself from the geographical shackles implied by its name and moved to Cowboys Stadium in Arlington. ESPN, citing…
Ed Young, the jet-setting, lion-taming, couch-surfing sexpert — not to mention pastor of Grapevine’s Fellowship Church — ranks as one of Unfair Park’s favorite human beings. So we were all ears yesterday when he delivered a sermon answering the question we’ve all been asking: What would Jesus say to Jerry…
On Friday night, Texas A&M quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel was picking apart Oklahoma’s defense en route to an impressively lopsided 41-13 victory in the Cotton Bowl. On Saturday, he went out to celebrate. TMZ posted pictures of the Heisman Trophy winner partying at Dallas’ Avenu Lounge, all…
The Associated Press is reporting that Jerry Brown, the Cowboys practice player who died in a drunk-driving accident last month, was sober at the time of the crash. Brown’s teammate, Josh Brent, had a blood-alcohol level twice the legal limit when the car he was driving crashed. The two had…
Even after the Cowboys capped off another disappointingly mediocre season on Sunday, there were some things to be thankful for. The team stayed in the playoff chase and kept things entertaining until the very end with an impressive string of come-from-behind victories. Dez Bryant exorcised his demons and began to…
Man. How could it have ended any other way? It was such a familiar outcome that looking back on it seems disgustingly routine. Just when you put your tiny heart into hoping for this team to do well, it gets crushed as it has so many, many times before. One…
At the very beginning of her column today on Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones, Washington Post sports columnist Sally Jenkins sets the scene, and she sets it well. The Dallas Cowboys’ home locker room after a game is suffused by a bright halo of light from a wall of TV cameras…
Earlier this month, Michigan State University athletic director Mark Hollis floated the idea of playing four NCAA basketball games in Cowboys Stadium. At the same time. The idea may not have been as far-fetched as it sounds, Hollis having previously organized a game on the aircraft carrier that took Osama…
The Dallas Cowboys, despite a season defined largely by extended periods of mediocrity, improbably, inexplicably find themselves on the cusp of their first playoff berth in three years. It all comes down to Sunday. If they beat the Redskins, they’re in. If they lose, they’re out. One would expect that…
It’s been over a decade since the Dallas Stars won the Stanley Cup and proved, six years after moving from Minnesota, that there was room for professional ice hockey even in football-obsessed, not-at-all-icy Texas. The team’s popularity has flagged significantly in recent years, but a generation of North Texas kids…
