In March, the city of Dallas began $4.8 million in renovations to the L.B. Houston Golf Course, the 18-holer in the northwestern-most corner of the city. That required closing the course to the public and changing its name to Luna Vista, since Dallas is a world-class city, after all, and…
Friday afternoon, tragedy struck. America laughed while Big Tex smoldered, fairgoers having no free hands to wipe the tears as they double-fisted turkey legs and corn dogs. With the memory of the deep-fried deity lighting a fire in their collective boots, the Cowboys stormed out of the locker room and…
In the latest bit of fallout from the doping allegations against him, several news outlets are reporting that Lance Armstrong will step down as chairman of the Lance Armstrong Foundation, better known as Livestrong, the Austin-based cancer-fighting charity he helped found in 1997. It was also reported this morning that…
Delonte West, the Mavericks guard and most interesting man in basketball, has been suspended for “conduct detrimental to the team,” ESPN reports. Coach Rick Carlisle isn’t specifying why, nor has he laid out a timetable for West’s return. The suspension came after the Mavs’ preseason win over Houston Monday, in…
When people look back on the Cowboys’ 2012 season, there are only two things they will be concerned with: wins and losses. Yesterday’s game falls into the latter column, but only because the Pokes violently shoved it out of the former. See also: Ravens Cornerback Tells Dez Bryant to “Be…
Toward the end of yesterday’s Cowboys game, there was a two-play sequence that more or less captured the career of receiver Dez Bryant. After Bryant hauled in a touchdown catch to pull Dallas to within two, Tony Romo chucked a perfect ball into Bryant’s chest, a pass that should have…
At their end-of-season press conference yesterday, Rangers brass mostly deflected questions about Josh Hamilton’s terrible performance down the stretch. Team president Nolan Ryan opened up a bit more yesterday to Galloway & Company on ESPN Dallas, at least about Hamilton’s on-field performance. Ryan dismissed the idea that Hamilton quit on…
The claim that Lance Armstrong used performance-enhancing drugs has been endlessly recited in media exposes and confessional tell-alls from former teammates. The evidence, however, has never been put forth in any sort of formal way, as was going to happen publicly before the seven-time Tour de France winner announced he…
The Rangers just wrapped up their 2012 post-mortem press conference. It was by and large quite boring, probably by design. You can imagine the team’s PR gurus urging the team brass to keep it vague, uninteresting, answer-free. For the most part they succeeded. GM Jon Daniels and president Nolan Ryan…
Jerry Jones must have felt the superlatives slipping away from Cowboys Stadium, that monument to football, consumerism, and, not least, Jerry Jones. What other explanation could there be for opening the first ever lingerie store inside a sports stadium? Three years after it opened with a dome that, at 275…
Rangers fans seem like a relatively forgiving bunch, but yesterday’s series of events — the dropped fly above, followed by Josh Hamilton appearing bemused and totally bored by his clumsy, possibly game-killing error — seems to have sent the fan base into a proper rage. And they’ll be able to…
The good news: Meaningful day-time baseball. The bad news: It comes about a week too soon. The Rangers have one more crack at Oakland’s swinging (and walking) A’s this afternoon. It’s win-and-they’re-in, lose-and-they’re-kind-of-in. Since workplace productivity will be in the tank anyway, we figured we’d provide a place to bitch…
It seems to have become a routine occurrence for the Cowboys in the Garrett Era: win one game, lose the next. One step forward, two drunken stumbles into the hot tub. Don’t heap too much praise on any one player, lest you’re prepared to be let down the following week…
After more or less single-handedly propelling the Rangers past the Angels last night with two home runs and six RBIs, thus securing a playoff berth, it would take something extraordinary Mike Napoli to fall from a Rangers fan’s good graces. But dear Lord, Napoli came close. See also: Photos: The…
The website for the Bikini Basketball League is a bare-bones affair, little more than a clock ticking down the seconds to…well, it doesn’t really say exactly what is happening in a shade over 35 days, but one can make an educated guess, particularly with the help of the accompanying blurb…
Cowboys Stadium has pretty much everything Jerry Jones could imagine packing into a single building, but if there’s one thing it lacks, it’s a certain feminine touch. No longer. The Cowboys announced yesterday that Victoria’s Secret will open a PINK store at JerryWorld on Monday, just a few hours before…
The Cowboys nabbed Martellus Bennett in the second round of the 2008 draft with hopes that the 6-foot-6 tight end would be good to have on the other side of the formation from Pro Bowler Jason Witten. That never really came to pass, and Bennett was written off as a…
Via Over at Mavs Moneyball, Andrew Tobolowsky (who, in the interest of full disclosure, I routinely destroyed during pickup basketball when we were at Richardson High) stumbled upon something of a mystery yesterday. The Mavericks, it seems, have set up a bare-bones web page with a floating Dirk bobblehead and…
For the first time in five games, Josh Hamilton will be in the Rangers lineup tonight for the first of four against the A’s, who conveniently lurk four games behind in the West with 10 games to go. Hamilton has been sidelined with blurred vision and balance issues, reportedly caused…
A week after being thoroughly handled by the Seattle Seahawks, the Cowboys returned to Dallas to be thoroughly handled by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Fortunately for Dallas, Tampa didn’t have a running back near the caliber of Marshawn Lynch, and their punt coverage team couldn’t resist going for Cowboys’ punter…
The Dallas Cowboys almost snatched up the Cowboys.com domain five years ago. They called in the winning bid at auction but backed out after realizing that the “275” the agreed to was $275,000, not just $275.00, according to a report at the time from Domain Name News. The name was…
Yesterday, still irrationally giddy from the beatdown their Seahawks delivered on Sunday ( I for one blame the replacement refs for Felix Jones’ fumble on the opening kickoff. And the subsequent blocked punt. And the Romo interception right after. And — oh screw it, the Cowboys blew.) , our colleagues…
