I fully admit it, at the end of last season I was calling for C.J. Wilson to pitch Game 1 of the American League Division Series. Considering the way he’d pitched all year and the way Cliff Lee had struggled at times it made sense. Turns out both pretty pitched damn…
Back on July 15, 2009, Ross Perot Jr.’s Hillwood Center Partners sued Mark Cuban (and the Dallas Mavericks) over money made from the American Airlines Center, with Perot insisting that the AAC’s profits weren’t going to partners (including Perot, who still owns a 5-percent stake in the NBA team) but…
Love me some Tim Cowlishaw of Dallas’ Only Daily. Known him and respected him for years, going back to our days as competitive beat writers fighting for morsels about the Dallas Cowboys in the mid-1990s. I annually rank him among the metroplex’s 50 Most Powerful People in Sports. Dang, I even…
The Dallas Mavericks got better today. The Dallas Stars? Hmm. With the trading of Carmelo Anthony and Chauncey Billups to the New York Knicks, you can cross the Denver Nuggets off the list of NBA Western Conference powers in this spring’s playoffs. Raymond Felton is a decent point guard and…
I totally recognize that Blake Griffin is the shit. His in-game dunking has made must-see TV out of LA Clippers’ games. And you’d think that a dude who jumps over a car should automatically win the NBA’s All-Star Slam Dunk contest. But I watched a very entertaining dunk competition Saturday…
We knew Michael Young would show up to Texas Rangers’ spring training on time. We were pretty sure that he’d address the media and his teammates and act professional, saying all the right things. But did we think he’d already be taking grounders and throws at first base? Young apparently was…
10. NASCAR fans are loyal and rabid and … strange. I asked a guy who he was rooting for before Sunday’s Daytona 500 here in Florida and his answer: “Dodge.” Imagine NFL fans picking their favorite team based on whether they wore Nike or Reebok or Under Armour. 9. All the…
No doubt tired of taking it in the shorts over the icy weather and the “horrible mistake” involving Cowboys Stadium seating — the two things over which it had absolutely no control — the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee this morning sent a sneak peek at some early…
As reporters gathered around Roger Staubach following this morning’s launch of Mike Rawlings’s mayoral campaign at Dallas City Hall, questions inevitably shifted to his thoughts about the approximately 400 fans that were denied seats at Super Bowl XLV because portions of the temporary seating weren’t installed prior to game time…
Back in November in Cowboys Stadium, I went to the Manny Pacquiao-Antonio Margarito boxing match. In 2009 I went to UFC 103 at American Airlines Center. My judge’s scorecard: UFC > Boxing. By embarrassing submission. Got to debating the other day what event — other than Super Bowl XLV — could fill…
As we noted last week, attorneys representing Tom Hicks in the U.K. were in court trying to get a judge there to overturn his ruling that keeps Hicks from suing in the U.S. over last October’s sale of Liverpool FC to New England Sports Ventures. Hicks and his Dallas legal…
As promised, Roddy Beaubois did something amazing last night: He made us watch a mid-February Dallas Mavericks game against the lowly Sacramento Kings. And, unless you’re expectations were irrationally optimistic, he did not disappoint. In his first NBA game action since last April, the second-year guard scored 13 points, dished…
Cliff Lee left. Zach Greinke never arrived. Neither Vladimir Guerrero nor Bengie Molina were invited back. But the biggest, most unlikely conundrum for your Texas Rangers this off-season: Michael Young is still here. That is, unless somebody misplaced the Claw or the Antlers, too? To say the least, this hasn’t…
10. Pitchers and catchers report today. Means backyard pool parties and bikinis can’t be far behind. 9. Whatever happens the first week of camp, it can’t be more shocking than a year ago when manager Ron Washington announced that he had snorted cocaine the previous season. 8. Last year’s motto: It’s Time!…
Last time we saw Roddy Beaubois, we didn’t see nearly enough. After a sporadic rookie season highlighted by a 40-point game against the Golden State Warriors last March, the cat-quick combo guard almost single-handedly rallied the Dallas Mavericks to a win in Game 6 of the NBA Western Conference first-round…
Add leading scorer Brad Richards to the Dallas Stars’ list of injuries that has dragged their NHL season from surprising to so-so. The scrappy Stars jumped to an impressive start, getting even skeptical hockey neophytes like myself to pay attention. But somewhat lost in the middle of Super Bowl XLV and the…
Forget missing out on Cliff Lee and Zach Greinke at the front end of the rotation, a huge factor in how the Texas Rangers will defend their American League championship will be who pitches and how they perform out of the back end of the bullpen. I think the Rangers have voluntarily…
Three weeks ago, we took a look at the trailer for You+Dallas’s five-part webdoc about Jared Williams, who was 14 on October 1, 2009, when the Pinkston freshman was paralyzed from the waist down in a varsity football game against North Dallas High. The series, as you may recall, is…
When one party wants out, relationships are difficult to salvage. For now, Michael Young wants a divorce and the Texas Rangers are desperately seeking a lawyer to foster the proceedings. But what if it can’t happen before next weekend and Young reports to Surprise, Arizona for spring training? This could…
Just found these over on Heritage Auction Galleries’ website — a collection of 7-Eleven-sold football cards of Hank Stram’s Dallas Texans, circa 1960. Says Heritage, which will put them up for sale in April, they’re “among the rarest regionally issued card collectibles known in an genre of the hobby.” For…
On Wednesday we noticed Tom Hicks’s UK attorney was back in court, trying to convince the judge to lift the order keeping him (and his former Liverpool FC partner George Gillett) from suing over the soccer club’s £300m sale to New England Sports Ventures back in October. Hicks, you’ll recall,…
While the Texas Rangers seem dead-set on trading franchise icon Michael Young, fears about Josh Hamilton leaving were subdued today when the team announced a two-year contract through 2012 with the American League MVP. The deal, worth $24 million, allows both sides to avoid heading to arbitration next week. This new…
