I’m with ya. Tired of seeing Marion Barber. Watching him hop up and strut 10 yards down field to celebrate a four-yard run. Watching him dive into a pile for a 1/2-yard loss on 3rd-and-1. Watching him bounce inside runs to the outside. The Barbarian long ago deteriorated into the…
The good news: Mavs win again. Their sixth in a row, this one over the Houston Rockets comfortably, 101-91, last night at American Airlines Center. Dallas is 13-4 and on one of its trademark rolls that annually leads to 50-plus wins come April. The bad news: Rookie guard Dominique Jones has…
Let’s see, he’s won a batting title, an American League MVP, multiple Ginger Ale showers, our hearts and – almost, sorta – a World Series. Today Texas Rangers’ outfielder Josh Hamilton goes for another coveted honor – Sports Illustrated’s Sportsman of the Year. Little debate that Hamilton was the best player in…
With the Cowboys’ hopes buried, the Rangers’ pursuit of Cliff Lee still a week from climax and the leftover turkey all but scarfed, time for your Mavericks to snatch our attention. If they haven’t already. In case you’re one of those that refuses to pay attention to basketball before Thanksgiving, you missed…
So report both AOL FanHouse and the New York Daily News this morning, in advance of what’s expected to be a 1 p.m. press conference here. The undefeated No. 3 Horned Frogs, of course, are the team on the outside looking in at the BCS standings; right now, everything’s coming…
Whether free agent Cliff Lee chooses to re-sign with the Rangers because of Arlington’s proximity to his Arkansas home or bolts to New York for the extra dough, his decision undoubtedly shapes the future of both teams significantly. Yet in all that’s been said and written about Lee, rarely does…
10. The end of the modest two-game winning streak also means the end of the disappointing season. At 3-8 the Cowboys are officially dead. Tony Romo should be put on injured reserve today. 9. Down 20-3 there was no way the Cowboys were going to win. Then up 27-23 with…
This isn’t still about that JFK thing, is it? Perhaps then it’s eternal payback for the Dallas Cowboys’ Hail Mary, Brett Hull’s “no goal” for the Dallas Stars, the Texas Rangers’ exploitation of 18-year-old David Clyde or all those second chances afforded Roy Tarpley by the Dallas Mavericks? OK, then…
It was 16 years ago today that a red-headed backup quarterback from Princeton authored one of the most amazing holiday scripts in Dallas Cowboys’ history. Thanksgiving Day, 1994. With Troy Aikman and Rodney Peete out with injuries, Dallas’ third-stringer stepped in and promptly fell behind the Green Bay Packers, 17-3,…
Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback ratings. Wins and losses? Definitely. Leadership? Uh-huh. When it comes to my weekly NFL Quarterback Rankings — if I had one of those little encircled R’s to signify a trademarked idea, it’d go here — the…
And deservedly so. Good for him…
Former SMU player-turned-Cowboys’ stud Bryan McCann got me to thinking. Has an undrafted guy ever made such an immediate impact in Dallas? An interception return of 101 yards one week, followed by a 97-yard punt return the following week is impressive. But he’d better keep it up if he hopes to barge…
OK, admittedly this may be a tad premature. We’ve still got – what? – 4.5 months left of NBA regular season. But what happened last night in Miami was too delicious to bypass. Turkey comes Thursday. Monday night the appetizer was served. Last week I officially wished failure upon the unfortunate noggin’…
For months I’ve been saying that Rangers’ outfielder Josh Hamilton is the best player in baseball. Today he’ll at least be validated as the Most Valuable Player in his own American League. Around 1 p.m. Hamilton should win AL MVP, joining Jeff Burroughs (1974), Juan Gonzalez (’96, ’98), Ivan Rodriguez…
Way back in May, before the filmmakers yanked the trailer from YouTube, we sneaked a peek at something called Article 19, a doc-in-progress by two Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas grads about the events leading up to and immediately following SMU’s football program receiving the NCAA’s death penalty in…
On September 17, we noted: The New York Times, for whatever reason, really wanted to get its hands on a tape made in Fort Worth bankruptcy Judge Michael Lynn’s chambers on July 9, when the judge ordered a closed-door sitdown with those involved in the bankruptcy and subsequent auction of…
Would you rather your football team – like the Dallas Cowboys – implode during a 1-7 start, fire its head coach and be done by Halloween? Or would you rather your football team – like FC Dallas – make it all the way to the Super Bowl only to dramatically lose…
10. Two-game winning streak be damned, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones isn’t getting too caught up in his team’s re-booting: “I want to say it again: No fan should think I’m happy with the way things are,” Jones said after his team’s win Sunday at Cowboys Stadium. “I’m happy having these two…
On Tuesday, October 14, 2008, the Dallas Cowboys traded for receiver Roy Williams. In exchange, they sent to the Detroit Lions a first- third- and sixth-round draft pick in 2009. Matching him with Terrell Owens, the move was supposed to give the Cowboys yet another elite weapon en route to being…
Texas Rangers’ manager Ron Washington deserves credit. But not a trophy. I was neither surprised nor disappointed yesterday when Minnesota Twins’ skipper Ron Gardenhire was named American League Manager of the Year. While he led his team to 94 wins and a division championship despite major injuries to closer Joe Nathan and…
The Texas Rangers’ incredible October playoff run made this summer’s messy bankruptcy saga easier to forget, but the court filings continue, with Major League Baseball alleging that the team’s law firm deviated “sharply from the facts” when portraying MLB as “iron-fisted and overbearing.” In a response filed Monday to an…
Love me some Dirk Nowitzki, the most underrated, under-appreciated athlete in the history of Dallas/Fort Worth sports. Behind him and his finesse game of around 25 points and 10 rebounds this season, the Mavs will win 50-55 games and make the NBA’s Western Conference playoffs as the 3-6 seed. But …..
