Tonight at American Airlines Center is the biggest Dallas Mavericks’ game of the season. In the coming weeks, there will be plenty more. Fighting for the NBA Western Conference’s No. 2 seed and a possible sidestep of the Los Angeles Lakers until the conference finals, the Mavs host the Denver…
Speaking of Your Texas Rangers …Just checked the e-mail this glorious baseball-season-y Sunday afternoon to find a missive from John Blake, exec veep of communications for the ball club, who sends word that Roger Staubach’s throwing out the ceremonial first pitch at the Rangers’ 1:05 p.m. home opener against the…
Word out of the U.K. has Tom Hicks refusing Rhone Group’s offer of a £100 million for a majority piece of Liverpool FC, the exact amount he and George Gillett owe the Royal Bank of Scotland come July. I’ve asked Hicks’s local spokesperson, Lisa LeMaster, wot the wot, but till…
I’m not austistic. Neither am I 17. Nor an, um, liar? My March Madness bracket is far from perfect, but I’m still leading the contest at 105.3 The Fan and it’s still worth tuning in to see if Kentucky can win it all for me. If you’re still in the…
Tiger Woods likely won’t play the Byron Nelson or the Colonial this year. But he is playing The Masters and – surprise – he will hold a true press conference. Not a staged, fake 13-minute reading or a controlled, 5-minute session in which the juicy questions are blown off with…
Roy Williams was supposed to be the Dallas Cowboys’ No. 1 receiver. But he sucks. So, despite not starting the first four games last year, Miles Austin ascended into the role and had a breakout season: 81 catches for 1,320 yards and 11 touchdowns. Tony Romo obviously trusts him. The Cowboys…
You would be fired. No? Go ahead, try it. Walk into your boss’ office this morning and tell him that during a recent business trip on the company dime you snorted cocaine. You were in Southern California with some friends just chillin’. Drinking beer and talking baseball and women and…
While the basketball outfit has hit a tiny pothole on its way to next month’s playoffs, the Dallas Mavericks’ dance team is already in its post-season routine. Today the Mavs kick off the 5th Annual NBA.com Dance Team Bracket with a first-round matchup against the Los Angeles Clippers Spirit Team. Coming off…
When they’re finished tinkering and tweaking with overtime today or tomorrow, NFL owners down in Florida will reveal next this season’s marquee TV matchups. Included on that list will be the Dallas Cowboys’ annual home Thanksgiving game. Been awhile since Dallas played a classic on Turkey Day. Last year was…
This was supposed to be a frenzied hockey year in Dallas. New coach (Marc Crawford), new GM (Joe Nieuwendyk) and renewed optimism. But let’s face it, the season got off to a slow start in October and now the Stars stink. With only 10 games remaining in the NHL season,…
On the agenda at the NFL owners meetings this week in Orlando: *Marquee TV games, including the Cowboys’ 2010 Thanksgiving opponent. *Further discussion of how to share annual $8 billion in revenue with players. *New rules changes. Maybe overtime. Possibly eliminating the three-point stance. Not on the itinerary: *Armball. *Moving…
Cornell in the Sweet 16? Called it. St. Mary’s upsetting Richmond and Villanova? So nailed it. Um, and then there’s the rest of my NCAA Basketball Tournament bracket. I lost two of my Final Four over the weekend, but have nine of the Sweet 16 in play and my winner…
A month from tonight – that’s right, tonight – the NFL Draft will commence in prime for the first time. Currently with the 27th overall pick, what will your Dallas Cowboys do? A safety? Perhaps Southern Cal’s Taylor Mays or Texas’ Earl Thomas? An offensive lineman for when, not if,…
My bracket’s still perfect. Yours? By tonight I can almost guarantee a blemish or three. If you want to talk trash, compare notes or buy me a pitcher of beer and some wings, come out to Hooters in Frisco tonight for the first of my six-stop March Madness tour…
Impossible to retrace the myriad steps that led me here this morning: to The Official Texas Stadium Implosion Web site, where you’ll find a lengthy video shot inside the joint during Tuesday’s media show-and-tell. I must say: This is a logo I can get behind: The artwork’s playfully retro (like…
Well, this is quite the surprise: Turns out Tom Hicks may be out as majority co-owner of Liverpool FC before the deal’s done to make Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan the keepers of Your Texas Rangers. Over the last few days, the story’s been bending to the point of this…
Take a bow Wade Phillips, Rick Carlisle and Marc Crawford, for you toil away at your head-coaching job … without the use of cocaine. Amazingly, the same cannot be said for Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington. Let me get this out of the way right up front: Washington should have been fired…
A Hatfield just befriended a McCoy. Dallas just hired Lee Harvey Oswald Jr. to promote tourism. The Mavericks just invited Charles Barkley to speak at their pep rally. And in the spirit of if-you-can’t-beat-’em-join-’em, the Texas Rangers just gave a contract, uniform and bat to longtime nemesis Vladimir Guerrero. “I’m…
A Friend of Unfair Park directed our attention yesterday to the trailer for a documentary called Article 19, about events leading up to and immediately following SMU’s football program receiving the NCAA’s death penalty in February 1987. I recalled having read something about this back in December, when the Mustangs…
Before posting anything about Sports Illustrated’s breaking story about Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington’s positive test for cocaine last July, I wanted to clarify one question: How often are managers tested for drug use? Because initially, the SI story didn’t say, though now it’s been updated to reflect that info.As…
Maybe I’m a sentimental old fool, but I’m going to miss the iconic eyesore called Texas Stadium. I’m all for progress and upgrades and the future-is-now and I love Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, but I saw a story on the news last night about the preparations being made to blow…
Shocked that Wash did this. Just as shocked that the Rangers – and Major League Baseball – did nothing about it. Holy wow…
