NFL Quarterback Rankings: Week 6

Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback rating. 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…

October = Baseball Bummer

Seems like the Texas Rangers season ended months ago doesn’t it? Don’t look now, but the cool kids are still playing baseball. The League Championship Series start this week with Angels-Yankees and Dodgers-Phillies. According to national TV ratings, you’re not looking at all – as Dallas/Fort Worth ranked 54th out…

A Humble Successor: The Top 10 Finalists

With Humble Billy Hayes no longer the Dallas Mavericks’ voice at American Airlines Center, the team has whittled 175 candidates down to its Top 10 finalists. You waste time voting for Dancing With The Stars, might as well cast a vote for something that actually matters: 1. Rodney Blue 2. Doug Branch…

The Dumbest Video I’ve Ever Seen. Shame on you, Fox. Shame.

Since I’m usually on 105.3 The Fan as part of the Dallas Cowboys pre-game show, I no longer get to partake in Fox NFL Sunday. My reaction: Praise Allah. Because after seeing this video and learning that this “The King and Us” series is now a weekly staple, I’m embarrassed for Curt,…

One Year Later: The Cowboys Overpaid for Roy Williams. Duh.

Seems strange timing to bemoan the Dallas Cowboys’ receiving corps in the wake of Miles Austin’s record-setting day, but let’s face it – the trade for Roy Williams a year ago has been a gigantic flop. My first reaction to news that the Cowboys had acquired Williams and a 7th-round pick in 2010…

JumboJerry: You Too?

Don’t really get U2 so I’m not live on the scene in Arlington, but one of my faithful Sportatorium readers sends word (and the above photo) from Cowboys Stadium that U2’s monstrosity of a stage wouldn’t exactly fit under JumboJerry so it had to be, um, moved to one of the end…

The Ugliest Cowboys’ Win in the History of Ever?

It featured overtime. It was won by underachievers. Do you exhale in relief? Or boast with satisfaction? Glass-half full guys say a win is a win is a win. That Tony Romo found his smile and Miles Austin at just the right time. That 3-2 is heck of a lot…

A Day at the Fair: Weather, Winners and Winfrey.

This was the plan: Cowboys will trounce the sorry ass Chiefs, so I’ll sneak off with friends to the Fair on Sunday afternoon and let TiVo leisurely give me the highlights when I get home. During a Cowboys game Fair Park shouldn’t be too crowded. And the weather will be…

Cowboys 26, Chiefs, 20, Sighs 1,000,000

10. Say what you will about the Cowboys’ lack of execution, their enthusiasm and effort was impressive. Keith Brooking. Jay Ratliff. Tashard Choice. They didn’t always play well, but you can’t say they didn’t play hard.    9. I even liked – for a change – the report just before halftime by Fox’s…

Jerry Jones: I Want Pissed Off Fans

You ask for it, you got it. The Dallas Cowboys owner tells me and Newy Scruggs this morning on 105.3 The Fan that he not only accepts criticism of his team’s play this season, he desires it. Demands it, even. “I knew when we walked outta Denver with that loss that we…

So, Skin, What Flavor Is Dirk’s Hair?

The NBA thought so much of Jeff “Skin” Wade’s discourse on Dirk Nowitzki’s new-look old-school haircut (” … that is like late ’70s basketball, it’s got a lot of flavor, no one’s rockin’ it like that …”) from Monday night’s Channel 21 broadcast that it turned locks-talk into a minute-long…

American Baseball, the European Way

Even if European soccer owner Tom Hicks convinced Major League Baseball to inject the same screwy tables that govern soccer into America’s pasttime your Texas Rangers wouldn’t be a playoff team. But, alas, they wouldn’t be relegated, either. If baseball were run according to European soccer standards–top teams earning international…

Fantasy Golf is, Apparently, Child’s Play

Flipping through my Avid Golfer magazine this week I came across the most interesting of tournaments. A media tournament. A fantasy media tournament. Who knew? Seems the boys over at Avid couldn’t herd all us cats into actually playing a tournament, so they produced a speculative tournament won by 106.1…

NFL Quarterback Rankings: Week 5

Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback rating. 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…

Mark Cuban: Super Bowl or Bust?

It wasn’t exactly as declarative as when Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones injected his all-or-nothing expectations into the season a month ago, but Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban believes his team is as good – actually, better – than the one that went to the NBA Finals in 2006. “The feeling…

October Baseball: Commence Daydreaming

All this hubbub over those feisty Minnesota Twins and those dramatic Detroit Tigers and the dawn of the baseball playoffs slapped me sober this morning. Ponder this, Rangers fans: Texas’ 87 wins would’ve been enough to win the American League Central Division. As I detail in this week’s column in your friendly Dallas Observer print…