Early this morning I was among the hundreds of fans waiting for the Dallas Mavericks’ team plane when it landed a few minutes before 1 at Love Field. KTCK-AM’s (1310, The Ticket) Ben and Skin post-game show issued the call for us to greet the team, and greet them we…
It was all slipping away. The seemingly insurmountable 3-1 series lead. The 20-point lead in Game 7. Both were gone. Happy was giving way to heartbreak. But on the brink of an embarrassing, debilitating loss to the San Antonio Spurs Monday night that would’ve stung for years, Dirk Nowitzki grew…
As a player, Avery Johnson spurred the Mavs to win their Game 7 semifinal against the Kings in 2003. Can he do it as the team’s head coach tonight? On May 17, 2003, the Dallas Mavericks were about to host the Sacramento Kings in Game 7 of the NBA’s Western…
Think SMU hasn’t produced a decent NBA player since, oh, Jon Koncak? Don’t sell that load of Peruna droppings to the league’s two-time MVP. That’s because Phoenix Suns guard Steve Nash is getting his mane all tangled up in a former Mustang named Quinton Ross. In Thursday night’s Game 6…
Jason Terry won’t be there, but the rest of Dallas should be. When the Dallas Mavericks host the San Antonio Spurs tonight at 8:30 in Game 6 of the NBA Western Conference Semifinals at the American Airlines Center, it will be this town’s most important sporting event since the Dallas…
Says here Drew Henson oughta be considered as the Dallas Cowboys’ quarterback of the future. Why? Because he’s gone 5-3 during his stint as QB for the Rhein Fire in NFL Europe, throwing nine TDs and three picks. Sounds about right for a Cowboys QB these days; the bar’s low,…
In case you haven’t heard the ridiculous news yet, the Mavs have taken a serious blow to their lineup for tomorrow night’s playoff game against the Spurs. Starting guard Jason Terry has received a one-game suspension for “punching San Antonio’s Michael Finley” during last night’s game. Really? Watch this (Windows…
At least, that’s what Dallas Cowboys’ wide receiver wants you to think as tries to ingratiate himself to a community more inclined to remember him as the dude who took a figurative dump on the Texas Stadium star during his days as a trouble-makin’ Philadelphia Eagle. Says here on his…
I know what you’re thinking. Is the TAKS test really that hard? Who the hell is Jimmy Hoffa? How did the refs not call a foul on San Antonio’s Tony Parker for clearly grabbing a handful of Dirk Nowitzki’s jersey on the potential series-winning tip at the buzzer? And, hmmm,…
You can get Cialis at the front door. Unlimited alcohol inside. There are girls with low-cut tops, high-rise skirts and flexible morals. Guys prowl in spikes and collars. Everybody has a cell phone, set on vibrate. Balls are getting wet. And everywhere you look: swingers. But this ain’t no party,…
So how is it exactly that a baseball team can blow a 9-0 lead? Marijuana muffins, you say? Dude, I’ve got one even better. Texas Rangers. Nuff said. Well, actually, let’s say a little more because last night at Yankee Stadium your Rangers made history. Texas led the Yankees 9-0…
And learn David Hasselhoff’s “Looking For Freedom,” the Knight Rider’s 1989 “hit” credited with, oh, tearing down the Berlin Wall. (Well, that’s what Hasselhoff says.) Now, it’s being touted as the reason Nowitzki’s such a clutch free-throw shooter: The Mav says here that when he’s at the charity stripe, “I…
Eva’s head on a stick would distract anyone, especially Tony Parker. Richie Whitt makes brief mention of this below, but I wanted to note an important momentum swing in last night’s “holy crap, not another heart attack” down-to-the-wire Mavs victory–when Tony Parker missed two key overtime free throws for the…
I went to the American Airlines Center Monday night and was reminded why we love sports: because for three heart-stopping, adrenalin-pumping hours, we forgot about the first ex-wife, the second mortgage and the four tires that need rotating. Mavs 123, Spurs 118 had everything. Villains (Tim Duncan) setting traps. Turncoats…
In case you weren’t too mesmerized by that enthralling Brett Wetterich-Trevor Immelman showdown at the Byron Nelson, you might have caught Mavs-Spurs Game 3 Saturday night. If so, your heart is probably still racing. And your fist is probably still landing air punches aimed at Jerry Stackhouse. In this series…
Yes, Avery Johnson can coach. But let’s not allow the Dallas Mavericks coach to cut in line in front of Red Auerbach just yet. Johnson, the NBA’s Coach of the Year, is getting canonized for his injection of Devin Harris into the starting lineup before Game 2 of Dallas’ Western…
The annual EDS Byron Nelson Golf Classic gets underway today at the Four Seasons Resort and Club in Las Colinas. For some guys, it means putting on your golf spikes, acting like dorks and watching golf all day. For the rest of us, it means somehow finagling a coveted badge,…
LeBron James was fathered by an ex-con. Alison Eastwood’s hotness somehow evolved from Dirty Harry. Luke Skywalker’s lineage is directly traced to the unholy sperm of Darth Vader. George W. Bush is…OK, extraordinarily bad example. And, in the tradition of conquering rotten roots, the San Antonio Spurs’ founding father was…
We thought the Mavs’ owner was being unusually quiet this time of year. Guess we were wrong. Though, by Mark Cuban’s standards, this seems like pretty lame stuff, no? But is that really worth $200,000? –Richie Whitt…
Went to my 9-year-old son’s baseball game in McKinney last night and came away with two revelations: We really shouldn’t name our sports teams after natural disasters, and people, even coaches, are stupid. You’ve heard all the uproar and NCAA mandates that universities no longer use “Indians” or variations of…
Dirk had best nut up for tonight’s Game 2 against the San Antonio Spurs. Dirk Nowitzki is a great player, but if the Dallas Mavericks star keeps passing up crucial shots, he’ll never be an elite player. Dirk missed eight of 11 shots in the second half of the Game…
The woman’s voice on the other end of the line is strong and perky: “You’ve reached the national headquarters of the Continental Baseball League,” she says, as though you’ve just dialed a proud, tradition-rich enterprise. But at the moment, the Continental Baseball League doesn’t exist apart from its offices on…
