To my eyes, second-year tight end Martellus Bennett is the early star of training camp. And I’m not just saying that because he stole the show with his impromptu rapping at The Dallas Observer Music Awards last month. He’s making all of us in San Antonio forget about Marty B TV and…
And now you know why I didn’t exactly shed a tear that the Texas Rangers decided against acquiring Roy Halladay in exchange for a package that included one Neftali Feliz. In a word: WOW! Merry Christmas, Rangers fans. The 21-year-old righty made a spectacular Major League debut last night in…
10. Sounds to me like Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is leaning against rebuilding the indoor practice facility that collapsed May 2, leaving special teams coach Joe DeCamillis with a broken back, scouting assistant Rich Behm paralyzed from the waist down and director of college scouting Chris Hall with a…
Still about a month before the Dallas Cowboys finalize their roster for the 2009 season. Not so for their new flagship radio station, which has most of its broadcast team already set. Told you a while back that the in-game trio of Brad Sham, Babe Laufenberg and Kristi Scales would…
This just in from FC Dallas: Kenny Cooper is a Hoop no more. The star striker, who came to Dallas in February 2006 from Manchester United and who’s on the US national team, is being shipped off to TSV 1860 München — which sounds like a Bavarian television station, but,…
Send me your players and/or topics to watch and I’ll, well, watch ’em. 10. Goofball or not, Martellus Bennett is a badass. He’s got the biggest, softest, best hands on the team. Marty B doesn’t catch. He plucks. Expect to see plenty two-tight end sets with him and Jason Witten 9. At 6-2,…
Two years after sitting down with Texas Rangers’ general manager Jon Daniels for this positive story with the negative headline, I had a long chat with him last week. Daniels deserves tons of credit for Texas’ No. 1 farm system, for strokes of genius like Andruw Jones and Darren O’Day…
Pass along your questions or suggestions of who/what you’d like a report on and I’ll watch it at tomorrow’s practices. Thursday is the first day of two-a-days. Who knows, we might even see pads. 10. So much for the new-and-improved-and-tougher Wade Phillips. The Cowboys worked out for two hours in…
Well, after yesterday’s signing of 3-point shooting specialist Tim Thomas I think the Dallas Mavericks are finished with their significant off-season moves. Of course, at points during the summer I also thought Marcin Gortat was coming, Brandon Bass was staying and Mark Cuban was losing to the SEC. And, come…
This? Just hours before the first practice of training camp here at The Alamodome, I decided to doodle up what the Cowboys’ final roster will look like come the Sept. 13th opener at Tampa Bay. It starts here. And ends up below. Clip ‘n save, woncha? OFFENSE: QB: Tony Romo/…
You guys tell me what you want to know about a certain player, coach, mascot, etc. during training camp. I’ll go to practice and come back with some tasty morsels. Or perhaps some disgustingly petrified crumbs. Whatever. Just got back from the State of the Union kick-off address over at The Alamodome…
I ask only because this morning, Variety reports that ESPN and the National Football League are collaborating on a biopic called Lombardi — you’ll never guess who it’s about. Notes the trade, the film about the Green Bay Packers coach will be released in theaters the weekend before the 2011…
It would appear Norm Hitzges alone cannot keep Lone Star Park’s numbers from suffering a dramatic decline in the midst of a recession. The 65-day spring meet wrapped in Grand Prairie yesterday, and track officials noted with great disappointment the drop in both attendance and wagering, on-site and off. According…
A year ago at this time I was pegging the Dallas Cowboys for the “Super Bowl.” Last time we saw them however – 44-6 losers in Philly on Dec. 28 – it was “or bust.” Coming off 2008’s 9-7 disaster, the Cowboys have shedded from their roster the leading receiver (Terrell Owens),…
Check out more photos in our slide show.It took talent and intensity just to make it past Saturday’s first round of auditions for the 2009-’10 Mavericks Dancers squad, but for Sunday afternoon’s finals, they’d have less than a minute to perform, competing with four other dancers for the judges’ attention.Even…
And the consolation prize is … Drew Gooden. To which I say, not bad. Not bad at all. He’s no Marcin Gortat or Carlos Boozer or Emeka Okafor, but the 6-foot-10, 250-pound 27-year old journeyman can be a nice fit on a nice team. Gooden seemingly has the size and…
I know the Texas Rangers swept the previously mighty Boston Red Sox and we’re all atwitter about the American League West division race heading into August … September … maybe even October? But what if baseball were governed according to, say, European football standards? You know, the top teams rewarded…
Patrick Michels is putting the finishing touches on what’s sure to be a sprawling slide show from last night’s Dallas Observer Music Awards at the Granada. (Hence, the reason for no DC9 postings today — but, look, back in my day, we wrapped around 1 a.m., grabbed an early breakfast,…
Remember that Tony Romo Funny or Die video last week? Didn’t think so. Now, via a very thoughtful New York City publicist, we have the outtakes — which are slightly more amusing than the real thing. Look, I said slightly. What do you expect for free?Update: Since the audio crapped…
To quote the great Eddie Izzard, “The problem with America? You fuckers keep tearing down your history, man!” Stubborn answer: Progress. Grim reality: Sadness. I remember a kinder, gentler era in Dallas when as a little punk I’d peer out the family Fury along I-35 and gaze in wonder at The…
Chicks dig the long ball. We all love the fireworks. But nobody is connected to home runs like your Texas Rangers. I know they have 20 sacrifice bunts, 78 stolen bases and a committment to try and manufacture runs this season, but in the end – same as it ever was -…
I guess there was some drama involved, but don’t tell me you’re totally surprised that the winner of Spike TV and Michael Irvin’s 4th and Long is – ta-da! – a Michael Irvin clone. Jesse Holley has the size (6-foot-3), speed (4.5) and smile of Irvin, and now he has a…
