He leads the Stars in penalty minutes. Not a single one of them for being “different.” Sean Avery is refreshing. Eclectic. Tough. Successful. Courageous. And not gay. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Or is there? In my column in this week’s dead tree version of Sportatorium, I examine…
What’d else didja expect? Terrell Owens had his Top 10 on Letterman and I seem to have developed a nervous tic that spits out lists. So, hey, what’s one more? 10. Sense of urgency. Dallas just has to play well – and win. If not, all the Super Bowl posturing…
They call him “faggot.” They call him “idiot.” They call him “agitator.” They call him, simply, “the most hated man in hockey.” And how does Sean Avery respond? With a shrug. “I laugh it off…doesn’t faze me,” he says. “If you’re going to dish it out you’ve got to be…
Haven’t seen this much. In the stands or in the end zone. According to a missive I received recently from the NFL’s shopping center, the Cowboys will kill the Redskins on Sunday. In merchandise sales, that is. From April 1 to Oct. 15 of this year, the Cowboys were –…
Right now, one ball’s about all George Gillett, left, and Tom Hicks can afford. The headline is more or less the assessment of the chairman of one of England’s largest investment banks, who today tells The Times in the U.K. that the owner of Your Dallas Stars and Texas Rangers…
Sam, you forgot to pour this into your pot: Terrell Owens presenting the Top Ten list on the Late Show with David Letterman last night. Little T is not amused. –Robert Wilonsky…
Last time the Mavs stumbled out of the gate this bad at home, he was their best player. Dirk Nowitzki can’t blame his team’s lack of effort. But he can blame himself. Two days after calling out the Mavericks for half-assed play in an ugly loss to the Clippers, Dirk…
Justice. Finally served. My 11-year-old was challenging me in Madden ’08 a while back. Of course, I picked the Vintage Cowboys and inserted a nameless No. 26 at cornerback. Me: Herb Adderley! 11-year-old: Who? Exactly. Thanks to a diabolical collusion between the NFL Players’ Union and companies like EA Sports,…
The word from Sports Business Journal, without comment from Your Dallas Cowboys, is that Jerry Jones is looking to borrow $350 million — and, like, pronto too. Seems he’s attempting to refinance by December 1 a previous loan on Jerryworld, “as well as add new debt to cover cost overruns…
The NBA’s reigning MVP makes his only visit of the season to Dallas tonight as the strug-guh-leeng Mavericks host the undefeated Lakers. Two questions: *Will Kobe Bryant go off? *Will he even need to? It was three years ago that Kobe infamously torched the Mavs for 62 points – through…
Started way back in February ’07: Former Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys Hall of Famer Herb Adderley and Bernie Parrish, a former Cleveland Browns defensive back, decided to take on the National Football League Players Association, about damned time. Adderley and Brown, front men for thousands of other ex-ballers…
No, no Avery. The Mavs are 2-4, not 1-4. Nice try. Wanna know how crappy the Dallas Mavericks were yesterday afternoon against the previously winless Clippers. This about sums it up: “We just couldn’t get stops,” said Jason Kidd, “and we couldn’t make any shots at the other end.” Other…
When you think Highland Park, think wealth. And butlers. And Matthew Stafford. And, apparently, tennis. The Cowboys of the ’90s? Southlake Carroll of the ‘00s? They have nothing, and I mean nothing, on this local sports dynasty. Five state championships in six years. A record of 138-1 since ’03. 21…
Again, with feeling. Ol’ antagonist George Allen used to try to rile us up by declaring the days before a Cowboys-Redskins game “Dallas Week.” Back then it barely raised an eyebrow, much less the blood pressure, as Dallas routinely had loftier goals than simply dispatching of a finger-licking, hand-clapping coach…
Take me out OF the ball game. If the report in this morning’s Chicago Sun-Times is true, Mark Cuban won’t be buying the Chicago Cubs. Won’t be allowed to, in fact. Says the story: “’There’s no way Bud (Selig) and the owners are going to let that happen,”’ a Major…
Could she have given our hockey team the Kiss of Death? Dunno, have to ask the Republicans I guess. Compared to the Dallas Stars, the Cowboys are as harmonious and giddy as a group of true-blue Democrats. Maybe you’ve been too worried about your football team’s implosion to notice, but…
We called it: Mark Cuban will not be getting the Chicago Cubs. Well, to be accurate, we didn’t call it — our psychic friend Valentina Burton did, when she told editor Mark Donald that “someone tries to find a way to keep things in the family, he is blocked from…
The Fox-y Daryl “Moose” Johnston tells the New York Post today that the city of Dallas — and, one assumes, the surrounding cities, including the one in which the Cowboys actually play — has turned on his former team, good God. And he’s shocked, I tellya, shocked! “It’s unbelievable. The…
Ah, the good ol’ days? He played hard every night. Some nights – the 1-of-17 pratfall in Game 5 of the 2001 playoffs in San Antonio comes to mind – not too well, but always hard. And, with just a pinch of revisionist history turning all those fadeaway jumpers into…
Hello! Welcome! I see you checking out the ’08-’09 Dallas Mavericks. Yessirree, they’re a bee-yoot. You know the great thing about these Mavericks? They’re not used. They’re gently pre-owned. Seriously, and I don’t say this to just any customer, the Mavs are the best bargain on the lot. C’mon, kick…
Florida’s Tim Tebow might be available next year’s NFL Draft. The girl? Way out of our league. With the Cowboys teetering on the blink of an unfathomable implosion and missing the playoffs, it’s never too early to think about 2009. And it’s always nice to keep up with blasts from…
Well, three Cowboys in particular: Ken Hamlin, Tank Johnson and Keith Davis, who, from the looks of this slide show, flew to McAllen Friday night on a very swank private jet to attend the Stiletto’s Gentleman’s Club’s Erotic Costume Ball. Though, “erotic”? You say so … Robert Wilonsky…
