Roy Williams: Man or Myth?

Roy Williams, a Pro Bowler? Horse hockey. You might say. I don’t trust Roy Williams. But I do trust Dave Campo. And Campo, the former Cowboys’ head coach who’s back as the team’s secondary coach, says we’ll see the “old Roy Williams” again this year. “From watching film of him…

Cowboys Camp: Wednesday Morning

Not even a clever caption can negate the putrid aspects of my photography. Whew. Pro Bowl pass rusher DeMarcus Ware left practice early this morning, but it looked like nothing serious. He either tweaked his back or took a blow to the head during full-pads scrimmage. But he walked off…

Cowboys Interested in Chris Simms

Better than Brad Johnson, spleen or no. In news that the Fort Worth Star-Telegram first reported earlier this month and the St. Petersburg Times touched on again yesterday, the Cowboys are seriously considering a trade for former University of Texas and current Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Chris Simms. A source…

Cowboys Camp: Tuesday Wrap-Up

Who showed up and instantly started haunting my Super Bowl dreams? One guess. The news-making earthquake turned out to be little more than a casual Texas thunderstorm. After a brief “drop, duck and cover”, this is what I survived to see on Tuesday afternoon: *Cornerback Terence Newman’s strained groin will…

Hoops It Up: Kenny Cooper to Keep on Kickin’ It With FC Dallas

Kenny Cooper — or, perhaps, Upright Citizens Brigade’s Ian Roberts? Hoops fans, rejoice. This afternoon FC Dallas announced that star forward Kenny Cooper isn’t going anywhere, at least not this season. Here’s what FC Dallas general manager Michael Hitchcock has to say on the subject: “We received offers from multiple…

Welcome to Training Camp. Er, Paradise

Terence Newman has a groin injury. I have a really crappy camera. I’ve received lots of suggestions on what you guys wanna know about Cowboys’ camp – How’s Felix Jones look? Can Zach Thomas still play? What’s up with Jerry’s hat? – so the best way to attack this thing…

Lame Duck Phillips?

Relax, both coaches could be talking to Tony Romo again next season. I’ll serve up a smorgasbord of training camp insights later this morning, but wanted to get to the news of the day first. Contrary to the asinine sentiments of some columnists, this isn’t guaranteed to be Wade Phillips’…

Pacman and Prime Time, Car Salesmen

Courtesy Deadspin — which got it from here, which got it from here — a reason to watch local television after all: Adam Jones and Deion Sanders’ Drivers Select ad, which, notes Deadspin’s Clay Travis, features “the most persuasive opening to a commercial in the history of television.” Which is?…

The Chicago Cubes

Chicago Sun-Times sports columnist Rick Telander exchanged a few e-mails yesterday with Mark Cuban, one of three finalists still in the running to acquire, for more than $1 billion, both the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field. Cuban wouldn’t tell Telander how much he thinks the Cubbies are worth — the…

Rawlings? Wilson? Feh. Make My Mitt a Nokona, Dang It.

Nice Associated Press story this afternoon about Nocona Athletic Goods Company and its damn-right resurrection, following the July 18, 2006, fire that destroyed the then-80-year-old manufacturer of the best danged baseball gloves in the U.S.A., located about 100 miles northwest of Dallas. While Rawlings and Wilson do most of their…

Cards to Keep Cowboys Fans Out, While FC Dallas Gets an Olympian

FC Dallas’s Dax McCarty A couple of sports notes this morning. First, out of Arizona comes word that the Cardinals are going to “Protect the Nest” this season by keeping Dallas Cowboys fans outta University of Phoenix Stadium. That is, if Cowboys fans — who, historically, fill up Arizona games…

America’s Tease

Super Bowl. Or bust. If the Dallas Cowboys don’t win the NFL championship February 1 in Tampa, it will be a devastating disappointment impossible to ignore. If they don’t at least make it to the title game, it will be an unmitigated disaster improbable to restore. Anything less and Wade…

Why Tony Romo’s Having All That “Fun”

Because he knows that, sooner or later, the fun won’t be there for having. From Yahoo! Sports comes Michael Silver’s exclusive chitchat with the Cowboys’ QB, who, like, seriously doesn’t get why people are so damned interested in him: “No one’s going to remember me five or seven years from…

I’ve Had Dreams Like This

Till this morning I didn’t know what a Wigald Boning was — something to do with fish, maybe? Or a sexual position? Nope, turns out he’s “a German comedian, musician, TV-moderator and journalist,” or everything I wish I were. Only, I prefer his translated Wikipedia bio (“outer trademarks are glasses…

Fore. Play.

This picture is not from north Texas. Hard to fathom with our temps again flirting with triple digits, but over at the British Open at Royal Birkdale in Lancanshire, England it looks like December. It’s in the ‘50s with rain, 40 mph wind, guys hitting 9-iron from 205 yards and,…

You Know Who Has Troy Aikman’s ’93 Super Bowl Ring? Troy Aikman.

Weird little story circulating in the nether regions of the Interwebs concerning well-known (almost legendary, matter of fact) con man Fred Brito and his claim that, yesterday, he became the “owner of Troy Aikman’s 1993 Super Bowl Dallas Cowboy’s Championship Ring.” The folks over at The Landry Hat, a Dallas…