I still can’t believe this is how Ed Bark spends his time: watching local TV ratings so, thank God, the rest of us don’t have to. And I do love this tidbit from this morning’s ratings recap: The Mavs’ hardfought, Dirk-less road win over the Sacramento Kings averaged 171,360 homes…
Babe Laufenberg’s back in the Cowboys’ booth, so what does that mean for his TV gig? How ’bout some Cowboys-related issues to chew on while waiting around today for this total waste of time and another Rangers loss in Anaheim? As predicted, Babe Laufenberg will return to the Cowboys’ radio…
Michael Farber at SI.com just posted a great piece about Dallas Stars goalie Marty Turco, the amazing regular-season netminder who always seems to choke in the post-season. Love the opening-paragraph anecdote: The food was exquisite, the evening historic. On the March night that Mike Modano became the second U.S.-born player…
At this moment, 836 people want Mark Cuban to own the Chicago Cubs; it’s science, you can look it up. Now you can add to that list Alan Schwarz of The New York Times, who this morning goes where Radar Online’s has gone before: to the Cuban’s buying the Chicago…
The last time the Mavs won a division, the team looked a whole lot different. I know, the Mavericks played like April fools in Phoenix Sunday afternoon. But the day wasn’t a total loss. In fact, it was a major win. How’s that? After Dallas’ ugly loss, the San Antonio…
No, check that, the new PGA Superstore in Plano isn’t just a teasing appetizer, it’s downright orgasmic. If, that is, you get aroused milling around an old Home Depot warehouse filled with sports memorabilia, a gazillion Izods, two bajillion clubs, a tennis court, a putting green, a chipping area complete…
Baseball commissioner Bud Selig has come under fire — from, of all places, Congress, which clearly has nothing else to worry about — for Major League Baseball’s $700-mil deal with DirecTV, which airs the league’s “Extra Innings” package that lets viewers get about 60 outta-town games every week for $160,…
Not even the appearance of former Jesuit star Kenny Cooper was enough to make yesterday’s soccer game in Frisco worth attending…or watching. Sounds like yesterday’s soccer game between the U.S. and Guatemalan national teams was a snoozer at Frisco’s Pizza Hut Park. The crowd got up when local star Kenny…
Tony Blei Sammy Sosa was more than so-so this spring. Which doesn’t mean anything, we know. Less’n he can pitch. The Texas Rangers invite you to show up tonight as the team returns from spring training. Especially if you can pitch. I praise the Rangers’ pitching staff one day, and…
Let’s see, Jose Canseco comes to town seeking a pahdnuh to help him announce a new television reality show, and just whom does he seek out? This guy? Splendid guess, but no. Her? What would be the point? No, it’s his old friend, radio talk-show host — and, yeah, former…
This is the controversial film Mark Cuban’s about to distribute. Discuss. You know you want to. Wrap yourself in the flag, slap another “Support Our Troops” magnet on your pickup and crank the Toby Keith, ‘cuz this is gonna test every last drop of your American red blood. Doubly so…
Robinson Tejeda will pitch Your Texas Rangers’ home opener in a few days. Oh…joy? The Rangers’ pitching staff looks decent — which, putting it in perspective, means it’s as good as any time since the late 1990s. Kevin Millwood’s a workhorse ace. Vicente Padilla is a bulldog. And newcomer Brandon…
I dunno, maybe it’s because I’m all baseball-fevering out here at Rangers spring training. Or maybe I’m saving my basketball jones for the Mavs’ playoff run. Whatever, I just don’t have the March Madness this year. Watched some games last night at a crummy little sports bar in Peoria (where’s…
At first glance, it’s cool that a former Dallas Maverick is up for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. What’s that I say? Don’t tell me you forgot that Adrian Dantley played a whopping 76 games here after the trading of Mark Aguirre in 1989. Well, he did. But…
Last time, I bounded down the stairs into the exclusive basement of Sipango for his going-away party. “Jay-SOWN!” I crowed, an obnoxious nod to our mutual affinity for Adam Sandler’s “Cajun Man” character on Saturday Night Live. This time, I wait for an hour in a secluded conference room at…
MESA, ARIZONA — I come to you today live from HoHoKam Park, better known as Wrigley West. It’s the little ballpark here where the Chicago Cubs hibernate in the winter. The quaint joint is littered with retirees with bald heads, beer bellies and baseball scorebooks. There are as many walkers…
Last night, before the Mavs throttled the Knicks in NYC, somebody with a video cam was recording Erick Dampier taking a few warm-up shots. What they caught was something accidentally spectacular: this shot by former Mav-turned-Dallas assistant coach Popeye Jones, who’s one of four on the player development staff. In…
Is it us, or does Eric Gagne look like Seth Rogen from The 40-Year-Old Virgin? SURPRISE, ARIZONA — No, this guy didn’t show up and go dumb yesterday afternoon here at Texas Rangers spring training. But this guy went deep. Twice. Which, for a team in desperate need of some…
Maybe you saw the Mavs blow out the Knicks last night; if not, it was a typical Dallas ‘dozer, 92-77 over a catastrophucked NY team somehow still in the playoff hunt at 30-37. Which puts Your Dallas Mavericks at 55 wins for the season thus far; most NBA franchises won’t…
The Dallas Cowboys just put on their Web site plans for a memorial service in honor of Wilford “Crazy Ray” Jones — the team’s “unofficial mascot of 44 years” who died Saturday morning at the age of 76. If you’re so inclined, it will take place at 10 a.m. this…
I didn’t come here today to lament the transformation of my March Madness bracket into toilet paper, to publicly apologize to anyone I might have maimed with a well-intended string of beads during Saturday’s St. Paddy’s Parade or to rehash Monday night’s 16-10 loss by the Dallas Observer co-ed softball…
Diamond in the rough: Formerly a Rangers pitching-prospect great, Thomas Diamond will now miss the entire 2007 season. It wasn’t so long ago that Thomas Diamond, Edinson Volquez and John Danks were going to be the one-two-three punch of the Texas Rangers’ pitching rotation. They even had their own nickname:…
