Suhhhhhnnnaaaap! With a bold, brilliant pop of its fingers, the University of North Texas placed its football program in good hands. Great hands. Skilled, innovative, virtuoso hands. Todd Dodge’s hands. “I believe we can win, win consistently and win big here,” Dodge said to a beaming, buzzing Mean Green Athletic…
Amos Lee is playing the NHL All-Star game at the AAC? There’s one more reason not to like hockey right there. Robert Randolph and The Family Band? The Wreckers? The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus? If your name isn’t Robert Wilonsky, stop me when you’ve heard of one. Amos Lee? Mary McBride?…
Who knew the Dallas Cowboys helmet actually features the star of Bethlehem? It was almost two years ago that Sports Illustrated’s Steve Rushin first wrote about then-14-year-old Tyler Kessler, whose life pretty much consisted of chemotherapy to treat his cancer and kidney dialysis necessary because his kidneys were failing. Tyler…
Tony Romo’s in the Pro Bowl, along with QBs Drew Brees and Marc Bulger. That’s a sack lunch for ya. If you saw this day coming, you’re clairvoyant. And you should’ve cashed in. Tony Romo’s remarkable emergence was validated today as the quarterback was one of four Dallas Cowboys named…
I do believe the NFL’s due to announce its Pro Bowl roster shortly; Richie will chime in at the appropriate moment. Till then, here’s this football related nugget from north of the border, where the cold air apparently does strange things to people. Dig this: Terrell Owens had the best-selling…
And, I’ll give you one guess who lobbed the loogie in Saturday’s Cowboys-Falcons game. Yep. Your hero and mine: Terrell Owens. I should be applauding Dallas’ gritty victory in Atlanta, acknowledging the Cowboys’ clinching of a playoff berth and previewing the Christmas Day showdown with the Philadelphia Eagles that will…
Just in case you somehow managed to miss all the coverage of the new Dallas Cowboys stadium in Arlington this week, here’s perhaps the best perspective yet: a silent video prepared by the Dallas Cowboys and HKS Architects and provided by the folks at Cowboys Football. It’s kind of like…
Quick guess: Is this moment the happiest in Jerry Jones’ life or, uh, not so much? This just in: Terrell Owens admits he isn’t Superman. Yathink? Gawd. If you’re not going to Saturday’s titanic Southlake Carroll-Allen High School semifinal at Texas Stadium or eschewing mainstream menus and taking in America’s…
Lamar Hunt, right, and then-NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle created the Super Bowl thanks to a tiny “super ball.” It was impossible not to like Lamar Hunt. At age 28 he took on the established National Football League with a new venture founded by a bunch of businessmen he self-mockingly called…
All he wants for Christmas is his two front feet. You’d wish for that too if, like 2-year-old Micah Diffee, you were born with disfigured legs bent backward and twisted like pretzels, the soles of your feet pressed against your bottom. “By far the toughest thing I’ve ever gone through,”…
Barry Zito may be a Texas Ranger yet. Or not. Probably not. Definitely not. But, I’m warnin’ ya, not a second before. So far this off-season the Rangers have added a journeyman spare part, a 39-year-old “stop-gap” center fielder and a reliever who’s missed the last two seasons with elbow…
Dallas sports legends don’t get much bigger than Dallas Texans owner and American Football League founder Lamar Hunt. Dallas sports icon Lamar Hunt is said to be in grave condition in a local hospital, his family desperately holding out for miracles at this point. In a year that’s already seen…
Just so happens that I scooted out to Southlake today to speak with Carroll High School coach Todd Dodge for next week’s column. Ta-da! Whaddya know? On my way it was announced that Dodge has accepted a job to coach the University of North Texas. This, of course, pisses me…
We saw these yesterday while Christmas shopping. And not at a deep discount, either. To be honest, you couldn’t pay us to take these. Well, Julius Jones, maybe. But the Roy Williams figurine? We’d just lose it 30 yards downfield anyway. Mike Karney 18, Dallas Cowboys 17. Where to start?…
Sunday’s White Rock Marathon looks like it will be bigger. And better: Thanks to the first sponsor — Wellstone’s — in its 36-year history, the Rock will this year award a record $150,000 in prize money. Sprinkled around the 26.2-mile course Sunday will be 12,000 runners; 100,000 spectators; 300 police…
Says here that FC Dallas has narrowed its list of head coaches down to a Final Four: interim head coach Steve Morrow, SMU head coach Schellas Hyndman, D.C. United assistant coach Tom Soehn, and New York Red Bulls technical director Jeff Agoos are the four candidates. Didn’t even know FC…
Martin Dramatica’s Miracle in The Meadowlands notwithstanding, there lives a man capable of instantly and permanently solving the Dallas Cowboys’ kicking quandary. Unfortunately, Steve Hoffman now works for the Atlanta Falcons. “I still have the utmost respect for the Jones family and the Cowboys, but I’ve got my own kickers…
As I told you a couple months ago, neither the Dallas Mavericks’ collapse nor the city’s premature parade plans were the fault of Celia Barshop. Yesterday, Dallas took steps to prevent its special events manager from ever again being conveniently abused as a scapegoat. You remember what you did last…
Turns out WFAA-Channel 8’s Erin Hawksworth’s reporting is also beautiful. On last night’s 10 o’clock newscast, Erin provided the first interview with former Dallas Cowboys kicker Mike Vanderjagt since his unceremonious release last week. The bubbly, buxom reporter bumped into Vandershank while he was playing golf with cornerback Terence Newman…
It is official: Your Dallas Cowboys are once more America’s Team. And Jerry Jones has the TV ratings to prove it. If the Cowboys are on TV, millions are watching. No one else even comes close. And they haven’t in a decade. Seriously, when you consider the fact there are…
Still hurts, doesn’t it? Now, D-Wade is the magazine’s Sportsman of the Year. Go ahead. Let it out. Unless you’ve been too mesmerized by Britney going commando to notice, the Dallas Mavericks — as predicted right here — rebounded quite nicely from their 0-4 start. If you’re reading this second…
Remember back when the New York Giants were all cocky and all celebratin’ like rappers-turned-hoopsters-turned-footballers? Remember even further back, when we were just so sure that if the Dallas Cowboys were gonna be worth a crap they’d have to get great seasons from Drew Bledsoe, Greg Ellis and Mike Vanderjagt?…
