Dallas Cowboys fans should know better by now. Whatever cheerful confidence is inspired by an impressive quarter or two of play is destined to be crushed, swiftly and without mercy. So, the team’s late-game collapse Sunday afternoon to an Aaron Rodgers-less Green Bay Packers squad was less shocking than it…
Every winter, Major League Baseball teams engage in what’s called the Rule 5 Draft, where they poach minor leaguers from their fellow competitors. It’s complicated, and typically doesn’t make much of a splash, which why it was especially confusing to read this morning that the Texas Rangers had selected Russell…
It’s like clockwork. Each October, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum announces that Eric Nadel, the longtime voice of the Texas Rangers, is a finalist for the Ford C. Frick Award. And every year, the award goes to someone else. Not this time. This morning, the hall of…
I don’t even know where to begin, so let’s start at the beginning. Today the Texas Rangers traded Josh Lindblom and Craig Gentry to the Oakland A’s for outfielder/native Texan Michael Choice and infielder Chris Bostick. Objectively speaking, this looks like a solid trade for both teams. Why? I don’t…
This Saturday, for the first time in a quarter century, the University of Connecticut football team will come to Dallas to face off against SMU. The Mustangs are expected to cruise to an easy victory over the winless Huskies, which is a must if they hope to keep their slim…
At the beginning of the year, Lance Armstrong sat down for an exclusive, one-on-one interview with Oprah in which he tearfully copped to doping. At that point, it was little more than a formality, seeing as a mountain of evidence had already proved as much, but it was supposed to…
The Dallas Morning News is reporting this morning that the Mavericks’ 477-game sellout streak, the longest in the NBA, could end at tonight’s season opener versus the Atlanta Hawks. We can only assume the piece was written before Dirk & Co. unveiled their secret weapon: a one-minute video parody of…
If wide receiver Lance Alworth isn’t in the pantheon of Dallas Cowboys legends, it’s because he spent the nine of his 11 Hall of Fame seasons with the San Diego Chargers. But it was with Dallas that he made the two most important catches of his career — one to…
To be fair, Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant wasn’t trying to say he was better than Calvin “Megatron” Johnson. He was just rattling off some pro-athlete intensity-and-toughness boilerplate in a radio interview when he uttered the fateful line “I believe I can do whatever he can do.” Thus, a narrative…
Let’s step back in time for a moment and revisit one of the key story lines going into the Texas Rangers’ ultimately disappointing 2013 season. Here’s how ESPN put it: And The Dallas Morning News:…
(This post has been updated to include responses from the Lone Star Brahmas.) The Texas Brahmas, Fort Worth’s 16-year-old minor league hockey team, no longer exists, at least not in any meaningful sense. Over the summer, the Central Hockey League announced that the club would not play in the 2013-14…
Chris Arnold has been uncharacteristically quiet. A usually prolific tweeter his account has been dormant for 10 days, and his voice has been missing from The GBag Nation, the midday show he co-hosts on 105.3 The Fan. CBS Radio hasn’t commented publicly on Arnold’s absence, but it’s no accident that…
The Dallas Mavericks, with the advent of in-game GPS devices that tracks a player’s every twitch and movement, are already gleaning the last scraps of data available to measure on-court performance. Now it’s onto the next frontier: watching players while they sleep. The term of art that’s been coined for…
Well, looks like we get another fun off-season in Arlington! Yay! Nolan Ryan has resigned/retired from the Rangers effective October 31, and everyone has their thoughts on why this happened and what it means. I am one of those people. Why did it happen? One, some, all, or none of…
For a while now, at least since March, the writing on the wall has suggested that Nolan Ryan’s exit from the Rangers’ front office was imminent. That writing has now migrated from the wall and into an official announcement from the club. His tenure as CEO officially ends on Halloween…
Even now, legions of fans are descending on the State Fair for the legendary (and lopsided) match-up between the Big 12’s bitterest rivals. But before the cries of “Texas Fight!” and the invalid moaning of “Boooomer” carom through the Cotton Bowl, the schools’ respective editorial boards traded some good-natured barbs…
A couple of weeks ago, the Dallas Mavericks announced the signing of 6-8 forward Renaldo Balkman. Other than the name, which bears an uncanny resemblance to that of former Mavs star Rolando Blackman, news that the team had signed a guy who averaged 4 points a game over a handful…
Add comedian and Huell running mate Bill Burr to the list of people who aren’t blaming Tony Romo for Sunday’s loss to the Broncos. Related: Did anyone outside Theoretical Call-In Dumbasses actually blame Romo for the loss?…
As insanely dangerous as the event sounds — it consists of flimsy-looking stunt planes weaving through a series of large pylons at 200-plus miles per hour — there has been only one crash in eight years of Red Bull Air Races. It happened in 2010 in Perth, Australia, during a…
We asked former Ticket board op and master nicknamer Michael “Grubes” Gruber to autopsy the Rangers so we can throw their cadaver into our winter fire and focus on football. Here’s his hot-but-not-tremendously-hot sports take: This was a weird season for your Texas Rangers. For all intents and purposes, they:…
Troy Aikman’s concussion in the third quarter of the 1994 NFC Championship game against the San Francisco 49ers is now just a footnote on the team’s march to a second consecutive Super Bowl victory, which itself gets lost in telling of the mid-’90s golden age of America’s Team. Aikman’s injury…
Some way, somehow, Mark Cuban managed to whittle down the 1,000-plus quality entries in his design-the-next-Mavs-uniform contest down to a final 10. For whatever reason, Buster the Armpit Lion didn’t make the cut. The submissions are currently up for a vote here. All of them are pretty quality, save for…
