Maybe you’ve heard, but chess is serious business at UT Dallas. Perennial contenders for the national championship, the Comets are one of three Texas teams that always put on a mean show — and unless you’re some kind of Aggie, last weekend’s Final Four of Chess was your best bet…
Nauseated by the Mavs last night, I turned on the Dallas Stars. And what did I see? A team maybe saving its season. The Stars have had their share of bad-luck bounces lately. But last night in Anaheim they saved a gasp of their season with two controversial calls that…
And over here — in the opposite corner from your red-hot Texas Rangers — sit your Dallas Mavericks. Bruised. Bloodied. Slump-shouldered. Ready for the NBA Playoffs? At a time when they should peaking, the Mavs are pratfalling. After winning the first three games on their western road trip they lost the…
10. That, my friends, was about as thorough a three-game sweep as you can produce. The Rangers out-scored Boston by 15 runs and slugged 11 homers. And that wasn’t the Royals, remember — it came against the team most experts predict will represent the AL in the 2011 World Series. 9…
Last September I penned a cover story in the Observer about you-know-who, better known as Dallas Cowboys receiver Dez Bryant. Looking back at it now, there are some interesting, relevant points that may shed some light on the receiver’s current “dark place,’ according to adviser David Wells. My lead to…
Saw former playoff standout pitcher Curt Schilling on some ESPN baseball preview this morning and he said — I’m paraphrasing — no way in hell the Texas Rangers repeat as American League West Division champs, much less AL champs.Repeating is tough, as no AL team since the 2001 New York…
The Dallas Mavericks say tonight’s showdown against the Los Angeles Lakers isn’t a statement game. The Dallas Mavericks are lying. Beating the Timberwolves, Warriors, Jazz, Suns and — last night — the Clippers doesn’t mean diddly poo. If the Mavs don’t beat the Lakers tonight at 9:30 in Staples Center…
Courthouse News has the lawsuit: GSP Finance LLC v. KPMG LLC, an alphabet soup’s worth of names that sounds thoroughly uninteresting. Until, that is, you crack open the case and discover that GSP Finance is the lending arm of Galatioto Sports Partners — the same company Hicks hired in February…
With last night’s shootout loss to the Phoenix Coyotes, the Dallas Stars remain on the outside looking in at the NHL’s Western Conference playoffs. Nonetheless, everyone is watching hockey in Texas today. Reason? The ugly brawl between Arlington Martin and Keller High School in the closing minute of their…
Over the past decade the Dallas Mavericks have been the NBA’s best team at winning games they were supposed to win. In building a legacy of 11 consecutive seasons with 50+ wins and playoff appearances, the Mavericks rarely lose against inferior opponents. It’s the toss-up games or underdog ventures in which…
Following yesterday’s release of that damning, mammoth report about all flavor of fiscal shenanigans at the Fiesta Bowl, the question immediately became: Well, what about the Cotton Bowl taking its place in the BCS rotation? But Dennis Dodd at CBS Sports explained, initially, Not so fast:If there is an immediate…
A year ago today we were dissecting the depth of a Texas Rangers’ pitching staff anchored by No. 1 and 2 starters named Scott Feldman and Rich Harden. Hopefully that perspective will soften the blow of a 2011 rotation that includes Alexi Ogando and a bullpen that features Mark Lowe, Dave Bush…
As we noted a couple of weeks back, former DeSoto High School Eagle and Texas A&M Aggie Von Miller is among the high-profile plaintiffs named in the lockout class action brought against the National Football League. His name’s right there alongside the likes of Tom Brady, Drew Brees and Payton…
This just in, stemming from this, and this. From the Garland Police Department: Garland investigators have obtained warrants for Aqib Talib and Okolo Talib in connection with a disturbance police responded to on March 21 in the 900 block of Green Pond Drive. On Monday, March 21, just before 7:30…
In the wake of yesterday’s news that former Richardson Berkner star and current Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ stud cornerback Aqib Talib is a “person of interest” in a shooting in Garland last week, a couple of things have been cleared up but many more questions remain. Questions, say the Garland Police Department, that…
Nice to see the reigning American League champs haven’t forgotten about those Texas Rangers associated with all those seasons in hell — chief among them Jeff Burroughs, the top draft pick in ’69 (for the Washington Senators) and my first boyhood ball-playing hero. Burroughs, who came to Arlington with the…
Lying to the NCAA while at Oklahoma State. Bucking NFL tradition and not carrying Roy Williams’ shoulder pads. Blaming the media. Cutting in line at The Apple Store. Being, according to Dallas police, involved in a “major disturbance” at P.F. Chang’s. Not knowing the Dallas Cowboys’ playbook. Getting ticketed for parking in…
I picked exactly one team of March Madness’ Elite Eight and I long ago lost all of my Final Four (Pittsburgh, Louisville, San Diego State and Washington). But after a weekend of shocking upsets don’t tell me your bracket isn’t likewise busted. CBS cherishes a Cinderella and Americans love the underdog,…
Talked to former Texas Rangers’ CEO and managing general partner Chuck Greenberg yesterday. You know, the guy who helped usher Tom Hicks out of the franchise, who dragged the team out of bankruptcy, who spearheaded the out-bidding of Mark Cuban in court and who hand-picked Nolan Ryan as a crucial…
And you thought Dez Bryant getting booted from the mall was trouble? After a March 21 altercation involving his sister, his mother, his sister’s boyfriend, two guns and at least five shots fired, former local high school football star and Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ cornerback Aqib Talib is a “person of interest”…
While in the midst of a lockout, the NFL owners and players these days can’t even agree on what they disagree on. What to do for a football junkie? I know, let’s have a March Madness-style tournament, the winner of which gets as his prize: The cover of the Madden…
If the Dallas Stars wind up missing the NHL playoffs they’ll have a crazy bounce and crotch-kick, 4-3, loss on March 23 to blame. I don’t watch a lot of hockey but last night’s tilt had a post-season atmosphere at American Airlines Center. The Stars were seconds away — literally — from…
