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… except maybe knee surgery. Or a mild knee sprain. Or a broken foot. But other than that, nothing…

As we speculated on the night Cliff Lee agreed to his contract with the Philadelphia Phillies, the Texas Rangers shifted their offseason focus to Adrian Beltre in an attempt to mitigate losing Lee, signing the free agent third baseman to a six-year, $96 million contract. Team officials refused to release…

You’ve heard it. Hopefully you haven’t repeated it. It goes like this: (Spoken with a slow, twangy, red-necky, eternally frustrated drawwwwwl) “Jason Garrett sabotaged Wade Phillips. He didn’t start coaching all good ‘n stuff until he got Wade fired. On purpose!” While we breathlessly await a Valley Ranch press conference…

When Tony Romo broke his collarbone on October 25, the Dallas Cowboys’ season was kaput. When Caron Butler tore a tendon in his knee on January 1, it may not have ended the Dallas Mavericks’ season but certainly the bar has been lowered. What ended as such a promising 2010 has now given…

The race is on today. Which big announcement/press conference will arrive first: The Dallas Cowboys hiring Jason Garrett or the Texas Rangers signing Adrian Beltre? Let’s go with Beltre, as the free-agent third baseman and agent Scott Boras arrived in town last night and agreed to a five-year, $80 million contract…

So me and Charles Barkley call the Dallas Mavericks the best team in the NBA, but when I come back from vacation the whole thing’s in shambles. What the what?! I believe when I left they were 23-5 and had just completed a season sweep of the Miami Heat. Now? Entering tonight’s home…

You can say I botched my 2010 NFL prognostications. But you can’t say I ran and hid from my errors. There’s hope for me surviving this thing, as I have Big Ten Buffoonery dough coming in, tonight’s Megamillions jackpot is up to $330 million and I actually sneaked by with a profit…

Your Texas Rangers whiffed on Cliff Lee and Zack Greinke, instead settling for Brandon Webb and Arthur Rhodes. I don’t mind the signing of Webb because he’s another low-risk, high-reward guy. He only costs $3 million, and what if he – 18 months after a reconstructive shoulder surgery – returns…

Garrett Top. Unless of course, Jason Garrett pulls a Cliff Lee and spurns the metroplex. Make no mistake, the Dallas Cowboys’ interim head coach is suddenly a hot commodity as other NFL teams’ permanent head coach. In the wake of a 5-3 second half he has some real leverage now. How’s…

How about a nice round of applause for Sam Merten? Nice job, Sam. Splendid actually. Thank you. And with that … we now return to your regularly scheduled Sportatorium. 10. A year ago the Cowboys finished the regular season with a win over the Eagles. This year the Cowboys finished…

Two minutes and 13 seconds. That’s all it took for the San Antonio Spurs to turn a two-point lead against the Dallas Mavericks into a 16-point lead with nearly nine minutes remaining in the second half. After George Hill and Jason Terry traded jumpers to open the second quarter, Gary…

Victor Vandergriff tells the Star-Telegram: His father, former Arlington mayor Tom Vandergriff, died at 3 p.m. today at the age of 84. Longtime locals are well familiar with Vandergriff’s myriad contributions made during his 26 years (!) in office, chief among them his convincing Bob Short to bring the Washington…

Is it time for Jerry Jones to step aside as general manager of the Dallas Cowboys, or do the three Super Bowl wins under his tenure validate his decision to remain in that role? The debate will continue until Jones either hands over the keys to his son Stephen or…

While the Texas Rangers waited for Cliff Lee to make up his mind, the best options to fill the team’s hole at designated hitter flew off the board. The Chicago White Sox snatched up the two best fits, re-signing Paul Konerko for three years at $12.5 million per season and…

OK, lemme see if I understand what happened in Philadelphia over the last couple days. Mayor Michael Nutter declares a state of emergency Sunday at 2 p.m. and tells everyone to stay off the road. Philadelphia International Airport eventually reports 12.4 inches of snowfall. The NFL responds by moving Sunday…

Without their head coach and best player for most of the game, the Dallas Mavericks improved to 17-1 since November 20 with a 103-93 victory last night in Oklahoma City. Six Mavs chipped in with double-digit points, and Caron Butler led the team in scoring with 21 points and 3-for-5…

After the Dallas Mavericks disposed of the Miami Heat for the second time last week, I boldly said they were the NBA’s best team at the time. My opinion stood firm as they overcame 26 points and 23 rebounds from Dwight Howard to beat the Orlando Magic before taking a…

Down below is that heads-up about the city’s plans for giving the city a proper pre-Super Bowl scrub-down — which, turns out, also merits a mention in the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee’s just-published list of things to watch for in the 41 days left till kick-off in…

As expected, the Texas Rangers inked Brandon Webb to a one-year, incentive-laden contract reportedly worth around $3 million guaranteed with a potential for the veteran right-hander to earn between $8 million and $10 million. The deal becomes official following Webb’s physical this week, but as Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports…

If there ever was an easy win to be had this year for the Dallas Cowboys, last night’s Christmas match-up with the Arizona Cardinals was it. University of Phoenix Stadium, as usual, was packed with Cowboys fans in the tens of thousands. The Cardinals were 4-10 and had lost eight…

It was quite the big deal back in ’80, when the Dallas Diamonds of the fledgling Women’s Professional Basketball League signed Old Dominion star and Olympic silver-medalist Nancy Lieberman to her first pro contract. I have a hazy memory of sitting among a few packed houses at Moody Coliseum, at…

On November 2, as you’ll recall, pro surfer Andy Irons’s body was found in a room at the Grand Hyatt DFW, a cache of prescription pill bottles by his bedside. His family insisted, no, those had nothing to do with the 32-year-old’s death. Instead, they said, the world champion, who’d…