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Charlie Jones Had Ties With WFAA

6:09 PM Mon, Jun 16, 2008 |
George Riba

I never knew Charlie Jones, the Sportscaster who died this past week in Southern California, but former Channel 8 sportscaster Verne Lundquist did. Jones had a connection here at WFAA TV that few remember. He was the sports director at WFAA TV from 1960 until 1965.

During that time he also contributed to ABC's "Wide World of Sports" before switching to NBC in 1965 when they picked up the AFL contract. Jones had experience with the ol...



T.O. and friends as camp counselors?

3:43 PM Mon, Jun 16, 2008 |
Aaron Chimbel

T.O. says he has some friends he wants to bring with him to his youth football camp next month.

What do you think?

Read the story and comment in our survey

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Tiger! Wow!

3:40 PM Mon, Jun 16, 2008 |
Aaron Chimbel

Tiger never loses when he leads on the final day. It's true again. Everyone in the WFAA sports department was watching anxiously as Woods battled Rocco Mediate through the final holes of the playoff round and the sudden-death hole.

Wow.

Who says golf doesn't make for good television?

Full story.

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Rangers stuck around .500

12:28 PM Mon, Jun 16, 2008 |
Aaron Chimbel

Now 71 games into the MLB season the Rangers are 35-36 and 5-5 in their last 10. So despite the poor start and strong May, the teams is mired in mediocrity.

The question becomes then are the strong performances by Josh Hamilton, Milton Bradley and others on offense good enough to get through poor pitching to get this team into contention this year? Every time it looks like the Rangers will really make a move in the AL West, they drop ...