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July 2008 ArchivesFrom Ted Madden in Oxnard: Just a little while ago, we finished shooting Dale's one-on-one interview with Cowboys tight end, and real good guy, Jason Witten. One thing he said during the interview that stuck out to me was this: "We have a lot of all-star names, but the team has to be first." It sounds pretty cliché, but earlier this week, when Hansen interviewed linebacker Bradie James, he said almost the exact same thing: tha...
* Tomorrow the team will practice at 9:00 a.m. and again at 3:30 p.m.
* Head Coach Wade Phillips will conduct his daily media briefing at 2:45 p.m.
* There will be two practices on Saturday July August 2.
* NFL referees will join the Dallas Cowboys at training camp from July 31-August 2. The NFL referees are tentatively scheduled to give their presentation to the media on Friday Augus...
It has finally happened ... and I honestly didn't think it would - Jessica Simpson has come to Oxnard to hang out with her quarterback boyfriend Tony Romo - celebrity gossip sites have the pictures of her and Romo going to dinner this week Romo wears that cap - shirt - and shoes every day...
With the departure of Terry Glenn, the Cowboys receiving corps looks a little different this year, even after not having Glenn all last season. By all accounts Patrick Crayton is the number 2 followed by a clump at 2- how ever many receivers they keep. That list includes Sam Hurd(my pick for #3), Miles Austin, Isaiah Stanback, and Danny Amendola. While driving home from working out this morning, Dola(as we called him at Texas Tech), w...
* Tomorrow the team will practice at 2:30 p.m.
* Head Coach Wade Phillips will conduct his daily media briefing at 5:00 p.m.
* There will be two practices on Saturday July August 2.
* NFL referees will join the Dallas Cowboys at training camp from July 31-August 2. The NFL referees are tentatively scheduled to give their presentation to the media on Friday August 1 following the conclu...
I just made a walk through the Cowboys compound here in Oxnard, Calif. to see how others experience of the California Quake went. Just about everyone I spoke with said they felt it and it seemed to be most players' first experience of an earthquake. Greg Ellis tells me that he was doing an interview with former Cowboys VP of Player Personnel , Gil Brandt, and his chair started shaking. Ellis said, "That was pretty cool... It was my f...
Our hard-working crew in Oxnard, Calif. has sent back a collection of photos from Tuesday's practice session at Dallas Cowboys training camp: With training camp only five days old with today being number six, I find myself(while part of the crew back in Dallas) longing to be in Ox-"nurd"(as Jerry Jones would say). Not only would the weather be a nice break from this 100 degree plus heat, but just to see some football and contact in person would be nice. But, that will not come for a couple of more weeks, so let's have some fun. Not that I am a known analyst, but everyone likes to th...
From all indications, everyone seems to be OK in Oxnard, Calif. after an earthquake (5.4 magnitude, just east of LA) shook Southern California.
I w...
NOTE: All times PDT
OXNARD, Calif. (AP) -- Dallas Cowboys cornerback Terence Newman Coach Wade Phillips said Newman got tangled up with a receiver Phillips doesn't consider the injury serious. Newman, who went to his first Pro Bowl last season, left the
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was on with me live last night on Sports Special, and some of you are apparently a little bit ...
NOTE: All times are in PDT
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Quotes from Tony Romo: "It's going good, you know guys are working h...
The Dallas Cowboys agreed to contract terms with first-round draft The team does not release the terms of player contracts. Both players are expected to report to camp Saturday, although it is unlikely they will be available for the morning practice. The Cowboys have practices scheduled for 9 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. in Oxnard, Calif. ...
It is just another example of what a business this game is. Cowboys paid Terry Glenn a lot of money last year when he couldn't play because of a bad knee and they didn't want to do it again. Glenn says he was willing to sign a split contract, get more if he played... less if he didn't. But the Cowboys decided they didn't want to do that either. This is the reality of the NFL game with a salary cap. You can't pay good players...
Just another day in paradise and now it really begins. Cowboys have their 1st practice in California today but not before the typical Cowboys opening cermonies. Los Lonely Boys sang the national anthem and there wasn't even a game. A couple thousand fans lined the fence waiting for their favorite players to show up. The 1st day was just helmets and shorts, there's very little hitting in any NFL camp anymore. But tha...
WFAA crews in Oxnard, Calif. report the Dallas Cowboys have waived receiver Terry Glenn. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said Friday the team planned to let him go after weeks of a dispute over whether the 34-year-old would sign an injury waiver. Glenn missed all but the final game of the regular season last year after two surgeries on his right knee. He didn't want to sign a waiver that would pay him just $500,000 of...
From WFAA's Sean Hamilton in Oxnard: Terrell Owens was one of the last on one field, but still got a huge round of applause. And former Cowboys head coach Dave Campo, now the secondary coach, got a big cheer as did current head coach Wade Phillips. From WFAA's Sean Hamilton in Oxnard: Stephen Jones just walked off the field and says he is going to talk to the Cowboys unsigned rookies and their agents. Firstr-round picks Felix Jones (RB, Arkansas) and Mike Jenkins (CB, South Florida) did not travel with the team to California. Jones is optimistic they will be able to reach deals with both players soon. Update: Stephen Jones not commenting, says Jerry Jones is working on it and he was on the practice field about 4:30 central Friday. ESPN is reporting that Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Terry Glenn has reached an injury settlement agreement with the team. What it means is that Glenn will be in training camp and that if he were to be injured the team would not owe him all of his $1.7 million contract. Previously, the te...
Get your popcorn ready! We've got you covered for Cowboys Camp. A good place to start is this story on Jerry Jones and expectations. And of course constant updates here on our sports blog and specifically in the Cowboys s...
Hold your horses. It's not likely this latest reported signing is going to have an impact, heck he probably won't even make the team. But the Dallas Cowboys signed former Princeton quarterback Jeff Terrell. His best hope is to make the practice squad. He was in training camp with the Kansas City Chiefs last year before playing one game for the Austin Wranglers Arena team. The Cowboys have three other quarterbacks in ...
No not Jerry Jones, Terrell Owens, Tony Romo, Adam Jones, Wade Phillips or even Leonard Davis... No... it's... Dale Hansen and his shirt with some first thoughts on the Dallas Cowboys 48th training camp. Dale's video blog on the start of Cowboys training camp. ...Wade Phillips: "We have a tougher schedule than the Giants this year... because we won the division." The Cowboys will play all the 1st place teams from the NFC because they won the division. "State of the Team" Press Conference hits 45 minute mark! Wade Phillips: "This isn't last year's team; this is this year's team." No kidding? Presser ends at 7:18 CDT. Opening Ceremonies start tomorrow at 3:30 CDT Wade Phillips just said "the Giants won it all" but was quick to point out that his team only lost 3 games in the regular season last year and the Giants went 4 and 4 their last 8 games. Jerry Jones said that HBO's reality show "Hard Knocks" will not affect the team's preparation at all. Jerry paid homage to Tex Schramm, saying he had a wonderful way of making his team popular and Jones has tried to learn from Tex. No new news on Terry Glenn. Jerry is still in talks with Glenn's agent and hopes something will be resolved soon. Stephen Jones says all the draft picks have been signed with the exception of 1st round picks Felix Jones (RB, Arkansas) and Mike Jenkins (CB, South Florida). Jerry Jones opened the State of the Team presser saying "its great to back in Oxnerd." Not sure why he calls it "Oxnerd" instead of "Oxnard." He also says the next 12 months will be the most exciting time in the history of the franchise. Really? 5 World Championships and the next 12 months will be the most exciting? The Cowboys have landed. Channel 8 Sports Reporter Ted Madden and I just made it back from Point Mugu Naval Air Station where the Cowboys team plane landed at approx 4:40 CDT. After signing autographs for some of the military and their families, they boarded busses and headed to the Residence Inn in Oxnard, CA. We are now gathered at the team hotel awaiting the "State of the Team" press conference to start. It was scheduled to start at 6:0...
The Dallas Cowboys have landed at Point Mugu Naval Air Station in California, just south of Oxnard and the team's training site. The team touched down about an hour late due to a problem at DFW. We have lots of video before the Cowboys left DFW like this gem: Coach Wade Phillips kissing his wife goodbye. The Dallas Cowboys waited 44 minutes on the runway at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport before departing just after 2 p.m. The players, coaches and staff boarded their charter to Point Mugu Naval Air Station, just south of where they will train in Oxnard, Calif., shortly after 1 p.m. and sat on the runway from 1:18 p.m. to 2:02 p.m. A problem with some ground equipment prevented them from leaving on time. A team ...
From George Riba at DFW Airport: Of course both have contract issues. Jones, the team's top draft pick out of Arkansas, has not yet signed with the team. And Glenn is in a dispute over an injury settlement with owner Jerry Jones. Also of note receiver Sam Hurd and safety...
The Cowboys have signed second-round draft pick Martellus Bennett, a tight end from Texas A&M, fourth-round pick Tashard Choice, a running back from Georgia Tech and sixth-round pick Erik Walden, a linebacker from Middle Tennessee State. Still unsigned are first round picks Felix Jones, a running back from Arkansas, and Mike Jenkins, a cornerback from South Florida. Fifth-round pick Orlando Scandrick, a cornerback from Boise ...
Here are some of the top storylines to keep an eye out for during the Dallas Cowboys training camp: 1. Adam Jones. Will the suspended corner be reinstated and will he start? 2. Roy Williams. Will the oft-criticized safety be cut as former personnel guru Gil Brandt suggested could happen? 3. Anthony Henry. What will happen to last year's starter at cornerback, will he move to safety to replace Williams or keep his starti...
The wait is over. More than six months after the Cowboys playoff loss to the eventual Super Bowl champion New York Giants, the new season is about to begin. This afternoon the Cowboys fly to Point Mugu, Calif., just south of Oxnard where they will train until Aug 12. Much more to come. Maybe some humans actually do work at the NCAA. James Bradshaw, who played on Trinity High School's state champion football team last year, has had his college football scholarship reinstated. Earlier this week the NCAA ruled that his scholarship was not valid because of the way his eighth grade Spanish class was coded on his transcript. Bradshaw's family says the NCAA reinstated the scholarship this afternoon, just in...
Rangers are currently playing in Chicago to finish up their series against the White Sox. The game is 3-3 going into the 3rd. Kevin Millwood has just left the game with another "apparent" injury. He wasn't wxactly lights out, and he hasn't been very good since the Rangers decided to pay him $11 million per season. Just wondering, does anyone else seem to notice that when he struggles, he always ends up hurt? I'm just playing d...
Gil Brandt is a legend for helping build the Dallas Cowboys from expansion team to America's Team. Now the 29 year Valley Ranch vet, who has made a post-Cowboys career of analyzing football, has a juicy tidbit that has been a bit buried. Brandt said this week that Roy Williams, the Cowboys' Pro Bowl safety, could be released if he doesn't play better during the team's training camp, which starts Friday in Oxnard, Calif. ...As the East Valley Tribune in Arizona puts it, "The Cardinals are trying to 'protect the nest.'" So the team is making fans who want to buy ticket to the Dallas Cowboys game Oct. 12 to also buy tickets to the Cardinals pre-season game Aug. 7 vs. New Orleans. "Our goal is to have as many Cardinal fans in the stadium as possible," the paper quoted a team spokesman as saying. If you remember before the Cardinals moved to t...
You know it's the off-season when the Dallas Mavericks are involved in numerous trade rumors. Last week, there was speculation Ron Artest would be next to don the white, blue and black. All the Mavs would have to give up in exchange was Josh Howard and most likely Brandon Bass. Well, another week and another rumor. This time it's Atlanta Hawks forward Josh Smith. This is another deal that would involve Josh Howard. We all heard after H...
There are 34 bowl games scheduled for the end of this year and the beginning of 2009, up one from last year. First, that is way too many and means 68 teams will play in bowl games, more than half of 119 eligible schools. The real sign of the excess is the Sun Belt Conference announcing it has signed agreements with three bowls, giving the worst conference in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) a total o...
UT Arlington senior infielder David McLeod is the Toughest Batter to Strikeout in the nation. He was named to the honor by the NCAA for the 2008 season. McLeod, a four-year letter winner, struck out only five times in 200 at-bats during his senior season, for a 40-1 at-bat-to-strikeout ratio. The infielder from Houston was named Honorable Mention Southland All-Conference as a senior. McLeod never struck out mo...
The Dallas Stars have acquired a former top pick of the Los Angeles Kings. The Stars traded for right wing Lauri Tukonen, a first-round selection (No. 11 overall) in the 2004 Entry Draft by the Kings. Tukonen has skated in five career NHL games with the Kings. The Stars sent left wing Richard Clune, Dallas' third-round selection (No. 71 overall) in the 2005 Entry Draft, to Los Angeles. "Lauri is a promising pros...
TCU is the best team in the Mountain West Conference not from the State of Utah. Problem is both BYU and Utah also play in the MWC. Two-time defending conference football champion BYU was predicted to capture its third consecutive title in 2008 in a poll of media members. BYU was 11-2 overall and finished with a top 20 ranking in the final USA Today Coaches (t-14), Associated Press (14) and Harris (18) polls. Not that he needs to be defended, but Cowboys Head Coach Wade Phillips took the extra step to backup quarterback Tony Romo as a hard working, focused quarterback. Speaking to about 650-youth middle school and youth coaches, Phillips drew a nice response when he said Romo hasn't missed a workout in two years that he's been the head coach. "I don't know anything about Jessica," Phillips said, "So don't ask me anything questions...
Roy Williams can take a big sigh of relief. The Cowboys safety should be among the Dallas players glad to see New York Giants tight end Jeremy Shockey traded to the New Orleans Saints. The Saints will get second- and fifth-round picks in the 2009 draft. How many times did Shockey just find Williams in space and burn him for a touchdown? I can't count that high. And it's a good move for the Giants who did jus...
From the so strange it has to be true department, Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Terrell Owens came to the rescue of a reporter who was hit by a car after the taping of the ESPY awards in LA last week. Read the reporter's account here. ...Todd Dodge's second season as coach of the University of North Texas football team may not be much better than his first - at least if you believe what the coaches in the Sun Belt Conference say. The Mean Green was picked to finish seventh out of eight teams this season in the preseason poll, voted on by the leagues head coaches. Defending conference champion Florida Atlantic is picked to repeat with six of the eight first pl...
Finally, six months after the Dallas Cowboys 21-17 playoff loss to the New York Giants the Cowboys head to Oxnard, Calif. for training camp this week. It should be an eventful camp. The Cowboys, by pretty much all prognostications, are a favorite to represent the NFC in Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa February 1. That what you expect from a team coming off a 13-3 season with 13 returning Pro Bowlers and the addition of another Pro...
With the Texas Rangers' luck this season calling up position players from the minor leagues and seeing major league performances, Taylor Teagarden's week shouldn't be so surprising. Monday the catcher played in the 2008 XM All-Star Futures Game at Yankee Stadium. Wednesday the University of Texas and Carrollton Creekview High School product was named to the 2008 United States Olympic Baseball Team. Friday he was called...
If you're longing for the days of three-pointers and rebounds, the Dallas Mavericks want to get you all decked out for basketball season, and at a deep discount. The Mavs are hosting their summer warehouse blow-out sale at the AAC Saturday. And it is a sale. Hats, t-shirts, sweatshirts, jerseys, jackets and warm-ups will be priced 50-80 percent off the wholesale price. But the real question is will there be some really ...
With the trade for Adam Jones and the drafting of Mike Jenkins in the first round, Dallas Cowboys rookie fifth round pick Orlando Scandrick of Boise State could be overlooked. But the Cowboys appear to have made a commitment to the cornerback by signing him to a four-year, $1.85 million contract, according to dallascowboys.com, the team's official site. What's notable about the signing is that the Cowboys customarily don't si...
For all the Hank Blalock fans out there, he's finally back, back at third base. With the emergence of Longview native Chris "Crush" Davis at First base, Blalock's career at first base for the Rangers lasted.....0 games. When Blalock originally got hurt in April, the Rangers were playing Ben Broussard(now with the Yankees AAA team) and Chris Shelton(now at Triple-A Oklahoma) at first. At the time, the move seemed right especially with Ramon Vaz...
The Dallas Mavericks' Josh Howard and Sacramento Kings' Ron Artest are the same age, 28. Both have been All-Stars. Last season, they averaged very similar statistics, Howard with 19.9 points, 7 rebounds and 2.2 assists per game and Artest with 20.5, 5.8 and 3.5. If you total them with steals and blocks per game Howard has 30.3 and Artest 32.8. That's what I like to compare, their total contributions. Artest has an edge. He als...
I watched the morning workout of Darvis Patton, a former TCU sprinter in Arlington today, and was impressed. Of course when you know this guy just ran a 9.89 and a 9.84 at the Olympic trails a few weeks ago, it's easy to be wowed. Patton is a 1996 graduate of Lake Highland and seems to be getting better with age. After all, he failed to make the relay team of his high school track team at a time when Marcus Stiggers was gathering all ...
SMU will be hosting some of the best tennis players in history. The Stanford Championships, one of eight events on the 2008 Outback Champions Series, the international champions' tennis circuit featuring tennis stars 30 and older will be played at SMU's Turpin Tennis Stadium. The tournament from October 22-26 will feature a field of eight players that will include Jim Courier, Todd Martin, Mark Philippoussis and defending champ...
The Dallas Stars will begin the 2008-08 season against a familiar foe, both a conference rival and former head coach when Ken Hitchcock and the Columbus Blue Jackets come to Dallas Oct. 10 at 7:30 p.m. The Stars will also host nine of the 15 Eastern Conference teams, up from the five inter-conference games the last three seasons. The Stars 41 home games features 20 weekend contests (six Friday, 10 Saturday, four Sunday). ...Former TCU All-American Jake Arrieta and fellow former Horned Frog Eugene Espineli will be playing for the United States Olympic team in next month. TCU is the only school with two former players on the squad. "To be the only university with two players represented on the Olympic baseball team exemplifies the greatness of TCU and the development of players in our program over the years," said TCU head coach Jim Schlossnagle. <...
I don't exactly get it, but ESPN's ESPY Awards won't be broadcast until Sunday night despite the ceremony being held last night in Los Angeles. Maybe ESPN was too busy broadcasting the replay of the All-Star Home Run Derby, but the night after the All-Star game, which is virtually devoid of any sports, would seem like the perfect night to broadcast the awards. Instead, ESPN waits until baseball is back from the break. At any ...
News 8's Jim Douglas has an interesting story about James Bradshaw, a standout lineman form Trinity High School's state championship team. (Read it and watch video here.) At this point, he's not allowed to attend Arkansas-Pine Bluff next month on a full-scholarship because of a transcript glitch that misidentified a Spani...
I did a story on Orville Rogers, a 90-year-old Dallas man who runs competitively. In March, he set a couple records for his age group at a meet in Boston, in the 800 meter run and the mile. Here are a few things about Orville I couldn't fit in the story that were interesting: Orville was named after Orville Wright, one of the Wright brothers. He was a pilot for Braniff Airlines for 32 years, until his retirement in 1977. Branif...
It's a little bit of a tease. But if the muggy July weather has you thinking hockey, the Dallas Stars can at least give you something to look forward to. The Dallas Stars announced the team's pre-season schedule today, including four games at American Airlines Center in Dallas. They will play seven pre-season games in 2008 in all. Also announced is that the Stars' four-day training camp will open September 19 at the Frisco Dr ...
In the end, the Luis Yanez story follows exactly what your parents always tell you: When you make a mistake, fess up. Yanez, the 19-year-old boxer from Duncanville, will go to Beijing after all as part of the U.S. Olympic boxing team. But here is the key: Yanez agreed to pay a fine, undergo sports counseling and make a public apology. He also will personally apologize to his teammates and keep from making public remarks on th...
As if Alex Rodriguez wasn't getting it enough from the New York papers, the Grand Prairie AirHogs baseball team is hosting an "A-Rod & Madonna Night" promotion for tonight's game against the Shreveport Sports. The team will poke fun at the latest gossip about the two mega-stars. One dollar tickets will be offered to any couples coming to the game who claim to "share an agent." Fans will also receive dollar admission i...
No matter how many times Michael Young came up in the All-Star Game Tuesday night and stretching past 1:30 Wednesday morning in New York you, or I at least, kept thinking Young would win it. He's simply clutch. I just didn't think it would take to the 15th inning. Two years ago Young was the MVP of the game when he hit a game-winning triple. This time it was a sacrifice fly that gave the Texas Ranger and the American League a ...
Ken Hamlin will be a Dallas Cowboy for years to come and that is the right move by owner Jerry Jones. Aside for the obvious benefit of nullifying his off-season designation as the franchise player (which would give him a one-year contract at $4.4 million dollars, the average salary of the league's five highest-paid safeties), which he was not happy about, it provides stability at a position that has plagued the Cowboys since Darren Wo...
I watched the home run derby with some friends and fellow sports fans last night, and a few things stand out... After his second home run in the first round, the one that hit the wall behind the right-centerfield seats, the crowd and players went so crazy that the contest was stopped down for a few moments. Again, this was after his second home run. When the first round ended, players from both leagues surroun...
The college football season kicks off in a month and a half and the University of North Texas has set the times for its games. The Mean Green begins at a Big 12 school, Kansas State, at 6 p.m. on Aug. 30. UNT's first home game is against Tulsa on Sept. 6 at 6 p.m. Then another big road game at SEC power LSU at 7 p.m. on Sept. 13 in Baton Rouge, La. North Texas begins its Sun Belt Conference schedule hosti...
The Josh Hamilton story just keeps getting better. A walk-off home run for a Rangers win over the Angels last week, then Monday night he electrified Yankee Stadium with a barrage of long balls in the first round of the All-Star Home Run Derby. He was in a different league, seemingly at will powering towering blasts to right field, the upper deck and where few balls have ever been hit. He hit 28 total home runs in the...
If you're hungry for some insights to UNT football or maybe you're curious about the spread offense or just like a free lunch, then you can dine with North Texas head football coach Todd Dodge Wednesday. Dodge and his staff will have a noon lunch at The Trophy Club Country Club Wednesday to talk about the upcoming football season. The lunch is free, but you must register through UNT. The UNT football team opens its se...
USA Boxing Judicial Committee has declined to reinstate Duncanville boxer Luis Yanez to the U.S. Olympic team. There has to be more to the story then Yanez has told. It just doesn't seem right that USA Boxing would kick off a key member because he wanted to help his sister while she battled substance abuse. Sure he there was some call confusion, but something just seems off. It'll be interesting to see what happens in...
The Cowboys head to Oxnard, Calif. in a week and a half. It's time to get your fix of Dallas Cowboys football. George Riba takes a look at what some of the players have been up to in the off-season. ...One of the most controversial and outspoken television personalities is out of a job. After 27 years as the lead college basketball analyst for CBS, Billy Packer is being replaced by Clark Kellogg, who has been at CBS for 16 years. He'll call his first Final Four with Jim Nantz in April. It's a bit of a shocking move, but maybe it shouldn't be. As much icon as lightning rod, Packer is both what you want and what you hate in a...
Do you have a dog that is ready for the spotlight? Well Texas A&M is looking for a new pooch to replace Reveille VII, who just retired as the school's mascot. Reveille has been a tradition in College Station since 1931. This seventh dog is the fifth consecutive collie to hold the job and the new one will maintain the status as the highest ranking member of the Corps of Cadets, as a Five-Star General. She's also known as "the f...
Ian Kinsler just extended his hitting streak to 25 games in the Texas Rangers Sunday game against the Chicago White Sox. That's impressive, but Kinsler may very well be on his way to earning MVP honors this season. There are a lot of interesting story lines on the Rangers this season. Of course Josh Hamilton's evolution from drug addiction to All-Star outfielder and Milton Bradley is having a career year as an outfielder/DH and doing i...
The good news is, the Rangers are at home. The bad news is, they're playing another first place team. This is a tough stretch for the Rangers leading into the all-star break, but so far, pretty good. That split with the Angels was a good one, considering who the Rangers' starting pitchers were in each of those four games. The Sox have been playing really well. After sweeping the Cubs a couple weeks ago, they swept the Indians, split fo...
The Dallas Mavericks have signed guard Keith McLeod and forward James Singleton. McLeod (6-2, 190) was a member of Montepaschi Siena, the winner of the Italian National Championship in 2007-08. In four games, he averaged 4.5 points, 0.3 rebounds and 0.3 assists in 14.4 minutes in Euroleague play. The four-year pro has played with four NBA teams (Minnesota, Utah, Golden State and Indiana) and holds career averages of 5.5 points, 2.7...
DALLAS (AP) -- The Dallas Mavericks have re-signed former Texas Terms of the deal with the guard weren't released Friday. Wright played two seasons with New Jersey before he was acquired New Jersey took Wright with the 15th pick in the 2005 NBA draft. Wright last...
Good Morning Texas is not usually a place to talk football. Today, though, new SMU head football coach June Jones stopped by to talk to his long-time friend and high school football teammate Gary Cogill. Jones faces a big task to get SMU football back to respectability. But if any coach can, it's probably Jones. He turned around a hapless Hawaii program that was strapped by poor facilities (although, the beach is a pretty good...
It's the best and worst at the same time. U.S. swimmer Eric Shanteau learned just a week before the Olympic trials that he has testicular cancer. Then the 24-year-old goes to Omaha, Neb. for the trials and beats a former world-record holder to earn a spot on the Olympic team and a trip to Beijing. "I was sort of like, 'This isn't real. There's no way this is happening to me right now,"' Shanteau told The Associated Press. "You...
DALLAS (AP) -- The Dallas Stars signed left wing Jamie Benn to a The 18-year-old played last season in the Western Hockey League, Duncanville's Luis Yanez, who was removed from the U.S.Boxing team in late June, still doesn't know whether he will be reinstated. A hearing was scheduled for today but was delayed until Friday morning. The reason is that the board, which was scheduled to conduct the hearing, didn't receive all the information it needed from Yanez in time to make a decision today. Yanez was removed from the U.S. Olympic team after he failed t...
Stop me if you have heard this before. Two football players, one current and one former, are in very serious legal trouble today. Former Arkansas quarterback and current Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver Matt Jones was arrested in Fayetteville where police say he was inside a car cutting up cocaine with a credit card. (Read full sto...
I've heard some discussion on the radio about whether Michael Young's steal in the 9th inning last night was a good idea (Quick recap - Rangers were down 4-3, 2 outs, Young steals second with Josh Hamilton at bat). The debate centers around whether Young should have stolen the base, which opened up first base and gave the Angels the option of intentionally walking Hamilton (or pitching around him). Hamilton came through with a 2-run homer to w...
For eight innings the Texas Rangers were just not quite good enough. They weren't good enough to hang with the A.L. West-leading Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Then Jamey Wright pitched a dominant eighth and ninth and in the bottom of the night Ramon Vazquez got a pinch hit walk and later scored on a Michael Young single, then Josh Hamilton delivered. A gusty 5-4 win. We use gutsy a lot with this team. It was somewhat...
I just heard new Maverick Gerald Green on the Ticket with Norm. He's saying all the right things, about being humbled and hungry and ready to "re-launch" his career. Watch my story here One thing he said on Norm's show that concerned me a bit - Green said he's always been a hard worker, first in the gym and the last to leave. He said he stayed that way despite getti...
Terrell Owens is holding his annual football camp at Duncanville High School, and a couple of his teammates were out there today -- Marion Barber and Sam Hurd. Hurd was great, working with kids to get off the line of scrimmage as they begin a pass route; he's a charming and easy-going guy. Barber is different; it's almost painful how shy he is. For a man who runs as violently and aggressively as he does on the football field, he is the opposit...
Before he became the NFL MVP, LaDainian Tomlinson was a backup running back and kick returner for the TCU Horned Frogs as a sophomore in 1998. Now the San Diego Chargers star running back has been named to the 75th Anniversary All-Sun Bowl Team. TCU beat USC 28-19 in the 1998 Sun Bowl. It was the Horned Frogs' first bowl win in 41 years, dating back to a 28-27 victory over Jim Brown and Syracuse in the 1957 Cotton Bowl. ...The Mavericks won't be signing one 6-8 swingman and three-point threat. Jones, a South Florida native who played at the University of The closer from the TCU baseball team is now a millionaire. Andrew Cashner, who just completed his junior year in Fort Worth, was the Chicago Cubs first round draft pick (19th overall), now he gets a $1.54 million signing bonus and $75,000 that will go toward finishing school. As part of the deal, the right-handed pitcher receives an invitation to the 2009 big league Spring Training camp in 2009. If the money is not ...
Matt Harrison wasn't supposed to start for the Texas Rangers Tuesday night. He wasn't supposed to make his major league debut in a crucial game against the A.L. West-leading Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. He wasn't supposed to have to wait until 8 p.m. And he surely wasn't supposed to be as dominating as he was. In seven innings of maneuvering around an Angels lineup that torched Luis Mendoza for eight runs i...
The Cowboys stadium is still in the construction, but now comes word that you can have your name on the sidewalk outside stadium. From the Associated Press: CHICAGO -- The Chicago Cubs acquired pitcher Rich Harden The Cubs received the right-handed Harden and righty Chad Gaudin "We've b...
The Oakland Athletics are changing the game of baseball, again. First it was Beane-Ball, for the thrift winning way of A's general manager Billy Beane. This time Beane is doing it by signing 16-year-old pitching prospect Michael Inoa with a $4.25 million bonus. The 6-foot-7 right-hander is considered the top prospect in The Dominican Republic and much of Latin America and is scheduled to play in the Dominican Summer League. It's another difficult pitching matchup tonight for the Texas Rangers. In their second of four games with the A.L. West-leading Los Angeles Angles of Anaheim, the Rangers will start Matt Harrison. It will be his big league debut. Left-hander became a Ranger in the Mark Teixeira trade. Harrison, 22, is 6-3 so far in a season split between Double-A Frisco and Triple-A Oklahoma. The Halos, meanwhile, will send l...
Last week the NBA decided to get tough on officials who may want to cheat. Now the NFL is taking a similar step to prevent another 'spygate.' The NBA hired Ronald L. Johnson as senior vice president of referee. Johnson is retired Army major general. Today, the NFL announced the hiring of Col. Jeffrey Miller for the new position of director of strategic security. Miller, 45, has been commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Polic...
Texas Rangers outfielder Milton Bradley has begun blogging for the New York Times. He will contribute occasional entries about his all-star experience. His first entry came this morning. Very interesting. ...A former SMU Mustang tennis player is having a mercurial rise through the men's doubles tennis rankings. Johan Brunstrom broke into the top 100 at No. 94 after winning his first tournament and then qualifying for Wimbledon and winning a first-round match. Brunstrom and partner Julian Rojer won the International Championships of Andalusia over Dick Norman and James Cerretani, 6-4, 6-3, in the final for his first pro title. ...If it wasn't enough that TCU safety Stephen Hodge is a preseason All-American and was named the state's top defensive back by Dave Campbell's Texas Football Magazine, he is now on the watch list for the 2008 Jim Thorpe Award, honoring the nation's top defensive back. He's also on the watch list for the Bronko Nagurski Trophy which recognizes the nation's best defensive player. The senior from Tatum had eight sacks last season...
The Dallas Stars are holding their development camp this week. 27 of their top prospects are in Frisco for the week, including their five draft picks from the recent '08 draft. I was talking with Jason Rademan, one of the Stars' PR guys. He was explaining to me that basically three guys in the camp have a realistic chance of making the Stars roster sometime next season (those three are forwards James Neal, Francis Wathier, and Raymond ...
We'll find out this week if we should stay tuned to the second half of the Texas Rangers season. The Rangers begin an important four-game series with the AL West-leading Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. It may be the biggest series in the young managerial career of Ron Washington, who has led the Rangers for just more than a season and a half. Dan and Keith are back together. The duo that made SportsCenter must see TV will now be together on the network that coined the phrase must see TV. NBC announced that Dan Patrick will join Keith Olbermann Monday. Alex Rodriguez is use to the spotlight. The wife of the former Texas Ranger shortstop and current Yankees third baseman filed for divorce Monday. (Read full story here.) It now begs the question of what impact his personal life will have on his performance. There are two ways to look at it. One is that he ...
It's probably the best story leading up to the Summer Olympics in Beijing. At 41-years-old, swimmer Dara Torres will be the first American to compete in five Olympics. Her first was in 1984, before 2004 gold winner Michael Phelps was even born. She won gold in L.A. in '84 and has nine total medals. Now she says she won't compete in the 100-meter freestyle in Beijing. The 50 free will be her only individual ev...
This is a companion post to the "What a Show" post I authored earlier. While the american men have failed to get it done on the world tennis scene, we need to thank Venus and Serena Williams for getting their games together, staying healthy, and creating a buzz at Wimbledon. Its such an odd thing to watch two people so obviously close battle it out for the most coveted prize in their given proffession. After it was over, you ...
I can remember not being able to sleep as a kid waiting for "breakfast at wimbledon." I thought it was the coolest thing not having to wait for one of the premiere sporting events in the world. But in recent years, the american men haven't done much on the grass courts of the all england club. Andy Roddick tried to carry the torch, but it slipped away. So, interest in tennis has waned in our country. But it doesn't matter where you...
Amazing. Roger Federer wouldn't quit. Rafael Nadal too. Stretching to past 9 p.m. London time, a record long 4 hour 48 minute match, matching one Bjorn Borg record as he looked on from the Queen's box, while Borg keeps another record. The 2008 Wimbledon gentlemen's final will go down as one of the most remarkable. "Tried everything," Federer said just after losing his first Wimbledon's final, the first time ...
Are you ready for Randy Moss Motorsports? As of today, it's an official NASCAR sanctioned team. Moss, the Wide Receiver of the New England Patriots, purchased a 50-percent stake in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series formally known as Morgan-Dollar Motorsports. The team will make its debut at the Built Ford Tough 225 at Kentucky Motor Speedway on July 19th. The Craftsman Truck Series is not as risky as the Nationwide Series and the Sp...
From the AP: WIMBLEDON, England -- Venus and Serena Williams won in Pete Incaviglia was a Texas Ranger for only five years (1986-90), but left a big mark on the bad news franchise and its fans. Know for towering homers, striking out and suspect defense, the personable personality was fan favorite known as Inky. Well now the former outfielder who played seven more seasons in the big leagues is the manager of the new Grand Prairie Air Hogs minor league team. George Riba caught up with h...
A rought night for the Rangers as they lose 18-7. They were up 7-6 before falling apart in the seventh. More tomorrow. ...After rookie Warner Madrigal gives up six runs while recording just one out in his major league debut, the Rangers surrender nine runs in the seventh to go down 15-7. Yikes. It'll take a miracle for them to win their last game in Yankee Stadium. Here's to the mostly bad memories. What a way to enter the majors. Warner Madrigal came in to pitch for Rangers up 7-6 in the bottom of the seventh to face Bobby Abreu, Alex Rodriguez and Jason Giambi. He came in with heat; the gun registered 97 miles an hour. Madrigal, 24, was an outfielder just two years ago. Now he is making his debut in Yankee Stadium. Last year the right-hander was pitching in A ball. Now he is trying to battle against the...
Texas Rangers shortstop Michael Young left Wednesday's game after the third inning with mild strain of his left groin. I don't know if any groin strain can be classified as mild, but that is what they're calling it. It sure seems like Joaquin Benoit is doing a lot of walking. The Rangers relief pitcher who has been erratic this season came in to the sixth up one run. He proceeds to walk the eighth and ninth batters. Problem is the Rangers have few other options this early in the game. Just called up Warner Madrigal is the only other fresh arm available. Sidney Ponson was a Texas Ranger, but personality issues forced him from the team. Rookie Chris Davis just forced Ponson from Wednesday night's game with a towering homer to center field. It put the Rangers up 7-6, as they look to sweep the Yankees in the Rangers final trip to Yankee Stadium. Milton Bradley homered just two batters earlier. The Rangers are three games above .500 pending tonight's game and they are do...
The Speedo LZR (pronounced laser) is making, ahem, waves in the swimming world. Thirty-eight of the 42 world records broken this year have been by swimmers wearing LZRs. The suit's LZR panels, core stabilizer and bonded seams all combine to reduce drag. Here is how Speedo describes the suit: "Made from an ultra lightweight, low drag, water repellent, and fast-drying fabric unique to Speedo called LZR PULSE™, the LZR RA...
The problems have been on the field for the SMU football team, but they are hoping what is on their heads and backs will help the team return to "national prominence." I'm reminded of what my middle school football coach, Coach Garcia, would always say, "look sharp, play sharp." Maybe this isn't what he meant. Here we go again. Brett Favre just can't make up his mind. The legendary Green Bay Packers quarterback is considering unretiring, according to an ESPN report. It was just March when he said he's gone, now he wants to come back. When he retired, a teary Favre said, "I've given everything I possibly could give to this organization, the game of football, and I don't think I've got anything left to give And that's it. I know I can ...
TCU baseball is among the best in the country for a second straight season. Baseball America ranked the Horned Frogs at No. 23 in its final poll, while Collegiate Baseball ranked the Frogs 26th. The Frogs ended the year with a 44-19 record. The 44 wins were the second-most in school history. TCU won both Mountain West Conference titles for the third consecutive season. It was also the fifth straight NCAA Regional Tou...
This is how good Serena and Venus Williams are. Not only are both going to the semifinals in singles, they are also going to the semis as a doubles team. The sisters defeated Bethanie Mattek of the U.S. and Sania Mirza of India, 6-4, 6-3 in their quarterfinals match today. Venus has won four Wimbledon singles titles and Serena two. They've won Wimbledon twice as doubles partners (2000 and '02) and have a total of six Grand Sl...
From the Associated Press: WIMBLEDON, England -- Roger Federer stretched his winning Federer, the only man at this year's tournament to win every I eagerly watched as Dale Hansen interviewed Duncanville boxer Luis Yanez Tuesday night on the News 8 Update. Yanez, the captain of the U.S. Olympic team, was kicked off by his coach after failing to show for training. The 106-pound light flyweight was booted for skipping three weeks of training without getting permission or even telling USA Boxing where he was, national team coach Dan Campbell claims. The Pan Americ...
Bobby Massa, a junior golfer at UTA, won one of the region's top collegiate tournaments. Massa joins former PGA golfers Hal Sutton, David Toms and Bill Rogers as a winner of the event. Massa finished in a tie for 10th after the two ro...
Next time Dick Bavetta makes a bad call he may have to drop and give Ronald L. Johnson 20. Johnson was named the NBA's senior vice president of referee operations today. He just retired as an Army major general after 32 years as a combat engineer. He was hired to oversee officiating after the Tim Donaghy scandal. Donaghy is accused of misconduct, including helping the league manipulate playoff results in 2002 and '05. ...
Now it seems the Williams sisters are just toying with the competition. Serena Williams beat Agnieszka Radwanska 6-4, 6-0 to advance to the semifinals at Wimbledon. She joins sister Venus in the semis. I thought it would never happen. Mired in mediocrity for much of the past month, the Texas Rangers finally improved to two games above .500 Monday night and did it against the hated Yankees in the Bronx. The Rangers were previously 0-5 when they could go two games over even. What's more is the Rangers did it with pitching, including a bullpen that has overcome poor performances in recent weeks and a closer who has gone from e...
It's looking more and more like we will get an American and sister match up at the Wimbledon finals 4th of July weekend. Defending champ Venus Williams advanced to the semifinals after beating Tamarine Tanasugarn 6-4, 6-3. Venus' sister, Serena, plays 19-year-old Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland today. Venus hasn't dropped a set all tournament...
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