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February 2009 ArchivesFrom the Dallas Cowboys, announcing Zach Thomas' replacement at inside linebacker. The Dallas Cowboys signed unrestricted free agent linebacker Keith Brooking to a three-year deal today. Brooking started all 16 games for the Atlanta Falcons in 2008 leading the team with 133 tackles (80 solo) and adding three pass breakups. He has played 11 seasons in the NFL - all with the Falcons - after being drafted in the first round (12t...
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones starting his 21st year as owner of this football team and it should have been a celebration, but it's not because of what the Cowboys have become. Jones wants to win -- I get that - but only if he can win doing it his way. It didn't start out that way. Two Super Bowls in the first five years, but then as former coach Jimmy Johnson said, Jones wanted to be part of the fun. Making money wa...
The Dallas Cowboys have acquired quarterback Jon Kitna to back up Tony Romo. The Cowboys sent cornerback Anthony Henry to Detroit in Saturday's trade. Kitna finished the 2008 season on injured reserve because of a back injury and was not expected to return to the Lions. He is due a $1 million roster bonus March 3. Kitna started four games for Detroit last year, completing 68 of 120 attempts for 758 yards and five touch...
We've heard all year long how the Dallas Mavericks can beat the bad teams, but lose to the good ones. Not a great sign if you're hoping the Mavs can make some kind of playoff run. But they're not the only ones in that situation. I thought the Phoenix Suns were in a similar, treading-water situation, and after looking at their schedule, they are. Overall Record: vs. teams above .5...
The Dallas Cowboys-Washington Redskins Rivalry will be taking on a new dimension now that Albert Haynesworth has signed a seven year $100 million contract with the Washington Redskins. Of course it was two and a half years ago that Hanyesworth inexplicably stomped on the face of Cowboys center Andre Gurode. I know I've written about this before but anytime you're talking lingerie girls and football, it's worth repeating. Three members of the Dallas Desire of the newly-formed Lingerie Football League will be live in studio tonight on Tylock Lasik SportsTalk (6:30PM, KFWD, channel 52). They will apparently be "in uniform" and will run some plays for us as well. Needless to say, this is a tremendous moment for Dallas...
Baltimore Ravens linebacker Bart Scott decided to follow his defensive coordinator to New York. Rex Ryan is now the head coach of the Jets and Scott has agreed to a deal to join him. That means the Ravens' other free agent linebacker, Ray Lewis, may be key for the Ravens to keep. But Lewis has said he'd love to play for the Dallas Cowboys. The Cowboys have a vacancy at inside linebacker, but I'd think the Rav...
This really sounds like a broken record. Quincy Carter has battled drug problems, including an arrest in Irving in December 2006. Some guy named Randy Galloway paid $500 to bail him out then. He may have to do it again. Carter, a 2001 draft pick of the Cowboys and former starting quarterback, was arrested in South Texas for DWI early this morning. Troy Aikman was a serious football player. Very serious. A lot of you thought too serious. Not anymore. It turns out Aikman is one pretty funny guy. To really appreciate it you have to watch this clip from a luncheon in Fort Worth Thursday where he was talking about the upcoming Super Bowl in Arlington with Jerry Jones and Roger Staubach. Aikman said he's not making any money for his work, but it's not so mu...
Michael Vick is going home, but he's not completely free ... not yet. I don't have a problem with Vick returning to the NFL. He is the rare case of a professional athlete who broke the law and actually went to jail. By the time he is completely released (after his house arrest), Vick will have paid his debt t...
The Dallas Stars traded defenseman Doug Janik to the Montreal Canadiens for center Steve Bégin Thursday. He is scheduled to practice with the club Friday afternoon. "Steve is a gritty, honest player with a very strong work ethic," said Co-General Manager Les Jackson. "He's good on the penalty kill and he is a competitor in every sense of the word. We think he'll be a very good addition to our group as we continue to fight toward the pl...
The Dallas Cowboys need a new backup for Tony Romo. The team released quarterback Brad Johnson Thursday. He has probably played his last game in the league. Johnson was a quarterback and holder for two seasons in Dallas and still had one year remaining on his three-year deal he signed on March 6, 2007. Cutting Johnson will the save the Cowboys about $2 million on their salary cap. He has played 17 years in the ...
The Dallas Cowboys went from 13-3 and a first-round playoff bye in 2007 to 9-7 and missing the playoffs in 2008, but don't expect the team to make a lot of changes in 2009. The NFL free agency signing period begins at 11:01 p.m. Dallas time Thursday. Here's a look at what to expect from the Cowboys in free agency. Most of the Cowboys offense is pretty set. The five starting offensive linemen are all under con...
Jimmy Johnson never disappoints. The second coach of the Dallas Cowboys sat down in Florida with Dale Hansen to talk about Jerry Jones, 20-years after his college teammate bought the Dallas Cowboys. Some of the key nuggets: - Jimmy had full control of football operations, no matter who had the general manager title. "I didn't answer to anybody," Johnson told Dale. - He says he could have won with any of 500 ow...
I'm not much of a Jerry Jones fan. Never really have been. I think most Cowboys fans tolerated him through the years when they were winning Super Bowls. At his best, Jerry is a good-natured, high energy Cowboy fan with money. At his worst, he's a meddling owner, desperate for the limelight at all costs, and prone to ill-advised decisions. Jerry once said any of 500 coaches could have won the two Super Bowls Jimmy John...
Tiger could not have asked for a better start in his return. On the first hole, Tiger had a good drive, a very nice approach shot, and a birdie. On his second hole, a par 5, he drove the fairway, and then hit his approach to within 5-6 feet. Brendan Jones conceded the hole, so Tiger is 2-up through two holes. He just hit his tee shot on a par 3, and ended up in the right bunker. ...He was one of those guys Mavs fans loved cheering for. Not anymore. The San Antonio Spurs signed forward Pops Mensah-Bonsu to a 10-day contract. He was part of the Spurs' NBA Development League team in Austin. The 25-year-old averaged 26.6 points and 13 rebounds in eight games for the Toros. Mensah-Bonsu is a native of London who played at George Washington. He signed with Dallas after not getting sele...
I had this link sent to me several days ago, and I thought it was such an interesting read that I wanted to give you the opportunity to see it. It's long, but very compelling. Michael Lewis wrote an article for the New York Times Magazine along the lines of his Moneyball book ... that conventional statistics rarely paint an accurate picture of an athlete. In this article, he uses Rockets forward Shane Battier as his example. Maybe, just maybe Ray Lewis could be a Dallas Cowboy after all. The Raves, according the Baltimore Sun, are close to resigning linebacker Bart Scott, but may not then be able to keep Lewis. Lewis has said he'd like to play for the Cowboys. Just ask DeMarcus Ware. I was at Spring Training for the Texas Rangers in Port Charlotte, Florida 20 years ago when the news broke that Jerry Jones had bought the Dallas Cowboys. Photographer Arnold Payne and I drove across Alligator Alley to Miami that morning to see what we could learn about Jimmy Johnson, the coach. We arrived there, trying to figure out if Johnson was still in town when he suddenly popped out of the Miami Hurricanes football offices. He ...
Where have the past 20 years gone? And what a 20 years it has been. A lot of people were skeptical when some Arkansas oilman bought the Dallas Cowboys for $150 million from Bum Bright. It was Feb. 25, 1989. A lot of people are still skeptical. But, and it's a big but, Jerry Jones has left his mark on the Dallas Cowboys, both good and bad. The success in the 90s is undeniable. Three Super Bowls in four...
The Dallas Stars took their practice to Farmers Branch today, but they left the workers at the arena with a little extra work. Left Wing Fabian Brunnstrom got a little frustrated during a four on four team playoff, missed a goal, then took his frustrations out on the glass. It shattered with a bang bringing cheers from his teammates and a surprised look on the face of Brunnstrom. It was actually funny to watch and amazing to see the class blow...
Baseball's union boss, Donald Fehr, says players in the majors aren't suspected of using steroids just because 104 players got caught in 2003. Of course they're not. Fehr says he'll do all he can to keep that list confidential. Some players, not many, but some have argued the entire list should be made public. So everybody would know who failed and who didn't. But not if Donald Fehr gets his way, and ...
This Friday's Tylock Lasik SportsTalk (6:30 PM, KFWD, Channel 52) may resemble the Oxygen Channel at times, but we anticipate a fun show. And lots of interest. Members of the newly-born Lingerie Football League and the Dallas Desire will be in studio, in uniform, and will demonstrate some plays for us. Needless to say, this will be a very different show. It'll be nice to have some beautiful football to talk about for a change ...
In no less authoritative source than the Dallas Cowboys own website, outside linebacker DeMarcus Ware said free agent inside linebacker Ray Lewis told him his dream is to play for the Cowboys. "When we played Ray Lewis and Baltimore at the end of the season, he came over and pointed to my helmet. He said, 'I want to wear this star on my helmet, that's my dream . . . that's my dream.' When we got to the Pro Bowl, he did it again. He cam...
Instead of looking at everyone else, Jerry Jones needs to look at himself. The problems with his franchise are not because people talk to the media. Remember when the Cowboys were winning Super Bowls in the 1990s? There was no media blackout then. No sole voice. Jerry continues to look at everything and everyone but himself. So now, as he is about to open his $1.3 billion palace in Arlington, he's decided he ...
Former Dallas Cowboys running back Emmitt Smith was one of the greatest football players, and certainly running backs, of all-time. But he wasn't a very good television analyst. Baffling is more like it. So it's not too big of a surprise that Smith's contract as an analyst at ESPN, which expired this month, will not be renewed. He retired after the 2004 season as the NFL's all-time leading rusher. Smith is bet...
I've been searching for the words to describe Luis Yanez's pro debut Friday night at the American Airlines Center. I settled on "slippery." Yanez was entertaining, quick, and elusive in his first professional outing. He darted, weaved and jabbed...keeping San Antonio's Julio Valadez off balance. The crowd seemed to love his every move. It often appeared Yanez was toying with Valadez, thanks to a wide display of head shakes and neck bob...
Aaron Brooks hit what essentially ended up being the dagger for the Mavs. The Mavs had the ball on a fast break, sort of, and the hero of the night J.J Barea got in a hurry and fumbled the ball. The Rockets controlled it, then Brooks hit the 3. Monster shot by Brooks in his first game since the Rafer Alston trade. For some reason, Brooks has always given the Mavs fits and he was the thorn in the Dallas side tonight. Mavs lose 93-86. Carlisle has done a great job of strategizing here in the 4th. He has gone small with Bass, Dirk, Barea, Kidd and Wright. This lineup has caused some matchup problems for the Rockets who now have Yao on the bench. It's an 81-77 game with just over 6 minutes to play. Side note: Dirk is getting just straight mugged out there. He has not seen the benefit of a call yet in this game. Maybe it will change down the stretch. J.J. Bare...
Guess who is behind this latest surge? Could it be? Mighty mouse again. Actually, credit Brandon Bass as well. Barea and Bass have shown the energy here in the 4th to help the Mavs cut it to a 76-71 game. For those of you keeping score at home, Barea now has 20 on the night to lead the Mavs. 8:50 to play. ...Dallas was just outscored 30-13 in the 3rd quarter in Houston. That first quarter they played now looks like a distant memory. A comeback is possible, but once again, I hate to be redundant, but Dirk has to catch fire in the 4th. 4-16 won't cut it, especially when Jason Terry is out. Key stat of the game: Turnovers Mavs had 7 in the 3rd quarter, Rockets had 1. Stay tuned ...I must blog about mighty mouse again. He is instant energy right now for Dallas. Mavs have cut the lead to 7 since he has entered. It's a tale of two halves for the Mavs. They now trail 68-57 in the game, and are on the verge of being blown out in Houston. Yao Ming has taken advantage of Dampier being out. Dallas is killing themsleves with turnovers. They look like Tony Romo against the Eagles. 5 turnovers in the half already. Dirk looks frustrated, there is no half-court offense and you can forget about any defense being played. We'll see if this timeout helps. This look...
4 points in the 2nd half so far for Dallas. That's 4 points in 5 minutes, 6 seconds. Houston has outscored Dallas 15-4 in the second half and now lead 59-55. ...Not a good start for the Mavs in the second half. An 8-2 run by the Rockets has cut the Dallas lead to 1. Dirk has the Mavericks only basket in the 2nd half. 2 turnovers in the first 3 minutes of the half don't help either. ...Halftime has come in Houston and the Mavs lead it 51-44 over Houston. An 11-2 run to end the half closed the gap down for the Rockets, who slowed the Mavs transition game a bit, plus the Mavs getting stagnant didn't help their case. But, up 7 on the road at half in an arena where they have won 4 straight is a good start. Notable first half numbers/stats: Josh Howard: 7-15 FG, 16 points(why can't he do this all the time?) I must say before the season started I was one of the J.J Barea haters in this area. My thinking was, if he is your backup point guard, then this team is going nowhere. Well, I am happy to say he has proved me wrong. Mighty Mouse is at it again. Barea: After Houston had cut the Dallas lead to 4, the Mavs take a timeout to collect themselves and come back out on fire. Dirk gets his first bucket plus the foul. Antoine Wright drains a 3 followed by a J.J. Barea 3. So, one 9-0 run later and Houston takes a timeout. Mavs up 37-24 with 9:13 to play in the 1st half. Wright: 11 points 5-5 FG If you're a Mavs fan, you have to like what you saw in the 1st quarter in Houston. Dirk goes 0-3 from the field, scores 0 points and Dallas leads by 9. Let me ask this though, Why can't Josh Howard play like this every quarter. The energy he brings in 1st quarters is unbelievable. He goes 5-10 with 12 points in the quarter. Antoine Wright continues his hot play going 4-4 with 8 points. Mavs looking good so far, now lets see if the Big...
The Mavericks are in Houston taking on the Rockets right now. This is a team the Mavs have basically owned the last 26 games. Dallas is 19-7 in those 26 and have won 4 in a row in Houston. So far, Josh Howard and Antoine Wright have carried the Mavs, who lead by 4 with just under 6 minutes to play in the 1st qtr. More to come ...The NBA trade deadline came and went and Shaquille O'Neal won't be fitted for a Mavericks jersey tomorrow. Neither will Vince Carter, Amare Stoudemire or Brad Miller. Mark Cuban reportedly spoke to many teams about many different players, but nothing went down. Many Mavs fans might be dissapointed about this...but why? The team's been playing very well despite the absence of Jason Terry. Jason Kidd continues to play younger tha...
Mike Leach is the best thing to happen to Texas Tech football. The goofy head coach and the university's administration and regents have to figure out how to work together. The Board of Regents is holding a special meeting tomorrow to discuss their head football coach, but it shouldn't have come to this. It wasn't that long ago that Tech and Leach were the darlings of college football. Leach, like all coaches...
It sounds like a great idea, right? Julius Peppers in a Dallas Cowboys uniform. He wants to be traded here, but it's not going to happen. The four-time Pro Bowler wants a trade and specifically has listed the Cowboys as one of four teams he'd want to go to. There are a lot of problems with this. First, Peppers is a 4-3 defensive end. He's too small to play end in the Cowboys 3-4, but has no experience...
I was in Athens, TX last night to get interviews for a story on Kevin Till, a high school senior. He has a dangerous form of cancer in his brain, and in December, doctors performed a surgery to remove as much of the tumor as they could. Since then, Kevin has been treated with chemotherapy while continuing to go to school, and he plays/practices with the basketball team when he has enough energy. Benny Rogers of the "Athens Dai...
Tonight will be a personal treat for me. Longtime Rangers play-by-play man Eric Nadel will join us on Tylock Lasik SportsTalk (6:30 PM, KFWD, Channel 52...replay at 12:05 AM). I grew up as a kid listening to Eric Nadel and Mark Holtz call Rangers games on the radio. Before Fox Sports Net and its first local entity (Home Sports Entertainment) in the early 80's, Rangers games were largely unseen on television. Diehard Rangers f...
Just like most employees, Terrell Owens has his strengths and weaknesses. But just like at most jobs, when the employee becomes a bigger pain in the rear than his or her contributions are worth, then it's time for the boss to make a change. That's where the Cowboys are with Owens, but owner/GM Jerry Jones apparently is not going to cut the mercurial receiver. The biggest problem is T.O. will never, it would seem, admi...
Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez says the steroids he took when he played with the Rangers were injected by his cousin. He says he bought the drugs over the counter in the Dominican Republic. I know when I'm thinking I need a little boost, I'm not feeling great, I want my cousin to go to Santo Domingo, buy something then stick it in my butt and we'll see what happens. Doesn't everybody do that? Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones announced his June concert to open his new stadium. George Strait will headline. Apparently, Rod Stewart was not available. Jones won't say it, but it does appear Terrell Owens is coming back, which proves again Jones, as a general manager, doesn't have a clue about putting a team together. Most days, I love my job. And then on some days, I really love my job. Next week, sometime, will be one of those days. Members of the Dallas Desire, a new all-female football team will join me in studio, presumably in lingerie. They play in the Lingerie Football League, which is basically a guy's fantasy come true. There are ten teams in the new league, which kicks of...
I'm on vacation right now, but had to get this off my chest. How can this kind of thing happen? How can Alex Rodriguez have an ar...
The Texas Rangers rotation is going to have some familiar faces. G.M. Jon Daniels likes to talk a lot about all the young talent on the team and in the organization, but here is how they expect the starting rotation to shake out: Kevin Millwood, Vicente Padilla, Scott Feldman, Matt Harrison and Brandon McCarthy. Harrison is the youngest at 23. McCarthy is 25, Feldman 26. Millwood and Padilla are in their 30s. ...
Olympic champion Michael Phelps won't be facing any marijuana charges in South Carolina. The sheriff there says there's not enough evidence. Phelps was caught on camera smoking from the pipe. A picture the kid who took it sold for a hundred thousand dollars. Several witnesses were there and Phelps has apologized for his mistake, but the sheriff couldn't find any evidence. That is one tough case to crac...
I happen to agree with SportsTalk producer Josh Harvey (for once). Shaq would be a terrific addition to the Mavs, depending on what you'd have to give up to get him. Probably Josh Howard, Jerry Stackhouse and maybe someone else. Shaq is still very productive at the age of 35...he's an NBA All-Star, for goodness sakes. And the Mavericks, bless them, could always use another level of toughness. Shaq would give that to them. And i...
He lost endorsements, got suspended and had to face public scrutiny, but Michael Phelps won't be facing any charges. The Michael Phelps bong saga is finally over. Although the picture was taken in November at a University of South Carolina party, Phelps' picture with a marijuana pipe in his hand didn't become public until the News of the World showed the photo Feb. 1. After that he lost a Kellogg's endorsement and was...
NFL free agency and the off-season is just getting started and the rumor mill is already going. Former ESPN reporter Armando Salguero, now of the Miami Herald, says the Cowboys and Dolphins could be swapping players and draft picks again. He sees Bobby Carpenter, a first-round pick by current Dolphins executive Bill Parcells in 2006 for the Cowboys, as a player that maybe has some skill but hasn't gotten the full opportunities...
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones can right some wrongs, or at least one big wrong, when he names his new stadium. It's unlikely he will get a big-name sponsor to put their name on his football palace in Arlington now because of the economy. But this negative -- financially speaking -- can be used for one big positive. He can name the stadium for Tom Landry, the only coach the Cowboys had in the 29 years before Jones b...
NASCAR is back for a new season and just like they always do they start with their best race and work their way backwards. The Daytona 500 is the Super Bowl of racing, then a long season, then the 10 race playoffs and then it's over. Texas Motor Speedway President Eddie Gossage explains it that it's that way because it has always been that way. It is a strange sport. ...Now, I write these words with tongue firmly planted in cheek. But perhaps it's the best solution to baseball's steroids crisis. I suggest, why not let everyone be on steroids...and see who's best after that? This way, if everyone's on the juice, we can at least have a level playing field again, where we can separate the best from the rest. If A-Rod (A-Roid, rather) takes steroids and can hit 60 homers, maybe Ha...
It's convenient for MLB Commissioner Bud Selig to say Alex Rodriguez "shamed the game" now. But that's just shameful on his part. Selig has been commissioner since 1992 (acting commissioner from '92-98) and a team owner and administrator since 1970. The steroids era happened on his watch. If anyone in baseball is to blame for performance enhancing drugs in the game it's Selig. He's the commissioner. You don'...
The Texas Rangers could be seeing Ken Griffey Jr. again and a lot. ESPN has a report saying the Seattle Mariners are very interested in bringing Junior back. But he's not been the same dynamic player since he was traded by the Mariners more than 8 years ago. (I know doesn't seem that long ago, does it?) ...South Carolina police are, apparently, rounding up folks who were at the party swimmer Michael Phelps was at when that now infamous bong picture was taken. We've seen this type of witch hunt before, a sheriff looking to make his name. And that's a valid point. It's probably not the best use of law officers time to go knocking on doors of college kids who have have been at the same party as Michael Phelps and may have smoked p...
Jets quarterback Brett Favre has retired again. It's the second time in a year he's retired. Favre says he means it this time. They always do, but usually don't He's 39 and didn't play well at the end of last year, so maybe he is done. Until he decides to play again, of course. We all know Michael Johnson is one of the greatest sprinters of all time. Afterall, he won 4-gold medals and nine world championships. Today, he invited a handful of reporters to his Performance Center in McKinney to get a first hand look at athletes he's training for upcoming pro days and the NFL combine. Asked if he could make anyone faster, like plain old you and me, he said "I didn't say I could make you fast, I said I co...
Voters in our unscientific poll are overwhelmingly say Jerry Jones should quit as the Dallas Cowboys general manager. Of course since he owns the team he can do whatever he'd like. But if he were to listen to you all, he probably wouldn't like what he hears. People in Wisconsin treat Brett Favre like a deity. The joke at my old station was that if Favre passed gas, we'd probably fly halfway across the country to cover it. This is only a slight exaggeration. Brett and Deanna Favre are treated like the First Family of Wisconsin. And, in some ways, they are/were. There's not a lot to do in Wisconsin, especially in the Winter. I witnessed grown men crying when Favre first announced his retirem...
Is the year 2010 really worth not upgrading now? Mark Cuban has given us his opinon if you believe reports that the Mavs turned down a trade that would send Jason Kidd to the Clippers for Baron Davis and Chris Kaman. Yes the same Baron Davis that got the nickname the "Maverick Killer" in 2006. Before I give you my thoughts, let's break it down a bit. Kidd will be a free agent this year and is making a little over 21 million. This move...
Maybe because I grew up in Dallas and as a Cowboys fan I've never really been a big fan of Brett Favre. Favre is a great football player, not necessarily a great quarterback. He's a competitor, a fighter who never gives up. He also makes a lot of mistakes. A lot. Take the number 310. That's how many interceptions Favre has thrown, the most in NFL history. This season with the Jets he had 22 interceptions (most...
I had a nice visit last night with Robert Monarrez. You've probably never heard of him, but he wants to change the Dallas Cowboys. His premise, and a lot of people agree with him, is that Jerry Jones is holding the Cowboys back. The owner's insistence that he also serve as the team's general manager (and football guru) is the problem, Monarrez says. So this 40-year-old season ticket holder, who has been a Cowboys fan ...
Be sure to tune in to Tylock Lasik SportsTalk on Wednesday night at 6:30 PM (KFWD, Channel 52). Mavericks Forward Josh Howard will return to the SportsTalk set for an extended interview, his first with us since last season. Josh will discuss the NBA season and his future in Dallas. So be sure to check us out. On same cable outlets, it is actually channel 14. Also, for you night owls, the show repeats on KFWD at 12:05 AM. ...The Dallas Stars assigned left wing Sean Avery to the Hartford Wolf Pack in the American Hockey League, a developmental league, Tuesday morning. It's a fitting place for a guy who has a lot of developing to do. The Wolf Pack is a New York Rangers affiliate. He's already practiced with Hartford. The Stars placed Avery on waivers Saturday, which he cleared -- not so surprisingly -- Monday. "I would like to thank...
The more I watch the interview and think about what Alex Rodriguez is saying the more frustrated I get. Highly conditioned professional athletes are very serious about what they put in their bodies. Their livelihood depends on it. For A-Rod to tell Peter Gammons in the ESPN interview that he wasn't really sure what he was putting in his body is exceedingly hard to believe. It's convenient to say 'oh I took some stuff,...
Yankees third baseman Alex Rdriguez says the truth will set you free and since Sports Illustrated caught him in the lies he's been telling about his steroid use now he's decided to tell the truth. Not all of it, not nearly enough of it, but Rodriguez says he did use steroids when he played with the Rangers in the early part of the decade. He says that big contract was a reason, the heat in Texas another. There's someth...
Dallas Mavericks guard Jason Terry had successful surgery on his injured left had Monday. Terry fractured a bone in his left (non-shooting) hand in Saturday's win over the Chicago Bulls. The surgery was performed by Dr. Scott Oishi and Dr. T.O. Souryal at Texas Sports Medicine. No timetable has been set for his return, but he's expected to miss about three weeks. Terry has played in all 50 Mavericks games this...
Count me as one of those in the small camp who actually give Alex Rodriguez credit for coming out and admitting his steroid use. Do I think it was because he was backed into a corner? Of course. If there was no Sports Illustrated report, there's no A-Rod confession. But still, players like Barry Bonds, Rafael Palmeiro, Mark McGwire...all initially either denied taking steroids or flat-out refused to talk about ...
Alex Rodriguez admits he used steroids. Now we're all supposed to forgive him, right? Not me. You don't get on national television a little more than a year after saying you never used performance enhancing drugs and then say you did and get a free pass. A-Rod had his chance to come clean. Katie Couric asked him on 60 Minutes in December 2007 if he ever used steroids and he said he never did and never felt the...
Michael Irvin plans to talk to his attorney today about how to proceed with police requests to talk to him. The former Cowboys star claims a motorist flashed a gun on him last month. Detectives suspended the investigation a couple weeks later -- after they couldn't get in contact with Irvin. ...Update: I got the official word from a Cowboys' spokeswoman at 2:13 p.m. Monday that Adam Jones was released. Don't you just love the NFL. The Cowboys announced on Jan. 7 that Adam "Pacman" Jones would be cut, they just couldn't actually waive a player until today, after the end of the season. Wouldn't you love it if you boss told you: "I'm going to fire you in a month." So now you can say your goodbyes to the c...
The best reason to watch to Pro Bowl each year is to get one last football fix. Now we have to wait six months to get it again. Luckily, with the Dallas Cowboys things are never quiet on the football front around here. Who needs games? We have our own made-for-TV drama right here. Heck we'll even have a couple Cowboys-based reality shows too. If you're scoring at home, you'll recall today, Feb. 9, is not only the off...
Things like this aren't supposed to shock us anymore. But Alex Rodriguez was supposed to have this squeaky-clean image (well aside from the Madonna stuff). A-Rod was supposed to be a natural talent. He was supposed to not need steroids to be better than everyone else. He was supposed to be just that good. Apparently, he wasn't. What makes it worse is that he did it here. As a Texas Ranger. And the Ran...
Sports Illustrated has reported that Alex Rodriguez tested positive for steriods in 2003 (see full story here). 2003 was the year major league baseball first began testing for steroids, but not in any official, punitive way. They were randomly testing baseball players to find out whether it would be necessary ...
Just in case you missed SportsTalk last night on KFWD, channel 52...here are the five "real" reasons I suggested that might have lead to Dan Reeves not joining the Cowboys. 1) He wasn't issued a team of bodyguards. Apparently, Pacman Jones sapped all the bodyguard resource money the Cowboys have. This, of course, is highly unfair. Why couldn't Reeves have his own bodyguard entourage? Jerry, again, being short-sighted.<...
The Texas Rangers have re-signed right-handed pitcher Jason Jennings. Don't freak out. It's a one-year minor league contract. The deal does include an invitation to major league spring training camp, though. Jennings, 30, joined the Rangers as a free agent last year after spending his first 8 campaigns in the Colorado Rockies organization. He made 6 starts in his American League with the Rangers, including the ...
We have a Cowboys-heavy show tonight on Tylock Lasik SportsTalk (6:30 PM, KFWD, Channel 52). We'll be joined by Tony Dorsett, who talks about the many issues facing the Cowboys...many, many issues. Tony has been very outspoken in his criticism of the team and we expect tonight will be no different. Also speaking with us from his off-season home in Oregon, Cowboys punter Sam Paulescu. His future on the team seems in do...
Maybe the Dallas Cowboys kept the wrong coaches. First it was the great Tony Sparano, the Cowboys offensive line coach, assistant head coach and running game coordinator under Bill Parcells. All he did was take a 1-15 Miami Dolphins team to the playoffs with an 11-5 record. Now Todd Haley, the passing game coordinator when Sparano oversaw the running game, is headed to be the head coach of the former Dallas Texans, th...
Jerry Jones continues to baffle me. Now we know the big sticking point in the contract that would have brought Dan Reeves back to the Cowboys: Jones wanted Reeves to log a specific number of hours at Valley Ranch. Does Jerry really think Reeves was looking for a cush job? Reeves, like all NFL coaches, is a man who has put in very, very long days (we're talking 12-18 hours a day during the season) in his time coaching i...
We had a circus that came to my hometown every 4th of July, but it wasn't nearly the circus that the Cowboys have become. Cowboys hire Dan Reeves Sunday, he quits 3 days later and nobody's willing to say why. Reeves says it was because of one clause that Cowboys owner Jerry Jones put in the contract. Jones says it was because he was concerned about the commitment Reeves was willing to make. There's not a day Dan Reeves ...
This Cowboys story about the hiring of Dan Reeves just gets stranger as we go. Reeves works at Valley Ranch 3 days then quits. He says it was because of one clause in the contract he couldn't accept, but won't say what it was. Reeves won't even say what his title was gonna be. He does say it wasn't general manager though because Jerry Jones isn't ever gonna give that title up. But Jones realizes he needs some help to ge...
I just got done with a phone interview with Dan Reeves (listen to our conversation here). He's been making the radio rounds today (going to be on 103.3 espn in about 15 minutes), he was on with Bob and Dan on the Ticket earlier this afternoon, and also on with David Smoak at KBTT in Tyler. A couple notes ... Reeves said he's about "talked out" on this ...
First the fiasco with Dan Reeves and now Terry Glenn. I know Glenn is no longer on the roster, but still...it goes to show what quality individuals Jerry Jones likes to bring to Valley Ranch. Apparently, someone like Dan Reeves was just too good of a guy...not enough drama and thug qualities to him. What a shame. The Cowboys could have used another poor role model on the squad. Want to know the five real reasons Dan Reeves did ...
The list just keeps getting longer. Now it's former Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Terry Glenn, who was arrested on charges of public intoxication and possession of marijuana last month. He also had four outstanding traffic warrants. News 8's Brett Shipp has another one of his great reports about the Cowboys new stadium in Arlington. You can read it here or watch it here. It's all about how Cowboys owner Jerry Jones may have a hard time finding a company to ...
These are some of the comments we've gotten recently on the WFAA Sports Blog: "Jerry Jones IS Al Davis Jr. Sad, very sad." "This franchise is slowly turning into the Oakland Raiders." It's true. The circus Jerry Jones has created at Valley Ranch is getting him all the wrong kind of publicity, as he is about to open his prized stadium in Arlington. Jerry has said he thinks any attention his team gets is ...
The Cowboys bring former coach and player Dan Reeves to Valley Ranch, talk to him for 2 days about a job and on the 3rd day they realize there isn't one. I never thought for a moment that Dan Reeves could find a job with Cowboys owner Jerry Jones he'd want. Money's never a problem, but Jones can be and Reeves leaving already proves he still is. ...Turns out Dan Reeves isn't coming back to the Dallas Cowboys after all. Reeves and the Cowboys could not reach a deal on exactly what his role with the team would be. Reeves reportedly arrived at Valley Ranch Tuesday and by Wednesday evening was gone. The Cowboys never made an official announcement about Reeves Hockey is talking about the fighting in their sport again, still defending it though and you just can't. NHL officials say they need the fights to protect the star players. Apparently not a single other sport bothers to protect their stars, but hockey does. And I love this, they're actually talking about tweaking what they call the rules of engagement so that if a helmet comes off they stop the fight. Condone the fight...
I had a chance to meet Sulphur Springs quarterback Tyrik Rollison who signed with Auburn today, and to think there was a time his mother didn't even want him to play quarterback. "It's a big position, it's a big spot," his mother Brenda said today. "I asked him, are you ready, because I felt like he had to carry the whole team, you have to be a leader." That was before he became one of the top recruited quarterbacks in Texas, ...
This is getting a little weird. The Cowboys hire former NFL head coach and Cowboys running back and assistant coach Dan Reeves and then won't tell anybody. After a report by ESPN today that Reeves is now working in his new office at Valley Ranch, I e-mailed a Cowboys public relations employee Jancy Briles and asked if she could confirm that Reeves is now working for the Cowboys. Here was her response: "No I cannot - we ...
Former Cowboys running back and assistant coach and NFL head coach Dan Reeves is reportedly now at work at Valley Ranch. Problem is the Cowboys have yet to make an announcement on the hiring. Reeves is believed to be a consultant for the team. I've contacted the Cowboys PR staff and will let you know what they say, but we may not hear anything. Pittsburgh's City Council changed the name of their city to Sixburg for the day Tuesday because of their six Super Bowl titles. The Arlington City Council will vote to change the name of their city to Loserville (wink, wink to welcome the Cowboys). On the same day, South Carolina officials decide if they're going to press charges against Olympic champion Michael Phelps for smoking marijuana. He's been on the box of W...
In a statement, she writes the reason there is a controversy is because she was born out of wedlock. She says she is saddened by what has happened since Hayes was named to the Pro Football Hall of Fame Saturday. "Like many sisters, I am proud of my little brother," she wrote. "Hopefully, the legacy of Bob Hayes will focus on his accomplishments, and the hope a...
Here's something you've never heard before: Texas Rangers game on the FM dial. For the first time in the team's history, some Rangers games will be heard on FM this season. The Rangers and 105.3, "The Fan" (KRLD FM) announced a partnership where the station will carry the team's regular season weekday games (Monday through Friday) in 2009. All Texas Rangers regular season games on Saturday and Sunday will continue to b...
The woman who claims to be a half sister of Bob Hayes, Lucille Hester, says she wants his induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame to go smoothly. It doesn't look like it will now, though. Mike Fisher has a story on dallasbasketball.com where friends and family members say Hester is a fraud. She's been telling people for years she's Hayes' half sister, while they have ...
The Dallas Cowboys were a part of the Super Bowl festivities because former Cowboys receiver Bob Hayes finally makes the Pro Football Hall of Fame. What the voters know now they didn't know the last 20 years or so I'll never understand. But there's something else a lot of people don't understand. Lucille Hester has been telling people for a long time she's the sister of Bob Hayes. She plans to represent him in Canton. Anyone else out there really wanted to see at least what would happen on Kurt Warner's final pass in the Super Bowl, one that was ruled a fumble? Knowing how Larry Fitzgerald can catch any ball thrown in a 10-yard radius, the Cards would have had more than a fighting chance at landing some sort of miracle finish on Sunday. I just wanted to see where the ball would have gone. Alas....we shall never know. I don't understa...
There have been many memorable endings in the Super Bowl. Remember wide right? How about Joe Montana finding John Taylor? Or Kevin Dyson being just short? There's Adam Vinatieri kicking a late field goal, twice. And who here could forget Jackie Smith dropping that pass all alone in the end zone. Last night we saw another great one, at least a great ending as both teams turned in gutty performances. And Larry Fitzgeral...
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