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Recently in General Sports CategoryAdam Duerson from si.com wrote an article previewing the Cowboys-Eagles game this Sunday night. His first few paragraphs talk about Romo's record in big games, which he defines as games against teams that finished the season with an above-.500 record. Whether that definitio...
Nancy Lieberman, once the recipient of the Wade's Trophy, given to the nation's outstanding women's collegiate basketball player will be named as the first female head coach of the NBA Development League. The hiring of Lieberman as the new head coach of the Frisco NBA Development League franchise will mark the historic first of a female head coach in either the NBA or NBA D-League. Team owners Donnie Nelson and Evan Wyly will make th...
So after 8 weeks of the NFL season, we have a pretty good idea of what's going on, right? The Saints, Colts, and Vikings are very good. There are a bunch of teams that area really, really bad. And then a whole lot of teams somewhere in between. But it's interesting to look back at where we were a year ago at this time. Washington began the 2008 season 6-2 (they finished 8-8). Buffalo was 5-2 (finished 7-9). Green Bay started 4-3 (finis...
We were out this morning visiting with June Jones and a couple of the Mustang football players. The turnaround is happening right before our eyes, SMU has a 4-4 record, including 3-1 in Conference USA. We knew Jones would turn the SMU program around -- that's what he does. And they still have some work to do, because while they've won some close games this year, they've also lost a couple in overtime. But coming off back-to-back 1-11 s...
This from the Flower Mound Marcus and Flower Mound high school booster clubs. It's for tonight's rivalry game, played at UNT's Fous Field in Denton. Kickoff is 8 pm.
This from the webside coldhardfootballfacts.com. I'm just posting it. So whatever you think of this, don't shoot the messenger. But I am interested in your thoughts.
The NFL requires 1,500 pass attempts to quality for "official" league records. Dallas QB Tony Romo, after his team's 37-21 w...
I wrote about this after the Carolina game, and I think it's worth revisiting every once in a while throughout the season. As we all know, one of Tony Romo's goals in the off-season was to work on protecting the ball better. On Sunday, he had his third no-turnover game of the season. Last year, he had only one of those (in the 13 games he played). When Romo's been bad this year, it's been real bad - 4 turnovers against the Giants and 2...
With their 37-21 win over Atlanta, the Cowboys are now 3-0 under Wade Phillips coming off a bye week. But the winning doesn't stop there. In 2007 (their 13-3 season), the Cowboys didn't play during Week 8 of the season. They returned from the bye and won 38-17 at Philadelphia. Then they won their next two games as well, at the NY Giants (31-20) and home against Washington (28-23). In 2008 (their 9-7 season), the Cowboys were of...
The 8th ranked TCU Horned Frogs took a giant leap towards their conference title hopes and a national BCS bid defeating the 16th ranked BYU Cougars 38-7 before a sellout crowd of 64,000 at LaVell Edwards Stadium in Provo, Utah. For the second year in a row the Frogs have defeated the Cougars by a 25 point or better margin. Saturday's 31 point defeat by TCU was BYU's largest margin of lost since a 52-21 loss to Utah November 20, 2004. ...
We know turnovers and penalties can kill a football team ... so why aren't the Cowboys dead yet? This is a team that ranks high in penalties and low in turnover margin. Start with the penalties - Dallas is 5th in penalties per game, at 7-point-4. And those flags are costing the Cowboys 66 yards per game, which is 4th worst in the league. 23 different Cowboys players have commtted a total of 37 penalties. Floze...
After another disappointing loss, the Redskins can't keep Jim Zorn, can they? Washington is 2-4, and next week they have a home game against Philadelphia. This column was written in February 2008, right after Zorn was hired. The columnist is so on the money with his criticism of Zorn, that it's almost eerie r...
If you didn't see it last night during the 5:00 newscast, check out Dale poking Oprah with a stick (she's no different than anyone else sitting in that chair when Dale is on set). It was enough to get a mention on the celebrity website, TMZ. You'll have to scroll down a little ways, or just Control+F (find) "Opr...
Deion Sanders is an NFL Network analyst, and this morning they had him talk about the Dez Bryant situation (Bryant was suspended earlier this week for lying to the NCAA about his relationship with Sanders). The whole interview is transcribed below, but a couple highlights first: Deion: "Now the problem w...
Count me out on the Broncos. Despite their 4-0 start, and despite the league's best defense to this point (6 points per game), I'm not jumping on the bandwagon. And Kyle Orton is the reason why. As a Bears fan, I've watched a lot of Orton, and he's just not that good. What he's done to this point (5 TD's, 0 INT's) is the absolute best he can do -- and the Broncos are still 4-0 by a razor-thin margin. The "immaculate deflection" in week...
Braylon Edwards is a Jet, and Michael Crabtree is a 49er. Those were the big news items that came out this morning. The Cleveland Browns traded Edwards to the New York Jets, in return getting WR Chansi Stuckey and LB Jason Trusnik, along with two draft picks (I'm reading a 3rd and a 5th rounder). Edwards went without a catch in Sunday's loss to Cincinnati for the first time in his NFL career. That night he went out at a Cleveland bar a...
ESPN is reporting that Michael Crabtree met with the San Francisco 49ers about playing this season. The former Dallas Carter quarterback and Texas Tech wide receiver was picked 10th overall by the 49ers in April's NFL draft. Crabtree was the second WR taken in the draft, behind Darrius Heyward-Bey (picked 7th by Oakland), even though Crabtree was widely reg...
Fans, coaches, and Tony Romo himself wanted him to get better at protecting the ball. In 2008, he played 13 games, threw 14 interceptions and lost 7 fumbles (out of 13 total fumbles). This off-season, Romo worked hard to improve his ball-protection while in the pocket, hoping to elminate those fumbles. Who else thought that Romo was playing tight on Sunday in Denver? He looked like a guy trying not to make a mistake, and we didn't see...
After 3 quarters, Texas A&M has 23 first downs to only 11 for Arkansas. 358 total offensive yards for the Aggies. Arkansas only has 282 offensive yards. A&M leads in time of possession by almost 5 minutes. A&M leads the turnover battle by 1. Arkansas has a slight edge in penalty yardage. But after 3 quarters, Arkansas leads 37-13. The momentum shifted in the 2nd quarter. The Aggies were looking to take the lead when the Razorb...
It's a renewed rivalry, and the first time since 1991 that Arkansas and Texas A&M have met on the football field. It was the next season that the Hogs left the Southwest Conference for the SEC. Cowboys Stadium is split half and half between cardinal and maroon, with only a few empty seats on each side. There appears to be a few more Aggie fans. And these are some really loud fans... calling of the hogs on one side, and "whoop" on the o...
Athens High School graduate dies Kevin Till, the 2008 Athens High School grad who fought a courageous battle against cancer, died Thursday morning. He was 18. Kevin died at his home with family at his side. Funeral services for Kevin Scott Till are scheduled for 2 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009 at the Living for the Brand Cowboy Church of Athens with Perry Smith officiating. Burial will follow at Carroll ...
Watch this video. Slice gets worked by some no name MMA fighter. I hope that it means the back alley brawler is done. I'm tired of his 15 minutes of fame.
We featured Kevin earlier this year, please take the time to watch his story again. When we talked to him in February, Kevin was a senior at Athens and played on the basketball team. He recently had undergone surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his brain. Kevin was put on hospice a couple of weeks ago, and passed away this morning. One of the Till's neighbors e...
I don't know the answer to this, but I do know that I'm part of the problem.... A couple quick thoughts on Terrell Owens. I think he has the maturity of a 12-year-old, I KNOW that he manipulates the media (in one case it led to him being the lead story on Sports Center), and I thought the Cowboys served themselves well to let him go in the off-season. But then there's this: when we did a story on DeSoto's Corey Borner -- the y...
Texas' all-time winningest high school football coach, G.A. Moore, returned from a 4-year retirement to coach at Aubrey this season, and the results have been immediate. After a 5-5 season in 2008, the Chaparrels are 4-0, with four shutouts. We did a story on Coach Moore before their first game, and you can watch it again here. Moore spent the bulk of ...
So this is the standard now ... a cowboys win isn't good enough anymore ------------??? We have apparently come a long way The cowboys beating Carolina 21 - 7 and needing a Terence Newman interception to get the final 7 isn't the prettiest of wins ... not the way you would hope the cowboys can play .... but the reality of a 16 game season is that every team will play some bad games - but the good teams find a wa...
During his press conference following Dallas' 21-7 win over Carolina, Tony Romo was talking about avoiding turnovers. Here's the transcript: "And I thought about this the other day, and I know we don't include pre-season games in anything we talk about, but we do as players. We had three preseason games and we had one turnover. We've played 3 regular season games, and -- (here, he caught himself mis-speaking a bit; Romo meant that he -...
This may be old news, but I just heard about it last night. A friend of mine went to the Cowboys-Giants game Sunday night; he and his wife had tickets in the end zone, about two rows in front of the Party Pass section. As you know, the Cowboys sold way too many of the standing-room-only tickets, which caused problems when customers who paid for seats were not allowed into the stadium itself. His problem was that the Party Pass area ri...
Whether it's the incentive to reach the clause in his contract, or the fact that he hasn't pitched since September 12th, Kevin Millwood is dealing tonight. At this point, 10:39 pm Monday night, Millwood has pitched 5 shutout innings, and the Rangers lead 6-0. That gives Millwood more than 180 innings pitched for the season, which kicks in an incentive that will pay him $12 million next year. There had been speculation that the cash-str...
Following their embarrassing 33-31 mistake riddled loss to the New York Giants; Dallas Cowboys Quarterback Tony Romo says that he personally let him teammates down in his worst performance since taking over as the teams starting quarterback. In his post-game press conference Romo sat, often seemingly near tears, and took personal ownership for the team's loss. "The team played some really good football and obviously my mistakes put us ...
At the Mark Eaton charity golf tournament yesterday, Jason Hargett' hit a nine-iron about 10 feet past the hole and the ball rolled back and in, giving the 35-year-old restaurant manager a $1 million dollar hole in one. What would you do with the money?
Ok ... this is probably more of a fantasy football update. LaDainian Tomlinson has been ruled out for Sunday's game against Baltimore. In the opener against Oakland, Tomlinson rushed 13 times for 55 yards - he was injured in the first quarter but played off and on the rest of the game. ...George Riba and I went out to the new stadium, where Director of Corperate Communcations Brett Daniels gave us a mini-tour. Some of the highlights .... The Cowboys plan to have the roof open, and the huge "doors" behind either end zone will be open as well. Daniels described those doors like ones you'd see at an airplane hanger, and they are huge. So with the roof open and the doors on both ends open, it should feel like an outdoor gam...
That seems pretty obvious, doesn't it? A few numbers to consider, going into Sunday night's game against the NY Giants, a that loves to run: *Tampa Bay rushed for 174 yards vs. Dallas, averaging 5.6 yards per attempt. *New York rushed for 103 yards against Washington, averaging 3.3 yards per attempt. Tampa Bay has one of the top backfields in the NFL (along with teams like Dallas and Tennessee). Derrick Ward and...
Ft Worth's Justin Wren will be one of 16 UFC heavyweights featured on Spike TV's reality show, "The Ultimate FIghter." Tonight's episode begins the 10th season for the show; it comes on at 7:00. When we talked to Justin last month for a story that aired on August 23rd, he talked a little bit the s...
I just got this e-mail from the UIL - remember last year, they played the 5A championship games at Reliant Stadium in Houston.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE I love the NFL. It begins again Thursday night with the Steelers-Titans game (what a great opener). Let's talk a little about the league as we head into the 2009 season. First of all, after looking at all the teams and studying for my fantasy football draft and reading the Sports Illustrated preview issue and doing other assorted NFL reading, I've decided that the following teams will suck: Cleveland, Denver, Detroit, Oakland....
Ohio State's tremendously talented quarterback Terrelle Pryor wore a piece of eye black before Saturday's game with the word "Vick" on it. Here's what he said after the game about it. I've never had a problem with athletes speaking out or having opinions. A lot of people do, both fans and members of the media. I had this very conversation with Kelly Webster from ESP...
Boise State beat Oregon 19-8 last night .... and here we go! The Broncos' first game of the season was against its toughest opponent (as far as we can tell now), so they now appear poised to go undefeated and make some noise in the BCS. I was listening to the Ticket yesterday, and Corby Davidson said that college football fans should be rooting for Oregon, because otherwise we're going to have to hear from Boise State backers all seaso...
Danny Morrison, TCU's athletic director since 2005, has accepted a job to be president of the Carolina Panthers. Team owner Jerry Richardson had to replace his son, who resigned unexpectedly. You can read the full article here. ...I was out at Valley Ranch for the first time since the draft in April, which actually sounds worse than it is, considering they held OTA's at Standridge Stadium in Carrollton after the indoor facility collapsed. But I hadn't been out there since the team returned from San Antonio. A couple of impressions.... The locker room had a slightly different look. There were a couple of tables surrounded by four chairs, and guys were sitting aro...
The NFL preview issue of Sports Illustrated comes out tomorrow, and we were e-mailed the preview for the Dallas Cowboys. The magazine has them finishing 2nd in the NFC East. These preview articles always have a hook - something or someone specific to write around - and SI uses Roy Williams. Not a bad choice, considering how much talk he has generated here in Dallas.In the article, Williams talks about trying to forge a relationship wit...
This is one of my all-time favorite commercials. It ran last year, leading up to the NFL season. Anyway, as I was watching it again, I wondered, How did the guys featured in this commercial do in the 2008 season? Remember, this spot was created following the 2007 season, which ended with a NY Giants Super Bowl win. Did this commercial jinx those players who starred ...
The Cowboys sent out this e-mail moments ago: "The Dallas Cowboys also released tight end Rodney Hannah today. Hannah spent the past two seasons on the club's practice squad. The team now has 76 players on their roster and will need to make one move by September 1, the deadline for the first roster reduction to 75 players." Hannah caught a touchdown pass Friday night against Tennessee. DMN beat writer Todd Archer is reporting t...
AJ Burnett had a no-hitter going in the 4th inning when he got into trouble. With two outs, he walked Josh Hamilton first, then Nelson Cruz. Then he threw a first-pitch fastball to Ian Kinsler, and all of the sudden it was 3-1 Rangers. It was a good example of how a baseball game that is just cruising along can turn on a dime. Kinsler just struck out ... Rangers still lead 3-2 midway through the 6th. ...How bad has Jason Jennings been lately? So bad that the Rangers are replacing him with a guy whose ERA in triple A was 7.38. By all accounts, Jennings is a great guy. He was rookie of the year in 2002 for the Rockies. But the secret is out. Jamey Newberg of "The Newberg Report" is one who has been saying for the last couple weeks that what you do with Jennings is avoid swining at the sliders out of the strikezone, and then murder pitch...
I've turned the corner on Twitter. Maybe not to the point where I'm posting things like "had oatmeal for breakfast ... with raisins." I like Twitter more for what the people I follow have to say, not what I have to say. I follow several NFL players. A couple of examples from today: Back-to-back posts from Martellus Bennett (aka Jupiters_Crunch) - "I'm up on my grizzy. The drive and determination is ridiculous. I'm a problem for...
George Riba and I were in Denton this morning to do a story on the North Texas football team. The situation is bad up there, but appears to be getting better. Todd Dodge begins his third year as the head coach (he's 3-21 after 2 seasons). His son Riley Dodge begins his first year as the starting quarterback. Apparently, we weren't the only ones thinking Green ... After covering the first football game at new Cowboys stadium last night, I came away with two big impressions: 1. That TV is overwhelming. You really have to see it to believe it. A 60-yard screen in high definition. If you've been to a sports bar that has one of those wall-sized TV's that can be divided into 4 (or more) smaller screens, you have a basic idea. But the TV at the stadium didn't have the seperate screens making up a larg...
I love watching track and field events because I think it's the purest form of human athletic competition. And to watch Jamaican runner Usain Bolt set another world record is just amazing to watch. He did it in the 200-meter race in Berlin today with a time of 19.19. That's amazing! Bolt slashed 0.11 seconds off the mark he set last year at the Beijing Olympics and it came four days after he broke his own 100-meter record by the same ...
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