Posts Tagged ‘basketball’
Mark Cuban Envisions Brittney Griner As Maverickess
Jeff PrinceThe Dallas Morning News report that Mark Cuban is considering drafting Baylor women’s basketball standout Brittney Griner reinforces the notion that the Dallas Mavericks owner is a marketing genius. Griner has about as mu...
Swish!
BIG TICKETThough it isn’t the Final Four, the regional round of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament offers up some tasty games –– the four surviving teams from the South region will stop by Cowboys Stadium this weekend. The firs...
Night & Day
KRISTIAN LINWED ▪ 6 Joining the Big 12 was a football decision for TCU, but it has had a severe impact on the men’s basketball team. The Horned Frogs are still looking for their first win in conference play, and they’ll have their wo...
Donnie Nelson Screens Basketball Documentary
Kristian LinMavericks fans and devotees of recent Eastern European history will want to show up at Dallas’ Magnolia Theatre tomorrow evening. That’s when Mavs’ president Donnie Nelson will be there for a screening of The ...
My New Sports Hero
Kristian LinI’ve never given a crap about the New York Knicks, but all of a sudden I’m in the market for their Number 17 replica jersey. That’s because their point guard Jeremy Lin has suddenly caught fire. After leading ...
Elevate: Rêves du Hoop
Senegalese basketballers step up to the line in this documentary.KRISTIAN LIN
Any documentary about basketball has to contend with the long shadow cast by Hoop Dreams. The new film Elevate isn’t in that league, yet it is a smooth piece of work (as you’d expect from something produced under the ESPN F...
Notes Before the World Cup Final
Kristian LinSo we’re going to have a first-time World Cup champion. Either Holland or Spain is about to enjoy the greatest moment in its sporting history. I’m jazzed for that. Hope you are, too. I have some notes from the soccer hate b...
Ballin’ Buddies
STEVE STEWARDThe first time you see NBA star LeBron James in More Than a Game, he’s a grinning, gawky pre-teen, which is sort of endearing. Then you see that same awkward-looking kid dunk.
Flying the Coop
Cowtown’s last minor-league roundball fling scored only debts and bad feelings.Dan McGraw
When it was announced in 2005 that a new minor-league basketball team – the Fort Worth Flyers – were coming to Cowtown, plenty of promises were made.
Moncrief’s in Charge
No, not the mayor. A former NBA great leads Fort Worth’s newest minor-league sports team.Kristian Lin
On the last day of January, the Fort Worth Convention Center plays host to a small crowd of basketball fans — official attendance 1,007, actual crowd for this midweek game more like 200.