Hello, Darkness, My Old Friend
This past Sunday, all was set for an absolutely glorious local sports day. Beautiful spring weather, coals glowing on the grill, plenty of suds...
Who Could Have Predicted It? Only Everyone
The NFL offseason is long. Even with the league’s year-round grip on sports media attention — in which now even the draft is a...
Missed Connections
“You were powerful, Canadian, and wearing a black jersey with an orange number 30 on it. We flirted for more than half an hour...
Enter the Bubbles
In this flaming trash receptacle of a year, anno domini 20 and 10 times two, there’s been basically Bo Diddley squat to be excited...
Not A Tough Call
This year’s Texas high school football state championship games wrap up this weekend. When I say “this year’s,” of course, I really mean “last...
50 Shades of Gary
For TCU fans watching Gary Patterson-influenced Texas host Alabama last Saturday, the emotions were more complicated than Middle Eastern geopolitics.
Also, kind of like if...
Getting Defensive
We’re T-minus 25 days until college football kicks off and weekends regain their meaning. It’s easy to be trapped by only talking about the...
Closing Time
In the immortal words of Ron Burgundy: “Well, that escalated quickly.” Normally, hindsight is 20/20, yet I’m confident few really saw this coming. The...
A Mob Forms
How could I have been so naive? It’s an odd-numbered year, after all. It should have been expected, given the ups and downs the...
This Year’s Mavs Hit Different
With seven minutes left in the Mavericks’ 102-77 public shaming of the Utah Jazz on Monday, a scuffle broke out under the Dallas basket....
