The devoted Stars fan will set his or her clock radio to 1:24 a.m. Tuesday - and have it start playing Gary Glitter if possible - to commemorate the anniversary of last season’s epic Game 6 clincher over San Jose at AAC. At that time on Monday morning, May 5, at 9:03 of the fourth [ ... ] ...
The Mavericks weren't pleased with the officiating in Game 1, to put it mildly ... That shouldn't come as a shock. The Mavs never seem to be pleased when they see Dan Crawford. They've won one of their last 16 playoff games that Crawford has officiated ... Is it a coincidence that Crawford got the Dallas-Denver series opener? Not if you buy into my conspiracy theory ... Remember Mark Cuban's ref-ripping Twitter incident after the Mavs' last regular-season meeting with the Nuggets? Cuban couldn't
Welcome to Denver.You are not playing the Spurs anymore, now are you? The Mavericks are playing a team in the Denver Nuggets that seem to have about as much in common with the Spurs as JJ Barea has in common with Dwight Howard. Not much.These Nuggets are quite formidable. I do like how they compete. [ ... ] ...
1. Rich Behm, a 33-year-old scouting assistant for the Cowboys, is permanently paralyzed from the waist down after severing his spinal cord in the Saturday afternoon collapse of the team’s practice facility. Two other staffers are in the hospital. As bad as that is, based on the video from inside, it’s kind of miraculous it [ ... ] ...
Among the bummers of the shrinking Washington Post is the dearth of weekend news about the District of Columbia. More than ever, this is a paper that is sucking wind to make it through the weekend. The Sunday edition, for example, has virtually nothing on D.C., though there is a pretty good Marc Fisher column [ ... ] ...
Much has been made around these parts about the Mavericks peaking at the right time ... The Nuggets are playing their best basketball right now, too. And the peaks in the Rocky Mountains are much higher than the ones in Dallas ... Denver finished the regular season by winning 14 of its final 17 games, including a mail-in loss in the nothing-to-gain finale. Eleven of those wins were by double figures ... Denver has started the playoffs by winning five of six games -- and all the victories are by
• box score • in-game blogARLINGTON _ So all those ESPN viewers in Peoria and Paducah and Pahokee hit the off buttons on their remotes late Sunday night and thought, “Those are the Rangers?”One at-bat in, the Rangers were done playing long ball. And that equaled the scoring output for the White Sox’s entire attack [ ... ] ...
ARLINGTON - Matt Harrison will try to even his record at 2-2 and duplicate his last five innings in Baltimore last Monday, not his first two. For the White Sox, John Danks will try to forget his entire last start, knocked around by the Mariners. Speaking of, the Rangers will get their first look at [ ... ] ...
DENVER -- The Mavericks never had to play from behind after winning the opener of their first-round series ... They'll get a good look at how the other side lives against Denver ... The Mavericks went down 1-0 with a thud in the Western Conference semifinals, getting run out of the gym in the fourth quarter as the Nuggets took Game 1 109-95 at Sunday afternoon at Pepsi Center ... It was a miserable game for many Mavericks, most notably Jason Kidd, who had eight turnovers, the most ever in a