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WHITT'S END: 2.26.14
Whether you're at the end of your coffee, your day, your week or even your rope, welcome to Whitt's End: *Drastically lowered ticket prices to local professional sporting events? ... *The...
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WHITT'S END: 2.27.14
Whether you're at the end of your coffee, your day, your week or even your rope, welcome to Whitt's End: *Stop it, irrational dreamers, he ain't playing for the Cowboys ... *I'm apologizing...
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WHITT'S END: 2.28.14
Whether you're at the end of your coffee, your day, your week or even your rope, welcome to Whitt's End: *Bigger ain't always better ... *After not happening in DFW in '13 for the first time...
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GOOD NEWS: FREE; BAD NEWS: INFREQUENT
Good news: As of today, March 1, DFWSportatorium is free. Bad news: It will also be infrequent. I thank you guys for buying memberships and supporting me, but recently my blogging time has...
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American Sniper: Hero? Coward? Or Somewhere Between?
Saw American Sniper last night and, yep, figured my review was worth dusting off the ol' website. In short: It's a good - but not great - movie, about neither a hero nor a coward. Allow me to...
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HO! HO!! HO!!! SCAAARY CHRISTMAS!
'Twas the night after Christmas, when all through the house;An EF4 tornado plowed, leaving Lisa clinging to her spouse. Dec. 26 at the Alvizo home on Pacific Drive in Rowlett was supposed to be a...
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DEAD 'N GONE: VALLEY RANCH
Home, Sweet ... Gone You know how you know when you're old? When your sports playgrounds are deemed archaic and impractical. Yeah, ouch. For me, hitting the big Five-Oh wasn't a big deal. The...
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WHERE'S WALDO?
Dear Wally Lynn, I'm writing you this letter ... because I desperately don't want to author your obituary. It's going to be one of the most heart-breaking and gut-wrenching pleas I've ever made....
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LET'S PEEK INSIDE TONY ROMO'S NEW HOUSE, SHALL WE?
Not bad for a neighborhood gate house, eh? I'm not a big fan of "Who's wearing what?" or "Keeping up with the Joneses." But I am, alas, a huge supporter of the Cowboys in general and much-maligned,...
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UNITED GAMES: New Sports App Is Free, Fun and ... Fruitful?
You know me. Smartassy. Combative. And, most of all, skeptical to a fault. But I think I've stumbled onto something legit. Something big. Something that just could be the next big thing for sports...
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THE GREAT ESCAPE TO TRIDENT LAKES
By Richie WhittDFWSportatorium Fine, serendipitous structure. You win. I'm intrigued. Fascinated. On the verge of being mesmerized. I'm fully aware that we live in a scary, skittish world where...
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NEW YORK IS MESSIN' WITH TEXAS ... COPS
Cops. Guns. Dallas. In the wake of the horrific July 7 police massacre and smack dab in the middle of our open-carry state desperately fighting off attacks of the 2nd Amendment, you'd think that...
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TRUMP 290, CLINTON 228: MY TOP '16 WHITTY COMMENTS
You're ... hired?! 16. No, I'm not moving to Canada. Or rioting in the streets in protest. Or joining some nut-job Tea Party to waste my weekends waving banners from highway overpasses. It's...
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ODE TO TONY TERRIFIC
Not that he's - ya know - dead 'n gone, but Tony Romo's statement on Tuesday was certainly saturated with resignation. Oh, and also guts, class, respect, dignity and professionalism. For some of...
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GIVE ME LIBERTY (OF SPEECH) ... OR GIVE ME (AND YOU) DEATH!
An egomaniac that arrogantly tip-toed close to being a domineering, autocratic czar of the '90s Dallas Cowboys, even Jimmy Johnson knew the value of a free and robust press. In those days at...
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TONY ROMO: GOODBYE COWBOYS; HELLO RING OF HONOR
Tony Romo leaves the Cowboys today. But eventually - eternally - he'll be back. When inducted into the Ring of Honor. No, this isn't even up for debate. No. 9, who will be officially released...
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MAY THE FOURTH BE ... NOTHING OTHER THAN CINCO DE MAYO EVE
I don't hate Star Wars. But what I do despise is hearing our country confusing cleverness with laziness. Take today, for example. Because Star Wars is popular and "fourth" sounds like "force" -...
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THE KENTUCKY DERBY AND THE REST OF THE 10 MOST OVERRATED SPORTING EVENTS
Flamboyant hats. $16 Mint Juleps. Mudders. And ... cue the yawns. Today is the Kentucky Derby and - admit it - the only reason you're tempted to watch is because you're anchored to the couch after...
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THE 20 MOST MEMORABLE SPORTING EVENTS IN THE HISTORY OF ME
“Be more positive!” she says. “Stick to sports!” he chides. “Too many Top 10 lists!” they decry. Fine, you win. Today: A warm-’n-fuzzy Top 20 list about sports. But first, a little...
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REVOLTING, RACIST RANT DESERVEDLY GETS JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL FRESHMAN A...
Every once in a while we're reminded that, in fact, we haven't evolved as a society nearly as much as we'd like to think. Isn't that right, racist punk Charlie Burkhart? Isn't that right, common...
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