NBC 5 sports anchor Newy Scruggs blogs on sports and other subjects.
Zach Thomas was signed in the offseason and the Cowboys got rid of Akin Ayodele at linebacker.
Zach didn’t play much for the Dolphins last season.
Thomas only played in five games. He suffered a concussion against the Cowboys in Week 2.
At 34, he is no spring chicken, but head coach Wade Phillips loves him. He’s got a lot to prove in Big D. Like not getting his bell rung and proving he can play three downs.
Mickey Spagnola of dallascowboys.com caught up with the former Texas Tech Raider.
John Tomase of the Boston Herald wanted to break the story.
He wanted to break the story that the New England Patriots videotaped the St. Louis Rams walk through practice before Super Bowl XXXVI.
Tomase broke the story…but it was a lie. He was wrong and has ruined his name in sports crazy Boston. His name is trash in the Patriots organization.
He tries to explain his actions, but in my mind, it just goes to show you want athletes and coaches hate the sports media.
It is a must read.
Marisa Miller should have graced the cover of Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit issue long before 2008.
Now she’s ranked as the #1 on the Hot 100 list for Maxim magazine. Enjoy these tastefully done photos.
FYI she’s sports fan. She can surf and says she was a tomboy growing up.
Cowboys QB Tony Romo knows how to escape NFL defenders so IF he has to explain anything to Jessica Simspon about this cute blonde lady, he’ll have a good story.
I remember back in the day when NOBODY cared what Romo did.
Now everybody with a camera wants to follow him around. Somewhere in KC, Quincy Carter wishes he had stayed off the weed and kept his job as the Cowboys starting quarterback.
See, Jessica Simpson is keeping her man. The Dallas Morning News reported the love affair is over.
Nothing is over until Jessica says so. E! Online says:
The breakup buzz keeps getting louder for Jessica Simpson and Tony Romo. But her camp is shooting down the split rumors.
“Not true, not true,” Simpson’s rep tells me. “I spoke to Jess yesterday and the day before. They are still together.”
And while Romo spent the weekend in Chicago, sans Jess, expect a reunion any minute now: The quarterback will be Simpson’s date when little sister Ashlee marries Pete Wentz this weekend, a source tells me.
“Me” is Marc Malkin. Here’s the full “scoop”.
The word has come down from Jerry World. Tickets will cost you $59 bucks up to $125 bucks. Before you get all excited, read the rest of the story .
Prices for reserved seats at the Dallas Cowboys’ new stadium:
$5,000 seat option* with season tickets for $1,250
$5,000 seat option with season tickets for $990
$4,000 seat option with season tickets for $890
$2,000 seat option with season tickets for $790
No seat option with season tickets for $590
*Seat options give a person the right to buy tickets for that seat for 30 years
New Mavericks head coach Rick Carlisle says he wants the club to run next season, “If you’re going to play at a faster tempo offensively, there’s an unbelievable physical commitment,” Carlisle said. “It’s probably going to be one of the tougher training camps. … The summer our guys have in terms of preparation and conditioning is going to be absolutely critical.”
He spent plenty of time talking about how much he wants Dirk Nowitzki and Jason Kidd to be the guys who get the team back to championship form.
He wants Josh Howard back. Carlisle said at his opening presser that he plans to have dinner with Howard and wants him in the fold, “My first message is that we need him.”
Carlisle praised the work Avery Johnson did and says the roster will undergo some changes. He says they will keep playing the hard nosed defense Johnson put in.
Here’s what I liked from Rick. He truly thinks this club can “find a way” to get the roster redone and get back to the playoffs. He plans to travel to Germany and take time to get to know Dirk.
I liked his confidence that he can coach and win with this team. I know he is supposed to say that, but I like the body language he had when saying it. I didn’t think I was hearing a bunch of jive talk.
I liked the fact he saw positives in working with Donnie Nelson and Mark Cuban. I like the fact he is reaching out to his players and is willing to change the style of play to fit this group of Mavericks.
Give Carlisle credit for trying to pump up Kidd’s worth at the presser. Kidd is a known coach killer so it’s wise to get him on the side of the new coach and get him to champion his new style.
I like the fact he played with Larry Bird in Boston and sees things from Bird’s game that he could bring to Dirk’s to make it easier for him to play the game.
The guy has a winning record as a head coach and has been to the playoffs five of his six years as a coach in the NBA. Carlisle is a former NBA Coach of the Year.
Allan Peppard of the Dallas Morning News is reporting Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo has dumped “singer” Jessica Simpson. Below it the article he wrote today:
If Jessica Simpson were to call former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Don Meredith, he’d sing, “Turn out the lights, the party’s over.” With conflicting reports in the blogosphere, it’s been hard getting at the truth of the Tony Romo-Jessica Simpson break-up rumors. And until we hear it from Tony and Jessica, anything can happen.
But after taking several oaths not to divulge my sources, two people close to Tony and Jess have told me that the glam couple is over, splitsville, kaput, put a fork in it. 
A Tuesday edition of TV’s Extra said the rumors of a breakup were not true. On the show, Jessica said, “I want to be married and have kids. I have a future ahead.”
Also on Tuesday, Access Hollywood reported that a rep from Jessica denied the breakup.
On Saturday, Tony was in Chicago with the boys and the word back from that scene is that he was saying, “Me and Jessica are done.”
The new US Weekly is reporting that the same night, Jessica was throwing down cocktails at L.A.’s Mexicali Cocina with her pal, CaCee Cobb, and CaCee’s boyfriend, Donald Faison. According to US, Jessica is having jealousy pangs that her ex John Mayer, 30, is now experiencing liplock with older Friend Jennifer Aniston, 39. In an interview for the June issue of Glamour, Jessica spoke of her pain from previous relationships, saying portentously, “The article could come out and Tony and I could be broken up, but he still deserves all the accolades for bringing me back to who I am.”
Mamma’s don’t let your Cowboys grow to be…drug dealers.
Former Cowboy running back Troy Hambrick is headed for federal prison. His crime? Selling a lot of crack to an undercover informant.
Troy must have watched the movie New Jack City after he got cut by the Arizona Cardinals. It didn’t end so well. This is the story from Tampa Tribune:
TAMPA - Ex-NFL running back and former Pasco High School standout Troy Hambrick was sentenced to five years in federal prison today after pleading guilty to selling 78 grams of crack cocaine to an undercover informant, U.S. attorney’s office officials said.
U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday sentenced Hambrick, who faced a maximum of 10 years in prison.
In a plea agreement signed Feb. 22, Hambrick admitted to the last of three counts of crack cocaine trafficking filed in December after his indictment by a federal grand jury.
According to the agreement, Hambrick admitted to selling 78 grams of crack in a deal that took place in his Lincoln Navigator at a gas station in Dade City on Sept. 27.
In exchange, federal prosecutors agreed to drop two counts that accused Hambrick of selling smaller amounts of the drug on Sept. 7 and 14.
Federal prosecutors agreed not to fight his plan to ask Merryday for a downward departure from the minimum mandatory penalty.
Hambrick has the option of providing “substantial assistance” in other drug cases to win prosecutors’ support for a further reduction of his sentence, the plea document states.
Hambrick also agreed to the seizure by federal agents of his Lincoln Navigator.
Hambrick, 31, remains free on $100,000 bail and must reside in his home on in Lacoochee, federal records state.
Hambrick, who played for the University of South Carolina, was a key member of the 1992 Pasco High state championship football team. He graduated in 1995.
The Lacoochee native rushed for 2,179 yards and nine touchdowns in the NFL. Hambrick played for the Dallas Cowboys from 2000 through 2003 and for the Arizona Cardinals in 2004.
Before his indictment, he had been signed to play for the Utah Blaze of the Arena Football League.
Well, some of you wish for the breakup of Cowboys QB Tony Romo and “singer” Jessica Simpson.
I am not one of the haters. I have fun with it, but I wish for them to be happy. In love. All that jazz.
BUT….the folks at aol.com say the romance could be over. That Romo had a nice time in Chicago, despite that horrible rendition he sang of “Take Me Out To The Ballgame”.
If rumors are too be believed, Jessica Simpson and Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo are no longer dating.
According to TheseBootsAreMadeforStalking.com, the football player spent a rowdy weekend in Chicago with several college friends where he allegedly admitted that he and Simpson had ended their relationship.
