Deion Sanders

Deion Sanders' Troubled Prime Prep Has Players Living Off-Campus with Coaches

After two years of scrutiny, controversy and corruption, the Texas Education Agency last month finally announced that it would revoke the charter of Prime Prep Academy, the publicly funded charter school founded and led by Deion Sanders. With the school plotting its appeal, the hits have only contin ... More >>

Twelve Reasons Deion's Prime Prep Deserves the State's Scrutiny Besides its Lunch Program

The Texas Education Agency is still investigating the Deion Sanders-founded and publicly funded Prime Prep charter school, after officials announced plans to revoke the school's charter for mishandling funds intended for the school lunch program. Prime Prep is appealing and hopes to stay open. But ... More >>

Here's Audio of Deion Sanders Admitting That He Choked Prime Prep's COO

State regulators have revoked the charter of Prime Prep Academy, Deion Sanders' troubled DFW charter school, over problems with its school-lunch program. Barring a successful hail mary from the school, Sanders' days as a wannabe public educator are over, and it was byzantine federal grant rules that ... More >>

Texas Has Revoked the Charter of Prime Prep, the Public School Founded by Deion Sanders

It was two and a half years ago that we, along with every other media outlet in town, started telling you about Deion Sanders' disastrous plan to open a charter school with campuses in Oak Cliff and Forth Worth. That disastrous plan eventually became a disastrous reality called Prime Prep Academy, t ... More >>

Deion Sanders Says Racist Donald Sterling Audio Shouldn't Have Leaked, Because Privacy

Deion Sanders, amazing football player, atrocious charter school operator, dropped by K104's "Dede in the Morning" show on Thursday to field some friendly questions and share his perspective on current events. At least we think that's what he means: I'm on K104 in Dallas right now. I'm keep ... More >>

Deion Sanders' Prime Prep Is the Worst Elementary School In North Texas, Say Data

Yesterday, the nonprofit Children at Risk released its annual rankings of North Texas public and charter schools. Dallas ISD performed incredibly well, its magnets snatching seven of the top 10 slots in the high school rankings. Newly minted educator Deion Sanders fared considerably worse. The Fort ... More >>

Deion Sanders' Bitter and Violent Quest to Retake Control of His Crumbling Charter School

Deion Sanders Demanded a Raise, Threatened to Break Prime Prep CEO's Neck (Audio NSFW)

Throughout the public collapse of Prime Prep Academy, the charter school co-founded by Deion Sanders, the former Cowboy star has been accused of bullying and even attacking school employees who failed to cow to his demands for more power and more money. Those allegations have largely been hard to ... More >>

Deion's Family Playbook, Deion Sanders' Reality Show, Will Debut in March

If you can't get enough of Deion Sanders talking sports on ESPN or Deion Sanders being accused of assaults in the news, soon you can turn to the Oprah Winfrey Network and see Deion Sanders from a pleasant, uplifting human-interest angle. The network will air a series documenting his life starting i ... More >>

Deion Sander's Former Prime Prep Partner Writes Letter Accusing Sanders of Trying to Choke Him

At the close of Prime Prep Academy's first year, Deion Sanders was already unhappy with his role at the charter school he co-founded with D.L. Wallace. Sanders' attorney John Nation sent Wallace a letter expressing concern that "Mr. Sanders is becoming marginalized from the very institution that rep ... More >>

Prime Prep Board Tries, Fails to Fire School Superintendent Who Fired Deion Sanders

Prime Prep Academy, the charter school that Deion Sanders co-founded last year and was fired from last week, is known for its suspicious tendency to attract some of the top high school athletes in the country. Now, the parents of those athletes say they were misled by school officials and their ki ... More >>

Prime Prep Academy's Co-Founder Resigned Today Under Pressure from Deion Sanders

In last year's cover story on Deion Sanders' Prime Prep Academy, we described D.L. Wallace as little more than a snake-oil salesman. Last month, just before Sanders was briefly fired, he called his business partner a "snake." Whatever the preferred moniker, the Prime Prep co-founder and CEO is gone ... More >>

Deion Sanders Has Been Fired by His Own Charter School

Update on October 11: Prime Prep Academy, the charter school that Deion Sanders co-founded, has fired Deion Sanders. The announcement comes in a terse press release from superintendent Rachel King-Sanders. "Effective immediately, Deion Sanders is no longer an employee or representative for Prime P ... More >>

Deion Sanders Says His Charter School's Co-Founder is a "Snake" Who Can't Be Trusted

Deion Sanders has responded to allegations that he assaulted the chief financial officer of his charter school in what has become typical Prime Time fashion -- by maligning his adversary and stressing his heroic, unwavering commitment to children. That's the line he took when he accused his then-wif ... More >>

Deion Sanders Is 86 Percent Impaired, Workers Comp Claim Says

Deion Sanders, who has accused other NFL athletes of faking their head injuries for money, is cognitively impaired, four doctors have determined. Sanders has had no problem using his pedestal as a Hall of Famer and television analyst to talk shit about other former NFL players suffering brain dam ... More >>

Deion Sanders Meets With Us so We'll Stop Saying Mean Things. There's Even a Form to Sign. Guess What.

"You look nervous," is how Deion Sanders greets me, loudly, as we meet me for the first time. I am not nervous. "That's just the way my face looks," I respond. He says that I look fine but definitely nervous. I am confused. We are standing in a fancy indoor practice field, one of several nice wo ... More >>

Deion Sanders and His Girlfriend Are Making a Reality Show for OWN about His Charter School

One way or the other, it seems, the folks behind Prime Prep Academy, Deion Sanders' taxpayer-funded charter school, are going to make some money off it. It's just a matter of how -- and how much. The "how" is a little clearer today, after Oprah Winfrey's cable network announced plans to air a real ... More >>

Deion Sanders' Prime Prep Academy Has a New League, and Apparently a New Star Athlete

Prime Prep Academy, the sports-focused charter school founded by former Cowboy Deion Sanders, never quite found a home for its sports teams in its inaugural year, getting shut out of public-school play for having too many players living outside its boundaries and for poaching players from a local ba ... More >>

It’s Good to Be the King

Prime Prep, Deion Sanders' Suspect Charter School, Might Have America's Best Hoops Team

Watch Emmanual Mudiay on the court and it's not hard to see how the junior point guard came to be ESPN's No. 3 recruit in the country, or why University of Kentucky head coach John Calipari would take such a keen interest. He's big, for one, 6-foot-4 and almost 200 pounds, and he plays with a grace ... More >>

2 Live Crew's Luther Campbell Wants the Media to Lay Off Deion Sanders and Prime Prep

Luther Campbell's days as a member of 2 Live Crew, cutting wildly misogynistic tracks that shocked and appalled Tipper Gore and led to a famous Supreme Court victory for free speech, are behind him. He's a father now, married to a lawyer, and he has a respectable job as a high school football coach ... More >>

Deion Sanders Defends Prime Prep By Promising Lawsuit, Calling Brett Shipp an "African American Killer"

This morning, Deion Sanders took to 105.3 The Fan for a rare discussion of allegations that he's been improperly recruiting athletes (e.g. a good chunk of state champion Grace Prep's basketball team) to play at Prime Prep Academy. See also: - Deion Sanders' Charter School and the Making of a Prime ... More >>

Deion Sanders Literally Begs Oklahoma to Play Football Against Prime Prep

The football team at Prime Prep Academy, Deion Sanders' charter school, has been struggling to find opponents after a UIL committee barred it from competing against district opponents.That pretty much wiped out their schedule, save for a game against Parish Episcopal at which they endured a 50-6 she ... More >>

Watch Deion Sanders' Entire Football Team Halt Traffic to Confront a WFAA Camerman

WFAA's Brett Shipp went out to the football practice yesterday of Prime Prep Academy, the charter school co-founded by former Cowboy Deion Sanders. What happened was dangerous, awkward, embarrassing, and yet another example of why Sanders shouldn't have a school, and why this state should spend a fe ... More >>

Deion Sanders' Prime Prep High School Football Appears More Like Fantasy Football

In the months following Prime Prep Academy's February town hall information sessions, Deion Sanders and his business partner, D.L. Wallace, have been publicly silent about almost every aspect of their charter school, Prime Prep Academy, with campuses in Dallas (grades 6-12) and Fort Worth (K-5). I ... More >>

Heritage Auctions, Unfair Park Team Up to Valuate Your Most Valuable Valuables

We know the value of things at Unfair Park. We appreciate a fine wine. A beautiful painting. A rare book. That excellent marijuana you had to drive across town and sit in your dealer's living room for 40 minutes feigning an interest in his girl problems to get. Yeah, we know what things are truly w ... More >>

Deion Sanders' Charter School Doesn't Have -- and May Have Trouble Getting -- City Approval to Open Its Dallas Campus

Prime Prep Academy, the charter school co-founded by former Cowboy Deion Sanders, recently accepted more than 1,100 students for its inaugural school year, and hundreds of those students are slated to attend its campus in Oak Cliff. The question is whether that campus will even be available to the ... More >>

Deion Sanders' Prime Prep Academy Has Registered 1,100 Students and Counting

Is it any wonder that Prime Prep Academy, the charter school hyped by Deion Sanders, is accepting triple the number of students that most charter schools accept in their first year? Everything about the place has been propped up with hopeful grandeur. Sanders, the school's co-founder and spokesperso ... More >>

Meet F.R. Mays, the Fort Worth Bishop Who Swears He Knows "Nothing" About Deion Sanders' Charter School

Early last week, before the start of his ongoing divorce hearing with dramatics suited for a soap opera, former Cowboy Deion Sanders tweeted the above photo. It looks like a boring portrait of three wide-smiling, well-dressed men. In fact, the photo is quite revealing of the tangle of lies behind Pr ... More >>

Deion Sanders' Charter School and the Making of a Prime Time Scam

A businessman and a bishop used Cowboys' Hall of Famer Deion Sanders' name to drum up interest in a charter school. Then they tried to score from the deal.

Deion Sanders Is Having The Worst Week Ever (Updated)

Well, last week was pretty bad too, as he physically fought with his estranged wife in front of his kids and then tweeted a photo of his two boys filling out police reports. A picture speaks way more than 140 characters, and that tweet was one in a series of martyr-like messages, using the platform ... More >>

Deion Sanders Twitter-casts That His Wife Jumped Him (Updated)

Update: Pilar Sanders was arrested and booked in Collin County Jail on a misdemeanor assault charge. And Sanders fired off another tweet a little while ago with a photo of his boys smiling: "Smile if u know God is good! We're smiling baby. Joy came this morning and we opened the door and let Joy in. ... More >>

Deion Sanders' Charter School Now Accepting Applications for Students/Reality Stars

Kids walking the halls of Prime Prep Academy next fall might have a shot at television stardom because Deion Sanders, the school's co-founder, is working with entertainment exec Tracey Edmonds (with whom Sanders' ex-wife accused him of cheating) to make his school a reality ... show. That's right, a ... More >>

Deion Sanders Wants Parents to Know He's Starting a Charter School for Love, Not Money

Deion Sanders is not messing around with haters. "Someone is ready to hate, somebody is ready to naysay," he said at last night's Oak Cliff town hall meeting to rally support for his charter school, Prime Prep Academy, slated to open campuses in Dallas and Fort Worth in August. The crowd looked ar ... More >>

And So It Begins As Deion Sanders Rallies Support for His "Prime Prep" Charter Schools

D.L. Wallace addresses a crowd of potential students and their parents at Charity Church.​Deion Sanders overlooked the crowd from his seat at a long table, positioned in front of the altar at Charity Church in East Fort Worth at last night's town hall meeting for his latest venture, Prime Prep ... More >>

The Most Exciting (Non-Football) Super Bowl Moments!

TEXANS CELEBRATE AMERICA - Neither of the pre-game patriotic performances achieved Whitney Houston-level kudos, but both were delivered tastefully and capably. Lindale's Miranda Lambert did some nice harmonizin' with her hubby on "America the Beautiful," and Burleson's Kelly Clarkson shared her Nati ... More >>

In Deion Sanders's Quest for a Charter School, the Whistleblower Turns it Up to 11

Lawrence Smith has what you might call a bit of a beef with Cowboys great Deion Sanders. And he just took that beef -- what's that phrase? Ah yes. Priiiime tiiiime. A few years back, Smith went into business with Sanders and a businessman named D.L. Wallace on a high-school recruiting directory cal ... More >>

What's Going On, Nerds? Well, Deion Sanders Officially Has His Own Charter School.

They'll teach humility, right?​Earlier this week, The News reported that former Cowboy and smack-talking DirecTV fairy Deion Sanders was hoping to break into the education business. He was just awaiting state Board of Ed approval to open two charter schools in DFW -- one in Oak Cliff, the seco ... More >>

Deion Sanders Collaborates With Snoop? Merle Haggard's Got Song About Wash? Yes and Yes.

The Old School Brother.​It's been a weird, surprisingly musical week in Dallas sports, y'all. For starters, recent Hall of Fame inductee Willie Beamen Deion Sanders is back in action on the hip-hop front. Sanders, you may recall, released a Dallas Austin-produced hip-hop album called Prime Time in ... More >>

On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, I Have A ... List. Of the Best Black Athletes in the History of Ever

​While a lot of you are off work today, take time to remember and refresh the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. The rest of us? Let's commemorate MLK Day with an impossible task: Selecting the world's all-time greatest black athletes. First step, choosing the criteria. Sheer athleticism? ... More >>

Should Deion Sanders Go Into the Hall of Fame as a Cowboy?

​Deion Sanders played for the Atlanta Falcons, San Francisco 49ers, Washington Redskins and Baltimore Ravens. Why, then, does it feel like it's a no-brainer that he goes into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a Dallas Cowboy? He's - perhaps reluctantly - ours, right? Former Cowboys Bill ... More >>

Hall of Fame. Or Bust?

Who's next?​Hard to remember way back when we bitched and moaned about a "Cowboys bias" in the Pro Football Hall of Fame isn't it? Saturday night in Canton receiver Bob Hayes became the 11th Cowboy inducted into Canton, continuing a trend that has seen four Dallas stars earn immortality ove ... More >>

Former Cowboy Frank Cornish Dead at 40

Rest in peace, No. 68. Sobering news this afternoon as former Dallas Cowboy Frank Cornish was found dead last night in his Southlake home of an apparent heart attack. Cornish, who would’ve been 41 next month, was just yesterday talking to former Cowboys about an upcoming mini-reunion. Play ... More >>

Yes, You Will Have Total Access to Cowboys-Packers on Thursday. Don't Worry.

T.O. to T.A.L.K.

T.O.'s supposed to talk in about five minutes, which is good, since coach Bill Parcells just said at his press conference: "When I find out what the hell is going on, you will know." There was quite the scene assembled at Owens' Deep Ellum condo about an hour ago: agent Drew Rosenhaus and former Cow ... More >>

Do You Have the Worst Taste in Music?

If the answer to the above question is, "Sure, absolutely," then I guess it's time to direct you to a downloadable version of Terrell Owens' much-talked-about rap song called either "I'm Back" or "I Suck." It's been on Owens' Web site for a few days, but someone kindly converted it to a rip'n'keep M ... More >>

Sob Story

Buzz sheds a tear for 2003

Best Attempt at Pissing Off God

Deion Sanders

Back in Bounds

Michael Irvin, once the Cowboys' playmaker, has quit playing around and has turned himself over to his maker

Evil's triumph at Texas Stadium

Blesses are the Cheeseheads - even if they didn't make it to the Super Bowl