We live in a high school basketball hotbed, writes Jean-Jacques Taylor. Who couldn't build a quality program with Dallas-Fort Worth as its main hub? Apparently, SMU and TCU can't.
02/28/2010World's best hockey player makes it a golden day for Canada Sidney Crosby is the world's best hockey player, writes DMN's Jean-Jacques Taylor. Or the second-best, if you prefer Alexander Ovechkin.For Stars' Brenden Morrow, joy and a place in history According to the Stars' Brenden Morrow, no experience is remotely close to matching the joy – his word, not DMN's Jean-Jacques Taylor's – he experienced after Sidney Crosby's goal gave Canada a 3-2 win over the United States and an Olympic gold medal.02/27/2010At the Olympics, life's lessons are the flame that's never extinguished No Olympic moment touched me like sitting in my hotel room watching Joannie Rochette's figure skating performance a few days after her mother's death.02/26/2010U.S. confidence soaring for gold medal game The Miracle at Squaw Valley produced the United States' first hockey gold medal in 1960. And the Miracle on Ice produced its second in 1980.02/25/2010Canadian goalie gives U.S. women nothing to celebrate Two minutes into the second period, U.S. defenseman Caitlin Cahow skated toward the scrum in front of Canada's net, her stick raised ready to celebrate.02/24/2010Stars' Morrow is Canada's heartbeat in win over Russia Just when it seemed like the Russia might be positioning itself to rally against Canada, Brenden Morrow did what he's done his entire career.Each game, a different star earning his stripes for U.S. men's hockey team It would have been so easy for the United States to panic during the second intermission of its quarterfinal game against Switzerland on Wednesday.02/23/2010With no expectations to weigh him down, U.S.' Bode Miller turns to gold Bode Miller's last chance to make history will come in a few days after he missed a gate on his first run Tuesday in the men's giant slalom and failed to complete the race.02/22/2010U.S. piling up medals as Canada stumbles Two more medals and the U.S. will eclipse its total from the 2006 Games in Turin, writes Jean-Jacques Taylor. The impressive aspect of the U.S. haul is that the medals aren't coming just from athletes we expected to dominate their events.Underdog U.S. shocks Canada to earn spot in hockey quarterfinals Brian Burke, the man who put Team USA's hockey roster together, wanted a team built around youth and speed and grit.02/20/2010For once, U.S. speedskater Davis is outdone Shani Davis' grimace gave away the result in the men's 1,500-meter speedskating final long before the Chicago native crossed the finish line, searching for his time.02/19/2010Biathlon poses an action-packed test02/17/2010Shaun White without peer as snowboarder The effervescent personality. The ever-present toothy grin. The sense of humor.02/16/2010Unpredictable Johnny Weir makes figures skating fun My mom always loved figure skating. As a kid, she used to drive me crazy because she'd hog the 25-inch TV in the den whenever an important figure skating competition was on the tube.02/15/2010Games organizers left down-and-out Eastside behind Vancouver, as beautiful as any city in North America, wants us to see all it has to offer during the 2010 Olympics, Jean-Jacques Taylor writes. But the city doesn't want us to see the Eastside, about a 15-minute walk east of the exclusive waterfront area and the fashionable shopping district on Robson Street. It doesn't want us to see its homeless. Or its drug addicts. Or its mentally ill.02/14/2010U.S. hockey coach working on a golden encore We all remember Mike Eruzione because he scored the game-winner against the hated Soviets in the U.S. hockey team's Miracle on Ice victory.Blaming luger for his death is absurd The International Olympic Committee is a joke. So is the International Luge Federation.02/13/2010Athlete's death casts pall over start of Vancouver Games
Emmitt Smith, the game's most consistent runner, became the NFL's all-time leading rusher by running "Lead Draw" again and again, writes Jean-Jacques Taylor.
The Rangers have an opportunity to play in the World Series during our lifetime because Tom Hicks has agreed to sell the club to Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan, writes Jean-Jacques Taylor.
Jerry Jones has some doubt that Wade Phillips can deliver a Super Bowl win, writes Jean-Jacques Taylor. If not, he'd have given Phillips a three-year deal – not the faux two-year deal he received.
Jerry Jones' spiel was so impressive in Thursday's press conference that it's hard to figure out why Wade Phillips received only what amounts to a one-year contract, writes Jean-Jacques Taylor.
When mini-camps begin in a few months, Wade Phillips should make every Cowboys player earn his starting job based on his performance, not salary or pedigree, writes Jean-Jacques Taylor.
If Dallas Cowboys left tackle Flozell Adams controls Vikings All-Pro defensive end Jared Allen, Tony Romo will have a big game and the Cowboys will win, writes Jean-Jacques Taylor.
The Cowboys have figured out how to persevere through adversity and win games. Their 34-14 blowout win over Philadelphia proved it, writes Jean-Jacques Taylor.
Give Wade Phillips the credit, writes Jean-Jacques Taylor. Every bit of it. He vowed to change after last season's 44-6 loss in Philadelphia - and he did.
The Cowboys are playing their best football right now, which coincides with Tony Romo playing the best football of his career. Romo has had gaudier numbers, but that Romo often played out of control, following great plays with dumb ones. Not anymore, writes Jean-Jacques Taylor.
In a season full of outstanding defensive performances, the Dallas Cowboys turned in their best Sunday, beating the hapless Washington Redskins, 17-0, at FedEx Field and earning a playoff spot, writes Jean-Jacques Taylor.