Dallas News • 5th August 2024

‘Confidence is high’ for Frisco Panther Creek heading into program’s third varsity season

When the clock hit exactly 5:34 a.m. Monday, Frisco Panther Creek football players slipped on their helmets and sprinted from the indoor practice facility to the stadium yelling, “Let’s go!” The energy was high, even more than an hour before the sun came up.

Clint Surratt said his confidence is at an all-time high this season, his third as Panther Creek’s head coach.

“Every year, you grow and get better as a program,” he said. “We’ve certainly come a long way in the last couple of years, but t...

Dallas News • 27th July 2024

Fort Worth native, A&M grad on historic playoff run with Dallas Jackals rugby team

Every time Jason Tidwell and his childhood rugby teammates prepared for a match, they heard the words, “Don’t worry about a thing, ‘cause every little thing is gonna be all right.”

Bob Marley’s “Three Little Birds” was a playlist staple, said Tidwell, a wing/fullback for Major League Rugby’s Dallas Jackals.

“My favorite memories of growing up and playing were probably getting prepared to play,” Tidwell told The Dallas Morning News. “That was our go-to song. It was just an amazing feeling becau...

Dallas News • 26th July 2024

Max Scherzer rewrites record book as Rangers sweep White Sox, inch closer to Astros

ARLINGTON — Slow and steady wins the race, right?

The Texas Rangers (51-52) are inching their way up to postseason contention, now only 2.5 games behind the Houston Astros (53-49), the AL West leaders.

Three-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer led the Rangers on Thursday afternoon to a 2-1 victory and four-game sweep over the Chicago White Sox, but that wasn’t his only accomplishment — he moved into 10th place on the career strikeout list.

Scherzer entered the game with 3,391 total strike...

Dallas News • 17th July 2024

Why MLB All-Star Game was extra meaningful for D-FW’s Bobby Witt Jr. and David Fry

ARLINGTON — Two Dallas-area locals, Bobby Witt Jr. and David Fry, made their All-Star Game debuts at Globe Life Field on Tuesday.

When Witt was young, he never attended an All-Star Game live from a ballpark. He wasn’t born the last time it was in Arlington (1995). So his first All-Star Game came with a view from the dugout.

Witt, the Kansas City Royals shortstop, made his All-Star debut on Tuesday as one of 39 All-Star Game first-timers. Competing among the best baseball players in the country...

Dallas News • 8th July 2024

Facing Summer League challenge, Mavs’ Olivier-Maxence Prosper wants to ‘forget the odds’

For about half a year, Olivier-Maxence Prosper has worn a custom-made rubber bracelet gifted to him by his uncle. On the top, the bracelet reads “forget the odds … I bet on myself.” Underneath, there is a picture of the flag of Haiti, where his father is from, along with the word “krazé” from the Haitian Creole, which translates to “dominant.”

The bracelet is a reminder of Prosper’s mantra, a message he strives to live by every day.

“It means everything to me,” Prosper said Monday. “I was doub...

Dallas News • 29th June 2024

Dallas Stars select Finnish winger Emil Hemming at No. 29 overall in NHL draft

The Dallas Stars selected Finnish winger Emil Hemming with the 29th overall pick in the 2024 NHL draft on Friday night.

Hemming, 18, tallied 11 points (seven goals, four assists) and 73 shots on goal with an average ice time of 10:04 this past year in 40 games with TPS in his first season in Liiga, Finland’s professional top-tier men’s league.

“Obviously a dream come true,” Hemming said after the draft.

The right wing from Vaasa, Finland, recorded 10 points (five goals and five assists) acros...

Dallas News • 21st June 2024

For Dallas businessman, Bryson DeChambeau’s U.S. Open victory was a win for SMU

When Payne Stewart won the U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2 in 1999, he turned to Dallas businessman Robert H. Dedman Sr. and said he should be proud, because SMU won that day.

Twenty-five years later, Robert H. Dedman Jr. said those same words to Bryson DeChambeau, another alum of the Dallas university: “SMU won today.”

DeChambeau claimed the U.S. Open title Sunday on the same course at Pinehurst, which the Dedman family has owned since the 1980s. Stewart won four months before he died in a plane...

Dallas News • 15th June 2024

Celtics put in historically bad performance in Game 4 NBA Finals loss to Mavericks

The Celtics are headed back to Boston on the heels of their worst NBA Finals loss in their storied history, and one of the biggest blowouts in the NBA’s championship series.

The Bulls beat the Jazz by 42 in 1998 (96-54) and the Celtics blew out the Lakers in 2008 by 39 (131-92) in the only bigger blowouts in finals history.

It started when the Celtics executed their worst first-half performance of the postseason, costing them a series sweep in the NBA Finals and spoiling their first chance to...