Mavs newest addition to the center spot..

By Katrina King

Photo by: Channing Jemerson

Welcome to Dallas, Tyson! That's right, the Mavs new big man is Tyson Chandler, handsome huh, ladies. Chandler, a welcome addition to the Mavericks center spot, the number 5. Acquired by the Mavs from team Charlotte Bobcats aka the Charlotte Hornets (why the name change? who knows why) in a deal package including Erick Dampier, whom I assume is relaxing his knee
(riding the bench), enjoying his family and watching other teams play. "I love him", says Carlise, The guy is, he really had an infectious spirit as a person and a basketball player. He really brings some toughness to our team, particularly our starters because he brings a dynamic athleticism that we haven't had here at that position. Having said that, I thought Haywood did a really good job off the bench. He is being asked to take on a different role than he has ever had. He is out there playing against small lineups and all kinds of weird things and I thought he gave us a presence when Tyson was not in the game".

Chandler and Haywood gives the Mavericks two decent threats in the middle....if both players receive ample minutes along with game consistency, the Mavericks will become a dominated threat in the middle. Yep, indeed.

The big men must be aggressive underneath the basket and grab both offensive and defense boards, they need to develop a lust for it...Defense and offensive win games. Makes no sense to me why these players can not follow their dag gone rebounds!! The Mavericks have always lack in this area and free throw shots.....stay tuned for more..

Mavericks win home opener against the Bobcats

By Katrina King

Photos by: Channing Jemerson

Mavericks started the 2010-11 NBA season, by winning the opener against the Charlotte Bobcats. Fans may see Mavericks forward, Caron Butler have more good scoring games. He appears to be more settle with his teammates versus last season when he was literally thrown in after being acquired last season during the All-Star break from the Washington Wizards.

Butler earned Most Valuable Player in the pre-season game against the Houston Rockets scoring 25 points! Having the chance to bond with his teammates over the summer, summer league workouts as well as training camp, Butler started the season lighter in weight and in sinc with the team. I believe this season with the Mavs fans will see why Butler was acquired.

Yao Ming is Baack!

By Katrina King

Photo by Channing Jemerson

Yao Ming was in the Rockets starting lineup against the Dallas Mavericks at the American Airlines Center in their last preseason home game. the Mavericks won in a shocking finished with .04 seconds left. Jason Kidd inbounded the ball made the pass to the Matrix as the clock wound down for the ally-op layup, Dallas wins the game. An ugly win with an exciting finish!

That's what the fans want to see!! Pass from Kidd to Marion left the Rockets mouth dropped wide open as if to say what just happen? Why? Because the Rockets lead the game all 4 quarters even after the two minute warning. Then, Nowitzki entered the game being the scorer that he is....did his thang, contributing to the win.

THE RANGERS WIN!!!! Going to the MLB World Series!

By Katrina King



What a year for the Texas Rangers! Who wuold have thought during spring training that the Texas Rangers would be in the World Series, huh? Not me, that's for sure. The Rangers beat the New York Yankees 6-1 to win on Friday night at The Ball Park. 50 years in Rangers history this is truly the first. Team owner and president Nolan Ryan played and retired in a Rangers uniform pitching for the same purpose. But it wasn't his time with the Rangers.

Funny....now team owner Ryan, finally get a chance to go to the World Series with his life sport and his ball club he now owns.. How cool is that?!

Manager, Ron Washington has done well with his ballclub. The guys have great chemistry and camaraderie among one another which mix for a great recipe of great team work as they have shown all season. Washington says in an interview after the game: I'm not gonna change what, I've been preachin'". He goes on to say: I love playing National League Baseball".

Rangers lead ALCS 2-1 Beat Yankees 8-0

By Tina Marie

Game 3 of the American League Championship game. Cliff lee has been awesome since his acquistion to the team.

The Texas Rangers are having the best seson ever in Ranger history this season. Manager Ron Washington and the boys have played great - no- excellent baseball this year. They made baseball fun to watch.....and baseball is not fun to watch. Lee with 13 strike outs! Always the cool calm and collected, Lee pitches the best game of his life. Craig Sager ask Lee afer the game, "If anyone ask you how did you do what would you tell them" Lee replied: "I say I did pretty good.

Lee executed every part of the play called. Lee was all over the place. He threw a pitch, caught it and ran to tag a Yankee out! Lee so good he struck out Derek Jeter, simply man handled him. The Yankee bullpen didn't have a clue.

34 strike outs 1 walk in the post season. Go Rangers! On to the World Series!

Mavs Training Camp Day Three

By Katrina King

University Park- SMU - The Mavs practice looks much the same as previous days before. Coach Carlise is optimistic about his big guys (centers) Alexis Ajinca (pronounced ah-lek-SEE ah-GIN-sa), Tyson Chandler, the return of Brendan Haywood and Ian Mahinmi (pronounced in english Ian or French (Yan).

Newly acquired Tyson Chandler 7-1 center from Dominguez High School in California has been traded 5 times with his last trade being to Dallas. I'll bet by NBA break, he'll be traded a 6th time. Note: In this industry, when a player has been traded many times they are referred to as NBA journeymen.

Returning for his second year with the Mavs is Brendan Haywood another 7 footer, who played better than Erick Dampier last season. Glad to see him back and Damp gone. Damp reminded me of former Maverick Center James Donaldson:) For those of you who rarely get out to the games this season, there will be fan jam on Tuesday October 5th at 7pm at the American Airlines Center (AAC) FREE!

Spoke to President of Basketball Operations and General Manager, Don Nelson who is also the The Texas Legends D-League owner about his upcoming season which starts Nov.30th in Frisco, Texas. He refers to them as the "Mavericks young guns of the NBA". This team is known as one of the development league of the NBA, Mavericks version. He is very excited about the upcoming season. Hometown legend Spud Webb is President of Basketball Operations and my girl Nancy Liberman as the head coach. Nancy is the first female coach to coach an all male basketball team in history. You go girl!

Donnie is excited about the upcoming season with the Mavs, hoping the big guys will relieve some of the pressure off Dirk so he can focus on the forward position and play the center spot down the stretch if needed.

Coach Carlise seems to think that the new guys are picking up the offense fairly well.....well enough to get out and play against each other in a blue and white scrimmage game which is usually held during practice sessions. I pressured Carlise on the offensive rebounding game letting him know that this writers pet peeve is second chance points. He said he would work on offensive boards just for me this season:)


Kidd shares the same enthusiam, as always, about the new season (didn't ask him about his daughter, Cheyenne posing in lingerie...didn't think it was appropriate).

Jason Kidd's 17 year daughter poses in Lingerie!

By Channing Jemerson

According to Media Take Out.com Jason Kidd's 17 year old daughter Cheyenne Kidd says that her dad, Jason Kidd is an absent father and has been most of her life! Now, before I go further, allow me to go on record saying I like Jason regardless.....he is not the only absentee father in the country.

Cheyenne (who is the spitting image of her dad) is older and has begun to show signs that she misses her father being in her life. Apparently, she's acting out posing in lingerie! Next, she'll be posing NUDE!

No father would approve of their daughter posing in lingerie absent or not. I'm sure Cheyenne wants a father, daughter close relationship with her dad and wants him to reach out to her as a father. Jason can't be happy with his daughter with this type of exposure. Being fair and balance, Kidd was not available for comment at the time of this story. It's not too late for father and daughter to build a solid relationship.

Who knew Jason had a 17 year old daughter. Just how many kids does the Mavericks Guard have? I do know this; he does have a 6 month old not sure if the baby is a boy or girl.