“Kevin Sherrington’s A La Carte” is a weekly newsletter curated by DMN sports columnist Kevin Sherrington where he hits all of the latest sports topics around North Texas and all major sports. Sign up for the Sports Roundup newsletter to receive exclusive content from Sherrington every week. Read an excerpt from this week’s newsletter below.
Kevin Sherrington’s A La Carte
— A lot has happened to the Mavs – nearly all of it bad – since this time a year ago when they were about to embark on a playoff run that didn’t end until Boston. Nico Harrison famously excused his trade of Luka Doncic by claiming defense wins championships, even though the Mavs scored more than 100 points only once in five games against the Celtics. No matter what he says, Nico’s reason was personal. Luka simply wasn’t his kind of guy, and anyone who wants to remain employed by the Mavs these days should remember that.
— A report from a league insider that Patrick Dumont doesn’t know basketball but at least knows he doesn’t isn’t much consolation on either point.
— Rory McIlroy went 11 years after winning his third major to finish his career Grand Slam, more than Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods combined to complete the cycle. Maybe we should have figured he’d need a little extra time Sunday.
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— Of 20 players Cowboys might draft based on their visits to The Star, as well as his conversations with team personnel, our Calvin Watkins lists seven running backs. That ought to do it.
— Just as the Mavs are putting this season to bed, the Stars will be starting what should be a long playoff run. Can we expect Jake Oettinger to live up to the potential we keep talking about, or has that ship sailed?
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— Story time: One of the perils of working a visiting clubhouse back in the old days was that name plates above the lockers often didn’t include names. Just numbers. Second peril: Players in their birthday suits, which is an issue in and of itself, not only because it means no names or numbers.
This conundrum once presented itself for yours truly on assignment for one of the wire services in the Astrodome’s visitors’ clubhouse in the early ‘80s. Thought I was getting Jason Thompson, the first baseman. Turned out it was neither. Whoever the poor fellow was, he handled our mutual disappointment better than I did.
Lacking a good follow-up question, I simply said thanks and wandered off, a little dazed. The problem with journalism school is they don’t teach you how to handle those kinds of situations.
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Most clubhouses these days do a better job of identifying residents. Also helps to have an iPhone to look up someone you’re not familiar with or to simply ask someone who knows better. Fortunately, there’s no shortage of the latter around me.
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More from Sherrington
— 3 suggestions for the Mavericks’ top brass after Luka Doncic’s 45-point reality check
— With more holes than the Titanic, potential Cowboys targets are plentiful in NFL draft
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— If Jerry Jones keeps screwing up, it might be time to consider trading Micah Parsons
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