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RIP Cowboys Great "Dandy" Don Meredith

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Don Meredith, the former Dallas Cowboys quarterback who served as a folksy foil for Howard Cosell on ABC's "Monday Night Football" and helped carve out the niche for colorful ex-athlete broadcasters, has died. "Dandy Don," as he was known, was 72.

Meredith's wife, Susan, told The Associated Press her husband died Sunday in Santa Fe after suffering a brain hemorrhage and lapsing into a coma. She and her daughter were at Meredith's side when he died.

"He was the best there was," she said Monday, describing him as kind, warm and funny. "We lost a good one."

Meredith played for the Cowboys from 1960 to 1968, becoming the starting quarterback in 1965.

While he never took the Cowboys to the Super Bowl, Meredith was one of the franchise's first stars. He led the Cowboys to three straight division titles and to consecutive NFL championship games in 1966 and 1967, where they lost both games to eventual champion Green Bay.

"Don Meredith was one of the most colorful characters in NFL history. He was a star on the field who became an even bigger star on television," NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said. "He brought joy to football fans, from his play in historic NFL games like the Ice Bowl to his great personality that helped launch the success of Monday Night Football."

Over his nine-year career, Meredith threw for 17,199 yards and 111 touchdowns. He retired unexpectedly before the 1969 season and just two years later joined Keith Jackson and Cosell in the broadcast booth as part of the "Monday Night Football" crew. Frank Gifford took over for Jackson in the second season.

"To say that Don was an instant success would be a gross understatement," Gifford said in a statement released by the New York Giants.

Meredith quickly became one of the most popular broadcasters in sports with a homespun humor that played off Cosell in particular. Meredith's signature call was singing the famous Willie Nelson song "The Party's Over" when it appeared a game's outcome had been determined.

Meredith left ABC after the 1973 season for a three-year stint at NBC. He returned to the "MNF" crew in 1977 before retiring in 1984, one year after Cosell left the team.

"He occasionally would try his hand as an actor, but it wasn't long before he realized that for millions of football fans, he would always be the one who 'topped' Howard Cosell with one-liners or a simple 'come on, Howard,'" Gifford said.

Meredith was one of the first athletes to make the transition from the field to color analyst and the move to calling "Monday Night Football" was an easy one for him. He was part of many memorable moments on ABC's landmark hit.

In 1970, Meredith was in the booth for the St. Louis Cardinals' 38-0 whitewashing of his former team. The Cotton Bowl crowd late in the game began chanting "We want Meredith!"

Meredith quipped, "No way you're getting me down there."

Another famous Meredith moment occurred in 1972 at the Houston Astrodome. The Oakland Raiders were in the process of beating the Houston Oilers 34-0. A cameraman had a shot of a disgruntled Oilers fan, who then made an obscene gesture.

Said Meredith: "He thinks they're No. 1 in the nation."

"Don Meredith was a Dallas Cowboys original. His wit, charm, and strength of personality were matched only by his wonderful leadership, toughness and athletic skill," Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said in a statement. "Throughout 50 years of history, the Cowboys legacy has been built by dynamic and colorful personalities who could also compete at the highest level. No one fit that description better than Don Meredith."

Born April 10, 1938, Meredith was born and raised in Mount Vernon, Texas, about 100 miles east of Dallas. He never played a home game outside of North Texas.

Meredith was a three-year starter at quarterback for SMU and an All-America selection in 1958 and 1959. He was drafted in the third round by the Chicago Bears in 1960 and traded to the expansion Cowboys franchise for future draft picks.

Meredith shared time under center with Eddie LeBaron before winning the starting job in 1965 and the following year guided the Cowboys to their first winning season (10-3-1). He was named NFL Player of the Year after throwing a career-high 24 touchdown passes and 2,805 yards.

Meredith was one of nine Dallas players selected to the Pro Bowl that year -- the first of his two Pro Bowl years.

Although Roger Staubach and Troy Aikman made the Cowboys' quarterback job synonymous with greatness, both credit Meredith for launching that tradition.

"He did it without as much help as some of the other guys had," said Lee Roy Jordan, a former Cowboys linebacker. "Our offensive line was not very good early on. He got beat up pretty bad -- broken noses and collarbones and ribs, everything you can think of, Don had it. But he was one tough individual. He played with many an ailment and injury, and was very, very competitive. He and Bob Hayes really set the standard for the wide-open offense, the motion guys and big plays."

Meredith's last moment in a Cowboys uniform was painful. He threw three interceptions in a 1968 playoff game against the Cleveland Browns and was pulled in favor of Craig Morton.

"I tried to talk him out of it," Dallas coach Tom Landry said after Meredith announced his retirement. "But when you lose your desire in this game, that's it."

In addition to his broadcasting career, Meredith appeared in several TV shows and movies after his playing career ended. He had a recurring role in "Police Story" and was a spokesman for Lipton teas. Meredith and Don Perkins were the second and third players inducted to Cowboys Ring of Honor in 1976.

Susan Meredith said a private graveside service was planned.

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.

TCU makes big leap, accepts invite to Big East

BY STEFAN STEVENSON
sstevenson@star-telegram.com
TCU, located "Where The West Begins," is joining the East. The Big East Conference, to be exact.
The school announced Monday it has accepted an invitation to join the 32-year-old conference. TCU has competed in the Mountain West Conference since 2005 but will officially join the Big East on July 1, 2012. The Big East will be the sixth conference in TCU's history, and fourth since the Southwest Conference dissolved in 1995.
TCU will be the 17th member of the Big East and will compete there in all of its sports. The conference has actively pursued Villanova, already a member of the Big East's 16-team basketball conference, to increase its total of football participants to 10 when TCU joins. Villanova competes in the lower-tier Football Championship Subdivision and has been weighing its options for months.
The move to the Big East, one of six football conferences with automatic qualification status to the BCS, gives TCU a more direct path in competing for a national championship. The Horned Frogs (12-0) have won the MWC title the last two seasons and are No. 3 in the BCS standings. The MWC does not have automatic-qualifying status, which has made it harder for its teams, even when undefeated, to earn invitations to one of the five big-money BCS bowl games. The MWC is two years through a four-year cycle in which it's trying to earn automatic-qualifying status, but the announced departures of Utah (Pac-10) and BYU (independent), two of the league's cornerstones since its inception in 1999, made the league less desirable for TCU.
"Losing BYU and Utah was a significant blow to the conference," TCU athletic director Chris Del Conte said. "It was not the same league that we joined."
Until Boise State lost last week, it was likely that TCU would have been snubbed from playing in a BCS bowl. In the eight-team Big East, the Frogs would have been guaranteed a BCS bowl berth. Still, TCU is likely headed to the BCS' Rose Bowl on Jan. 1.
"I already felt like we could play with any of those schools," TCU football coach Gary Patterson said. "We were already 15-3 against automatic-qualifying schools. I don't think we'll change any. I've never done that in any league we've been a part of. We're going to have to win games whether we're in the Big East or the Mountain West."
Rumors of the move have been circulating since September, but TCU wasn't officially asked to join the conference until Sunday evening. Father John Jenkins, president of Notre Dame and chairman of the Big East CEO Executive Committee, made the offer to Del Conte by phone.
TCU's board of trustees held an emergency meeting Monday morning and voted unanimously to accept.
"In this moment in time, this was the best decision for TCU," board chairman Luther King said. "The subject was probably more exciting than tuition. It was a pretty long [meeting] for one subject. There were a lot of questions."
King, a member of the board for 18 years and the chairman for the last six years, said he can't recall a more heavily attended meeting. About 40 of the board's 49 members were present, either in person or by phone.
"I think it says something about the importance of today and what we're getting ready to do and the excitement around here," King said. "[The Big East] is certainly an enhanced platform. We appreciate being a part of the Mountain West. They've been very good to us. But it's time in this moment in history to move."
All of TCU's major sports coaches were on hand for the announcement. Two coaches -- men's basketball coach Jim Christian and baseball coach Jim Schlossnagle -- grew up on the East Coast. All were ecstatic about the prospect of joining the Big East. But the main and mutually beneficial ingredient between TCU and the Big East was the success of the TCU football team. The Big East's highest-ranked football team is No. 23 West Virginia.
"When the Big East looked to expand, we sought to add a member that would bring significant value to our current 16 outstanding member institutions," Big East commissioner John Marinatto said Monday. "A member that would make us not only bigger, but stronger and more competitive. Our focus was to add a quality institution to our football membership. Clearly, the tremendous success of the TCU football team adds enormous strength to the Big East roster."
The idea of TCU moving to the Big East was first broached Sept. 18 during TCU's football game with Baylor. Former TCU basketball player Jamie Dixon, now the head coach at Pittsburgh, talked to Del Conte about the Frogs coming to the league. The two met in the early '90s, when Dixon was an assistant coach at UC-Santa Barbara and Del Conte was a student.
"From that conversation, it was a dream and from that dream came a reality," Del Conte said. "The opportunity to be on ESPN and national exposure for our program is phenomenal....We are very fortunate to be in this position. If you play basketball in the state of Texas and you want to play against the best basketball in the country, you don't have to leave the state, you can come right here. Bring all comers to Fort Worth, bring it on. Everyone is going to have to pick up their game. If you're afraid of competition this is not the place to be."

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Thank You, Rangers!

As I sit here still crushed... I reminisce over the #RANGERS season I'm proud of our guys we made history... thanks for the memories

Antlers Up: Thank You, Rangers!

TEXAS RANGER ALCS CHAMPS!!!!!

Final Playoff Series: Game 6 of 6
Yankees 1

Rangers 6

Coverage: TBS
8:07 PM ET, October 22, 2010
Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Arlington, Texas

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 -NYY
1 0 0 0 4 0 1 0 - 6 7 0 -TEX
W: C. Lewis (2-0)
L: P. Hughes (0-2)

New Music: Tech N9ne

“Bad Season” the first track to leak from Tech N9ne’s upcoming debut mixtape of the same name, is now available for download. Recently 50 Cent’s DJ, DJ Whoo Kid, confirmed that he would be putting together the Bad Season mixtape for Tech N9ne. The gritty sounding track is produced by DJ Whoo Kid and Red Sypda, not sounding anything at all like the bombastic beats that usually accompany bars of Tech N9ne. Krizz Kaliko is featured on the track, spitting a fiery second verse.
Tech N9ne:“Bad Season”

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