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FIRST SHOT: TCU will run the table but no one in Fort Worth will know about it. The Star-Telegram considers the University of Texas the hometown team, not the TCU Horned Frogs.
That’s a shame! All TCU and non-Longhorn fans notice every Sunday morning is that the sports headline is about the previous night’s Texas game and filled with blathering about Colt McCoy, either making excuses for his slow start of explaining why he deserves the Heisman Trophy, or why the Longhorns deserve the national championship because they looked so good bashing cupcakes like Louisiana-Monroe, UTEP and now Central Florida.TCU will appear below Texas on the front page of sports for winning yet another game, and remaining undefeated, and being ranked fourth, fifth or sixth, depending on which ranking system you choose. But if you want to read about the nuts and bolts of the TCU game, you’ll have to go to the back page. What if the Star-Telegram got behind the Horned Frogs with some publicity and helped TCU’s recruiting instead of being the No. 1 cheerleader for UT?—David Houk, Fort WorthBUCKSHOT: The Star-Telegram is not a cheerleader for anybody, and thank goodness. We report the news. On Sunday, that meant TCU being front and center-pieced. We choose to cover the stories that interest the most readers, and we give plenty of coverage throughout each week to the beloved Frogs, for whom we are grateful every year that they play here in Fort Worth.SECOND SHOT: I’ve drunk this Kool-Aid so many times that I ought to know better ... but it’s so delicious.Yes, the Horned Frogs will run the table and, yes, they will be taking their purple grape sweetness B(cs)owling with them to Tempe, Ariz.— Bill Crist, CameronBUCKSHOT: A Big Gulp, but a realistic one.THIRD SHOT: Who’s the better promoter? Eddie Gossage or Jerry Jones? Jerry Jones, definitely. Just like P.T. Barnum, Jerry is a ringmaster, and his circus is the biggest "show" on earth.— Mary Rouse, HurstBUCKSHOT: Jerry does have three rings. Just coincidence?FOURTH SHOT: Gossage and Jones are different types of promoters. Jerry is a volume promoter, you know, all promos, all the time. Eddie is a selective promoter. But my pick is Mark Cuban, a promoter by circumstance. He’s more opportunistic and shows incredible spur-of-the-moment creativity.— David Glick, Las Colinas BUCKSHOT: Enough with the Spurs, OK?LAST SHOT: With Tony Romo and now Miles Austin, I’d say the undrafted free-agent thing isn’t working too badly for the Cowboys. The only first-rounder having more impact: DeMarcus Ware.But if WR Dez Bryant slips out of the Top 10 in the draft due to his NCAA suspension [at Oklahoma State], Jerry Jones should make a run at him. Dez will certainly have the requisite "chip on his shoulder" thanks to the NCAA’s unjust, heavy-handed ruling.— Jeff Hottenroth, Fort Worth BUCKSHOT: Personally, I like those "chip on their shoulders" seventh-rounders, Ratliff and Crayton.Ray Buck, 817-390-7760
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