“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.
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Kevin Sherrington’s A La Carte
– Brian Schottenheimer didn’t like it when his bosses poked their noses into offensive meetings, but he doesn’t have a problem doing the same to Matt Eberflus. And for good reason, too. Maybe he’d be less inclined if he’d had hired his own defensive coordinator instead of Jerry, who’s not the exception to any rule.
Cowboys
– Cowboys prediction at half-way point: Give me 5-4 from here, leaving them 8-8-1 and with nothing to do in January except count the days until the draft.
– Biggest takeaway of a World Series that went extras twice, like no one wanted it to end: On a team with a $321 million payroll and the greatest player since Babe Ruth, a 36-year-old infielder drawing $5M struck the biggest blow.
– Cooper Flagg will be fine just as soon as Jason Kidd takes something off his plate. Didn’t Nico sign D’Angelo Russell to play point guard? Did he not ask Kidd first? Is there something about D-Lo we don’t know? Hasn’t started a game, and he’s one of only three Mavs shooting better than 30% on 3s.
– Steve Sarkisian said he could sense early in the season that his offense wasn’t “mature,” which was putting it nicely. Arch Manning’s performance the last two games suggests he’s finally coming along. For his sake, let’s hope so, before Georgia stunts his growth.
– Brandon Aubrey is good enough to exceed Cam Little’s 68-yard field goal record. Problem is, with the Cowboys’ defense, settling for field goals seems like a losing proposition.
– Story time: Back in 1983, when yours truly covered the University of Houston for the late Houston Post, the Cougars and SMU played a regular-season football game in Tokyo, if you can believe that. The Mirage Bowl, as they called it at the time, ran from 1977-93. The mother of all boondoggles. For one thing, Japanese fans were more interested in cheerleaders and bands than games, which became indecipherable once the yard lines, marked with talcum, lifted into the air in little white clouds after the first stampede. Crazy stuff went down that week. Like when a handful of SMU players made up a story that they’d been kidnapped to cover the fact they’d missed curfew. Fortunately, yours truly wasn’t responsible for that scoop, though I did create an international incident of sorts. Wrote about a UH linebacker peeved at giving up a home game to travel halfway around the world for a boondoggle. Opened the story with “Pardon Eugene Lockhart if he seems like a party-pooper . . . ” The next day, an irritated Bill Yeoman, Houston’s coach, said he’d gotten a call in the middle of the night from Lockhart’s mother, upset that her son had been called a “party pooper.” Who knew that was a bridge too far? The things you learn from foreign travel.
More from Sherrington
— Best in Texas (11/3): SMU rises back into ACC contention, Texas gets huge ranked win
— Rhett Lashlee turned SMU into a ‘destination job.’ Mustangs’ win over Miami showed why
— LSU’s politics, drama creating ripple effects for Texas’ top college football coaches
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