A few weeks ago, an unconcerned Jason Terry told me that his struggling Mavs just “need to have five or six guys playing well at the same time.  We’ve got the same players, the same work ethic. We just need five guys getting hot at the same time. That’s all.’’

And in Wednesday’s critical 111-86 win over the rival Warriors, Dallas soothed its ailments with that simple home remedy – made easier, of course, with Dirk Nowitzki also having overcome what ailed him.

of Jerry Jones: “Jerry would trade his entire draft for Darren McFadden.’’

   I chronicled and labeled this draft-time talent of Messrs. Jones and Johnson some 18 years ago and it remains a prime Cowboys strategy. They say something about a subject – maybe they yell it, maybe they whisper it – and into the public consciousness it seeps. Eventually, though, the Cowboys yell/whisper something contrary. And then they yell/whisper about more stuff. … and more stuff. … and then they contradict that. … and in the end, people only think they know what the Cowboys are thinking.

NASCAR veteran Mark Martin and open wheel racing legend and Arlington native Jim McElreath were inducted in the Texas Motorsports Hall of Fame at a ceremony Wednesday at the Texas Motor Speedway, but a last-minute appearance by NASCAR legend Bobby Allison stole the show.

Around these parts, I generally leave the politics to Tom Pauken & Co. And when it comes to editorial cartoons, I couldn't hold the brilliant Bill DeOre's paintbrush. But the gang at D Magazine's FrontBurner is having so much fun with Sandra Crenshaw and her votes and her Earl Campbell Sausage Links and her lawsuits and her Cactus Juice that, well, I just couldn't resist. -- Fish