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3 September, 2010, Dallas, TX, – Superpages.com Center With their 2010 tour coming to an end Creed rolled through Dallas with the second to the last show of the tour. I’ve never seen Creed live but I do have several of their shows on cd and they sound great live and their guitarist Mark Tremonti [...]

13 August 2010; Superpages.com Center, Dallas, TX: The Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival rolled through Dallas on a hot as hell Friday the 13th. Pretty fitting for the type of bands that played which included Five Finger Death Punch, Lamb of God, Korn, and Rob Zombie. Even with the temperature hovering around 104 degrees the [...]

9 June, 2010: Superpages.com Center, Dallas, TX: “The Maiden” kicked off their 2010 Final Frontiers Tour in Dallas. I’ve seen the Maiden many times growing up and they’ve been one of my favorite live bands. Since there’s no telling when they may call it quits (as I heard they weren’t even going to tour the [...]

4-5, June 2010, Texas Motor Speedway, Fort Worth, Texas: Team Penske Driver Ryan Briscoe  was able to keep the lead as Danica Patrick of Andretti Autosport came in a close second at the 2010 Firestone 550k. Danica actually took the lead late in the race but her lead was short lived as Briscoe was able [...]

Just playing around with some new macro settings. Nikon D3s, Nikkor 105mm 2.8 Macro Below a young Bearded Dragon

The Dallas Mavericks are quickly approaching the post-season after clinching the Southwestern Division Title and currently sitting in second place in the Western Conference. Here are a few highlights of the last half of the season as we now prepare for the 2009-2010 playoffs.

2009, March 23, American Airlines Center, Dallas, TX: Normally we receive gifts on our birthday but Jason Kidd decided to give the Mavs a gift on his birthday by taking over the game in the 2nd half. Dirk Nowitzki was ejected just after the half after receiving back to back technicals and had to watch [...]

2009, March 20,  Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center: For the second time this season the Mavericks have worn the pretty blue alternate jersey with ‘Los Mavs’ on the front and for the second time they lost in them. It’s seems like the Mavs have the equivalent to the Dallas Cowboys’ ‘Bad Luck’ Blue Jersey. [...]

2009, March 13: American Airlines Center, Dallas, TX: The Dallas Mavericks ‘Los Mavs’ were riding a 13 game winning streak on Noche Latina night when the New York Knicks ‘Nueva York’ came in to town and gave the Mavs a little taste of revenge as they beat the Mavs 128-94. The Knicks lost to the [...]

2009, February 24, American Airlines Center, Dallas, TX: The first real test for the new look Mavericks came as the World Champion Los Angeles Lakers arrive in Dallas for their fourth meeting of the season. The Mavericks were embarrassed in Los Angeles as they were blown out by 40 points at the Staples Center so [...]

2010, February 17, American Airlines Center, Dallas, TX: The new look Mavs were on display in their first home game after acquiring some much needed help in Caron Butler, Brendan Haywood, and DeShawn Stevenson. Even though the new guys haven’t even practiced yet they are adding some points and much needed defense to the team [...]

2009, January 13, Dallas, TX, American Airlines Center: Dirk Nowitzki, #41 of the Dallas Mavericks hit a milestone that continues to pave his road to the NBA Hall of Fame, 20,000 career points and counting. Dirk finished the night with 30 points however it wasn’t enough to keep the Mavs on top of Kobe Bryant [...]

2010, Jan 3, Cowboys Stadium, Arlington, TX: The 2009-2010 season finale NFC East Championship game against one of our rivals the Philadelphia Eagles.

2009, December 20, American Airlines Center, Dallas, TX: The Dallas Mavericks hosted the Cleveland Cavaliers in their second Dallas appearance for the season. However the first was in preseason and neither LeBron nor Shaq played due to the flu. This time around Dirk was out due to having pieces of Carl Landry’s teeth removed from [...]

2009 December 19, Cowboys Stadium, Arlington, TX: The University of Texas Longhorns battle the defending NCAA Basketball Champions the University of Carolina Tar Heels at Cowboys Stadium. Texas held on and put on a nice display of high flying dunks to defeat the Tar Heels 103-90 in the stadiums inaugural basketball game in front of [...]

2009, December 14: American Airlines Center, Dallas, TX: Another game that was closer that it should have been and with Dirk having a slow night scoring it was up to the rest of the team to keep the Mavs on top. The Mavs bench kept the team alive with solid performances from JJ Barea who [...]

2009, December 8, American Airlines Center, Dallas, TX: The Mavs welcome back Josh Howard after being out for a month with an ankle injury and received 20 points from him in their 102-101 win over the Phoenix Suns. With Dirk adding 33 points and the Mavs adding some nice defense in the fourth quarter the [...]

2009, December 5, Cowboys Stadium, Arlington, TX: The Nebraska defense stopped the Longhorns offense for most of the game except on the most important play, the winning field goal in the last second of the ball game. Texas kicker Hunter Lawrence kicked a 46 yard field goal with only 1 second on the clock to [...]

2009, November 30, American Airlines Center, Dallas, TX: The Mavs seemed to have this one in the bag with a 17 point lead earlier in the game. However as they let the 76ers, mainly Andre Iguodala, catch up and tie the game with 5.4 seconds left in the 4th. Jason ‘The Jet’ Terry hits a [...]

2009 Nov 24, American Airlines Center, Dallas, TX: Well I talked smack by using the line from the movie The Warriors on my FB on gameday and they did come out to play. All 7 players of them! Only 7 players were active for Golden State to play due to injuries and even ex-Mavs coach [...]

2009 November 18, 2009: American Airlines Center, Dallas, TX: Dirk continues his assault on teams with a season high 41 points, 23 of them in the fourth and in OT, to lift the Mavs past the biggest rivalry we have, the San Antonio Spurs. The Mavs were missing three starters, Shawn Marion, Josh Howard, and [...]

2009, November 10, American Airlines Center, Dallas, TX: The Mavericks were able to come back from a 17 point deficit and make a 35 point turnaround to top the Rockets in the second half for a 121-102 win. Eric Dampier had a huge night with 20 rebounds and 14 points and Dirk finished with 23. [...]

2009 November 3, American Airlines Center, Dallas, TX: No doubt the hero of the day was the big German Dirk Nowitzki as he sets a Maverick record for the most points scored in a quarter. Dirk had 40 points, with 29 of them coming in the 4th quarter, to lift the Mavs well over the [...]

2009 November 1, 2009, Ford Center, Oklahoma City, OK: I got to travel up to OKC to shoot an NBA game with the Portland Trailblazers visiting the Oklahoma City Thunder. A really cool experience getting to shoot in another arena with different teams. Portland took the game 83-74 with Brandon Roy scoring 16 and Greg [...]

2009, October 27, American Airlines Center, Dallas, TX: The Dallas Mavericks weren’t able to hold off the assualt of Gilbert Arenas and the Wizards as they drop their season opener 102-91. Arenas, returning from knee surgery,  finished with 29 points and 9 rebounds  to start off his season in great fashion. Dirk had an awesome [...]