WHITTS END: 5.6.22 *Here we oh again? Next week our Dallas-Fort Worth sad sports drought without a championship will surpa s 4,000 days. Four. Friggin. Thousand. And unle s the Dallas Mavericks stage an improbable rally from an 0-2 deficit against the Phoenix Suns or the Texas Rangers produce an about-face of their 10-14 start or the Dallas Stars are about to reel off 15 more wins in the Stanley Cup playoffs, there may be no end in sight. In 2020, the city of Los Angeles won two sports championships (Dodgers and Lakers) in a span of 16 days, turning Tinseltown into Title Town. Over a 10-month period spanning 2020-21 the NFLs Buccaneers and NHLs Lightning won three titles to re-brand Tampa Bay as Champa Bay. After celebrating a Braves World Series last Fall, Atlanta basked in the glow of a Georgia college football championship three months later. Meanwhile, down here in the land of have-nots, DFW remains without a championship since the Mavericks beat the Heat in Game 6 of the NBA Solomon Kindley Jersey Finals on June 11, 2011. The last time we partied, Dirk Nowitzki was still a player, Jason Kidd wasnt yet Dallas coach and Luka Doncic was 12. The Rangers got within one strike in 2011; the Stars within two games in 2000 and 2020. The Mavs have just one playoff series win since their parade, and the Cowboys last Super Bowl title was a whopping 27 years ago. Despite , while other cities gleefully enjoy championship double-dipping were stuck with a severe case of blue balls. Are we due? Or merely doomed?*Good Rangers news: They are undefeated this month, taking a four-game winning streak into a weekend series Shaquem Griffin Jersey at Yankee Stadium against the team wth the best record in baseball. Bad Rangers news: Marcus Semien hasnt hit a homer. I mean, its officially a thing now, right? Last year in Toronto he slammed 45 in 724 at-bats. This year with Texas: 0 in 107 and counting.Corey SeagerAdolis GarciaTaylor Hearn *Even succe sful folks sometimes endure losing. Three Super Bowls, his bust in the Hall of Fame and the $140 million investment hes grown into a $6.5 billion fortune notwithstanding, its been a rough 2022 for Jerry Jones. The gut-wrenching playoff lo s to the 49ers. The abrupt retirement of his long-time media maven Rich Dalrymple, followed merely coincidentally? by . The divorce of his daughter Charlotte. Randy Gregory reneging on a contract agreement to bolt to the Broncos. Kelvin Joseph being questioned for his involvement in a murder. . And, this week, . Heres hoping Jones has reasons to celebrate by the time he turns 80 in October. *My ramblings on Mavs-Suns? and . I dont think they win this series, but they do take Game 3 Friday night to make it interesting. *Multiple people posed this question to me Thursday in the wake of Dallas being burned twice in Phoenix: Hey, whats wrong with the Mavs?! Honestly, nothing. Other than theyre playing the best team in the NBA. People somehow forget the Suns held a 2-0 lead on the Bucks in last years NBA Finals and this season had the leagues best home, road and overall record. The Mavs are really good. The Suns are great.*Havent checked in on DFW sports talk radio ratings in a while, so status quo. In ratings covering the first quarter (January-February-March) of 2022, The Ticket continued to dominate The Fan. The scoreboard: Ticket 6.8, Fan 2.9 Ticket 5.3, Fan 3.4 Ticket 4.8, Fan 3.2 Ticket 5.6, Fan 3.2 Also of note, when debuted on 97.1 The Eagle in early 2020 they benefitted from the baked-in Ru s Martin audience and pulled ratings for their afternoon show in the 8.0s. Now, two years later? For the first quarter this year they clocked in with a 1.6. Ouch. *Sneaked in some non-sports TV recently and my scorecard reads thusly: (HBO) A+, darkest of comedies is as gripping as it is funny. ( Noah Igbinoghene Jersey Netflix) A, laugh-out-loud hilarious and criminally underrated. (HBO) INC, relentle s flashbacks and preposterous conversations with a ghost made me tap out. (Netflix) A-, what started as one of the greatest series of all-time woefully petered-out in a final episode littered with irrational twists, murder overload and an insulting gaffe in attention to detail.*For the first time since 2008, the Byron Nelson golf tournament is officially a sell-out. With next weeks attractive field including local stars Scottie Scheffler, Jordan Spieth and Will Zalatoris, along with major winners Lynn Bowden Jr. Jersey Justin Thomas, Dustin Johnson and Brooks Koepka, the tournaments brilliant move to TPC Craig Ranch in McKinney is burying the nightmarish two-year residence at the south Dallas goat ranch known as Trinity Forest. *.Scroll to Continue *. *Question: Is Fox Sports 1s Skip Bayle s a human hemorrhoid or a repugnant circus geek? Answer: . The biggest fraud on TV and yes, that includes the actors on WWE this week alone attacked Bill Belichick and claimed Luka wasnt a superstar. *Do we blame being trapped indoors and behind masks for two years? Maybe sports gambling anger? Or just historically emboldened folks? Whatever the reason, the relationship between spectators and performers at events seems plunging toward an all-time low. Turns out we didnt mature after 2004s Malice at the Palace. Whether its Doncic exchanging verbal volleys in Phoenix, Kyrie Irving flipping off fans in Boston, Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars or comedian Dave Chappelle being attacked on stage this week during a show, our patience and profe sionalism have vanished. *Theory that Im workshopping but dont yet have the facts to back up: Luka makes the whole of his team better, but not nece sarily the individual players. Look at Jalen Brunson and Spencer Dinwiddie with and without Doncic in these playoffs. And its not just statistics, its the flow of the offense. Standing around watching Luka slow-motion dribble before even more slowly navigating around a high pick-and-roll and then suddenly being asked to shoot - or create a shot at the end of the shot clock cant be easy. *When I get around to putting together a list of the worst Tua Tagovailoa T Shirts trades in DFW sports history, the Rangers Yu Darvish for Willie Calhoun/A.J. Alexy/Brendon Davis in 2017 will be near the top. While Darvish has gone on to finish second in Cy Young voting and make an All-Star team, Calhoun this week was again demoted to the minors and get this . Not sure what team he thinks would desire the services of a career .241 hitter with as many strikeouts as hits (six) this season. Alexy showed promise in Texas rotation late last season going 3-1 with a 4.70 ERA, but he didnt make the opening-day roster. Davis, a shortstop now in the Angels' organ