Jonny Auping is in Dallas, Texas. His writing has focused on music and sports but has also covered art, politics, books, and dogs for publications including Texas Monthly, New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Dallas Morning News, New York Magazine and others.
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Less than one percent. That was the probability that the top two picks in the 2025 NBA Draft would belong to the Dallas Mavericks and the San Antonio Spurs. But that’s the way the draft lottery played out in May, and it earned the two franchises the opportunity to
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If you want to understand the casual celebrity of EZ Eddie D, sit with him on a porch. Preferably on a Saturday evening, and preferably at the busiest intersection of the Bishop Arts District in the rapidly gentrified Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas. Less than two minutes into my conversation
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There’s nothing earned about luck. But in professional sports, there is a type of luck that has long been honored as a route to relevance, success and, in some cases, dynastic dominance. These are the moments when basketball fans tune in to learn which team will be allowed to
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Bobby Sessions knows how to evoke a reaction. The man who wrote the chorus to Megan Thee Stallion and Beyoncé’s platinum hit, “Savage Remix,” introduced himself to the world under a tree with a noose around his neck. In the music video for his 2018 single, “Like Me,” his