Fish On The Mavericks And Dallas Sports  

To answer your first question. ... yes, we look as handsome and sexy as we sound. ...
DallasBasketball.com was launched in 2000 by veteran sports journalist Mike “The Fish’’ Fisher, both because Fish and new Mavs owner Mark Cuban thought the team was grossly under-covered and because Mike had some. …um, extra time on his hands. (He left his job as a columnist at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram to focus on his rather popular "Fish For Lunch'' daily noon-to-3 radio show on 570 KLIF. … only to have KLIF’s parent company decide it didn’t want to do sports anymore, thus “not renewing his contract.’’ OK, fine. Fired. Do you feel better about yourself now?)

Whatever it was that made "Fish For Lunch'' successful then. ... we will try to replicate now on "Fish On The Mavs'' on BlogTalkRadio. And much of it will of course be based on the success of DallasBasketball.com.

Between DallasBasketball.com’s home page  and DB.com Boards, the website serves almost three million readers a year. Its unique brand of real sports journalism (with inside access and original content, not just regurgitated linkage) and barroom-argument attitude and humor (without the hangovers) has made it a must-read for fans of the Mavs, of sports, and of life as we know it.

DallasBasketball.com and Mike Fisher have appeared, been linked to or mentioned. … well, everywhere. From ESPN to Sports Illustrated to FOX to Yahoo to Deadspin to D Magazine to the Dallas Morning News to the Wall Street Journal to SLAM magazine to The New York Times to People magazine, DB.com’s fingerprints are pretty much everywhere. Mike Fisher really is featured in a number of NFL Films productions relating to the Super Bowl Cowboys and is rumored to have starred alongside Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox in “Transformers.’’

In recent years, Alexa.com an similar sites have ranked DallasBasketball.com in the top 80,000 most popular websites in the world (and that’s not even counting the traffic on DB.com Boards). DB.com is included on dozens of “Best of the Web’’ honor rolls and is officially recognized by the Dallas Mavericks organization as “an information destination and a news outlet’’ (as opposed to, we suppose, “just a blog.’’) Fisher – though he does have assorted personal and business relationships with a number of DFW sports figures – is the owner and proprietor of DB.com and of "Fish On The Mavs.'' He’s fully responsible, except for the typos on DB.com and the burps on BlogTalkRadio.

Fish is a frequent contributor to ESPN Radio,  NBC5 TV in Dallas and FoxSportsSouthwest. He also writes for The Sports Page, Scout.com, DallasBlog.com and other publications and is the author of two regional best-selling books (“Stars & Strife’’ and “The Boys Are Back’’), has received numerous awards in the field of sports journalism. He’s won dozens of writing awards (AP Story of the Year, Best of Gannett), in 1995 was named DFW Radio Newcomer of the Year and in 1997 was named DFW Radio Personality of the Year.

Fisher and DB.com have been praised by everyone from Jerry Jones to Will Leitch to Dale Hansen to Henry Abbott to Dirk Nowitzki. That’s largely due to the strength of The 75-Member Staff, led by columnist David Lord -- and over the years including journalistic contributions from folks like Mark Cuban, Bob Ortegel, Mark Followill, Eduardo Najera, Derek Harper, Chuck Cooperstein, Ben and Skin, Jason Terry, Tim McDarby, Newy Scruggs, Larry Legend, Norm Hitzges, Stereolith, Mike Modano, Techsan, Dave Tamilow, Michael Irvin, Donnie Nelson and others.

Mike Fisher is raising two teenage boys, loves his Mavs and his Vikings and his skim milk, is probably going to go back to church real soon and harbors an intense distaste for Kobe Bryant, Skip Bayless and Brett Favre. He'll focus on the Mavs here, but exxuse us if we occasionally veer off into football, movies and child-rearing. He writes best while lying down, watching endless “Family Guy’’ episodes and eating M&Ms. You will find Fish to be 20 pounds too fat, 20 years too old and 20 IQ points too few.

To contact us: info@dallasbasketball.com

God bless, and thanks for reading and listening to "Fish On The Mavs.''