
The Dallas Morning News
The Dallas Morning News is a major daily newspaper serving the Dallas, Texas area, with over 400,000 daily subscribers. It was founded on October 1, 1885, by Alfred Horatio Belo as a satellite publication of the Galveston Daily News, of Galveston, Texas. Today it has one of the 20 largest paid circulations in the United States. Throughout the 1990s and as recently as 2010, the paper has won numerous Pulitzer Prizes for reporting and photography, George Polk Awards for education reporting and regional reporting, and an Overseas Press Club award for photography. The company has its headquarters in Downtown Dallas.
The Dallas Mavericks are set to tip off their second-round series against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday night. This will be the fourth time the franchises have faced off in the postseason since the Thunder left Seattle for OKC. And while fans may recall the Thunder being on the list of teams the Mavs overcame on the way to the 2011 NBA title, Oklahoma City has actually won eight of the last nine playoff games it has played against Dallas. Dirk Nowitzki was a part of every previous matchup,...