Dallas All Sports Association Awards

Yeah, I've never heard of it either, but the DASA is *ahem* a philanthropic organization founded in 1965 by Dallas businessman Field Scovell whose love of sports was only exceeded by his love of the Dallas community [ DASA ]*cough*.

Anyway, the reason they are important is they honored [ DMN ] two of our boys last night: Mike Modano with the Emmitt Smith End Zone Award and coach Dave Tippett with the Tom Landry Award.  Modano won his award for, I believe, being an all around great player over the years.  Tippett's award, a bit more timely, was the Dallas Area Coach of the Year.  Of course, I can't find the descriptions for these anywhere, so I could be wrong.

Before presenting the award of his name-sake, Smith commented on Modano and was rather humorous:

"As far as hockey goes, he's the best," Smith said.

But where does Modano rank alongside Cowboys legends like Smith and Troy Aikman?

"It's hard to compare apples and oranges," Smith said. "They both taste good."

There ya go boys ... congrats!