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Mark Cuban and SMU Are Teaming Up for an Important Scientific Study of NBA Flopping

Taking a charge in basketball is an art, and it has been for a long time. A not-insignificant portion of high school basketball practices -- at least as of a decade ago -- are dedicated to training players on coming to an abrupt stop, setting one's feet just so, and falling as if they've been clothe ... More >>

The Eight Worst NBA/Music Crossovers

Listen, we know most of you aren't paying attention to the NBA finals like you were last year, but for those of who are (some out of Heat Hate, some out of love for the game), we've been treated to some rather abysmal NBA promos featuring Linkin Park's shitty, shitty music. This is nothing new, as ... More >>

Mark Cuban Wants to Adios the NBA's Salary Cap? Apparently. Quite the "Game Changer."

Photo by Sam Merten​This morning's New York Times looks at the NBA lockout and wonders whether all the owners -- those from small markets, those with big payrolls, those losing money, those winning titles -- are on the same page when it comes to demanding givebacks from their players. Long story s ... More >>

The Mavericks Finally Fought Back, and They Have the Title to Prove It

Mark Cuban, Dirk Nowitzki and the Mavs shed labels and the Miami Heat on the way to their first NBA championship.

Don't Look Now, But Mavericks Owner Mark Cuban Won a Championship the Right Way

​Mark Cuban was fuming. His team had just blown a 23-point lead in a Game 4 loss to Portland in the first round of the NBA playoffs. The Mavericks were two losses from another early-round exit, the likely firing of head coach Rick Carlisle and yet another in a seemingly endless re-shuffling of ... More >>

If Ron Kirk Were NBA Commissioner ...

​At this very moment, President Obama's chief of staff, William Daley, is looking for someone to replace Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, who Obama tapped on March 9 to become the next ambassador to China. An afternoon Wall Street Journal item reminds: "Ron Kirk, the U.S. trade representative, is wi ... More >>

NBA All-Star Starters Announced Tonight. Yao = In? Dirk = Out?

​This is the price we pay for David Stern's mission to make the NBA a global game. Because, after further review, yes, a million Chinese can be wrong. When the NBA announces its 2011 All-Star Game starters during tonight's double-header on TNT, the Western Conference's center will be ... Yao ... More >>

A Retreat From the Screech of Dissonant Days, or: My Rabbi Says To Knock Off the Blogging

Rabbi David Stern​Ran into my rabbi last Sunday -- David Stern, head man at Temple Emanu-El of Dallas, very hip and very influential so I hear -- and asked him: "You mind sending me your Kol Nidre sermon? I'd like to post to Unfair Park." He grinned and said sure -- grinned, I'm sure, because it w ... More >>

Fab 50: Half A Hundred Power Brokers Who Shape Our Local Sports Scene.

Cuban Gone Wild

​Finally got around to watching HDNet's Girls Gone Wild: Search for the Hottest Girl in America last night. In a word: HolyHellWowzaI'mHooked. Couple of people have told me HDNet is struggling, that's why proprietor and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is desperately partnering with GGW fo ... More >>

NBA Dunkers Do Dallas In One Wild, Wintry Wonderful All-Star Weekend

Dirk Nowitzki Highlights Invitation-Only Opening of NBA All-Star Jam Session, Which GM Donnie Nelson Calls "Basketball Heaven"

Photos by Sam MertenReal Nowitzki with Bobblehead Nowitzki, which features a "freggin' huge" head.​While the Mavs haven't given folks a whole lot to get excited about lately with five losses in the team's final seven games heading into Sunday's All-Star Game (capped off by Tuesday night's 36-p ... More >>

"Jerry's Never Seen a One-Dollar Bill In His Life!" and Other News and Random Notes

​One of the two parking-garage exits here at Unfair Park HQ's frozen over; explains why the office is now holiday empty. But before I quit it, a few items of interest to keep you warm:USA Today profiles NBA All-Star Weekend co-host Mark Cuban, who's, like, mellowed in recent years; hence his burge ... More >>

It's time for the Dallas Observer’s annual list of the 50 Most Powerful People in Metroplex Sports. Cool.

The Mavericks' French Misconnection Marks More of the Same on Draft Day

The French Disconnection

Though I'm always skeptical when a head coach drafts a player 24th overall and then contends he "pin-pointed" the kid all along - see: Jimmy Johnson on 7th-rounder Leon Lett, circa 1991 - I'm willing to forge into the Rodrigue Beaubois Era with an open mind. Well, I lied. I won't sit well with ... More >>

Rabbis Give Texas State Board of Education the Hebrew Hammer

The Texas State Board of Education's meeting in Austin about, among other things, whether the board ought to revise the state’s science curriculum to allow for, ya know, the teaching of creationism alongside evolution. Which is why three rabbis, two from 'round these parts and one of whom hail ... More >>

Overhauled and Underrated, the Mavericks Are Priced to Sell

Suddenly, Jerry Jones is the Most Popular Guy in Sports.

Sad, Stale Leftovers From Rockets 112, Mavs 102

Do You Think Tom Hicks Feels Just a Little Left Out?

What a Drag

Not long ago a rising All-Star, Josh Howard is suddenly regressing professionally and personally

The Fab 50

Half a hundred power brokers who sculpt our local sports landscape

Slammin' Night

C'mon, No "Told Ya So"?

The Fab Fifty

Or, half a hundred folks with way better seats than you

Bitter. Sweet.

Mavs In Seven … Mavs In Seven … Echo … Echo …

Definitely Dallas

The Mavs will win the championship. Right?

Jerry Jones Builds Giant Shell for TV Set

I Love Josh Howard

...And great basketball

Afterthought All-Star

Premature Evacuation

Caution: Knee jerks hopping off Mavs' bandwagon

Stern Warning

Merry Christmas!

On the Rebound

Mavs dragging old heartache into new season

On Your Mark

Win or lose, Reunion Rowdies are now officially Cuban Crazies

Free Tickets! Don't Thank Us.

Game 1's Tonight. Uh, Don't Forget.

Sports News You Can Use or Peruse or, Even, Abuse

Like Father, Like Son

Heaven Help Us

When watching sports, is God a passive observer or a meddler?

Bah Hum-Buzz

Buzz gets his jollies keeping tabs on 2005's naughty and nice guys. OK, mostly naughty.

The Defense Rests

Can the Mavs guard anyone? To find out, John Gonzalez gets offensive with a drunk Don, a focused Finley and a nutty Cuban.

When Online Got Off Base

Or: How Mark Cuban would have--and could have?--saved the music biz

Buzz

Stinking thinking

Free throwing up

Locked out and fed up, some NBA, uh, all-stars hoop it way down

Out There

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