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Wu-Tang Clan, Empire of the Sun and More to Play Breakaway Music Festival in Dallas

There's a new music festival coming to Dallas. Well, Frisco, technically: It wil held at FC Dallas Stadium. But there are plenty of reasons to make the trip for the inaugural Breakaway Music Festival. The lineup, which hasn't been finalized, includes Empire of the Sun, Wu-Tang Clan, Big Gigantic, Ju ... More >>

Brek Shea and the Making of an American Soccer Star*

*If there's even such a thing.

Garbage, Blue October and More Announced For April's Edge Fest

Garbage​Man, people are really excited about Edge Fest. The line-up for 102.1 The Edge's 22nd annual all-day fest began its steady trickle into the Internet today, with Evanescence, Garbage, Switchfoot, Blue October, Civil Twilight and Neon Trees already announced. They'll be releasing one ba ... More >>

Pizza Hut Pulls Its Slice Out of Pizza Hut Park

Via.​Speaking of local sports venues ...A Friend of Unfair Park sends this dispatch concerning FC Dallas's Pizza Hut Park in Frisco, which will no longer be called Pizza Hut Park. Leigh Anne Gullett, director of public relations for the MLS franchise, confirms: After North Dakota State and Sam Hou ... More >>

BREAKING NEWS: Dallas Has a Soccer Team, and It's Quite Decent on the Pitch

MLS SoccerFC Dallas scored in the 27th second against the Panamanianites.​Editor's note: Observer.com contributor Justin Bitner got drunk and admitted to being a soccer fan, so we made him attend Wednesday's FC Dallas match against Tauro FC of Panama, FCD's fifth game of CONCACAF Champions Lea ... More >>

"The FC Dallas Family is Shocked and Saddened By the Passing of Bobby Rhine."

Those words come from Clark Hunt, who, on the soccer club's website, pays homage to the 35-year-old Dallas Burn first-round draft pick who would become as synonymous as soccer in Dallas as Kyle Rote Jr. and Kenny Cooper, junior and senior. Bobby Rhine played for the Burn, then FC Dallas, from '99 ti ... More >>

The Hoops Get Real

Rousing Rematch

If You're Headed Downtown and Love the World Cup and Wanna Hang Out with the Mayor ...

Patrick Michels​... you might wanna swing by Dallas City Hall, where Mayor Tom and the Dallas World Cup Bid Committee and Hunt Sports Group chairman Clark Hunt and a few FC Dallas players (including goalkeeper Kevin Hartman, defender Ugo Ihemelu and forward Ruben Luna) and former Colombian Nationa ... More >>

FC Dallas is the latest proof that the metroplex can host everything without winning anything.

By George I Think He's Done It! Yep, He Definitely Did It.

Would you rather your football team - like the Dallas Cowboys - implode during a 1-7 start, fire its head coach and be done by Halloween? Or would you rather your football team - like FC Dallas - make it all the way to the Super Bowl only to dramatically lose in the 107th minute of play on an ... More >>

First the Texas Rangers. Now FC Dallas?!

Last month your Texas Rangers finally made it to baseball's World Series. Hasn't been quite as long of a wait, but FC Dallas is at last in soccer's MLS Cup. With a 3-0 victory over the Los Angeles Galaxy Sunday night, FC Dallas won Major League Soccer's Western Conference and earned a spot in Sunda ... More >>

Dallas' Other Teams are Playing Too. Who Knew?

For the last month we've all been - gladly, of course - buried up to here in the Texas Rangers. Don't look now, but the other sports in our city didn't shut down. Let's play some catch up, shall we? FC DALLAS - In the Major League Soccer's Western Conference semifinals, they have a 2-1 aggregate le ... More >>

David Beckham Plays Lingerie Football For Team No Pants Against FC Dallas

Via JezebelPants on Becks: now you see them. After the jump? Not so much.​A little part of me dies inside every time another Lingerie Football League slide show graces the virtual pages of our paper product, but I understand that the unabashed ogling of scantily clad women is now, more than ever, ... More >>

O, Canada... We're Waiting for You

Friendly Competition

Copa de Mundial: You Give a Rat's Ass?

​Yeah, it's the world's biggest sporting event. But we're not in the world, we're in Texas. Dallas, more precisely, where football is king, spring football is queen, basketball is a part-time curiousity, hockey is a memory, baseball is foreplay to more football and soccer is ... Stupid? ... More >>

Getting Shots On Galaxy

Bavarian Creamed: Kenny Cooper, FC Dallas Star and Jesuit Grad, Is Moving to Munich

Kenny Cooper​This just in from FC Dallas: Kenny Cooper is a Hoop no more. The star striker, who came to Dallas in February 2006 from Manchester United and who's on the US national team, is being shipped off to TSV 1860 München -- which sounds like a Bavarian television station, but, no, is in fac ... More >>

Brand X: Your Dallas Cowboys Are Set to "Swing It Around" With a Theme Song

Amazingly, we still have stashed on the server Polyphonic Spree's "H-O-O-P-S Yes!," the '07 "anthem" penned for FC Dallas -- what do you mean you don't remember? Then perhaps you recall a time when Your Dallas Mavericks were "Rowdy, Loud and Proud," courtesy PPT; and who can forget Pantera's catchy ... More >>

Kicking Off the Fourth

Note to Self: Find My Old Bobby Moffat Jersey

Sunday afternoon at Dallas Farmers Market, Brandon Pollard broke the bad news: I'd somehow managed to miss an old-timers kick-around at Pizza Hut Park the day before featuring the likes of Bobby Moffat, Chad Deering, Tatu and, of course, the Texas Honeybee Guild'er buzzing around Shed One. (Ticket t ... More >>

Against a Galaxy From Far Away...

Short Orders: Mattito's (Frisco)

Mattito's6129 W. Main St., Frisco214-872-3411There's one key difference between the original Dallas operation and its Frisco counterpart: location.And before you finish that "no shit, Sherlock" response, allow me to explain. In this case, location refers to mindset more than anything else. Mattito's ... More >>

Girl Drink Drunk: Pizza Hut Park

Last week, BFF Jen's birthday was nigh and her wish was to go to the FC Dallas season opener. Thus, a group of us converged upon Frisco's Pizza Hut Park. Based on past FC Dallas experiences, games meant not only sporting good times and learning to curse in Spanish, but also copious treats and alcoho ... More >>

Slip Ups On The Upswing?

Yesterday I waited 90 minutes for some Chinese restaurant to delivery a single order of General Tsao's chicken. When the driver finally showed up, cold food in hand, he offered one of those difficult to refute not-my-fault excuses: "we're really busy," he said. "And we only have two drivers."Think I ... More >>

Hoop It Up

See Cooper and FC Dallas take the field

FC Dallas Could Lose Its Most "Dallas" Player, Kenny Cooper

Lose to Beckham = Lose Your Gig

Sports Notes Almost as Long as An 11-Run Sixth Inning

Becks Comes Back

Can we play Hoops around the Galaxy?

H-O-O-P-S No!

On Your Mark … Get Set … Goal?

Hoop It Up

Cheer on FC Dallas in Frisco

Screw It Like Beckham

Some Things For Reading and Knowing

Miss It Like Beckham

Got Balls?

A Kick in the Head

The Score

Will the Hoops dominate the goal?

Ain't That a Kick in the Head

Goooooaaal!

Letters

Letters

FC's Footing

The Year of El Gato

FC Dallas' Mario Torres carries the hopes of Latino soccer fans. But is he the future--or just a cynical marketing ploy?

Remember the Bass-amo

Plus: Move Over, Kids

Can't Go Home Again

Plus: Busted; Inside Track

Hands Off

It's the Burn, baby, Burn

Burnt offering

When major-league Dallas soccer wanted to come to Hickory Creek, the folks there just weren't buying