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December 22, 2011
Former Rangers Prez Mike Stone Talks About Helping to Save the Fort Worth Cats
You can buy this 1953 Cats-Oilers game program for a mere $38.Longtime Friends of Unfair Park will recall: In early 2009, United League Baseball co-founders John Bryant (yes, that John Bryant) and Byron Pierce said that come time for first pitch 2010, they would have a minor-league ballclub on th ... More >>
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December 21, 2011
Yet Again, The Question Is Asked: Is This the End of Fort Worth Cats' LaGrave Field?
Speaking of the Texas League, or, at least, teams once affiliated with the mighty Texas League ...The Star-Telegram notes today that come January 3, LaGrave Field and the land around the Fort Worth Cats' ballpark -- valuable land too, as it sits between downtown and the Fort Worth Stockyards -- w ... More >>
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June 30, 2011
Why We Love Sports in America: 2011
Since I'm out on vacation next week let me get to this Fourth of July tradition a little early: Happy Birthday, America. Our country turns the ripe old age of 235 on Monday. Between burgers and beers and bikinis, I'll make time this weekend remembering how friggin' fortunate we are to have a ... More >>
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May 18, 2011
Pittsburgh Label Reissues Early Releases From Legendary '70s Dallas Punks The Nervebreakers
David "Nicke Blitz" MitchellTruly one of the seminal bands in Dallas history, The Nervebreakers' heyday came way back in 1977 when the band got the chance to open up for a Dallas date with Ramones. Then, in 1978, they did the same for the Sex Pistols -- and even got a mention in Rolling Stone in ... More >>
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March 28, 2011
Kincaid's Rescues Cats Fans From Diet of Peanuts and Cracker Jack
Kincaid's Hamburgers, a Fort Worth institution that perennially appears on lists of the nation's best hamburger joints, is planning to reopen its concession at LaGrave Field during this year's minor league baseball season. Kincaid's sold its burgers at Fort Worth Cats games from 2005-2008, b ... More >>
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March 25, 2011
Good Friday: True Widow Album Release, Descender, Destroyer, DEVO, Arlo Guthrie, Salt-N-Pepa, Murs, Nervebreakers, REO Speedwagon, Dashboard Confessional & More!
True WidowThis weekend is a pretty big one -- if anything because of the True Widow show at Double Wide on Saturday night. That's right, they'll be celebrating the release of their sophomore album As High As The Highest Heavens and From The Center To The Circumference Of The Earth. Get there earl ... More >>
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July 5, 2010
Why We Love Sports in America
Happy Birthday, America. Like tonight's July 5th fireworks show in Dallas, it's better late than never. Right? Our country turned the ripe old age of 234 on Sunday. Between burgers and beers and bikinis, I tried to spend some time remembering how friggin' fortunate we are to ha ... More >>
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June 24, 2010
Cat Fight
Happy Birthday, America. Like tonight's July 5th fireworks show in Dallas, it's better late than never. Right? Our country turned the ripe old age of 234 on Sunday. Between burgers and beers and bikinis, I tried to spend some time remembering how friggin' fortunate we are to ha ... More >>
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March 16, 2010
Healthy Local Runner Drops Dead at 32. Um, Time to take Physical Inventory?
Mark Austry was healthy. Not an obsessed fitness nut, but healthy. Played baseball at Texas Tech and with the Fort Worth Cats. Was a superb golfer. And, when he found time from being a devoted family man to wife and two kids, he got out and ran. Sunday he dropped dead. At age 32. Literally s ... More >>
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January 22, 2010
A Poignant Farewell to Bobby Bragan
Bobby Bragan, during his brief tenure as Pittsburgh Pirates manager in the mid-1950sAnyone who loves baseball 'round these parts knows the name Bobby Bragan -- his association with the Fort Worth Cats alone (in the late '40s and early '50s, then again in '05) was enough to make him legend, not to ... More >>
Blogs
June 1, 2009
Who Wants Free Baseball?!
Two words sure to get the month off to a yip-uh-dee-doo-dah start: Free. Tickets. I have in my slimy lil' hands four (4) tickets to any Grand Prairie AirHogs game this week. They host the hated Fort Worth Cats Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and, if I'm not mistaken, Saturday is Fireworks ni ... More >>
Blogs
May 7, 2009
After Years of Trying to Bring Minor-League Ball to Dallas, Confidence ... and Property
Courtesy Reunion Sports GroupAll things go according to plan, and there just may be baseball on the shores of the Trinity River next summer.A couple of weeks back we learned that United League Baseball would be setting up shop on the shores of the Trinity River, in the very same 60-acre spot where I ... More >>
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April 10, 2009
Echoes and Reverberations: "Snapshots From The Spectacle of Sickness"
The original Nervebreakers lineup.Defining moment: For a suburban teenage kid from North Dallas in 1977, a delirious new underground movement called punk rock inspired a profound and urgent departure from the regular routine of cruising Forest Lane or hanging out at the Gemini Drive-In movie theate ... More >>
News
August 21, 2008
Pitch Perfect
The Grand Prairie AirHogs are willing to do whatever it takes to make you a fan. And that includes win.
Blogs
July 3, 2008
God Bless America. And Sports.
The Grand Prairie AirHogs are willing to do whatever it takes to make you a fan. And that includes win.
Music
June 28, 2007
Wild 'n' Out
The latest on summer fests, a CD release and a Party party
Calendar
July 27, 2006
Flying Feathers
The latest on summer fests, a CD release and a Party party
Blogs
May 9, 2006
Small Ball, Big Balls
The latest on summer fests, a CD release and a Party party
Calendar
November 13, 2003
This Week's Day-By-Day Picks
The latest on summer fests, a CD release and a Party party
News
July 5, 2001
Letters
Just Plain Mean, Blaming the Music, Field of Dreams
Culture
July 22, 1999
Born again
The Texas-Louisiana league claims it's about to resurrect the Fort Worth Cats
Culture
July 8, 1999
The Goal Line
If Blackie Sherrod's just another writer, then Wilt Chamberlain was just another center
News
June 25, 1998
The good fight
Thirty years ago, Curtis Cokes was the world-champion welterweight. Now, he trains young boxers and just wants to be recognized in his hometown.
News
May 21, 1998
A bush league of their own
Long before the Texas Rangers, major-league baseball was played in Dallas by a minor-league team called the Dallas Eagles
Music
May 16, 1996
Out with the new wave
VVV Records closes its doors after 17 years
Music
July 6, 1995
Mekons, you Rhett
A rock great lends his support to the Old 97's

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