Subject: Professional Hockey

• Puck Me

  February 12, 2007

• Hokey Hockey

  January 12, 2007

• Rock Out With Your Hitchcock Out

  December 22, 2006

• Schwarzenegger: I'll Be Greenback

  May 26, 2006

• Woe, Canada

  April 24, 2007

• Brain Freeze

  June 22, 2007

• On Thin Ice

  September 6, 2007

• You Like to Watch?

  November 1, 2007

• Douchebags in the Follow-Up Blog Item

  December 6, 2007

• Star Struck

  February 27, 2008

• The Hot Top on Prince Edward Island

  March 5, 2008

• Lock It Down? Or Wrappin' It Up?

  April 10, 2008

• Monday Morning Meanderings

  April 14, 2008

• Duckin'-A!

  April 21, 2008

• Willa She Blog for Us After Hockey Season's Over? Pretty Please?

  April 25, 2008

• Sharks-Stars Game 5 Just Has To End in OT, Eh?

  May 2, 2008

• Stars-Wings Drop Puck in 10 Hours. All Aboard!

  May 8, 2008

• Hockeytown 2, Cockytown 0

  May 12, 2008

• Sunday School – Handing Out Grades To Our Weekend Wrap-Up Shows

  May 12, 2008

• Red Wings 50, Stars 2

  May 13, 2008

• Premature Evacuation

  May 15, 2008

• Game 6 = Necessary

  May 19, 2008

• Stars Struck

  May 20, 2008

• Jeez, Who Wasn't Invited to the Joule Grand Opening Shindig Friday Night?

  September 30, 2008

• Three Dots and a Cloud of Dust ...

     *If you've noticed some quirky fonts or crooked pictures this week it's because Sportatorium is taking a fancy schmancy new software program for a test drive. Cool thing for you customers is that if you see a pic you'd like to see even bigger - like, I dunno, maybe the one just to the left that gives OU girls equal time - all you do is click on it. Presto. Magnification! ...   *You know Dirk Nowitzki was named NBA Player of the Week. What you didn't know is that he's won t

  November 25, 2008

• Sean Avery Apologizes!

  This just in from Sean Avery, via his L.A.-based publicist, concerning the comments that got him indefinitely banned, at least till his meeting with National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman tomorrow:"I would like to sincerely apologize for my off-color remarks to the press yesterday from Calgary. I should not have made those comments and I recognize that they were inappropriate. It was a bad attempt to build excitement for the game, but I am now acutely aware of how hurtful my actio

  December 3, 2008

• Mavs or Stars: Who Has a Better Chance of Making Noise?

  These guys used to battle for a spot in the NBA Finals. Now? Just the 8th seed.The Dallas Mavericks can clinch a playoff spot tonight. Plain and simple. Leading the Suns by a full four games in the race for 8th in the NBA's Western Conference, if the Mavs win in Phoenix tonight they'll own a considerable - insurmountable? - gap heading into the season's final 18 games. Of course, it won't be easy. Nothing this season - for the Mavs or your Dallas Stars - has been easy. The Stars are curre

  March 10, 2009

• All Aboard

  February 19, 2009

• Peachy Puckers

  January 22, 2009

• Hockey Mouths

  December 25, 2008

• Detroit's Skill Gives Hockey Lesson to Dallas Stars' Will

  May 15, 2008

• Dallas Stars Finally Align

  Yep, and just when you thought we'd never again witness hockey in May.

  April 17, 2008

• The Dallas Stars Are Ready to Win Us Back

  The hockey team is fueled by the good ol' days

  February 21, 2008

• Duck Duck Lose

  January 17, 2008

• Frozen Assets

  Once the darlings of Dallas, the Stars and their sport are mired in obscurity

  February 1, 2007

• Red Light Special

  October 5, 2006

• Shooting Stars

  October 26, 2006

• Howlin' at the Stars

  January 4, 2007

• Reading For Saves

  August 17, 2006

• Oscar Oversight

  Never fear, we won't let the Academy Awards ignore sports

  March 1, 2007

• eBay, Schmebay -- Look What the City's Sellin'

  Apparently, somebody at Dallas City Hall is cleaning out the prize closet to make a few extra dollars during the budget crunch.Every so often, just for grins, I check out the auctions at Lone Star Online, which the city of Dallas, Dallas Area Rapid Transit, the Dallas Independent School District and other municipalities use to move surplus merch. Only, turns out the city of Dallas isn't offloading flat-tire forklifts or Reunion Arena seats this go-round; quite the opposite. Matter of fact, in th

  June 22, 2009

• "Look at Dallas Through the Eyes of Children Who Morph into Local Celebrities."

  The Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau just sent word that locally based Terry McCullough Productions, Inc. scooped up a few Tellys at the annual awards shindig honoring commercial-makers. Among TMP's first-place prize-winners was a four-minute "travel and tourism" entry commissioned by the DC&VB titled "When I'm Big." It sounds amazing:Description: The film takes a look at Dallas through the eyes of children who morph into local celebrities. The celebrities included Dallas Mayor Tom Le

  July 7, 2009

• (Free!) Gig Alert: DOMAXXI Awards Show! (Now With Presenters! And, As Always, Free!)

  Ha! Like you didn't already know.Alas, I'll tell you anyway: Tonight, we make the Big Reveals and announce the winners to your 2009 Dallas Observer Music Awards, bringing yet another wildly success awards season to a close. Fun fact: More than 1,700 people stopped through the six venues we ran for Saturdays' DOMA Showcase! Thanks to all who performed and all who atteneded. It was a blast!Anyway, back to tonight's event: In case you didn't get the memo: Tonight's event at the Granada Theater is

  July 21, 2009

• Hash Over: Comfort Food On The Second Floor, $3 Maredsous 8 Drafts, Farmers Market Is In The Bag And More

  Meredith L. MooreSecond Floor executive chef J. Chastain​The comfort food trend strikes again. Chefs Scott Gottlich and J Chastain have updated the menu at The Second Floor to focus more on contemporary comfort food along with its signature bistro items. But this being the place that claims to have the largest Scotch selection in Dallas, they needed to dress up Mom's staples. So, for example, shrimp and grits becomes Prawns and Grits; pimiento cheese becomes a spread of French Cantalet, piquil

  August 31, 2009

• Whitt's End: 9.4.09

  ​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *93.3 FM - the station formerly known as The Zone, The Bone, Quality Rock and who knows what all else - has for the last day or so been "stunting." That is, playing nonsense in advance of flipping formats. My station - 105.3 - played college fight songs ahead of changing from Live to The Fan back in December. Today at Noon we'll find out what's in store for 93.3. Maybe a simple switch to s

  September 4, 2009

• This Just In: Hockey is - Surprisingly - Still Alive

  Nothing says hockey like ... hotties?​Coulda swore the National Hockey League never returned from its 2005 lockout. No, wait, don't I sorta remember a hip little hiccup back in 2008? Honestly, they tell me there will be a Dallas Stars game down at American Airlines Center tonight. Marc Crawford is the new coach. Brenden Morrow is the old captain. Mike Modano is still hanging around. And Sean Avery long ago left. What gets us excited about hockey in September? Two words ...

  September 16, 2009

• Stars-Gazing: My Top 10 Hockey Observations

  ​10. Went to Bruins 3, Stars 0 Friday night. First hockey game this season. Dallas didn't look good, but the experience wasn't half-bad. 9. If you haven't been to American Airlines Center in a while, prepare to be dazzled. The four-sided HD video screens on the over-hanging scoreboard are fabulous. There are also two new video boards at each end of the joint. The things were in place when I went to the UFC event last month, but they're even more spectacular for a real sport. 8.

  October 19, 2009

• Dallas! [Bum-Bum] Stars!

  October 22, 2009

• Scenes from Yesterday's Glorious Veterans Day Parade Through Downtown Dallas

  Photos by Patrick MichelsCheck out our slide show for more photos from the parade.​Jesse Luna, a welder whose father Miguel served in World War II and Korea, has wanted to stand along the parade route and wave for veterans like his dad, but could never get away from work on weekday mornings. Now that he's out of work, he said told Unfair Park it occurred to him that Tuesday morning would finally be his chance. He rounded up his brother, Miguel Jr., and a large American flag, and took a spot al

  November 12, 2009

• R.I.P, Reunion Arena: My Eulogy (Extended Remix Version).

  I officially grew old yesterday afternoon. Once you've seen the rise and fall of a sports stadium, you've officially, um, been around the block. I remember a kinder, gentler era in Dallas when as a little punk I'd peer out the family Fury along I-35 and gaze in wonderment at The Sportatorium, P.C. Cobb Stadium and a futuristic construction site dedicated to a dazzling new structure to be called Reunion Arena. The Sportatorium is a vacant, dreary lot. Cobb is the InfoMart. And, after

  November 18, 2009