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  • Blogs

    January 13, 2012

    No, WrestleMania Is Not Coming to Cowboys Stadium (At Least, Not In the Next Two Years)

    ​This morning a few Friends of Unfair Park asked: Is WrestleMania really coming to Cowboys Stadium? Um ... I dunno? Kinda looked like it, maybe: Several popular wrestling websites, including this one, keep saying that WWE's signature event, which is closing in on its 30th anniversary, is scheduled ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 20, 2011

    When Palates Collide

    ​This morning a few Friends of Unfair Park asked: Is WrestleMania really coming to Cowboys Stadium? Um ... I dunno? Kinda looked like it, maybe: Several popular wrestling websites, including this one, keep saying that WWE's signature event, which is closing in on its 30th anniversary, is scheduled ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2011

    Mourning The Macho Man: Did You Know That Randy Savage Was Also A Rapper?

    The Macho Man​The world was saddened today to learn of the death of legendary professional wrestler "Macho Man" Randy Savage. Many of us remember Savage as one of the bastions of the golden age of professional wrestling. But we bet you don't remember his short-lived career as a recording artist: M ... More >>

  • Music

    March 17, 2011

    Bro Fest Offers Its Strongest Bill To Date

    The Macho Man​The world was saddened today to learn of the death of legendary professional wrestler "Macho Man" Randy Savage. Many of us remember Savage as one of the bastions of the golden age of professional wrestling. But we bet you don't remember his short-lived career as a recording artist: M ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 3, 2011

    Raw Brings the Rasslin'

    The Macho Man​The world was saddened today to learn of the death of legendary professional wrestler "Macho Man" Randy Savage. Many of us remember Savage as one of the bastions of the golden age of professional wrestling. But we bet you don't remember his short-lived career as a recording artist: M ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2011

    Reason No. 1,364 Why Tom Leppert's U.S. Senate Announcement is Imminent

    The pic from McCoy's twitter account, which recently retweeted Leppert's thoughts about DOMA.​Tom Leppert has hired Shawn McCoy, the deputy communications director for the 2010 U.S. Senate campaign of Linda McMahon, whose website was designed by the same folks who are behind Leppert's. While i ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 17, 2011

    Room of Vroom

    The pic from McCoy's twitter account, which recently retweeted Leppert's thoughts about DOMA.​Tom Leppert has hired Shawn McCoy, the deputy communications director for the 2010 U.S. Senate campaign of Linda McMahon, whose website was designed by the same folks who are behind Leppert's. While i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2011

    Hey Look, The Sportatorium Does Cover Pro Rasslin'!

    Snowing like a mother -- yes, again -- as I leave the warm confines of Collin County for Dallas. Tried to be in a grumpy mood this morning, but this video made me giggle. For those of you who are clamoring for Michael Young trade news, only thing new is that the Colorado Rockies have lost interest ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2010

    Tre Wilcox Gets the Iron Chef-Style SmackDown at Le Cordon Bleu: For a Good Cause!

    Stephen MaskerTre Wilcox of Loft 610​There was no back-flipping chairman or electric-green squeeze bottle of Bobby Flay's signature sauce, but Iron Chef (or Bravo's Top Chef) food nerds got their fix of food competition with Chef SmackDown at the Le Cordon Bleu College for Culinary Arts on Sun ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 27, 2010

    Who's Down for a Figure-Four?

    Stephen MaskerTre Wilcox of Loft 610​There was no back-flipping chairman or electric-green squeeze bottle of Bobby Flay's signature sauce, but Iron Chef (or Bravo's Top Chef) food nerds got their fix of food competition with Chef SmackDown at the Le Cordon Bleu College for Culinary Arts on Sun ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 13, 2010

    Original Sin

    Stephen MaskerTre Wilcox of Loft 610​There was no back-flipping chairman or electric-green squeeze bottle of Bobby Flay's signature sauce, but Iron Chef (or Bravo's Top Chef) food nerds got their fix of food competition with Chef SmackDown at the Le Cordon Bleu College for Culinary Arts on Sun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2010

    Free Reign Wins Revolver Magazine's Golden Gods Award For Most Metal Athletes

    Free Reign​Congratulations are in order (I guess) for Dallas Cowboy linemen Marc Colombo, Cory Proctor and Leonard Davis. When not working in the so-called trenches, those three make up three-fourths of area metal outfit Free Reign (guitarist Justin Chapman's just some dude, really). And, last nig ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2010

    Q&A: Ebbot Lundberg of The Soundtrack of Our Lives Talks Obama, Grammy Nominations, Wrestling and The Difference Between Swedes and Americans

    Ebbot Lundberg, the rotund and intense front man for Sweden's The Soundtrack to Our Lives, had just landed in D.C. a couple of hours before giving me a few minutes of his time. Perhaps suffering from a bit of jet lag, but Lundberg sounded like a guy happy to be on the ground. His band is currently t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2009

    The Dallas Mavericks Have Lost Two in a Row and Mark Cuban is Fightin' Mad!

    Actually, it's not confounding defeats to the Memphis Grizzlies and Atlanta Hawks that has Cuban peeved, but more so tonight's American Airlines Center invasion by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). (This is, after all, a blog named after an old rasslin' barn.) Cuban, never one to turn ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 16, 2009

    Ru-Fi-No! Ru-Fi-No!

    Actually, it's not confounding defeats to the Memphis Grizzlies and Atlanta Hawks that has Cuban peeved, but more so tonight's American Airlines Center invasion by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). (This is, after all, a blog named after an old rasslin' barn.) Cuban, never one to turn ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2009

    The Von Erichs Final Resting Place: A Wrestling Hall of Fame?

    After all, this is The Sportatorium. Right? I grew up watching Saturday Night Wrestling on Channel 11. While the adults played Canasta the kids were banished to the TV room, where we couldn't wait for Bill Mercer on the black-and-white Zenith. I remember Blackjack Mulligan and Frtiz Von Erich a ... More >>

  • Music

    March 5, 2009

    Damaged Good$ Arrives Just in Time to Right the Ship of Dallas Hip-Hop

    After all, this is The Sportatorium. Right? I grew up watching Saturday Night Wrestling on Channel 11. While the adults played Canasta the kids were banished to the TV room, where we couldn't wait for Bill Mercer on the black-and-white Zenith. I remember Blackjack Mulligan and Frtiz Von Erich a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2009

    The Von Ehrics Get Inducted Into Hall of Fame, Release Free MP3

    Ah, but one has nothing to do with the other.Hot on the heels of the announcement that the legendary Dallas-based pro wrestling family, the Von Ehrics, will be inducted into the WWE's Hall of Fame this year comes word that the Dallas-based cow-punk band of the same name has a new album coming out o ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 7, 2008

    Cute As A Bunny

    Ah, but one has nothing to do with the other.Hot on the heels of the announcement that the legendary Dallas-based pro wrestling family, the Von Ehrics, will be inducted into the WWE's Hall of Fame this year comes word that the Dallas-based cow-punk band of the same name has a new album coming out o ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 26, 2008

    Slammin' Night

    Ah, but one has nothing to do with the other.Hot on the heels of the announcement that the legendary Dallas-based pro wrestling family, the Von Ehrics, will be inducted into the WWE's Hall of Fame this year comes word that the Dallas-based cow-punk band of the same name has a new album coming out o ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 10, 2008

    House of Wrasslin'

    Victory Park gets slammed

  • Home Entertainment

    December 27, 2007
  • Blogs

    October 10, 2007
  • Film

    April 26, 2007

    Austin's Powers

    Stone Cold is hot, but The Condemned's hypocrisy is not

  • Calendar

    January 25, 2007

    A Flair for Raw

    Stone Cold is hot, but The Condemned's hypocrisy is not

  • Home Entertainment

    December 28, 2006

    Our top DVD picks for the week of December 26

    Stone Cold is hot, but The Condemned's hypocrisy is not

  • Calendar

    September 14, 2006

    Tool Time

    Stone Cold is hot, but The Condemned's hypocrisy is not

  • Calendar

    July 13, 2006

    The Harder They Fall

    The WWE comes to the AAC

  • Calendar

    March 9, 2006

    Rock On

    The WWE comes to the AAC

  • Film

    December 22, 2005

    Fellowship of The Ringer

    Johnny Knoxville's still an ass, but his co-stars are something special

  • News

    May 12, 2005

    In the Blood

    Pottery-selling Satan worshipers and chino salesmen meet for fun and pain in the world of Denton's extreme wrestling

  • Calendar

    September 2, 2004

    RAW Deal

    A death match and a dance-off

  • Calendar

    April 1, 2004

    In the Ring

    Smackdown offers a Wrestlemania souvenir

  • News

    December 11, 2003

    Head Cases

    The Eagles--and their fans--know when insanity is a good thing

  • News

    November 27, 2003

    Thanks for Nothing

    The return of Gonzilla, and other literary concerns

  • Calendar

    November 13, 2003

    Tough Glove

    Ayala tries for Comeback King

  • Calendar

    June 12, 2003

    Men in Tights

    We love a good suplex

  • Calendar

    March 13, 2003

    Beer Run

    The only nuts here are at the bars

  • Music

    August 22, 2002

    Remembering Dave

    Drowning Pool loses a singer, Dallas loses a star

  • Culture

    February 1, 2001

    Hail to the GM

    The Cowboys never called, so Drew Pearson lives out his front-office dream in the XFL

  • Music

    August 5, 1999

    No Limit Tour

    Starplex Amphitheatre, August 6

  • Calendar

    January 21, 1999

    Night & Day

    January 21 - 27, 1999

  • Calendar

    July 9, 1998

    Pulling punches

    January 21 - 27, 1999

  • Calendar

    March 12, 1998

    Events for the week

    January 21 - 27, 1999

  • News

    November 20, 1997

    Wrestling With Tragedy

    As the sole survivor of his family's ring dynasty, Kevin Von Erich struggles to keep a painful past alive.

  • News

    November 6, 1997

    Whupass U.

    Probing the mysteries of the monkey flip, the clothesline, and the pile driver at Black Bart's pro-fesh-nul wrestling academy

  • News

    January 25, 1996

    Just don't bite

    In the Ultimate Fighting Championship, the biggest rule is survival of the fiercest

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