About this time one week ago today, we received what I thought had to be The Last Word from Tom Hicks. Not so much: Moments ago yet another tear-stained adios arrived in the Unfair Park in-box, as Hicks chimes in to commemorate the for-real end of his 12-year tenure as…
At the close of business today, Blockbuster was supposed to release its second-quarter financials. It did not. And, till moments ago, it was impossible to get anyone from the company on the phone to explain why it failed to release the figures — which has prompted widespread speculation that bankruptcy…
The headline — and the freshly baked press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office that follows — says it all. U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle sentenced high-tone realtor John Nicholas Sheets — married to one Eleanor Mowery Sheets, who copped to four counts of tax evasion but one month…
Nolan Ryan says it’s still “hard to comprehend” that the torturous journey to taking control of the Texas Rangers is over.”It dominated our lives so much, and there were so many twists and turns during the process,” Ryan said moments ago during a conference call announcing the completion of the…
In a few minutes I’ll be hopping on a conference call with Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan, who, moments ago, received the unanimous okee-doke from Major League Baseball’s owners to take control of Your Texas Rangers as long last. But till then, here’s an excerpt from MLB’s freshly shipped Official…
Speaking of soccer …Two years back there was talk of Dallas getting a Women’s Professional Soccer franchise, whose roster would be filled out with players from the U.S. Women’s National Team. And then … nothing. But just yesterday, Sports Illustrated’s Jeff Kassouf noted that the league, which has seen two…
As you may recall, back in April we spoke at length with former Dallas Tornado Kyle Rote Jr. — who, that very week, had been told he was going to be inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame. The actual ceremony, though, took place this week — Tuesday, to…
In the new issue of the Texas Observer, Julia Barton reminds: This year marks the 150th anniversary of the so-called Texas Troubles, which began when much of downtown Dallas caught fire on a brutally hot July afternoon. Many thought the inferno, which began at downtown drugstore, was due to scorching…
In the end, it didn’t matter whether the meeting was open or closed to the public — because, in the end, there was no meeting at all. Yesterday we noted that council member Dave Neumann’s hand-picked Cliff Manor task force was scheduled to meet with Dallas Housing Authority higher-ups at…
This is how the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit summarizes the events that led to Dallas Police Officer Stormy Magiera filing a discrimination lawsuit against the city in early 2006, six years after she was hired:On May 21, 2005, Magiera responded to the sound of a gunshot…
Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is every bit as faithful to its source material (Bryan Lee O’Malley’s six-volume series about a 22-year-old go-nowhere man-boy fending off his new girlfriend’s seven evil exes) as Zack Snyder’s Watchmen was to his (Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ brooding comic-hero deconstruction). Both…
I’ll admit: When last offered the opportunity to view in person an up-for-auction item warehoused at our ‘cross-the-street neighbor Heritage Auction Galleries, I rushed right over — sure, like I’d miss the chance to touch Captain Kirk’s hem. But I had to pass on today’s invite — a chance to…
Speaking of the ballpark …Texas Rangers president — and, any day now, co-owner — Nolan Ryan fielded some questions from ESPNDallas readers this afternoon, and during that chitchat he revealed: Yes, he and Chck Greenberg are going to make significant improvements at the 16-year-old Ballpark in Arlington by next season,…
As Andrea noted earlier, when it came time for the city council to discuss banning K2 and other synthetic cannabinoids, there was no mention of bongs, pipes and other paraphernalia — the other half of the ordinance drafted by City Attorney Tom Perkins. I finally spoke with Perkins today and…
If you were planning on attending tonight’s Rangers-Yankees game — and I was considering it — be warned: It’s damned near a sell-out. Ballclub spokesman John Blake just sent word:As of 1:30 p.m., only obstructed view and scattered single tickets remain for tonight’s Texas Rangers game with the New York…
A Friend of Unfair Park directs our attention to this Texas-sized showdown last night on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 concerning “anchor babies” — or, as Houston’s Rep. Debbie Riddle calls ’em, “little terrorists.” Offered on the other side without comment except to say it takes a good four minutes into…
Last week, the Dallas Housing Authority presented 17 people, once homeless, with a new place to stay in Cliff Manor despite earlier assurances that it would hold off till a task force figured out how to ease their transition into the neighborhood. The mayor has said he hopes to use…
View more news videos at: http://www.nbcdfw.com/video.Late last night, KXAS-Channel 5 sent word: Not only did it air a lengthy sit-down with Dallas Police Chief David Brown, in which “no subject was off limits,” but the NBC owned-and-operated was also making available the entirety of the interview in 14 separate segments…
On June 22, Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s higher-ups sent the bad news: Three projects had been derailed by that $3-billion drop in sales tax receipts: the section of the Orange Line that’s supposed to run from Irving to Terminal A at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, the Blue Line extension from…
Damn it. I’d been meaning to mention this all day, and now the day done got away from me. But there’s still time — close to two hours till the Texas Theatre screens Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. It’s easily…
When word came down that Jeff Cogen, till today the president of Your Dallas Stars since 2007 and before that president and chief operation officer of Your Texas Rangers, was decamping for the Nashville Predators, where he’ll be chief executive officer, I called his cell hoping that maybe he’d find…
By now you’ve no doubt read all 624 pages of City Manager Mary Suhm’s proposed FY2010-11 budget. Or at least heard: Library branches are losing staffers, which means those who stay will have to do more with less; the downtown outpost’s specialty floors will stay dark all but 26 hours…
