You’re Excellent Too, Jeff Pearlman

As you’re no doubt aware, Jeff Pearlman’s tell-most Boys Will Be Boys: The Glory Days and Party Nights of the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty is in stores. And this morning, The New York Times features a lengthy Q&A with the author, in which he picks Michael Irvin as the most “indispensable”…

Morning Announcements

Two items of interest in the in-box this a.m. First, from the U.S. Attorney’s office, an announcement concerning the gathering of the area’s top cops at 11 a.m. today: “U.S. Attorney Richard B. Roper and Special Agent in Charge James L. Capra of the Dallas DEA, will be joined by…

Belo Now Has Noofangle-d Content

Just for grins, go to Get Listy. Or Shopperati. Notice anything odd? Like, oh, the WFAA bug at the top left of the screen? Those aren’t actually Belo sites, mind you. They’re just two that belong to Belo Corp.’s newest content partner Noofangle Media, which will also provide content via…

Crime’s Down — Except at Home

The Dallas police updated the city council’s Public Safety Committee on crime stats again today — and, once more, crime’s down in Dallas, save for residential burglaries. Those have increased from 9,686 in year-to-date 2007 to 9,739 thus far in ’08. Homicides are down too, from 142 to 106 year…

Guess Who’s Playing Fred Baron’s Christmas Party

Says the Friend of Unfair Park who sent this from the Eagles show Saturday night, when Fox News appeared on the big screen during “Dirty Laundry,” the AAC went “silent.” Probably the best sound the audience heard all night? We kid, we kid! No, that’s the answer: the Guess Who…

Josh Howard, Gallantly Steaming

Even though this dates back to July, when the always high-larious Josh Howard suited up for Allen Iverson’s celebrity football game, only today has the video begun making the rounds — first on You Been Blinded, then on Deadspin, where some of the comments are, as usual, genius. As in,…

The Two Dicks

Today, Penguin Press will publish Pulitzer Prize-winner Barton Gellman’s Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency, which, according to the Washington Post writer’s Web site, “describes a man of deep conviction and remorseless will who reshaped his office and his times.” Last night, Gellman was on The Daily Show, and he recounted…

Tony Romo is Adorable

The Cowboys QB’s post-game interview with Suzy Kolber. Yeah, that’s probably all the introduction you need. –Robert Wilonsky…

What So Proudly She Hails

About a month ago, CBS introduced Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader Starr Spangler and her on-Broadway brother Nick as two of the contestants on The Amazing Race, the 13th season of which debuts September 28. By way of further introduction, the twosome made the official howdy-do video below, in which the Horned…

A Luksa Back at Texas Stadium

For the last little while, the great Frank Luksa — who’s written for every single local daily in the history of ink, danged near — has been contributing to ESPN.com. For instance, a couple of months back, he offered up tales from Dallas Cowboys’ training camps past. This morning, as…

All Shale Tracy Rowlett!

Nice photo of Tracy Rowlett in this morning’s New York Times, in a story about Chesapeake Energy Corporation’s Shale.tv, due to launch sometime this month. As you no doubt recall, the former KTVT-Channel 11 anchor doesn’t take kindly to folks who dismiss the site as an online informercial for the…

Say, Do You Phil Gigante?

The lead from the Associated Press’ story about Dallas buy-and-sell billionaire Sam Wyly, out promoting his book Entrepreneur to Billionaire: 1,000 Dollars & an Idea: “Sam Wyly went from growing up in a house without electricity to amassing a fortune estimated at $1.2 billion, and he says anyone can follow…

Bearing Down on Ike

From Belo-owned KHOU-Channel 11 in Houston, an early Ike highlight. Coming in a close second, Geraldo all fall down. –Robert Wilonsky…