The Mavericks continued to prove that they’re indeed the best team in the league as they improved their road record to a franchise-best start of 10-1 with a 105-99 victory last night in Orlando. Caron Butler led Dallas with 20 points and 4-for-6 shooting from three-point range, and Tyson Chandler…
The Mavericks are calling themselves streak busters after ending the Heat’s 12-game winning streak in Miami, but they should be calling themselves the best team in the NBA at this point in the season. After all, it was Mark Cuban who dubbed the Heat as the league’s best team a…
10. Christmas came early for Mavs fans, as Dallas ended the Heat’s 12-game winning streak with an entertaining 98-96 victory last night in Miami. My wrap-up is forthcoming, but until then, Wilonsky over at Unfair Park showed us the team’s official Christmas gift — Dirk Nowitzki and others wearing reindeer…
Since we can all feel OK about losing out on the Cliff Lee sweepstakes, it’s fair to evaluate Jon Daniels’ Plan B, especially with the trade of Zack Greinke — easily the best pitcher to be had on the market as a 27-year-old with filthy stuff, two years left on…
I know. I know. You’re tired of hearing about Cliff Lee. He’s a goner, and it’s not like the Rangers didn’t do their best to keep him here. Actually, I’d say Jon Daniels, Nolan Ryan and Chuck Greenberg did too much in their attempt to convince Lee to stay, making…
(With Richie Whitt on vacation for the next two weeks, Dallas Observer staff writer Sam Merten has graciously agreed to pitch in. Commenters, on your mark…) Long before the Cowboys’ playoff chances were officially toast, this season felt doomed from the beginning. The devastating 13-7 loss to the Redskins on…
[Update: Cheryl Potashnik was given two years probation and has to pay $50,000 to the U.S. District Clerk within seven days. Brian was sentenced to 14 months in federal prison and will be on probation for two years following his release. He also was ordered to pay $1.25 million to…
The Rangers had a chance to re-sign Cliff Lee, but his demand for more money and years than Texas was willing to offer resulted in his decision to return instead to the Philadelphia Phillies. In a conference call with reporters late this morning, Rangers general manager Jon Daniels and CEO…
After much procrastination, former Texas Rangers ace Cliff Lee has decided to return to the Philadelphia Phillies, according to MLB.com’s T.R. Sullivan, with Joel Sherman of the New York Post tweeting that the deal is for five years and approximately $100 million and ESPN’s Jerry Crasnick tweeting that it’s more…
If you’re not familiar with the Dallas Development Fund, well, neither were we until we discovered it would be spending this afternoon in the basement of City Hall discussing developer Jack Matthews’ boutique hotel project adjacent to South Side on Lamar, a proposed mixed-use development near the Dallas Veterans Affairs…
Prior to the beginning of baseball’s winter meetings yesterday at Walt Disney World Resort, a flurry of activity resulted in big-name players dealt and fat contracts inked. Predictably, Derek Jeter (three years, $51 million) and Mariano Rivera (two years, $30 million) returned to the Bronx, but not without painful negotiations…
As Robert mentioned earlier, the U.S. lost to Qatar in its bid for the 2022 World Cup, leaving the couple hundred folks gathered in the lobby at City Hall speechless. Still smiling as the news was announced on a big screen TV, Mayor Tom Leppert said afterward that he couldn’t…
On a Sunday afternoon in July, Cliff Lee sits alone by his locker in the Texas Rangers’ clubhouse. A handful of his teammates have gathered a few feet to his left around the lockers of Ian Kinsler and Michael Young, joking and chatting, but Lee, dressed in a gray Rangers…
As you’re most likely aware by now, Dallas County Constable Derick Evans, former constable Jaime Cortes and two of Evans’s deputies have been indicted on a total of nine counts. We’ve been working the phones since yesterday and haven’t heard back from several parties, although Judge Jim Foster’s supposed to…
The day after the local GOP lost its fourth-straight election cycle to Democrats, Dallas County Republican Party chair Jonathan Neerman told us “it’s very unlikely” that he’d run for a third term in 2012, citing the need for “fresh leadership.” But soon after the Hunton & Williams lawyer appeared to…
Whether free agent Cliff Lee chooses to re-sign with the Rangers because of Arlington’s proximity to his Arkansas home or bolts to New York for the extra dough, his decision undoubtedly shapes the future of both teams significantly. Yet in all that’s been said and written about Lee, rarely does…
On July 23 — the second day of Brian Potashnik’s testimony in the Dallas City Hall corruption trial — prosecutor Marcus Busch played a series of damning wiretaps for jurors. He paused them numerous times, read them into the record and then asked Potashink to confirm if what he’d read…
The Texas Rangers’ incredible October playoff run made this summer’s messy bankruptcy saga easier to forget, but the court filings continue, with Major League Baseball alleging that the team’s law firm deviated “sharply from the facts” when portraying MLB as “iron-fisted and overbearing.” In a response filed Monday to an…
Back in April, we told you about Angela Hunt’s decision to reconsider her August 2008 vote to shut down Woodard Paint & Body Shop and develop a compromise to allow the family-owned business to remain at its location on Ross Avenue where it opened 90 years ago. The dozens of…
Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin told a crowd of pro-life advocates gathered at the Majestic Theatre last night that the largest advance in the abortion industry has been the passage of Obamacare and called Barack Obama “the most pro-abortion president to ever occupy the White House.” Palin, introduced…
Much like other media outlets, we’ve been following the courthouse rumors of two prosecutors fired on Friday by First Assistant District Attorney Terri Moore as payback for attending the Election Day shindig at Hotel Palomar hosted by the Dallas County Republican Party. But until one of the men — Tom…
After a lengthy closed-door meeting, the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport board voted 7-1 early this afternoon to terminate four leases related to businesses owned by concessionaire Gilbert Aranza, whose request for a temporary restraining order was granted yesterday at 5:07 p.m. by State District Judge Martin Hoffman. The board claims Aranza…
