And neither’s Mike Rhyner, which you already know if you read Richie’s piece last Friday about how “The Hardline” was awful close to moving from KTCK-AM to the recently launched The Fan located at 105.3 on Your FM Dial. Said Rhyner last week, “It was close. Very close. … [But]…
While the ESPN blowhards breathlessly dissect moves – and non-moves – involving Larry Hughes (yawn), Rafer Alston (eh) and Nate Robinson (zzz), it’s apparent the Mavericks weren’t lying when they told us they liked their current roster. Dallas = No trade(s). One reason may be the sudden emergence of Antoine Wright, who might…
You might think that since Texas legislators are tied up dealing with a plunging housing market and accepting stimulus money, they’d drop the predictable collection of politically motivated immigration bills seeking to fill the federal policy vacuum. Nope. Not a chance.Rep. Jim Jackson of Carrollton would like to declare English…
While twiddling my thumbs waiting for the Mavericks – or anyone – to make a significant, deadline-beating NBA trade, I wondered just how good Dallas has been this millenium. Calculator + 10 minutes + elbow grease = Yahtzee! Answer: Damn good. Second-best good. From the beginning of owner Mark Cuban’s…
Dallas County Health & Human Services’s monthly Public Health Preparedness Update is a great read full of fascinating tidbits — lots of stuff this go-round about expanded HIV testing capabilities, the flu “outbreak,” second-hand smoke and so forth. But one tiny Page 2 piece piqued our interest: The county’s trying…
The great Scott Henson at Grits for Breakfast sends word today that our “Sex Toy Story” from April 2004 now has a “bizarre coda.” Long story short: Few years back, Shanda Perkins led the charge against Joanne Webb’s “passion parties” in Burleson, where Webb would sell vibrators and other sexual…
A Friend of Unfair Park directs our attention to this Texas Observer item concerning House Concurrent Resolution No. 50, filed Tuesday by three Republican state representatives — Leo Berman of Tyler, Brandon Creighton of Conroe and Bryan Hughes of Marshall — who more or less want to declare Texas a…
Actually, yes, I do know how lucky I am to be a sportswriter. Every once in a while, I just need to be reminded. Digging through my old box of media credentials usually does the trick. Jump for four of my all-time faves: (Of course, I don’t have a pass from…
A Friend of Unfair Park whose name does not rhyme with “Patt Mulle” sends us this Texas Watchdog story concerning the downtown law school the University of North Texas System is hoping to squeeze into the old Municipal Building. It’s been almost five years since then-Mayor Laura Miller and other…
The Dallas Auto Show runs till Sunday at the Dallas Convention Center. But as the Associated Press reporter in this video wonders: Will this be the last one? Only because, ya know, there may not be an auto industry this time next year. No big…
It’s only been two days, but, sure, why not — back to Judge Sharon Keller, who Fort Worth Democratic State Rep. Lon Burnam wants impeached for refusing to stick around a few extra minutes for a Death Row inmate’s last-minute appeal back in September 2007. She’s worth a mention this…
Went out to east Dallas last week to spend some quality time with the only Olympic boxer in the history of Dallas, Luis Yanez. The kid is immensely cocky, tiny – would you believe 5-foot-4 and around 118 pounds? – and has the world by the short hairs. You’ll want to…
Had to see for myself about Luis Yanez. Like you, I kinda followed his story last summer. Kicked off the U.S. Olympic boxing team in early July. Reinstated just before Beijing, only to lose in the second round. Then he disappeared. Now he’s turning pro, with his first fight Friday…
Remember “Killer” Keller?: State Representative Lon Burnam knows how to hold a grudge. The Fort Worth Democrat this week filed a resolution in the House calling for the appointment of a commission to investigate whether the House should impeach Sharon Keller, the presiding judge on the Texas Court of Criminal…
“Let’s Talk,” By Pete Freedman, February 5 What do you really think? Amazing. Inspiring. Pete Freedman, “Music Editor” at the Dallas Observer writes an article in the latest issue that is about Pete Freedman. Congratulations, Pete. While local bands are struggling to keep their day jobs, pay rent at the…
Yet again, a North Texas native has been killed while serving in Afghanistan. The Department of Defense announced today that 35-year-old Mesquite native Raymond Munden, who enlisted in the Army in August 1991, was killed on Monday in Paktika Province near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. The DoD reports that Munden, a…
In separate 10-2 votes, the Dallas City Council approved developer and operator agreements with Matthews Southwest and Omni Hotels for the convention center hotel, leaving the $525 million bond issuance as the final vote remaining before the project is officially given the green light. While the city waits to float…
These have been busy days over at CBS Radio Dallas: First, it turned chatty Live 105.3 into the sportsy The Fan. Then, mid-song yesterday, all-day dance party Movin’ 107.5 became the puro Español Mega 107.5, described by Kurt Johnson, VP of programming for CBS Radio Dallas, as “Dallas’s first and…
My favorite sports book of all time is Mike Shropshire’s Seasons in Hell: With Billy Martin, Whitey Herzog and The Worst Baseball Team in History — The 1973-1975 Texas Rangers. We excerpted the book in 1996, and Michael Hogue’s original artwork accompanying the piece still hangs in my office –…
The New York Times just posted a piece on designer Billy Reid, who peddles his “dressy-casual whiskey-soaked style” in NorthPark Center, one of only six outlets in the U.S. Which reminds dressy-casual, whiskey-soaked me: Over the weekend I received via postcard a reminder that tomorrow through Saturday is Billy Reid’s…
A year ago tomorrow the Mavs pulled the trigger on their controversial blockbuster, sending Devin Harris and two first-round draft picks to the New Jersey Nets for Jason Kidd. Lookie who’s in town tonight? It’s those same Nets and a very different Harris, fresh off his All-Star appearance and a…
Guess Jerry Jones didn’t sell off every last scrap of Texas Stadium during his everything-must-go auction, as today the Dallas Cowboys send word that this weekend, the broken-down hole-in-the-roof will host yet another fire sale. This one goes by the moniker “Farewell Fan Fest and Memorabilia Sale.” Parking and admission’s…
