This morning, a Friend of Unfair Park directed our attention to The New York Times’ page featuring Barack Obama’s “New Team” — those folks who’ve either been appointed to the new administration or who’re being rumored for the short list of maybe-so’s. And nowhere on the page does former Dallas…
T-Minus five days until the final Dallas Cowboys’ game at Texas Stadium. I have a vague recollection of climbing atop Dad’s shoulders and watching Don Meredith toss bombs to Bob Hayes at the Cotton Bowl, but basically my life’s screenplay starts in Texas Stadium. Section 12. Row 24. Seat…
A Friend of Unfair Park who attended SMU sends along this gift-giving suggestion for his fellow Mustangs (and, ya know, anyone else): the school’s latest calendar, The Golden Age of Football: 1920s to 1960s, which, like plenty of other retro date-minders on the market, features reproductions of old game-day programs…
Liquid Logixx, a 3D computer animation studio on South Lamar, counts among its clients American Airlines, PepsiCo, IBM, Texas Instruments and the American Heart Association. It’s the studio’s work for the latter than has resulted in the latest addition to its roster, Spike TV — specifically, the show 1000 Ways…
One more sportsy note this a.m. — a follow to last week’s item concerning the fate of the Arena Football League, in which Your Dallas Desperados play. Or played, rather, as this morning the league has announced that there will be no 2009 season, which shorts the American Airlines Center…
This morning, I sort of casually mentioned that Your Dallas Cowboys had come up with one of the worst ideas in the history of goodbyes: allowing fans to choose the last song ever played over the Texas Stadium public address system following the Ravens game. That’s the ballot pictured above…
Last month, while working on this profile of Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa, I met DISD board of trustees president Jack Lowe for coffee at the La Madeline by SMU. Lowe, as you may recall, said upon the revelation of the district’s initial $64-million budget shortfall in September…
Silly us, we thought the season-long comparison would be between Felix Jones and Rashard Mendenhall. But, in retrospect, the Cowboys’ best pick was Tashard Choice. With Jones (and Mendenhall) long ago sidelined with season-ending injuries, the fourth-round rookie from Georgia Tech has been a shockingly successful surprise. He filled in admirably…
In October 2006, Sung Bum Chang of Coppell was sentenced to 10 years in a federal prison after he pleaded guilty to one count of forced labor and one count of conspiracy to commit forced labor — meaning, he was a human trafficker and a slave master. So too was…
The morning after his Dallas Cowboys find themselves two wins from clinching a wild-card spot, owner and general manager Jerry Jones is still pretty high — which is to say, he sits at No. 2 on Sports Business Journal’s list of sports’ 50 Most Influential figures. Jones is behind only…
After the two teammates who disconnected last week connected this week, it was a third-string lineman and a third-string running back who ran the Dallas Cowboys past the New York Giants and firmly into their own playoff destiny Sunday night. Running behind beleaguered left guard Cory Procter, Tashard Choice clinched the 20-8…
Sean Avery puts himself before his team, alienates his locker room and winds up disparaging players on other teams. Terrell Owens puts himself before his team, alienates his locker room and winds up disparaging players on his own team. So, you tell me, does it make sense that T.O. is suiting…
So, Sean Avery isn’t returning to the Dallas Stars — surprise, surprise, surprise. Says the organization in its official release this morning regarding the release: Avery’s return, following his sloppy seconds suspension, just wouldn’t be in anyone’s “best interest,” but “treatment and counseling” are in Avery’s, so that’s that. And…
For all those pro-hotel peeps convinced I can’t find anything positive about the city’s convention center hotel project, clearly you missed my post applauding the surprise selection of Matthews Southwest as the developer of the project back in June. Heck, even the Build the Hotel committee has it posted on…
Congratulations are in order for Hector Nieto, the tireless, effective communications director for the Texas Democratic Party, who today was named the Chief of Staff for State Senator-Elect Wendy Davis out of Tarrant County, pictured at right. “This was going to be a good opportunity for me,” says Nieto. “Senator-Elect…
Yup, that’s what it says in Forbes today: Dallas is the second-best city in which to get your wrinkle on. And Houston’s but a mere two spots back. Why come? You know — you live here, right? But if you need some confirmation, says the magazine of the two Texas…
I see over on DC9 Pete’s linked to an old holiday fave, the Old 97’s performing “Holly Jolly Christmas,” taken from the 1995 Big Iron release Honkey-Tonk Holidays: Christmas in Deep Noellum. The disc — which also features the likes of Cowboys and Indians, Liberty Valence, the Mutineers, the Sutcliffs,…
Courtesy the Alexander Architectural Archive, University of Texas Libraries Herbert Miller Greene Directly across from Unfair Park HQ sits the original Parkland Hospital, now home to Crow Holdings after an extensive redo that modernized the building without desecrating it; Herbert Miller Greene, the architect who designed and built Parkland in…
Amidst all the gloomy news of local business shutterings of late, this ray of sunshine for folks in the telecom industry: Nokia Siemens Networks has announced the opening of a research-and-development facility in the area that the company’s calling “another significant step in further accelerating the development of Long Term…
Terrell Owens has had more passes thrown to him this season than Jason Witten. Terrell Owens was elected a team captain. But Terrell Owens, above all else, is the common denominator. Where there’s locker-room smoke, there’s always T.O.’s fire. If you’re surprised by this week’s shenanigans, you haven’t been paying attention…
Just a reminder: The auction for this original Ian Dingman ink drawing, done for the Criterion Collection Bottle Rocket DVD, ends in 10 minutes. And so far, the bidding’s up to $350, with proceeds going to the North Texas Food Bank. So, last call. I will update this, well, at…
Patrick Michels When given the opportunity to explain his actions, Mayor Tom decided to keep his mouth shut.In this week’s paper version of Unfair Park, council member Angela Hunt and political consultant Pat Cotton spoke out loud and proud concerning Mayor Tom Leppert’s recent command to stop the broadcast of…
