This is what happens when you fail to sign Nnamdi Asomugha. Insanity. Out of desperation more than inspiration, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones yesterday gave a five-year, $27 million contract extension (including $10 million guaranteed) to … Orlando Scandrick. I don’t know whether to laugh. Or vomit. On the Top 50…
Things all went wrong for Renee so recently she can still count the days: 32. That’s how long it’s been since she lost her job, her car was repossessed and her house was foreclosed on. “Everything just fell apart so quickly,” she says.She’s in her mid-40s with bright green eyes…
I guess it’s just plain dumb luck that I happened to be drifting through tiny Dublin (population 4,000) on the one day a month delicious Dublin Dr Pepper is bottled. Now, for the uninitiated, Dublin Dr Pepper distinguishes itself from its Plano-based brethren in one key respect: It’s made with…
Well, that didn’t take long. From almost 8 games a week ago tonight, the Rangers’ lead in the AL West is suddenly down to 2.5. The magic number, seemingly tumbling toward the 20s, is now stuck at 30. This is a good thing. Because, seriously, if the lead stretched to…
Observer’er Daniel Rodrigue espied this offering on Craigslist: “kennedy assassination morning news printing plate.” Then, he asked, “Shouldn’t this be in a museum or something?” Sure, along with most everything Heritage auctions. That’s the way historic artifacts go. Still, curious, I called the owner to ask about their provenance. The…
10. If Wednesday night’s crowd at Rangers Ballpark was 30,000 it killed Cowboys’ practice across the street. I’d say there was 15,000 inside Cowboys Stadium, tops. I guess $1 Hot Dogs > $10 Parking. 9. Early in camp in San Antonio linebacker Keith Brooking intercepted a pass and began sprinting down…
Real loser: So, pretend you’re a jury pool consultant. Pretend ace white-collar criminal lawyer Billy Ravkind hired you to advise him on the mood and mindset of potential jurors in the eventual and inevitable federal corruption trial of his client, Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, currently the target of…
Long before the baseball that was the catalyst to his accidental death at Rangers Ballpark, Shannon Stone grabbed another souvenir in Arlington. This one — a foul ball caught in 1983 off the bat of his favorite player, Buddy Bell — perished when his parents’ house in Johnson County burned…
Hardy Haberman was in his local dungeon a couple years ago, beating a friend at a “play party,” when things suddenly got weird. Wielding a soft leather flogger — a thick-handled instrument that resembles a whip, but with a dozen slender tails — he was lashing the slightly younger man’s…
Been watching Gawker’s mini-series The Worst 50 States in America solely to see where The Great State of Texas landed up — figured surely it would rate Top 10, if only because of a certain presidential candidate who’s now the GOP’s front-runner. But, no. Texas comes in today at No…
So, back to that Sylvan Thirty item from earlier in the week. Got an email this morning from Monte Anderson, the man who resurrected the Belmont. Said he wanted to talk about the development going in catty-corner from his — one he’s long supported. Matter of fact, says Anderson, he…
As The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal note today, President Obama will give a speech some time after Labor Day in which he will unveil “a plan to create jobs, stimulate the economy and reduce the federal deficit.” (Tom Leppert beat him to it!) But the president won’t…
Behold, Dallas, the shiny new city council districts the Redistricting Commission has drawn for you! Don’t uncork the champagne just yet, though. The commissioners themselves certainly didn’t seem to be in the mood for it.Near the end of last night’s six-hour meeting (yes, yes it was), the commission voted 11-4…
Below, in yesterday’s item about Dallas ISD finding a buyer for Davy Crockett, a Friend of Unfair Park brought up another historically designated city landmark: the old Dallas High School (or Main High School or Bryan Street High School or, most recently, Crozier Tech) at Pearl and Bryan, which opened…
Not much good to say about the Rangers’ 11-5 loss to the Red Sox Tuesday night. Colby Lewis gave up two more homers, both to Adrian Gonzalez. Texas’ lead in the West is down to 3.5 games with 32 remaining. But … Before the game Mavericks’ head coach Rick Carlisle threw out…
After a gas drilling field trip to Arlington and debriefing session, a public hearing at City Hall and a few weeks to let all the information marinate, the city’s gas drilling task force got back to the horseshoe Tuesday afternoon with four items on its agenda — presentations by gas-drilling…
What you see is the video just posted by the Tom Leppert for Senate campaign in which the former Dallas mayor pitches his “ambitious” plan to “rebuild our nation’s economy,” which you’ll find here: “A New Direction for America.” To sum up: flat tax, reduce corporate taxes, eliminate earmarks, cut…
As I’ve written before, nobody throws a party like Texas Motor Speedway grand poobah Eddie Gossage. He added to his legacy again Tuesday night at Gilley’s south of downtown Dallas, unveiling his track’s 2012 schedule with a party featuring Kurt Busch, Kyle Petty, Matt Kenseth, sword swallowers, stilt-walkers, Stoney LaRue…
Since last we mentioned those country club suits filed against the Dallas Central Appraisal District over their respective valuations, dozens more have popped up, including complaints filed in recent days by the owners of the Ritz-Carlton on McKinney, Schepps Dairy and myriad other strip centers and big boxes. But this…
A couple of months back we mentioned Jason Roberts’s plan to connect North Oak Cliff with the southernmost tip of the Katy Trail via a nine-mile trail along and across the Trinity River — one he’d hoped to have wrapped within 90 days. And, lookie here, says the Better Blocker:…
Already with company in training camp in the form of free agents Dan Bailey and Kai Forbath, David Buehler’s job as Cowboys’ kicker became more tenuous Tuesday when the team signed veteran Shayne Graham. Graham made his name with the Bengals from 2003-09, and last year was 12 of 12 for…
On the other side is a memo from Mayor Mike Rawlings that just arrived in the in-box in which he tells the council members who’ll serve on which committee. And, no, Angela Hunt did not get the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee chair — that went to Vonciel Jones Hill…
