Ron Washington To Get His Caddy Today

There’s no game out at the Ballpark today — shame too, since it’s likely The Last Lovely Day before summer slams into high gear. Nevertheless, at 11:30 this morning Nolan Ryan and Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington will find themselves at home plate, where Ryan will give Washington the keys…

Let’s Go Bulls! But Let’s Never Forget the Heat!!

We’re rooting for the Chicago Bulls in tonight’s Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals. Right? I know, in the regular season the Mavs were 2-0 against the Miami Heat and 0-2 against the Bulls. But the longer the series goes — it’s currently 3-1 Miami — the more rest the…

Investors Trust Judge Joe Ashmore, But His Trust Doesn’t Pay Back

For three months last year, Muhammet Atayev—California businessman and, by his own account, a former Turkmenistani cabinet minister—limited himself to a small universe in Dallas. He spent his nights in a room at a Best Western motel. In the morning, he slipped into business clothes, gathered his things and walked…

Chokelahoma!

OKLAHOMA CITY—Kevin Durant, meet Harold Camping. And Dallas Mavericks, reintroduce yourselves to the NBA Finals. Camping is an 89-year-old scam artist, a religious zealot with a troubling propensity for predicting the end of the world and then living to tell about it. Durant is a 22-year-old NBA superstar, the league’s…

Mavs Miracle: Red River Rally vs. Moody Madness

As the Mavs prepare for tonight’s Game 5 clincher at American Airlines Center, a cardiac comparison: Down 15 with 5:06 to play. On the road. Game 4 of the 2011 Western Conference Finals. Or down 6, 1:47 to play. At home (sorta). Game 5 in the first round of the…

Josh Hamilton and His Head-First Sliding: Super or Stupid?

Didn’t see this with my own eyes, but apparently around 1 a.m. this morning the Ranger who just spent six weeks on the disabled list with a broken arm suffered in a head-first slide … slid three times head-first in one memorable, moronic trip around the bases in Texas’ weather-ravaged 8-6 loss…

Dirk Nowitzki, “Poetry in Motion”

A few Friends of Unfair Park find those Dirk Nowitzki videos cute … or something? But, writes one, “They’re missing Dirk.” Fair enough. This one, provided by the NBA and submitted by a reader, is all Dirk — in slow mo, no less, his Game Four heroics augmented by a…