Tied in the final minute of overtime after erasing a 15-point deficit in the final 5 minutes of regulation. Jason Kidd’s defense on Kevin Durant, leading to a Shawn Marion steal. The Mavericks’ veteran patience, systematically setting up of a Dirk Nowitzki elbow isolation they’ve run a zillion times. Dirk’s aggressiveness…
Back in April of last year some Oak Cliff-dwellers introduced that “Think Small” slogan, which was and is intended to counter Dallas’s “Live Large, Think Big” motto coughed up by The Richards Group in ’04 after six months’ worth of focus-grouping. A Friend of Unfair Park points out that on…
If anything, the results of an already outdated University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll posted this morning — outdated in that it features three would-be GOP presidential candidates who’ve said they aren’t running — more than likely reveal that at least 800 registered-to-vote Texans take Governor Rick Perry at his word…
Back in August, Big Bucks Burnett sent word that he’d acquired a harmonica used by Bob Dylan during his November ’78 appearance in Fort Worth, a stop along the Street-Legal tour. It would ultimately make a fine addition to Bucks’s Eight Track Museum, along with Tiny Tim’s dental mold. Anyway…
Yesterday I surmised that the Rangers’ offense would suddenly improve with the returns of sluggers Josh Hamilton and Nelson Cruz. But not me — nor even Texas — thought it would happen that fast. Or that far. Fresh off the disabled list, Hamilton homered in his first at-bat and Cruz added…
Patrick Michels will be at that 5:30 p.m. meeting at 3700 Ross today, where the Dallas Independent School District’s board of trustees will discuss naming an interim superintendent now that Michael Hinojosa’s all but boarded that midnight train to Georgia. Or: You can always watch it live — no doubt…
A few days ago Erik Clapp, the Fort Worth-based filmmaker who maintains the Bobbie Wygant Archive, sent me the short-short you see on the other side: “Dirk Will Destroy Your Heart.” ‘Round the office it elicits awkward, bemused titters; figured it ever there was an appropriate time to post up…
10. Battle scars. The Mavericks are fueled by them. As of last night, the Thunder now have one of their own. Who feels worse about their closing confidence this morning: Harold Camping and his May 21 oops or Chokelahoma and its 15-point implosion? 9. Whether it was an epic meltdown or…
From time to time over the years we’ve revisited the tornado of 1957, which, at the time, was easily the best-documented twister in history. There’s even a whole website devoted to the F3 that killed 10 and “carved a sixteen mile path through Oak Cliff and West Dallas over a…
When the space shuttle Endeavour touches down in a little more than a week, NASA’s shuttle program will come down to just one more mission: Atlantis’s launch set for July. It’s the moment private space industry’s been gearing up for, when America’s space program will really depend on small entrepreneur-led…
When Dallas County Commissioners first fessed up that an internal audit revealed that some deputy constables lied about doing their jobs — which is to say, delivering court docs and eviction notices when they did no such thing — that number was somewhere ’round 25, give or take. But it’s…
Schutze went to that Dealey Plaza chitchat at City Hall this afternoon. Only, the Quality of Life Committee didn’t have quorum, so, per council rules, all the council got was a read-through of architect Jonathan Rollins’s PowerPoint, which we sneaked previewed yesterday. But never fear: We asked the questions council…
On July 6, 1947, it was announced that George Herman Ruth would be coming to Dallas on July 9. The occasion: an appearance during a double-header at Rebel Stadium in Oak Cliff on behalf of the American Legion junior baseball program. That Wednesday would be known, according to the ad…
By the time we got to Dallas Comic Con Saturday ’round 2:30, there was still a line snaking around the Irving Convention Center. Ben Stevens, the show’s co-organizer, guesstimated that some 8,000 attendees had walked through the door — enough to cause the con to run out of badges with…
10. Regrettably, I didn’t go to the Oklahoma City National Museum, but apparently Jason Kidd did. Can’t believe that tragedy was 16 years ago all the sudden. 9. Stayed in a hip, happening part of OKC called “Bricktown.” Think of it as Dallas’ West End, with a canal running through…
On and off last year we took a look at the sad state of the 108-year-old Davy Crockett School on Carroll Avenue, a designated city historic landmark since 1993 and almost all but empty since the Dallas Independent School District moved its students to close-by Ignacio Zaragoza Elementary in ’89…
A day short of six weeks after breaking his arm, Josh Hamilton is back. So is Nelson Cruz. And with them, will the Rangers welcome the return of their offense? After a weekend in Philly in which they were outscored only 5-4 over 27 innings of, let’s face it, boring baseball,…
Exactly one year ago, parents of a former student at Episcopal School of Dallas sued the private school for unspecified damages, insisting it should have known about — and stopped — teacher Nathan Campbell’s advances and ultimately sexual relationship with their daughter, who was 16 at the time. The parents…
Michael Hinojosa is in Georgia today for a 4:30 p.m. meet-n-greet with the citizenry of Cobb County, most of whom appear happy to be taking the Dallas Independent School District super’s off Dallas’s hands. Twenty-five hours later, the DISD board will meet for the first time since Hinojosa’s almost-adios for…
10. Think of the Ford Center Oklahoma City Arena as a ‘roided Reunion. Basketball here is still fresh and, let’s face it, there’s nothing else to do. I was at Reunion in the ’80s and Sacramento’s ARCO Arena with the cowbells in the ’00s, and this place is louder. Says Dirk…
Remember how offended everyone got when Los Angeles-based photographer Donald Barnat penned his dispatch from Dealey Plaza back in March? Sure you do. Wrote Barnat, who’d been here during the Super Bowl, “The place is in such a miserable state of disrepair that it amounts to a disgrace for the…
One week from today, Goodluck Jonathan — who won election last month after receiving more than 60 percent of the vote during mostly peaceful elections — will be sworn in as president of Nigeria, the most populated country in Africa. Analysts are mixed on what Jonathan’s presidency will mean for…
