The Hardline One Year Later: Yay or Nay?

Better than the original? Last Sunday marked the 1-year anniversary of Greg Williams’ departure from The Ticket. On Oct. 12, 2007 – as most of you well know – Williams walked away from a Hardline remote and into a 9-month tailspin that I began chronicling with this and this and…

The Cowboys May Opt Out of their Contract with The Ticket

Come next season this ol’ thing may be out of the moth balls. Let’s play radio gossip catch-up today, shall we? I’m not raising the “Breaking News!” banner. Not directly quoting high-placed sources. But after sensing displeasure and hearing rumblings from various people in the past couple weeks, let’s call…

Greg Williams Muzzled by ESPN Radio’s Hardball

Ssh! Can you hear Greggo? Me neither. First off, congrats to ESPN Radio for being nominated for a 2008 Marconi Award. Last month in Austin it was honored by the National Association of Broadcasters as one of five finalists for Sports Station of the Year. (Curiously, The Ticket won the…

Bingo Gossip, or: Why Your Nana Is the Future of Journalism

In case you missed it this a.m., David Flick had a piece in The News about Bingo Gossip and Missy Mouser, the 26-year-old one-woman show running the pub that caters to the 80-and-up crowd for whom the phrase “ball lifter” refers to “the mechanism used to raise the ball from…

Shale.tv Shelved

So much for Shale.tv, which was to be the online “news” outlet for Chesapeake Energy starring, as you’ll no doubt recall, Tracy Rowlett, who left KTVT-Channel 11 for the venture. Notes the Fort Worth Business Press this afternoon: “Jerri Robbins, public relations manager, said the move comes in response the…

Judge Not, Lest Ye Be Judged GOP

Hate to follow any news story, especially one from a pub I used to work for, but sometimes it can’t be helped. Especially when someone like brother reporter John Council looks toward the sky and notices it’s falling on the Dallas County Republican Party. In this week’s Texas Lawyer, Council…

Disappearing Ink, or: Celebrating the Work of Editorial Cartoonists

Dan Foote, formerly of the Dallas Times Herald Baylor University’s W. R. Poage Legislative Library is “celebrating the art of editorial cartooning” with the exhibition “Drawing Power: Original Editorial Cartoons,” which features such familiar locals as Bill DeOre, ex of The Dallas Morning News, and Dan Foote, with whom Schutze…

News Photographer Wins Military Reporters Award for “Gripping” Work

Lara Solt, a Dallas Morning News staff photographer, just won an online-photography award from the Military Reporters & Editors Association for a collection of images that chronicled a U.S. Marine’s recovery after a bridge exploded beneath him in Iraq. Corporal Eric Morante lost a leg, underwent extensive surgeries and endured…

Getting Some Ed Rest, or: How Ya Feeling, Uncle Barky?

As Uncle Barky’s site has remained relatively mum since news of his “procedure” last week — save for his Paul Newman obit on Saturday — several Friends of Unfair Park have asked about Ed’s health status. So, this brief update, as the Dean of TV Criticism isn’t one for hogging…

BREAKING NEWS: Russ Martin Charged With Three-Count Misdemeanor

Charged with misdemeanors. But not indicted with a felony. Got it? Acting on an educated hunch, I made a call this afternoon to Tarrant County Assistant District Attorney David Hagerman. Sure enough, he confirms that a grand jury on Thursday returned a three-count, Class A misdemeanor complaint against Live 105.3…

Good Thoughts For Uncle Barky

Yesterday, Ed Bark had big news for those who continue to wonder what in the hell KXAS-Channel 5 was thinking when the NBC affiliate opted not to renew meteorologist Rebecca Miller’s contract back in March: She’s going to sub on KDAF-Channel 33’s 9 p.m. newscasts Thursdays and Fridays, beginning tonight…

New York Post Columnist Cindy Adams Too Busy to Talk, Fact Check

Everyone’s getting a big giggle out of 143-year-old New York Post Page Six columnist Cindy Adams’ reference today to Preston Hollow as “a town outside Dallas” known for its “horse stables, lake views, mountain views, golf club views.” Notes a Post comment, “Cindy Adams has perhaps sampled the manure addiction”;…

ESPN, You’ve Been Strurminated

The “B” in The Ticket’s BaD Radio show Deadspin’s been decidedly Dallas-centric in recent days, but never more so than moments ago, when it posted a photo of KTCK-AM’s Bob Sturm, who kinda says that, yeah, ESPN’s ripping off his 7-year-old concept that involves power-ranking NFL franchises throughout the league’s…

Radio Daze: Ben-n-Skin v. Hammer

Back on the air. Back to his old self? Radio is a changin’. Arbitron recently awoke to the digital age and began more accurately deducting ratings via new electronic portable people meters. So instead of humans flippantly filling out diaries with No. 2 pencils, we’ll now get a much more…

You’re Excellent Too, Jeff Pearlman

As you’re no doubt aware, Jeff Pearlman’s tell-most Boys Will Be Boys: The Glory Days and Party Nights of the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty is in stores. And this morning, The New York Times features a lengthy Q&A with the author, in which he picks Michael Irvin as the most “indispensable”…

A Luksa Back at Texas Stadium

For the last little while, the great Frank Luksa — who’s written for every single local daily in the history of ink, danged near — has been contributing to ESPN.com. For instance, a couple of months back, he offered up tales from Dallas Cowboys’ training camps past. This morning, as…