Perhaps I missed this elsewhere, but in the wake of Saturday night’s announcement concerning Tom Hicks’s having hammered out a deal with Pittsburgh attorney Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan — otherwise known as the Rangers Baseball Express — there’s news that the deal’s anything but done. It comes from the…
I know you know better, still …This morning, a good Friend of Unfair Park forwarded along an e-mail he received from a rather legit-looking company based up north promising that it can take care of all your ticketing and hotel needs for the Super Bowl when it comes to Cowboys…
As if to underscore the fact that he’s a guy who can do it all for the team, Dirk Nowitzki took a seat in the American Airlines Center ticket booth this afternoon to sell the first tickets to next month’s NBA All-Star Jam Session.After contributing 20 points to the Mavs’…
10. Pierre Garcon > Roy Williams. Cool that he and his AFC Championship Game-record 11 catches are from Haiti. But what’s with the cocky little tail under the C in his last name? 9. Any old French garson > Roy Williams. 8. Is it just me, or does CBS analyst…
I know exactly what Mavs owner Mark Cuban means when he says that when it comes to parties, the upcoming All-Star Weekend “will make the Super Bowl look like a bar mitzvah.” Because I had my bar mitzvah at AMPM in the Mosaic on North Akard downtown, and hip-hop comer…
No Jason Kidd. No Erick Dampier. No momentum. No prisoners. Was dilly-daddling around the house yesterday with a rare Sunday off (thanks, Cowboys). Had the Mavs-Knicks on the TV and it was something like 35-30 early in the second quarter. Next thing I know Roddy Beaubois is raining 3-pointers and…
No need to ask Lisa LeMaster for any further comment this time around — the press release below, just sent out by Texas Rangers spokesman John Blake, is all we’re going to get about the consummation of the “complex business deal” that’s one step closer to putting Tom Hicks’s ball…
Anyone who loves baseball ’round these parts knows the name Bobby Bragan — his association with the Fort Worth Cats alone (in the late ’40s and early ’50s, then again in ’05) was enough to make him legend, not to mention his years playing and managing in the big leagues…
I’m generally considered a pissy guy with a half-glass-empty view of the world around attacking me. But there are times when I can be joyfully hopeful. The Cowboys’ season ended with a resounding 34-3 thud, but there were plenty of warm-n-fuzzy moments to keep us both satisfied about ’09 and…
The Cowboys won’t be in Miami for Super Bowl XLIV February 7, but Dallas will be represented all over South Beach in the form of the latest and greatest in safe, sassy transportation – VAULT. I saw this thing – it’s like a giant combo limousine/Hummer/armored truck – pull up to a…
I was wrong. Not about the Minnesota Vikings beating the Dallas Cowboys, mind you. That one I nailed. My mistake was predicting that—short of a Super Bowl appearance—head coach Wade Phillips wouldn’t return in 2010 and beyond. Even in the wake of an embarrassing 34-3 dismissal from the NFC Playoffs…
When we last left your Dallas Mavericks – this is Cowboys’ country, right? – they were opening the NBA season with a humbling 11-point loss to the Washington Wizards. Tonight they travel to D.C. for … revenge? Naw, just to open the second half of the season. In between wars with…
Whether you view it the continuation of tangible progression or merely a continuity of mediocrity, Wade Phillips is back as the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys. A three-year deal is imminent. Simple question …..
Though I and some crafty old-timers think it’s a bad move, Wade Philllips will be back as head coach of the Dallas Cowboys. Yawn. The bar for Cowboys’ football has been lowered further than I expected. Once upon a time this proud franchise – America’s Team, anyone? – measured success…
You think the current Dallas Cowboys are bumming today? Consider the plight of a former player, Dwayne Goodrich. You remember Goodrich. Couple years back he speeds through an accident scene on I-35 and kills two Good Samaritans. Ring a bell? Well, the good news for Goodrich is that in October…
Last week we put the biscuit in the basket with this rare look back at the Dallas Texans, our first pro hockey team. Which is why Friend of Unfair Park PeterK sends this latest look back at yet another beloved golden oldie on the auction block: the Dallas Tornado, three…
10. Does this feel like 1991 to anyone else? An empowering playoff win, followed by an embarrassing blowout playoff road loss, leading to disappointment but not necessarily discouragement? That year it was Detroit, 38-6. This year it is Minnesota, 34-3. In ’92 the Cowboys won the Super Bowl. In ’10 …..
Even though tickets go on sale Tuesday, there’s been no official announcement concerning the famous faces suiting up for the 2010 NBA All-Star Celebrity Game, which will take place February 12 at the Dallas Convention Center during the three-day Jam Session to be held in advance of the February 14…
I was there in February 1999 in Seattle for rookie Dirk Nowitzki’s first points as a Dallas Maverick. Still can’t believe I was at American Airlines Center last night for his 20,000th. Shortly after then-general manager Don Nelson acquired Dirk in a draft-day trade for Robert “Tractor” Traylor in ’98, the German…
Jerry Jones has had better teams. But not many better moments. Minutes after his team’s 34-14 shellacking of the Philadelphia Eagles last Saturday night in an NFC Wild Card Playoff Game at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, the Dallas Cowboys owner triumphantly marched toward the victorious locker room. On one arm,…
Everything I know about the Dallas Texans hockey team comes from The Handbook of Texas History’s Dallas Stars entry:Professional hockey in Dallas dates back to 1941, when the Dallas Texans joined the minor-league American Hockey Association. The debut occurred at Fair Park Ice Arena on November 6, 1941, when the…
As Brad Sham noted toward the end of yesterday’s presentation of the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee’s “Century in the Making” list at Woodrow Wilson High School, the thing ran a bit long — more than hour, and folks got a big fidgety. Shame. Because at the end…
