Nick Fazekas, during one of his five minutes of playing time with Your Dallas Mavericks Consider this your biannual Nick Fazekas update. Mere moments ago, the Mavericks’ second-round draft pick was named an All-Star — a D-League All-Star, sure, but still. The 6-11 Fazekas, drafted 34th overall by Dallas last…
Nuh-unh. Say it ain’t so, Juan. Really, a comeback? That’s what it says here: The most storied and sorry slugger in Texas Rangers history is aiming to make it back to the bigs, this time with the St. Louis Cardinals, who are apparently out of live bodies. Reports the St…
New York Giants Two things come to mind after watching one of the biggest upsets in Super Bowl history: It’s satisfying that Bill Belicheat and the Patriots can put a sock in their undefeated, best-ever bravado. And didja catch the head coach’s chicken shit escape with two seconds remaining? What…
Maybe we should just use this season to celebrate the 30th anniversary of this storied Rangers team. Maybe it’s just me, but shouldn’t Your Texas Rangers at least be faking like they give a damn about the upcoming season? Using last year’s “You Could Use Some Baseball” slogan again this…
Josh Howard’s Cribs segment was on MTV last night — the Mav showed off his Cantoni, his Vitamin Water, his “lazy river” pool, his tricked-up ’73 Chevy Impala and what appears to be the world’s largest collection of caps. And his degree from Wake Forest, because “I’m an educated black…
You’d be mad. Pounding your fist into an open palm. Mumbling under your breath about a lack of respect, unfair popularity contests and skewed reputations. You’d do all that. That is, if you’d only been paying attention to the Mavericks’ suddenly successful season. But to most Dallas sports fans still…
This is how much they hate Tom Hicks in England: Fans of Liverpool FC are trying to buy the team out from under him. Beginning today, the Web site Share Liverpool FC will go live, and a group of rabid Reds supporters will begin the task of begging some 100,000…
It’s a pea soupy kind of Saturday. Damp, frigid, foggy. The kind of day fit for jolly ol’ London, not the Texas Rangers’ Fan Fest in Arlington. Baseball caps ‘n’ gloves are replaced by the winter variety. Cold beer is finishing second to hot chocolate. The field—splotched with hideous hues…
Brian Harkin Bosh, back at Lincoln High School in 2006 Dunno if you’ve seen Lincoln High School grad Chris Bosh’s YouTube sensation, in which the Toronto Raptor begs you to send him to the NBA All-Star Game in New Orleans on February 17. Turns out, some 447,300 have peeked at…
Do you really wanna see Jason Kidd as a Maverick again? Depends on what Dallas has to give up, doesn’t it? While one familiar face is departing, two more may be returning. President Bush delivered his seventh and final State of the Union last night, prompting interruptions for applause a…
Terrell Owens might be a Dallas Cowboy, but according to The Philadelphia Inquirer today, he owes the Philadelphia Eagles about $800,000. Turns out an arbitrator ruled Friday that the Eagles could indeed collect on some of that signing bonus Owens’ former team claimed he forfeited in 2005, when he was…
Back in 1999, Josh Hamilton was selected by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays with the No. 1 pick in the draft. He was fresh out of high school, where he dominated at the plate, and on the mound Hamilton had all the tools, including a mid-90s fastball. All I ever…
The program from the Ballpark’s sole hosting of MLB’s All-Star extravaganza Spent a cold, damp, freaky foggy Saturday at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington for the team’s annual mid-winter Fan Fest. Biggest news: A li’l baseball birdie told me the Rangers are in the process of officially bidding to host the…
Two weeks ago I linked to the heartbreaking Clayton Holmes profile, penned for ESPN.com’s Page 2 by Jeff Pearlman, who’s the author of two sports books (about the ’86 New York Mets and Barry Bonds). As Pearlman noted in the article, he uncovered Holmes’ story while working on a book…
Is it me, or does HKS’ new Liverpool stadium look like a flattened Texas Stadium? Now that Tom Hicks and his Canadian partner in Liverpool FC have secured the dough with which to refinance their investment in the storied franchise, it’s on to building that long-promised £300 million Stanley Park…
What have we done to deserve this? I mean, other than subsisting as a shallow, materialistic glob of humanity more obsessed with fake boobs than genuine heart. Other than being soulless, choking off Deep Ellum, tearing down the historic Hard Rock building and orchestrating Trinity River genocide. Other than being…
Toothpaste for Dinner As I wrote in this week’s paper version of Unfair Park, something’s going on here. And it ain’t good. Just like that, “Happy New Year” has dissolved into “Same Old Shit.” Our sports rut is deeper and dryer than ever. South Oak Cliff High School has forfeited…
This has become the iconic image concerning Liverpool FC fans’ sentiments toward Tom Hicks. Tom Hicks and his Canadian padnuh in Liverpool FC are, at long last, close to finalizing their refinancing of the storied franchise — much to the chagrin of Liverpool fans, who want the Texas Rangers and…
Been a few days since there’s been any Jessica Simpson … uh … “news,” but here’s a tidbit worth a mention: Today comes conflicting word concerning her new country album, which she’s set to record in Nashville. One source says Yoko Romo wants nothing more than for Cowboys QB Tony…
Schellas Hyndman, his name is my name too. This guy? Nope. The new coach? Uh-uh. We’re talking the most successful athletics teacher in all of SMU, one Schellas Hyndman. Hyndman, with more wins (466) than any coach in school history, was last weekend named this year’s recipient of the National…
A couple months back — or, the first time Tom Hicks was protested by Liverpool FC fans — I mentioned something about how, ya know, maybe it’d be a nice idea to start a petition calling for Hicks to sell the Texas Rangers. Liverpool fans, rallying right now in England,…
Says in this media release that tomorrow, former Dallas Cowboy Everson Walls and current Washington Redskin Shawn Springs will make an appearance in the George L. Allen Sr. Courts Building New Tower Ceremonial Courtroom on Commerce Street downtown. Only, this is no autograph session: The two will be joined by…
