Tomorrow marks a major holiday — at least according to the folks at the AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic. Some four years back, the Cotton Bowl folks decided to commemorate the first Saturday in November as National College Football Day, so designated because on November 6, 1869, Rutgers defeated Princeton by…
WFAA-Channel 8 Sorry to disappoint, but I’m talking about this deceased equine, not that one. As I wrote in this week’s paper version of Unfair Park, Dale Hansen’s role in the 1980s SMU pay-for-play scandal made him more pariah than Peruna. He broke the story, which, coupled with the death…
For his role, Dale Hansen got death threats, extortion ploys and a dead bird. “It was a black crow delivered right to our office,” recalls Hansen, WFAA-Channel 8’s sports anchor. “It had a note pinned through its body: ‘You’re next.'” For its part, SMU football received even worse. A two-year…
What, you were expecting “Happy Halloween”? In the timeless words of Stuart Scott: Boo. Yah. It’s basketball season, damn it! The NBA actually tipped off last night, but Your Dallas Mavericks begin their 2007-’08 season tonight against the Cleveland LeBrons. I know, I know. Hard to get your basketball jones…
DallasCowboys.com The Dallas Cowboys’ holy trinity celebrated Tony Romo’s $67.5-million payday at a press conference today at Valley Ranch. On April 20, 1989, in Valley Ranch’s main meeting room, I attended a Dallas Cowboys press conference announcing the signing of their quarterback to a contract worth $11 million. On October…
Hell of a day for Tony Romo: First comes the news that he’s getting lap dances from Britney Spears (and, really, so can you at this point). Now, ESPN.com’s reporting that the Dallas Cowboys’ hot-shit QB has been offered “a six-year, $69 million contract extension, $31 million which is guaranteed,…
The Texas Rangers’ former “cooler,” once more trying to ruin somebody else’s good day We all know Alex Rodriguez — is all his disingenuous glory — tried to upstage the Boston Red Sox’s World Series championship by announcing, during the game, that he was opting out of his contract with…
Steve Orsini is very, very, very, very optimistic. A Friend of Unfair Park sends word that SMU’s athletic director, Steve Orsini, has popped on to Mustang Musings to post his own two cents concerning the firing of Phil Bennett and his 14-48 mustache. Very riveting stuff, as in: I mean…
Dallas Cowboys fans will find a troubling headline at People.com this morning: “Britney Spears Parties with Tony Romo.” That’s how he spent his bye weekend — and how she spent her Friday night, “after a long court hearing for her custody battle,” reports People. From the looks of it, he’s…
Irving High School’s Blake Beavan has Baseball America believing in Your Texas Rangers. Watching the Boston Red Sox take a 2-0 stranglehold on the Colorado Rockies last night, it struck me: How far — really now — are Your Texas Rangers from playing in a World Series? Honestly, I’m just…
Paul Lukas is obsessed with pro sports team’s uniforms — hence, his Uni Watch blog, updated daily, and his gig as ESPN.com’s uniform czar, a position maintained in these parts by KTCK-AM’s Craig Miller. This week, Lukas breaks down in exquisite detail the unis of Your Dallas Cowboys. Seems he…
Rod Price, by the way, was the guitarist for Foghat, whose “Slow Ride” the Dallas Cowboys QB apparently hasn’t mastered for Guitar Hero III. For those so inclined, below is something called TexasGamerTV’s brief coverage of the Tuesday-afternoon jam at Terence Newman’s house — and, yeah, the “Carmen” to whom…
The annual NBA.com general managers survey is out, and they’re hit-and-miss when it comes to Dallas Maverick Dirk Nowitzki. Of the seven ballers picked as MVP contenders, ain’t one of ’em named Dirk; instead, the GMs’ early-season picks are, in order, LeBron James, Tim Duncan, Kobe Bryant, Steve Nash, Kevin…
The devil arrives pushing a baby stroller. Dressed in fashionable shorts, snappy sandals and a black linen shirt, he shakes hands with parents, hugs cheerleaders and parks his future goddaughter in the front row of Bishop Lynch High School’s Roffino Stadium. Hardly looks the part of a lightning rod that…
ESPN the Magazine accompanied Terry “Tank” Johnson — the not-quite-yet-a Dallas Cowboy nose tackle — when he went to rent a Dallas apartment a couple of weeks back. Couple of things you learn from the story: One, he really wanted to live in The Ashton on Cedar Springs. And two,…
Mark Graham Steve Fleming, the former Special Olympics coach, laments the state of Lewisville’s delegation since his dismissal. The current issue of Sports Illustrated has a story on Steve Fleming, the firebrand Lewisville coach who tried to change the nature of the Special Olympics and was kicked out in the…
USA Boxing Duncanville’s Luis Yanez is already being hyped as USA Boxing’s best and brightest — we’ll find out this week in Chicago, just maybe. Duncanville High School product Luis Yanez turns a whopping 19 on Thursday, and as an early birthday present, the kid is the recipient of a…
Weird game yesterday: Dallas rolls into its bye week at 6-1 after yesterday’s 10-point victory over the Vikings that felt more than 30. Didn’t it? Tony Romo was 28 of 32 in the first half, yet somehow Dallas trailed by seven. The second half featured the Cowboys’ first return of…
Speaking of Tony Romo’s love life … A couple of weeks ago, Richie mentioned that Romo co-hosts a radio show every week from the Gaylord Texan. And it’s kind of awesome: Romo, usually dressed in a white tee and jeans, will talk about damned near anything he’s got on his…
In the upcoming issue of Entertainment Weekly, Carrie Underwood says, yeah, she and Dallas Cowboys QB Tony Romo were this close to being a couple. (This, after previously insisting they were just good friends.) But Romo wouldn’t commit — couldn’t, says the former American Idol, who’s now dating some other…
Dear Reporters, Because of the magnitude of yards and high volume of points surrendered by our defense this season, we will not be talking about our unit or the other unit. We will be taking all questions immediately following Sunday’s game against the Minnesota Vikings and second-year quarterback Tarvaris Jackson,…
The best reason to try out for the Dallas Desperados, we’re thinking. Scattershooting … while wondering whatever happened to this guy. The Lakers might be dumb enough to trade Kobe Bryant. But, sorry, Mavs fans, they aren’t stupid enough to deal him to a Western Conference team … If the…
