His Flamingo Fadeaway on the mound with a basketball was funny. And his cartoonish, exaggerated Max Patkin-like delivery was funnier. Dirk Nowitzki on Friday night was the best thing on a Rangers’ pitching mound in a while. Only thing better would’ve been if Michael Young’s leaping catch wouldn’t have saved Captain…
Alexi Ogando has suddenly produced three consecutive outings of five innings or less. Fourth outfielder David Murphy just went 1 of 9 to drop his average to .233. And the Rangers have lost 12 of their last 19 — including 3-3 on a homestand against the Astros and Mets — in…
Determining the best Mavs’ pick of all-time is simple: Dirk Nowitzki. You know the story. In 1998 then-general manager Don Nelson took the giant German in a draft-day switcheroo with the Milwaukee Bucks for the late, not-so-great Robert “Tractor” Trayor. Just a week after their championship parade climaxed in the…
Arizona forward Derrick Williams is a beast. He has 3-point shooting range, can score in the paint with either hand and has an NBA body that can bang and rebound on the low blocks. And that’s it. The rest of the 2011 NBA Draft class: Weak to questionable. Yes, even projected…
Was gonna construct a list of the Rangers’ worst losses this season, then I realized after last night’s 5-3 self-Heimlich to the Houston Astros … there is no No. 2.Two-run lead in the 9th. All-Star closer Neftali Feliz on the mound. At home. Against the worst team in baseball. And one…
I had the audacity to write the truth about Charles Haley. And this was my castigation. Between 1992 and 1994, I made a lot of visits to the Cowboys’ locker room at Valley Ranch. On most of them, I was serenaded by Charles Haley, one of the baddest people and…
Answer: Nope…
While contemplating defensive coordinator Dwane Casey’s departure to be the Toronto Raptors’ head coach and whom they should take with the 26th pick in Thursday’s NBA Draft, a couple more Mavs-related items buzzed through my brain this week. 1. Who from the championship team should have their number raised to the roof in…
First place, thanks to 1st base. With his 11th-inning homer to beat the looming storm last night in Arlington, Mitch Moreland not only provided a walk-off win over the Houston Astros but also further cemented our confidence that he’s the Rangers’ 1st baseman of the present, and the future. It’s been…
As I watched Mitch Moreland’s gargantuan, 472-foot homer sail into the soon-to-be stormy June night, I was reminded that the Rangers-Astros’ fight should be stopped on account of inhumane bludgeonry. Moreland’s blast — tied for third-longest in baseball this season — capped an 8-3 Texas cakewalk that continued its dominance…
So what do you give the man who — all the sudden — has everything? You throw him a surprise birthday party at a discreet wine room and invite 41 guests, including a Nobel Prize winner he’s never met. After getting serenaded with “Happy Birthday” by a post-parade American Airlines Center crowd…
When we last left our Rangers they and pitcher Derek Holland were clubbed around in New York by the Yankees. Not, no last Wednesday. Way back on April 16.It was hours after the Rangers’ 5-2 loss in the Bronx that Saturday afternoon that the Mavericks rallied in the last six minutes…
And here I thought most Friends of Unfair Park were spent from yesterday’s festivities. Apparently not: Several have suggested we post the YouPlusDallas recap from the Mavs’ downtown parade and post-game festivities at the American Airlines Center — and who am I to argue, given that Jun Kang and Justin…
Pardon the delay — our photographer Mike Mezeul II was among those stranded on DART trying to make his way home from the American Airlines Center following this morning’s parade and the VIP after-party at the AAC. But in just a few we’ll have the entirety of his slide show…
After hanging out along the parade route for a while this morning, Nick and I ducked into the convention center for what we’d been told would be a half-hour interview session with the Mavs before they floated their way to the AAC.Little did we know we’d be cooling our heels…
Rick Carlisle just called Dirk Nowitzki “the best basketball player on the planet.” Screw it, let’s go with it. And, for the record, Carlisle did smile. And DeShawn Stevenson did show up, smoking a victory seeegar. Jason Kidd: “We already got this championship. Now we gotta go get that next one.”…
My personal fave: No. 9 from J.J. “Bareeia” — The congratulatory sext from Anthony Weiner…
Early this morning Mavs fans packed the intersection of Griffin and Young, setting up chairs and coolers and settling in behind the barricade along the first block of the parade’s route. And there, amongst the growing throng, was none other than the ubiquitous Robert Crawford — better known, simply, as…
10. It was a simple offensive rebound and putback layup off the glass, but when Shawn Marion produced it at the end of the third quarter on April 25 it gave the Mavericks a 14-point lead over the Blazers in crucial Game 5 of the first round, and it restored…
Last night I finally had the chance to read the new issue of Rolling Stone, which happens to feature a feature by former Observer-er Jesse Hyde, who decamped for his native Utah a couple of years back. The story’s a good one: “America’s Most Twisted Crime Family: Inside a Mormon…
Please don’t take this as a complaint. More of an — as I do from time to time, and always — observation. I love my job(s). Getting paid to attend sporting events is all I ever wanted to do since the day I realized I’d grow up to be too short…
Interviewed Mavericks’ guard DeShawn Stevenson on 105.3 The Fan yesterday afternoon about 2:45. He sounded happy. But not drunk. Listen for yourself. My first question: “Have you gotten over your Finals’ hangover yet?” His answer: “Not really.” In the wake of the Mavericks’ NBA championship he talked about hating the…
