Mark Cuban took a break from dodging another bullet on Dancing With the Stars to speak with SI.com’s Luke O’Brien about the Benefactor’s new mixed martial show on HDNet. O’Brien, a former columnist for the Village Voice Media chain, wrote a great piece on MMA earlier this year for Washington…
Norm Hitzges, probably the second most famous grad from Canisius College So, we just gave KTCK-AM (1310) 10 a.m.-noon host Norm Hitzges one our prestigious, delicious and lightly smoked Best of Dallas® awards — “Best Local Sports Radio Show,” natch. Which means nothing, no doubt, compared to the latest honor…
Schutze, it looks like we’ve found the people behind the Trinity River toll road. This is the Citizens Council, right? I don’t see Steve Blow, though. Maybe one of these kind folks can point him out. –Robert Wilonsky…
The Dallas Morning News story about the Trinity toll road referendum campaign finance reports, which was buried yesterday inside the Metro section, did a fine job of not telling anybody anything. Anybody grateful? Late in the day Tuesday, long after The News had published its story, the City Secretary finally…
Gregg Eklin was one of the only guys on the Rangers’ payroll who did his job well. So of course Tom Hicks had him canned. Terrell Owens’ humility coach. Marion Jones’ image consultant. Lindsay Lohan’s liver. And at the top of the list of the world’s most difficult jobs: Senior…
The Washington Post reports this morning that the NCAA’s “death penalty” is dead — thanks to what it did to SMU, which hasn’t been to a bowl game since 1984 and is a woeful 1-4 this season. Coach Phil Bennett, who is 17-42 during his six years on the Hilltop,…
James Chippendale James Chippendale is the president of Dallas-based CSI Entertainment Insurance, which provides liability coverage for concerts — among them, Pearl Jam, the Dixie Chicks, the Austin City Limits Music Festival and Lollapalooza. CSI’s offices are on Taylor Street in Deep Ellum, but you won’t find him there in…
Writer-director Tony Gilroy’s Michael Clayton is easily one of the better films of the year — a taut, smart legal thriller starring George Clooney as a broken “fixer” at a law firm and Tilda Swinton as the in-house counsel for the agrochemical company that manufactures lethal fertilizer. Swinton’s character, Karen…
We’ve been told to run more pictures of Zac Efron, Hannah Montana and the Jonas Brothers to attract that hard-to-lure ‘tweener audience, so here goes nothing. When High School Musical 2 debuted in August on the Disney Channel, it shattered all kinds of cable-TV ratings records: Some 17.2 million people…
Nice to see KTVT-Channel 11 back in the news business: After being first to send word that the federal indictments were on the way in the City Hall corruption case, Channel 11 breaks the news that the FBI has warned area law enforcement officials to watch their backs, as the…
Hate to be the continual bearer of bad news regarding horse racing, a sport I truly do love and grew up around, so consider this a public service announcement to all you degenerate gamblers out there: Jockey Roman Chapa, who has been one of the top 10 riders at Lone…
Back in February, Texas Syndicate member Ernesto Medrano and some 20 of his fellow gang members were in a Dallas federal courtroom receiving multi-year prison sentences for importing hundreds of kilos of cocaine into the U.S. — using military transport flights from Columbia to Ft. Bliss, Texas. But the convictions…
I’d just finished my chai latte — Black Forest, never Starbucks — when the inimitable Robert Wilonsky appeared at my office door, his bone-toned striped shirt just the right kind of rumpled (it could only be Ralph Lauren). Wilonsky needed something. That gruff, sulky bear of a journalist, long an…
If you were too exhausted and/or exhilarated and/or inebriated after last night’s Cowboys comeback to stay up for ESPN’s on-field post-game analysis, shame on you. Because, in his own incredibly awkward way, expert Emmitt Smith was almost as entertaining as the game. As usual, there were a million hiccups and…
As the 35th anniversary of The Grape approaches October 26, new chef-owner Brian Luscher — fresh from his successful shift as chef at TPC Craig Ranch golf club — is team-building. His newest acquisition is sous chef Jennifer Schaertl. Graduate of El Centro Culinary School. Current of Suze (for one…
Just 11 months ago, Arizona’s Nick Folk was named Pac-10 Football Player of the Week. Now, he’s a burgeoning NFL legend. Five interceptions. Three freak touchdowns. Two Terrell Owens drops. And, finally, after a crazy Cowboys game that will rank alongside the Hail Mary on the list of cliffhanger climaxes,…
The Metro brief in today’s Dallas Morning News doesn’t do justice to Hooters’ media release yesterday, in which the chain announced that after a two-and-a-half-year legal battle, it can now sell beer at its South Arlington location. (It claims it gave away some $1.2 million in beer while fighting for…
Little more than a year ago, a federal judge in Dallas gave the U.S. Secret Service the go-ahead to seize religious pamphlets from the Denton-based Great News Network ministry. Mind you, the Secret Service had nothing against the content of the tracts, just the cover — a mock million-dollar bill,…
Especially this morning. Tony Romo’s QB rating might have been a woeful 49.9 against the Buffalo Bills, what with his throwing the ball away five times and fumbling it away once, but his Q rating’s clearly much, much higher. But, c’mon — Rowdy? –Robert Wilonsky…
Wow. A Dallas Morning News two-fer today. On both the front page and the Metro front, stories about the Trinity toll road issue that represent more or less the exact opposite of the truth. Those boys are workin’ overtime on this. The really bad one was Bruce Tomaso’s story on…
The NFL Network is now Jerry Jones’ problem. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has tapped the Dallas Cowboys owner and GM to head up the league’s NFL Network committee, which is trying to get the net into more and more homes — as well as on your cell phone, iPod, satellite…
Maybe tonight’s Dallas Cowboys win and first 5-0 start in almost 25 years will ease the sting, but there’s a local sports celeb absolutely making a fool of himself on TV these days. No, not Mark Cuban. It’s another Dancing With the Stars contestant, third-season winner Emmitt Smith. If you…
