Only days before the beginning of baseball season, Tom Hicks is, apparently, already down a strike: Something called FINAlternatives, which serves up hedge fund and private equity news, reports this morning that Hicks Sports Group — the holding company for all of Hicks’s sports-related ventures, including the Texas Rangers and…
Shortly before the bond market went straight to hell, boys, Texas Instruments snapped up $524 million worth of auction rate securities from Citigroup, BNY Capital Markets and Morgan Stanley. TI says, yeah, it knew maybe — pardon, “possibly” — that there was some “fail” potential, but, still, it was promised…
After all, this is The Sportatorium. Right? I grew up watching Saturday Night Wrestling on Channel 11. While the adults played Canasta the kids were banished to the TV room, where we couldn’t wait for Bill Mercer on the black-and-white Zenith. I remember Blackjack Mulligan and Frtiz Von Erich and…
For those willing to fight through the poor video quality, I condensed my footage from yesterday’s city council meeting, where Angela Hunt and Mayor Tom Leppert had different ideas about how the report from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers affects the city’s plans to jam a toll road in…
Long story short: I’m a sucker for old kids’ books for the 5-year-old who lives in my house. Probably buy a handful every month at Half Price Books, and ’bout a month ago, via BoingBoing, I discovered Vintage Kids’ Books My Kid Loves, which became the reason I spent the…
The National Register of Historic Places just started posting its photographic archives on Flickr — and, thus far, the sole spot in the Texas set is Fair Park, photos of which went up just this morning. And, again I ask: Why are we wasting the best concert venue in town?…
I’m 44. But I’m about to sound 84. It was a better world when paddling was a part of school. A safer world when “licks” between a teacher and student were punishment rather than perverted pleasure. Hear me out: I’m not condoning the 21 “licks” allegedly applied to the backside…
On Monday the Texas Senate passed two bills related to drunken driving. The first would mandate statewide sobriety checkpoints; the second would allow police officers to draw blood from DWI suspects. The other sexually oriented newspaper in town focused on the sobriety checkpoints and mentioned that the blood draws would…
GlobeSt.com has local restaurateur Ed Bailey’s latest set of plans for Dallas-Fort Worth dining domination, and they include four more Bailey’s Prime Plus steak houses (including one in that Park Lane development) and three more Patrizio locations … before the end of 2009, no foolin’. And there could even be…
Okay, now I’m intrigued. For all the Texas Rangers’ promise of a better future, yesterday they made moves geared at providing fans an improved today. I squawked last week about the Rangers not being serious – much less serious contenders – if they trotted out really average re-runs like Frank Catalanotto and…
After taking a long, hard look at this morning’s Quick cover, Unfair Park would like to take this opportunity to welcome Dallas Morning News Managing Editor George Rodrigue to the sexually oriented weekly tabloid business. As a member of this elite journalism club, George, you and A.H. Belo upper management…
The headline in this morning’s New York Times reads like something out of The Onion: “Virtual Leagues Fold, Forcing Gamers to Find Actual Jobs.” Alas, ’tis true — and the man at the center of the story is Dallas’s own Emmanuel Rodriguez, a 23-year-old professional video-game player and world champ…
On DMNCuts, word is A.H. Belo Corp. will start trimming staff at The Dallas Morning News early next week. Which will be followed on May 1 by pay cuts for all: Robert Decherd this morning sent a “Letter to Colleagues” in which the A.H. Belo chairman, CEO and president announced…
In this week’s column in the dead tree version of Sportatorium I maintain that NASCAR drivers aren’t athletes. Conversely, Texas Motor Speedway grand poobah Eddie Gossage counterpoints that not only are drivers supremely athletic, but more fit than even soccer players. Got me to thinking: Which sport truly has the world’s…
For someone who doesn’t have any actual money, Buzz lately has been mighty interested—obsessed even—with the stock market. We check the Dow Jones about a zillion times a day, pulling for positive numbers like craps players around a table hollering for a hard eight. We can only imagine what things…
“Forest Grumps,” by Alexa Schirtzinger, March 19 the Money Tree I enjoyed your article on the tree problems with Dallas City Hall. It looks to me like there should be a follow-up on where the money went. Thanks for this article. I have long felt that our city government was…
I’m going to screw up, Andrea says to herself as she walks a straight line in front of a Dallas police officer. Only hours into what was supposed to be a relaxing Memorial Day weekend, Andrea is on the side of the road near the bar she just left on…
Eddie Gossage thinks I’m an April Fool. Texas Motor Speedway’s president told me so—in no uncertain terms—when I trial-ballooned my thesis that NASCAR drivers aren’t athletes. “You’ve lost your mind,” Gossage retorted from his office overlooking TMS, home to this weekend’s Samsung 500 out in Fort Worth. “That’s the dumbest…
Jim’s opted to wait till the a.m. to post concerning the Corps’ report, but his quick take: “The worse gets worser.” Sam’s also got priceless video coming early Thursday. Which gives everyone time to get their head around these docs. So, speaking of which, the last of the documents worth…
OK, so after the jump you’ll find all the appendices from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Trinity River Floodway Report — including all the photos and maps and cost breakdowns (“breakdown” being the operative word) you’ll ever need. But below is the letter the Corps sent to the city…
Schutze and Merten are at Dallas City Hall at this very moment, where the city council has been briefed in private concerning the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Periodic Inspection Report of the Trinity River floodway. It’s a massive document consisting of not only the 66-page report, but also 21…
About a month ago in this cover story Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban told me his team didn’t fear a first-round NBA Playoff matchup with the Los Angeles Lakers. “The Lakers don’t intimidate us at all,” Cuban maintains. “In the West it’s going to come down to whoever stays the healthiest…
