One player wore low-top running shoes and – duh – sprained his ankle. A guy in only a diaper was escorted out by security. And, in the end, the teen-aged girls reduced the middle-aged men to a hapless puddle of fart-and-fall-down. In other words, The Ticket’s game against a group of Lake…
Earlier this afternoon, I spoke with Joel Elliott, the Canton-based attorney for Caruth Byrd, who, for the last two years, has been embroiled in a contentious legal battle with Aubrey Mayhew over which man owns the actual sniper’s perch lifted long ago from the Texas School Book Depository. Alas, as…
So says the Texas Tech athletics Web site this afternoon, as the Red Raiders make it official: Tech and Baylor are moving their next two games up to North Texas sooner than later. As in: This year, on November 28, the Red Raiders and Bears won’t play in Waco, as…
A Friend of Unfair Park who wonders where all the Jessica Simpson-Tony Romo talk’s done gone to passes along a link to Joe Simpson’s Twitter page, which he used earlier this week to refute a National Enquirer story that claims he’s been trying to bust up the Dallas Cowboys QB’s…
Friends of Unfair Park first met Hal Samples’s harmonica-playing pal Benjamin Ford — better known as ScrapIron — back in November 2006, when we posted an excerpt from Hal’s doc-in-progress Dreamtown, about the homeless in Dallas. But earlier this month, ScrapIron died — without a cent to his name, without…
Yet again, Friend of Unfair Park PeterK is kind enough to point our attention to a vintage Dallas photo selling for pennies on the dollar on eBay. This one’s an especially action-packed shot taken on January 14, 1950, when the H.L. Green Department Store in the Wilson Building suffered a…
Since I rip Ken Hamlin’s birthday parties and Martellus Bennett’s rap videos, guess I should lay into Leonard Davis’ band as well. Wait, Leonard Davis is in a rock band? I saw Dallas Cowboys’ offensive lineman Marc Columbo at a Godsmack concert at the Palladium in 2006 and wondered what he’d…
I was glancing at the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees’ meeting agenda for Thursday when I espied this intriguing item: Acceptance of Donation from United Way of Metropolitan Dallas in the Amount of $1,005,000 to Support Destination: Graduation. Seems awfully generous, which is why I called United Way…
As we mentioned a few weeks back, the mayor’s looking to get Dallas residents to turn out the lights for a solid hour Saturday night, beginning at 8:30, as part of the World Wildlife Fund’s Earth Hour 2009. Initially, only the downtown skyline was scheduled for the blackout, but Meranda…
It’s new-comics Wednesday … not so’s I’d know, um, swear. But it does provide this opportunity to point out that Lone Star Comics’ general manager Chris Powell is among those cited at length in a new Publishers Weekly report from the just-wrapped ComicsPRO convention in Memphis, where comic-book retailers insisted…
Last time we mentioned Blockbuster — on Friday, when CEO Jim Keyes was overheard lamenting the poor product Hollywood puts on its shelves — Friends and strangers used the opportunity to bash the business model. Chief among the complaints: historically high rental prices, it ain’t Netflix, time limits on rentals,…
Dear LeBron James, Just ask, and I’m sure Dancing With The Stars will have you on their ridiculously cheesy show next season. I’m sure millions of potato-chip snackin’ housewives would be fixated on your every silly, pre-fabricated step. But as a basketball fan, I demand you immediately cease and desist with your…
Today Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price made some progress in his legal battle against Dallas County Judge Jim Foster, who has been ordered to submit to a deposition so that Price might investigate whether he wishes to pursue a defamation claim against Foster for statements he made to the…
Dustee Tucker, spokesperson for Victory Park, forwards along a statement from Hillwood Investments CEO Todd Platt, who addresses — sort of — that German Financial Times story that reports Hillwood is close to defaulting on a $185 million loan:Hillwood operates several highly diversified, well capitalized groups of companies with many…
The case of Caruth C. Byrd v. Aubrey Mayhew — so named for the two men fighting over the infamous “sniper’s perch” long ago removed from the Texas School Book Depository — was scheduled to go to trial last month. But as you may recall, it was delayed until April…
A little while ago, a Friend of Unfair Park forwarded along a piece from the Deutschland version of Financial Times detailing the potentially big trouble brewing at Victory Park, where, it appears, Hillwood is in danger of defaulting on a $185 million loan. Steve Brown has more or less rewritten…
The short film below, posted to YouTube by Frank Librio at Dallas City Hall, isn’t actually a city-made production. Rather, Librio tells Unfair Park, Destination Dallas is a Quin Matthews Films production made for the Dallas Citizens Council, which touted corporate relocations to the city during a recent power luncheon…
A little radio industry birdie just chirped to me that the Dallas Mavericks and 103.3 ESPN have reached an agreement keeping the team in place through 2013. The Mavs would’ve become radio free agents after the current deal expired on April 1, but the sides finalized a new four-year contract on Monday…
In recent days — at least, ever since this item ran — I’ve gotten, oh, maybe 15 e-mails from so-called Neiman Marcus insiders claiming the company’s close to collapse and, at the very least, preparing for yet another round of deep, painful layoffs. Someone posted such a comment to Unfair…
More good news for Cowboys fans this morning comes courtesy of Julius Jones and Jacques Reeves. Remember them? Because the former Cowboys left via free agency and played kinda decent, the NFL has awarded Dallas compensatory picks in the fifth and sixth rounds in next month’s draft. The Cowboys, thanks…
Our AFI Dallas International Film Festival sneak peek runs in the paper version of Unfair Park tomorrow, and, admittedly, it’s woefully incomplete: so little space, so many movies worth recommending from an impressively strong roster of offerings this third go-round. So over the course of the fest’s run, we’ll post…
YouTube’r “pmichaelsummer” has tips, many tips for folks looking to bike Dallas without getting smooshed by speeding cars. Hence, this page of “vehicular cycling techniques” from such hotspots as Lemmon-McKinney, East Dallas, Deep Ellum and elsewhere. The following one’s a significantly abbreviated version of a longer downtown trek, culminating with…
