The good: Cowboys cornerback Terence Newman is running around the field in warm-ups. Looks like he’ll play, but I bet he won’t start. The bad: Texas Stadium is blaring that annoying and — at least I thought — forgotten “Um-buh-rella-uh” song. Ay. Ay. Ay.– Richie Whitt…
Great for any media room. Or, for that matter, any room. Can’t help but be nostalgic as you walk around this ol’ joint before its final Monday Night Football game. My family had season tickets on the 8-yard line back when it opened in ’71. But, alas, we’re upon a…
*Emmitt Smith is getting his sweaty brow dabbed from some ESPN underling. Apparently he’s about to provide some insight on the network’s pre-game show. Brace yourself. You’re about to endure one of the planet’s most unique translations of the English language. *Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb just jogged onto the field…
I think the post-game shows will center around a Cowboys’ blowout. As for the pre-game, ESPN will air a Jerry Jones-guided tour of his new Jonestown Coliseum. And halftime looks like it will be a nod to Hispanic Heritage Month, with mariachi dancers and, of course, the Cowboys’ cheerleaders. Expect…
Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo has arrived safely. He just took the field in his long-sleeved white shirt and — surprise — backwards cap. You knew it was him when the stadium speakers started blaring Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing.”– Richie Whitt…
You are looking live! At a mostly empty Texas Stadium! Check. Check. Testing. Sportatorium live blogging to commence in 3 … 2 … 1 … Parking lots: Packed. Stadium: Sparse. Field: Honestly, it’s uglier than ever. Old, dilapidated Texas Stadium will soon be a hole in the roof that becomes…
In the May 15 paper version of Unfair Park, we danced around the notion of Crow Holdings spearheading an effort that would allow taxpayers to have a say in their financing, to the tune of $550 million, a convention center hotel. Since then, the creation of a political action committee…
Brad Meltzer Attorney-turned-novelist Brad Meltzer has two audiences: those who’ve made his legal and political thrillers (among them, The Zero Game and The First Counsel) best-sellers; and those who regard him as the man who more or less remade DC Comics in his own image, with such titles as Identity…
About a month ago, CBS introduced Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader Starr Spangler and her on-Broadway brother Nick as two of the contestants on The Amazing Race, the 13th season of which debuts September 28. By way of further introduction, the twosome made the official howdy-do video below, in which the Horned…
Back in March, we mentioned that Shared Hope International would be releasing over the course of the year 10 reports dealing with domestic minor sex trafficking and law enforcement officials’ varied responses to reports of children being sold as sex slaves. The report dealing with Dallas will be the final…
Just so happens we took this photo yesterday, during a stroll in Rawhide Park in Farmers Branch. On Friday, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Immigrants’ Rights Project and the ACLU of Texas filed a complaint in Dallas federal court in…
The city council’s meeting this morning to discuss their suggested amendments to Mary Suhm’s proposed FY 2008-’09 budget, a more or less complete list of which is available here. Among the items most often cited on the council members’ wish lists: keeping the zoo open during the one day out…
For the last little while, the great Frank Luksa — who’s written for every single local daily in the history of ink, danged near — has been contributing to ESPN.com. For instance, a couple of months back, he offered up tales from Dallas Cowboys’ training camps past. This morning, as…
Jeff Pearlman’s book about the ’90s Cowboys may be better, but mine is, um, older? Don’t know if you’ve heard, but there’s a little tussle between a couple decent football teams at Texas Stadium in, oh, about nine hours. If you’re more intellectual ponderer than face-painter, I’ve got a heavy-reading…
Thousands of Liverpool FC fans took to the streets on Saturday night to protest Tom Hicks’ ownership of their beloved, beleaguered team — 4,000 folks, by some counts, or the same number of people expected to turn out total for Texas Rangers home games between now and the season’s blessed…
Nice photo of Tracy Rowlett in this morning’s New York Times, in a story about Chesapeake Energy Corporation’s Shale.tv, due to launch sometime this month. As you no doubt recall, the former KTVT-Channel 11 anchor doesn’t take kindly to folks who dismiss the site as an online informercial for the…
The lead from the Associated Press’ story about Dallas buy-and-sell billionaire Sam Wyly, out promoting his book Entrepreneur to Billionaire: 1,000 Dollars & an Idea: “Sam Wyly went from growing up in a house without electricity to amassing a fortune estimated at $1.2 billion, and he says anyone can follow…
On Thursday, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra will world premiere composer Steven Stucky and librettist Gene Scheer’s August 4, 1964, which is about one day in the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson — the day Johnson order the first bombing of North Vietnam, and the day the bodies of slain civil…
From Belo-owned KHOU-Channel 11 in Houston, an early Ike highlight. Coming in a close second, Geraldo all fall down. –Robert Wilonsky…
Probably should have seen this coming back in July, when Tanna Gilder e-mailed Unfair Park with the assurance that, look, Bar of Soap isn’t closed — even though, yeah, there were some issues that needed to be hashed out with the landlord and so forth. And only last week Charlie…
Last night, WFAA-Channel 8 ran a piece by Brett Shipp about some Cooke County residents in Era who don’t want a natural gas waste injection well installed in their backyard, which the Railroad Commission of Texas approved over their protests that it would increase traffic and muck up their idyllic…
Sorry, soccer is not available on this afternoon’s buffet. Or, really, ever. … I’m going to Eagles-Cowboys Monday night. Anyone interested in reading some live blogging from the game? Would look and feel something like this, but posted in real time. Seems like multiple multi-tasking to both watch the game…
