That’s it, the bandwagon is over-booked. Sent the kid back to school this morning. The Olympics are over. Josh Hamilton’s Triple Crown bid – remember that? – is just a fading, fuzzy summer memory. In other words: Are you ready for some football?! High school and colleges kick it off…
Harold Simmons, a vision in white Lots of Harold Simmons mentions in the news today; it started last night, actually and one can’t imagine why, judging from the ad after the jump, which links Barack Obama with former Weather Underground-er William Ayers, a subject discussed and more or less dismissed…
Rest in peace, No. 68. Sobering news this afternoon as former Dallas Cowboy Frank Cornish was found dead last night in his Southlake home of an apparent heart attack. Cornish, who would’ve been 41 next month, was just yesterday talking to former Cowboys about an upcoming mini-reunion. Players like Larry…
Lon Tinkle’s book The Key to Dallas has probably been out of print since its publication in 1965. Copies of the slim tome — written for now-defunct publishing house J. B. Lippincott & Co.’s “Keys to the Cities” series, which also included books about New York City, Rome, Paris and…
You asked for it, you got it. –Robert Wilonsky…
That’s what U.S. News & World Report says, anyway, in its latest ranking of the best colleges in the country. Which puts Southern Methodist behind BaylorRice, the University of Texas and Texas A&M when it comes to the other Texas universities on the list. But don’t feel left out, TCU:…
Dalton Sherman, a a fifth-grader at the Charles Rice Learning Center, was quite the hit at the Dallas Independent School District’s Believe/Achieve Back-To-School Kickoff at the American Airlines Center earlier this week. But the kid’s no rookie at making The Big Speech: Megan Feldman was in awe of the young…
Right now we’d settle for a preseason win, okay? The Cowboys don’t need to win tonight. But, seriously, they do need to at least look decent. Typically NFL teams use the third preseason game as the dress rehearsal for the regular season. So will be the case tonight when Dallas’…
Angela Hunt I know, right? On Wednesday, Paul Dyer, director of the Dallas Park and Recreation Department, handed down his decree that Jenny the elephant is to remain in Dallas after all. No doubt you figured, “Well, that is that,” for better or worse. Only, not so fast. Not only…
Central Texas’s own Chet Edwards So, yeah, everyone’s suddenly thinking that maybe, just maybe, Barack Obama’s going to announce Congressman Chet Edwards as his running mate, maybe as early as this afternoon — and if it’s on Fox, it must be true! To which Gawker notes this very funny hypothetical…
Sarah McDaniel Nastia Liukin’s pal Carly Patterson crashed the welcome-home party yesterday at DFW. Intern Courtney ended up at Dallas-Fort Worth International yesterday — just in time for Nastia Liukin’s meet-and-greet with the media and a few hundred well-wishers. Her account, along with some photos of the gold medalist and…
After getting some bad press for its new grading policies, the Dallas Independent School District has posted to its Web site myriad documents explaining them — including one titled “Concerns and Facts.” Of its new grading procedures, the district insists they will “better reflect the more rigorous and effort-based learning…
Innocent until proven guilty. Or at least indicted. I’m just a toy-box tinkering sportswriter whose never been indicted, so I’m learning how these jurisprudence things work. The answer: Slowly. I was wondering this morning what the heck is going on with LIVE 105.3 FM’s Russ Martin. Surely you remember him…
Jonathan Neerman At the end of the day yesterday, Jonathan Neerman, the recently installed chair of the Dallas County Republican Party, called Unfair Park to talk about that Lupe Valdez-is-a-chicken video. Neerman said, sure, Dallas County GOP absolutely made it — because, see, they were pretty sure the Dallas County…
Perched at No. 25 on Inc. magazine’s annual ranking of the 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. is a locally based online retailer with which you’re probably familiar, if’n you’re into good deals cleverly crafted. Yup, it’s Carrollton-based Woot, which ranks as both the very fastest-growing retailer in the…
Around 7:30 this morning, I hopped on the YouTubes to see if someone had posted a video of local interest — do it every day. Maybe a page or two into the search this a.m., I came across the video in which someone dressed in a chicken outfit taunts Dallas…
Dunno why David Blaine’s production company chose this afternoon to post this vintage video, shot in the Dallas Cowboys’ locker room, to the YouTubes, but, whatever the reason, the thing’s magical. And, yes, I am totally referring to Emmitt Smith’s haircut. –Robert Wilonsky…
Just got back from a late-ish lunch with Dr. Schutze, who figured, sure, might as well dine at the Metro Diner in Preston Center before it collects its last tip Saturday afternoon ’round 2:30. Sitting at the counter was Wayne Adams, whose father, James W., opened the joint in 1963,…
Grover back to Arlington? Could happen. Don’t hit the breaking news sounder. And don’t come in here telling me to out my sources. This is just a gut feeling. Don’t be surprised if Mike Hargrove manages your Texas Rangers in 2009. According to this, he wants back in baseball. And…
Fact is, Irving has big plans for Texas Stadium’s site once the building’s gone. Reunion Arena isn’t about to go the way of Nakatomi Plaza; Texas Stadium is a long way from getting the Gotham City Hospital treatment. Right now, Dallas Film Commission director Janis Burklund’s idea of making those…
Dallas-based Blockbuster has its problems; so noted. But Grapevine-based GameStop’s doing all right, all right, all right for itself: Today, the seller of video game stuffs posted ginormous second-quarter income figures — $57.2 million, or damned near three times what it brought in this time last year. Did amazingly well;…
At this very moment, Nastia Liukin’s on her way to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport for a 4:15 p.m. press conference — where, no doubt, the Parker-living, Plano-training Olympian will be asked about stories circulating today concerning the age of Chinese gymnast He Kexin, who controversially outscored Liukin to take gold…
