The Houston Astros are this close to being sold, as Drayton McLane is set to sell the franchise to Jim Crane for $660 million, pending league approval. (And, yes, that’s the same Jim Crane who tried to buy the Texas Rangers out of bankruptcy last year.) The deal’s expected to…
Saw this heads-up for the first time last night. As it turns out, according to DirecTV’s website, the satellite provider and Belo Corp. are engaged in a tussle over broadcast fees. Belo, which signed its agreement with the carrier in February 2001, says DirecTV isn’t paying enough for the rights…
Speaking of great eyes …Surely you’ve seen the ESPN 30 on 30 offering Pony Excess, about SMU receiving the NCAA’s death penalty in 1987. If not, you must. It was directed by Thaddeus Matula, a Jesuit alum — who, as it so happens, is also responsible for this short SMU…
Last night we got word that the city is invalidating Occupy Dallas’s permit to stay in Pioneer Park till 5 p.m. Friday, since the group hadn’t secured the million-dollar insurance policy City Hall demanded on Monday. The question was: Would the city kick Occupy Dallas out at 11 p.m., the…
XTO and Trinity East, two of the companies that have paid the city big money and signed leases to drill for gas within the city limits, have agreed to wait 30 months while the city rewrites its gas drilling ordinance. But one company has no such deal with the city:…
Yet again, right in the middle of our Rangers-Tigers liveblog, the city sends a note concerning Occupy Dallas’s occupation of Pioneer Park. Only, one night after giving the group its permit, the city’s yanking it — because, as Jim predicted, Occupy Dallas did not get the million-dollar insurance coverage City…
Wow. What an amazing start to the American League Championship Series for Your Texas Rangers. Two close games. Two incredible wins. Now Detroit has to win four of the next five games to get back to the World Series for the first time since they fell to St. Louis in…
Robert Jeffress endorsed Rick Perry Friday, but it’s the gift that keeps on giving. As in: The Americans United for Separation of Church and State has sent a letter today to the Internal Revenue Service insisting that the First Baptist Dallas pastor’s endorsement, and subsequent postings of videos to the…
On Friday we took a ride down Cedar Crest Boulevard over the Trinity, which the city’s spending millions to makeover as a half-vehicular, half-hike-n-bike bridge — but not before Jason Roberts and the Better Block-ers set up a temporary show-and-tell one week from Saturday, this one billed as the first-ever…
On August 15, 40-year-old John Burnette of Boyd climbed his way up to a three-sided, illuminated billboard he was supposed to service. The billboard, on a lot off of Division Street, is part of the Dallas Cowboys Stadium complex — No. 14, one of the Cowboys Silver Lots. Burnette opened…
If you’ve received one (or several) of the 125,000 citations issued to those who’ve run red lights under the watchful eye of those cameras perched over 66 intersections, you’ve faced two choices: Pay the $75 fine and avoid further hassle, or keep your money and take comfort in the fact…
Yesterday, in the comments below, we discovered that the Dallas ISD had summoned some of its principals and executive directors to 3700 Ross for what was described as an “emergency meeting.” Last night, I found out why from a Friend of Unfair Park doing some volunteer work for the DISD:…
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.comKarl Rove was on The O’Reilly Factor last night discussing the impact the First Baptist Dallas pastor’s comments will have on Rick Perry’s campaign, among other things. Alas, Bill O’Reilly was off, and instead Dubya’s right-hand man was on with Laura Ingraham, who feels bad…
While we await official confirmation from the Dallas Independent School District concerning a well-respected higher-up who was let go yesterday, there’s this. As expected, the Austin-based nonprofit The Equity Center (“founded in 1982 by 55 school districts as a response to the gross inequities that existed in the state’s school…
The folks in charge of the LBJ Express project send word: A month after they called off demolition plans at the very last minute, citing safety concerns, they’re finally going to tear down all of the pedestrian walkway over 635 this weekend, after some of it was taken down in…
Last week we sat through a very long, very ugly city council meeting, which ended with the members narrowly adopting a new redistricting plan. At that time, council member Delia Jasso predicted that Latinos would probably sue over the four Hispanic-majority districts, given that Hispanics now make up 42 percent…
While Anna wraps up her redistricting brouhaha recap from last night, start your day with this: yet another story comparing Dallas to New Jersey when it comes to our burgeoning reality TV scene. The Los Angeles Times, taking note of such shows as Bravo’s Most Eligible Dallas and Style’s Big…
We began the day by discussing Occupy Dallas’s missive to the mayor concerning their encampment at Pioneer Plaza, between Dallas City Hall and the Dallas Convention Center. We end it — not counting our Rangers liveblog, which is now into extra innings — with this: Following a sitdown with the…
No doubt you recall it was a mighty big deal for some when Aldi announced it would be opening a couple dozen stores in and around town in the spring of 2010, with “its sights on 100 eventually.” There are 20 at present, most in and around East Dallas and…
And here Anna thought she was done with redistricting. Hah!A Friend of Unfair Park just sent us an invite to wingding Domingo Garcia’s throwing at Tejano Restaurant on West Davis scheduled to kick off at 6:30 p.m. Says the come-one-come-all signed by the redistricting commissioner:”The Dallas city council on Wednesday…
Just got off the phone with a gentleman who’s also keeping an eye on Texas-Detroit: Alex Cosmidis. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, and is pulling for the Tigers — surprising, since Cosmidis once played baseball in Dallas and in Fort Worth, first as an Eagle in 1955 and ’56,…
Back in February 2009, I penned a cover story about the Texas Rangers’ new philosophy of relying on kiddos from their farm system instead of throwing big money at the likes of Alex Rodriguez, Chan Ho Park and Kevin Millwood. The youth movement was in full swing that spring as…
