When Vince Young singlehandedly beat USC in the 2005 BCS National Championship Game, he climaxed a sparkling college legacy and seemingly paved his way to NFL stardom. But with yesterday’s announcement by Tennessee Titans owner Bud Adams that Young would be traded or released, Young officially became a bust. As…
A fellow Thomas Jefferson High School grad forwards along this brief interview KERA-FM’s Bill Zeeble did with former Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Linus Wright, who’s now one of Governor Rick Perry’s appointees to the Teacher Retirement System of Texas’s board of trustees. In the clip, Wright suggests that when…
I was watching Ocean’s Thirteen on USA last night — couldn’t sleep, thought that would do it, didn’t, don’t judge — and was inundated with promos for a new series called Fairly Legal, about a mediator at an IKEA store who likes to strip down to her underwear, though I…
So now that the Texas Rangers have a hitter (Adrian Beltre) and a pitcher (Brandon Webb), they’ve got one more important hole to fill this off-season: Television play-by-play voice. Remember just before Game 5 of the ALDS, the Rangers announced they weren’t bringing back nine-year veteran Josh Lewin. Not just saying…
Press conference at Cowboys Stadium will make it official at 1:30. Think he, like Wade Phillips did in 2007, will walk up to the podium and say, “Surprise, I’m here!”? …
Friend of Unfair Park PeterK directs our attention this morning to a just-posted Flickr set from friend of the show Scott Dorn, a photographer who has spent the last several years documenting this teardown town. Turns out, Scott got a last-minute call late last week from Lindamood Demolition, the company…
It’s been seven months since we first told you the story of Robert Groden, the Kennedy conspiracy theorist and author and Oliver Stone consultant arrested and detained by Dallas police for peddling his pamphlets in Dealey Plaza. Three weeks ago, it looked as the story might have come to a…
On the short list of Dallas Cowboys’ highlights this season: Dez Bryant. Mat McBriar. And, yes, Jon Kitna. After not playing a single snap in 2009, there were concerns about Tony Romo’s 39-year-old backup. We all remember the disaster that was Brad Johnson. But after being pressed into duty after Romo’s October 25…
Southwest officials hopped on conference calls with aviation-biz writers yesterday to lay out the details of its long-in-the-works Rapid Rewards do-over, which Ryan Green, the Love Field-based carrier’s Senior Director of Customer Loyalty and Partnerships, calls “the single biggest new product launch in our Company’s history” over on the SWA…
Mayor Tom Leppert’s mad at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Minority council members are mad at Leppert. Oak Cliff’s mad at homeless people. Cowboys fans are mad at Wade Phillips. Dallas County commissioners are mad at Craig Watkins. Democrats are mad at Republicans (and vice versa). The cops are…
… except maybe knee surgery. Or a mild knee sprain. Or a broken foot. But other than that, nothing…
As we speculated on the night Cliff Lee agreed to his contract with the Philadelphia Phillies, the Texas Rangers shifted their offseason focus to Adrian Beltre in an attempt to mitigate losing Lee, signing the free agent third baseman to a six-year, $96 million contract. Team officials refused to release…
Harper’s Washington Editor Ken Silverstein has many thoughts on the DNA exoneration of Cornelius Dupree Jr. yesterday, when a Dallas County judge acknowledged that the 51-year-old man served 30 years in prison for a rape he did not commit. Silvestein delineates some of the myriad “weaknesses of the criminal justice…
The Texas Transportation Commission-created TxDOT Restructure Council sends word today: Its long-awaited report, full o’ recommendations aimed at improving the broke(n) Texas Department of Transportation, is done and available for reading right … here. And high on the to-do list: Throw out the TxDOT leadership. Says the doc: “It is…
Dallas attorney Ralph Janvey’s still combing through Allen Stanford’s financials to see who got some of that money made in the multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme that landed the Texas financier in prison, where, one day, he’ll face a federal trial (maybe). Janvey, who was appointed receiver, wants that money so he…
There’s a business-section piece today about Half-Price Books’ new online marketplace, which coincides with the Dallas-based used-bookseller’s own release this morning announcing the virtual shoppe. Says Kathy Doyle Thomas, Half-Price’s exec veep, in the official announcement: “Half-Price Books is pleased to offer an online shopping option to our customers, both…
It was waaaay back in October ’09 we noticed that Police drummer Stewart Copeland was working on a percussion concerto for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra with locals D’Drum, which counts among its members local legend Jamal Mohamed. We are now but weeks away from the world premiere of that piece,…
You’ve heard it. Hopefully you haven’t repeated it. It goes like this: (Spoken with a slow, twangy, red-necky, eternally frustrated drawwwwwl) “Jason Garrett sabotaged Wade Phillips. He didn’t start coaching all good ‘n stuff until he got Wade fired. On purpose!” While we breathlessly await a Valley Ranch press conference…
This morning Sports Illustrated launched a site allowing folks to vote on the Most Decisive Super Bowl Moments, which coincides with a list that appears in the issue hitting stands today. One moment — a “game-changing play, player’s leadership or coach’s decision” — from each Super Bowl is pulled out…
When Tony Romo broke his collarbone on October 25, the Dallas Cowboys’ season was kaput. When Caron Butler tore a tendon in his knee on January 1, it may not have ended the Dallas Mavericks’ season but certainly the bar has been lowered. What ended as such a promising 2010 has now given…
Shortly before The Dallas Morning News announced the erection of its paywall, which goes into place February 15, publisher and CEO Jim Moroney sent to the staff a memo in which he wrote: Brace yourself. Said Moroney in a phone conversation with Unfair Park at 6:30 this morning, as he…
The race is on today. Which big announcement/press conference will arrive first: The Dallas Cowboys hiring Jason Garrett or the Texas Rangers signing Adrian Beltre? Let’s go with Beltre, as the free-agent third baseman and agent Scott Boras arrived in town last night and agreed to a five-year, $80 million contract…
