On May 5, 52-year-old David Barouch of Colleyville was arrested for putting a bomb on the front porch of his ex-wife’s house. Two months later, he pleaded guilty to one count of possession of an unregistered destructive device. Today, he found out his punishment: the statutory maximum sentence of 10…
On October 19, Dallas Police Department sent word that two days earlier, at around 6:15 a.m., a man broke into a home near North Glasgow Drive and Reiger Avenue and sexually assaulted a 59-year-old woman who had been sleeping inside. On the 27th, DPD sent a further description of the…
So, we know who’s throwing out the ceremonial first pitches tomorrow and Sunday. Well, John Blake, Texas Rangers spokesman, just sent over the final list of scheduled performers for World Series Games Three and Four. No surprises on the list of “Star-Spangled Banner” performers: Kelly Clarkson tomorrow evening, followed by…
On October 12, the Texas Park and Wildlife Department issued a press release that went virtually unnoticed at the time: The state’s offering to swap the 20,000-acre Devils River State Natural Area in Val Verde County for 17,638 acres further downriver, which are presently owned by Dallas’s Rod Sanders, co-founder…
Jason Roberts has uprooted his Better Block-ing from the narrow, pedestrian-unfriendly streets of Oak Cliff and is planting that sumbitch in downtown Dallas — the Arts District, specifically — this weekend and this weekend only. (For now.) He directs our attention to this morning’s post over on the new Better…
This just in from John Blake and Major League Baseball: Yet again, Nolan Ryan will toss out the first pitch at the Ballpark in Arlington for a post-season game, when, tomorrow evening, he takes the mound for Game Three of the World Series. (And, no, apparently he’s unavailable to work…
Yesterday we took a long, hard, glassy-eyed look at KXAS-Channel 5’s Newy Scruggs’s run-in with the denizens of Weed Rock. This morning, after the jump, we turn to FOX 4’s Steve Eagar, who, whilst stationed outside AT&T Park following last night’s Rangers loss, runs into some folks showing off “their…
Well, that didn’t take long. Less than a month after his nine-year relationship with the Texas Rangers ended, Josh Lewin has been hired by 105.3 The Fan to host a midday sports talk show. Lewin will debut in the 11 a.m.-2 p.m. time slot Monday, November 1 as The Fan unveils…
–>–>First thing Wednesday morning down in Austin, Mayor Tom Leppert visited with Texas Tribune editor Evan Smith about a whole host of subjects — among them, right off the bat, why Leppert endorsed Gov. Rick Perry earlier this month, despite the fact his is supposed to be a nonpartisan position…
[jump] 5. My predictions aren’t always right, but I’ll guarantee this: My World Series pick – Rangers in 5 – will not come true. Book it. 4. Texas sniffed a couple scoring chances, but Nelson Cruz popped out – on a 92 mph-fastball right down the pipe – with runners…
Although I’ve long considered Matt Cain one of baseball’s most underrated hurlers, there’s no reason why C.J. Wilson can’t rebound from getting knocked around by the Yankees in Game Five of the American League Championship Series and tie up the World Series tonight. But no matter what happens against the…
Couldn’t make the new Parkland groundbreaking this morning, during which conceptual renderings of the $1.27-billion facility were debuted to press and public. But a note that just landed in the Unfair Park in-box from Parkland CEO Ron Anderson, which you can read here in full, reminds me: The new Parkland…
In this week’s paper version of Unfair Park, Schutze takes a lengthy look at Republican Stephen Broden, which might have been a good idea for The Dallas Morning News to do before it endorsed him over U.S. Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson and then switched to a Switzerland stance in the…
The Friends of Unfair Park are no doubt familiar with the fine work of Bill Holston, noted human-rights attorney, KERA-FM commentator, occasional Morning News op-ed’er and Unfair Park commenter. (He’s also joining Angela Hunt, Rawlins Gilliland and Shibboleth at the Dallas Rally for Sanity at Lee Harvey’s Saturday, following Jon…
Texas Rangers spokesman John Blake just sent word: For World Series Games Three and Four at the Ballpark in Arlington — oh, right, Game Five too, fingers crossed — the team’s done beefed up (heh) its sports menu. Also: The team’s added more places to buy beer in the park,…
And in further marijuana news …Below, a Friend of Unfair Park wonders if perhaps Newy’s new friends up on “Weed Rock” were to blame for the Rangers committing four errors last night: “Would this constitute fan interference if players were affected from inhaling second-hand smoke?” Not a bad question, turns…
Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback ratings. Wins and losses? Definitely. Leadership? Uh-huh. When it comes to my weekly NFL Quarterback Rankings — if I had one of those little encircled R’s to signify a trademarked idea, it’d go here — the…
Two weeks ago, I suggested that with the ASIS International security industry expo around — with a few million surveillance cameras lining a showroom full of lasers, booby traps bodyguards — the Dallas Convention Center was easily the safest place in town. At the time, though, I had no idea…
This morning, as expected, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood passed out $2.4 billion in funding to 54 high-speed rail projects in 23 states. Among the recipients: the Texas Department of Transportation, which’ll take home $5.6 million intended to allow a further look-see at the Oklahoma City-South Texas Corridor Plan. From…
Thankfully there isn’t a team in the NBA called the Giants. While the Cowboys got walloped by New York Monday night and the Rangers were whipped by San Francisco last night here in the City by the Bay, your Dallas Mavericks are on pace to go 82-0 after opening the…
Speaking of Dazed and Confused, all right, all right, all right …The Dallas-based Safer Texas Campaign — formed, in part, to “address increasing concerns that our laws prohibiting the marijuana market are sending a dangerous message to the public that alcohol is more acceptable than marijuana” — has issued a…
I felt like I was watching Dazed and Confused last night — though, to be honest, the whole Tim Lincecum-as-Mitch Kramer meme’s been around for a good long while, well before The Wall Street Journal asked Wiley Wiggins about it during Giants-Braves. And speaking of pot — well, I was…
