I called Rays in 5 in the ALDS and Rangers in 7 in the ALCS. Why stop while I’m … tied? Got in to the City by the Bay last night and this place is in a baseball frenzy. There’s a pervasive baseball buzz. Lots of similarities between the San…
This morning’s headline is brought to you by C.J. Wilson’s favorite website, Jorge Parrales and Jacob Herrera’s Cliff Lee Facts. Here’s another fact, courtesy Jeff Francoeur, who recounts in this morning’s New York Times how nervous he was during dinner before Game Five against Tampa Bay. Cliff Lee, however, was…
OK, so the announcement didn’t come “early next week,” as I wrote in September. And the opening date’s a few months away. Still. The hip-n-affordable clothier’s a-comin’. To NorthPark Center, specifically. (You were right!) No one’s saying just where in the mall, but you can guess. The just-sent release says…
A good Friend of Unfair Park just sent us what has to be the greatest legal document ever filed in Irving Municipal Court. “That’s high praise, indeed,” says Greenville Avenue-based attorney Darrell Cook when reached by Unfair Park this afternoon. But, you see, the doc has nothing at all to…
Long story short, a friend of the show sent word that he was looking for something entirely unrelated today when he stumbled across the website for The 40/40 Club, a lounge-y “all-American sports bar and lounge owned by hip hop mogul Jay-Z and partner Juan Perez,” per its about-us. There…
Baseball has its problems: A reluctance to use instant replay. Arrogant umpires and their customized strike zones. An All-Star exhibition game that actually affects the World Series champion. But of all our national pastime’s woes, the most ridiculous is that the American and National Leagues play by different rules. They play a…
Several Friends have asked, privately, in recent days: Whatever happened to Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway’s threat to drown Keep the Dollars in Dallas? As you may recall, when it came time for the council to call the election that will allow the off-premise sale of beer and wine citywide,…
A few weeks back we noticed that Mark Cuban and Jim Crane wanted their millions back for trying to buy the Texas Rangers out from under Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan (and Ray Davis and Bob Simpson). Long story short: Cuban and Crane, as Radical Pitch LLC, figured they’re owed…
In his first NFL action in almost two years, Jon Kitna immediately served notice of one thing Monday night at Cowboys Stadium: When starting quarterback Tony Romo went down with a broken collar bone, the Cowboys’ season swirled down the toilet with him. Kitna’s stats don’t look awful: 16 of…
Schutze weighed in over the weekend when The News decided, look, there isn’t anyone worth endorsing in the Texas 30th District congressional race — not Eddie Bernice Johnson, not Stephen Broden, not anyone, so sorry. (A reminder: Jim’s profile of the pastor appears in tomorrow’s paper version of Unfair Park.)…
No doubt you’ve read this morning’s story about how the three defense attorneys supporting Danny Clancy for Dallas County District Attorney — including Toby Shook — have piled on Craig Watkins, claiming that Christopher Scott and Claude Simmons maybe shouldn’t have been DNA-exonerated after all. Well, Dallas County Democratic Party…
That quote, from Texas Rangers owner Chuck Greenberg, is the theme of this morning’s World Series round-up.It comes from an interview in USA Today concerning the prospects of keeping Cliff Lee, which doesn’t sound like the impossibility others have made it out to be; says Lee, beating the San Francisco…
10. Cowboys’ fans can bemoan bad luck at having quarterback Tony Romo knocked out of the game – and the season – but this was more bad play. Rookie fullback Chris Gronkowski missed a simple blitz pick-up, allowing New York’s Michael Boley a free shot on Romo. He didn’t miss. 9…
In about two months, Dallas Area Rapid Transit hopes to open the Royal Lane station along the expanded Green Line. Not far from the site, on Rodney Lane, sits Central Hardwood, a massive lumber warehouse that sits on property owned by the Wilber Family Limited Partnership. And in legal docs…
Over on ESPNDallas.com, Richard Durrett tells the tale of how Texas Rangers general manager Jon Daniels came to hire Ron Washington instead of one of the four other contenders for the skipper’s gig following Buck Showalter’s ouster: Manny Acta, John Russell, Trey Hillman or Don Wakamatsu. Washington talks about what…
Friday morning we had that item about computer programmer Don Relyea’s run-in with that touch-screen voting machine at the Audelia Road Library, where a vote for Gov. Rick Perry appeared to morph into a straight-ticket Green Party vote. Now, see, Dallas County Elections Administrator Bruce Sherbet told us he though…
If you’ve seen Republican Danny Clancy’s latest political ad above or his first one, you know what he views as District Attorney Craig Watkins’s biggest wart: never prosecuting a felony case. But that’s not true, according to Kurt Watkins, Craig’s cousin and campaign manager. In fact, Craig examined two witnesses,…
In between his flag football game, during which we almost drowned, and his school’s fall carnival, I took the 7-year-old who lives in my house to the Trekkie confab at the Plano Centre Saturday — his idea, swear. And after strolling past tables full of action figures, board games and…
Yesterday we took a look at Mattie Stafford’s look at Art Conspiracy 6, which occupied many Friends’ Saturday night (and early Sunday morning). By way of companion pieces, I just stumbled across this on YouTube: a freshly minted mini-doc from Saturday night, scored to Sat-night-performing Ishi’s “Come Closer.”…
Remember waaaay back in July when I posted this and took all kinda heat for getting ahead of myself and/or jinxing your Texas Rangers? With the Rangers seemingly headed for their first World Series championship, even the folks who matter are starting to ask the question: Where the heck would we…
A little part of me dies inside every time another Lingerie Football League slide show graces the virtual pages of our paper product, but I understand that the unabashed ogling of scantily clad women is now, more than ever, what makes the legitimate news world go round (see Post, Huffington…
Way back in June, the city council’s Transportation and Environment Committee took yet another look at yet another proposal aimed at regulating neighborhood farmers markets and said, in short: Fine, looks good, next! Operators of neighborhood markets ain’t thrilled with the final product, but they’re willing to live with it,…
