As expected, this thing is a blowout. Not even close. Think about it: The New Yankees entered the American League Championship Series with 41 AL pennants; the Texas Rangers 0. The Bronx Bombers play in Yankee Stadium; the Rangers in a ballpark once controlled by broke-ass bum Tom Hicks. The…
The Hatcher Station, one of four light-rail stations identified as by the city as a recipient of the feds’ grant announced this morningThis morning we’ve received several press releases from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Department of Transportation announcing that Dallas is getting $2,225,000…
We’ve already seen a phony downtown fire this morning. But this one at left, captured moments ago by a good Friend of Unfair Park on Main Street not far from Old Red, is quite real. Or it was: Though the Dallas Fire-Rescue Department Active Incidents page shows this to be…
D.C.-based Afterschool Allliance wondered: What are America’s kids doing after the 3 p.m. school bell rings? Survey says: Only 15 percent of students nationwide are involved in some kind of afterschool program. That’s a small number. And Dallas comes in below the national average:Only 30,000 children in Dallas (14 percent)…
… it was — you guessed it — yet another Good Guys blow-em-up. This one took place at Young and St. Paul bright and early this a.m. — had to, since most of the city council, including Mayor Tom, attended this morning’s ‘sploding. Why the VIP turnout? Today’s the penultimate…
Only a few months ago the city — really, the Friends of Fair Park — axed the Fair Park Fourth, because there weren’t no money for fireworks. Then, at the last minute, City Hall found the dough in the back pockets of Dr Pepper Snapple Group and Neil and Kenny…
Sam MertenThis just in: Sporting News has named its 2010 Major League Player of the Year — and it’s a certain Anchorman-quoting center-fielder for Your Texas Rangers. And as SN is quick to point out, that’s the consensus among 326 major leaguers — this isn’t no sportswriters’ award, keep in…
Pssst, I’m not supposed to talk about this. Like a no-no in the 7th inning, baseball’s unwritten etiquette says you’re not supposed to whisper a word about celebratory plans. Especially when you’re on the enemy’s fabled field. But, what the hell, this hasn’t happened in … forever: Here at Yankee Stadium…
Writes Mike Lupica in this morning’s New York Daily News: “So it has come to this for the Yankees, after the Texas Rangers threw them down another flight of stairs, trying to throw them all the way out to 161st St., all the way into next season. It has come…
10. And that, my friends, is why I wanted the New York Yankees. Between CC Sabathia and Mariano Rivera, this is a flawed pitching staff. Just ask the Rangers, who in this series have posted 5, 7, 8 and 10 runs in building a commanding 3-1 lead in the series…
Kevin TodoraThe National’s Matt Berninger, from Kevin’s slide show of the band’s show at the House of Blues on October 9A Friend of Unfair Park who’s says s/he only comes to Unfair Park for our work-week-ending rock-and-roll-and send-off (fair enough) thought we might be interested in these shows just posted…
As part of its rebuilding effort, Terilli’s is selling welcome-back bricks that’ll become part of a “Friends of Terilli’s Wall” upon its February reopening.Shortly after a four-alarm fire destroyed the block of Greenville Avenue housing Terilli’s, Hurricane Grill, Mick’s and the Greenville Bar & Grill on March 2, a Friend…
Yesterday, in the comments to our latest Good Guys item, Friend of Unfair Park LaceyB inquired about the fate of Chase, long rumored to be on NBC’s must-cut list following weeks’ worth of low ratings. Turns out, reports of its inevitable demise were greatly exaggerated: NBC just sent word that…
It was late on September 24, 2009, that the U.S. Attorney’s Office sent word that FBI agents had arrested then-19-year-old Hosam Maher Husein Smadi for plotting to blow up Fountain Place on Ross Avenue — a plot intercepted by federal agents, who ultimately provided the Jordanian-born Smadi with an inert…
The view from Museum Tower in, give or take, three yearsBack in June, you no doubt recall, Brook Partners announced that the long-in-the-works Museum Tower would finally sprout in the Arts District, courtesy the Dallas Police & Fire Pension System’s $200 million investment in the 42-floor condolith. Just one week…
I was prepared to be in awe. To be mesmerized. To shrink in the midst of baseball’s ghosts and glory. But, I gotta tell ya, new Yankee Stadium is just a ballpark. Can’t believe this place cost more to build than Cowboys Stadium. And can’t believe people actually pay for…
If you woke up this morning respecting your local news broadcasters a little too much, well, witness the healing power of the KDFW-produced video after the jump. Since it hit the station’s Facebook page yesterday morning, it’s been drawing raves from ROFL’ing commenters, but if, like us, you missed last…
Homeland Security AffairsAttorney Lew Lefko, a partner in Renaissance Tower-based Winstead PC, has worked in some aspect of the health-care profession for most of his career. Hence his appearance on GlobeSt.com this morning, where he tells Jennifer Duell Popovec that Texas stands to gain plenty from President Obama’s Affordable Care…
Hear ye, Hear ye: The National Football League is about to start fining players … for playing football. In another move away from its popular roots as America’s most entertaining and, yes, violent sport, the NFL is suddenly showing cowardice and promising to fine and/or suspend defensive players for what…
Yesterday, downtown-working attorney Brad Nitschke sent this parking-meter picture to Angela Hunt, via the Twitter, with the note: “This is not what a commitment to downtown looks like.” To which she responded: “You’re absolutely right. Part of the update to Dallas’ Downtown plan is a parking study which will address…
The Texas Rangers lead the ALCS over the New York Yankees, 2-1. In Monday night’s Game 3 they waltzed into fabled Yankee Stadium and laid an 8-0 whupping on the Bronx Bombers. The Rangers have dominated the series, out-scoring New York 20-8 with five of the Yankees’ runs coming in…
Good morning, Friends o’ The Unfair Park. I’m poised alongside a couple of very handsome Dallas Morning News writers at an inadequately small Ikea work table somewhere high up in the Wyly Theatre in the Arts District — it’s that big building that looks like it’s made of bass guitar…
