10. Give Spurs coach Gregg Popovich credit. His “dogs” played harder and better than Dallas. In fact, they jumped to a 9-0 lead and basically used the Mavs as a fire hydrant. 9. Watching Erick Dampier and Brendan Haywood, it’s Dallas’ best center duo since Gana Diop was here with…
Before I left the office last night, I tried to get a comment from Major League Baseball concerning Tom Hicks’s admission that the deal with Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan’s Rangers Baseball Express is falling apart. Earlier in the day, when I’d gotten wind that this seemingly doomed deal has…
What if I told you there was a great basketball player? He was an All-Star. A Most Valuable Player. A future Hall of Famer. He was a class act on and off the court, his only transgression being naiveté about a past girlfriend. To him a wild night on the…
Picky: This is the trouble with Dallas: nitpickers. Whenever the city begins to make some progress, out they come with the complaints. Take the city’s decision to go ahead with plans to build a whitewater kayaking facility on the Trinity River. “Hey, that sounds fun,” right-thinking people say, but then…
Two dudes walk into a bathroom. They look a little partied out, if also a little victorious, smiling as they stumble toward the urinals. “Dude,” one of the pair says. “That was the best 16 dollars I ever spent.” His partner-in-pee-break concurs: “Seriously.” The first, pleased with his choir—and now…
So much for the media circus outside today’s highly anticipated (judging by the advance news coverage, anyway) hearing at the George L. Allen Sr. Courts Building, where the Fifth Court of Appeals heard arguments in the case of two Dallas men trying to get divorced. Pete Schulte — the attorney…
A Friend of Unfair Park who knows of my affection for the American Basketball Association sends word: Yes, sorry, the Dallas Generals may be dead and buried (though it promises a resurrection for next season, whatever), but there’s now a team based out of Denton called the Texas RimRockers –…
We were all tied up yesterday and couldn’t make it out to the unveiling of the new model for the Woodall Rodgers Deck Park — a marked improvement over its bare-bones predecessor. Nevertheless, Joanna Singleton was kind enough to send over this photo of the model, which you’re more than…
As you may have heard, I despise cats. Not extremely found of former President George Dubya Bush either but, hey, given the lesser of two evils I usually side with the human. In this case, thumbs up to the prez. Because apparently his new Bush Presidential Library at SMU is…
So insists the Texas Jewboy and former gubernatorial candidate in a piece penned for Tina Brown’s Daily Beast, the headline of which is “Why Democrats Should Blame Themselves for the Tea Party.” Friedman, who lost to his bid to become the Democratic nominee for agriculture commissioner last month, writes of…
Forthcoming before the day’s out: my interview with Kyle Rote Jr.But before that, a soccer legend overseas — Steve McManaman, who spent most of his storied career playing for Liverpool FC before his controversial departure for Real Madrid — has spoken out about the amount of dough-re-mi Tom Hicks wants…
So says this video made by the city of Dallas — which, as Patrick Michels pointed out a few weeks back, has stepped up its efforts to wipe out graffiti. Catchy, sure, though I look forward to the video aimed at those engaged in “Satanic/Hate” graffiti…
Moments ago, D.C.-based Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington released its report Worst Governors, which claims to serve up “in-depth analyses of 11 elected officials who have pushed their states’ best interests aside in favor of their supporters, families, political parties and bank accounts.” And, yes, Rick Perry’s among…
I included the Dallas Mavericks-San Antonio Spurs among sports’ Top 10 current rivalries a while back and the hate email started pouring in. Granted the Mavs don’t have a championship. But the rivalry has everything else. Hall of Famers. Unprecedented regular-season success. Playoff throwdowns. Oh yeah and, in case you…
Baffled and outraged preservationists quietly vacated Monday afternoon’s Public Safety Committee meeting after the city council committee voted unanimously to adopt a new historic building demolition ordinance without public input. Katherine Seale and Scott Potter of Preservation Dallas stood at the lectern awaiting an opportunity to speak, but the committee…
Last week, while looking for something entirely unrelated on PACER, I stumbled across a federal lawsuit filed by Dr. Matilda Saenz, who, for the last five years, has been the vice president of instruction at Mountain View College. One week ago today I asked Dallas County Community College District reps…
The Cowboys could’ve been in Dallas. For years we’ve blamed former mayor Laura Miller and a group of narrow-minded county commissioners like Margaret Keliher. And for years we’ve been right. Speaking at SMU Tuesday, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones confirmed that Miller basically told him “don’t let the door hit you…
Today’s standing-room-only meeting of the Dallas County Commissioners Court was uneventful for the most part, with all the juicy talk about pay raises and surety bond increases saved for closed session. But just before the meeting was called to a close, things got interesting when a pair of residents from…
Although the city council’s Trinity River Corridor Project Committee didn’t vote on a plan to transform Riverfront Boulevard into a not-really-a-“complete street,” committee members voiced support of the $54.5 million project, with chair Dave Neumann describing this morning’s briefing as “very energizing.” However, Carolyn Davis questioned why renderings presented by…
Frank Librio, in the Public Information Office at Dallas City Hall, just forwarded along the following memo sent today to the members of the city council’s Trinity River Corridor Project Committee:…
Back in December I directed your attention to The Tobolowsky Files, a podcast during which a certain Kimball High School and SMU grad offers a serialized account of his life story. The “final” episode of the first “season” ran a couple of weeks ago; in it, Stephen talks about coming…
I see Clusterflock lifted one of Danny Hurley’s picture from our Festival of Balloons slide show — can’t imagine why they chose this one. Oh, yes I can: “Dirk Nowitzki’s balloon nose looks like male balloon genitalia. Thank you for providing tonight’s nightmare.” Poor Dirk. First this. Then this. Now…
