They are both blessed with cutesy dimples and with famous buxom blondes. Both dabble in golf. Both earned their reputations and their millions as charismatic captains and record-setting scorers for their respective local sports teams. So I ask you, Dallas sports fans, who is No. 9—Tony Romo or Mike Modano?…
Horses roam aimlessly in a meadow just around the block. There’s a Boy Scout camp about a half-mile away.The green thicket behind the plain, ranch-style house prevents exposure to adjoining homeowners, one of whom waveswarmly at passing motorists as he mows his lawn. In this Duncanville neighborhood, there exists a…
“Deep Ellum Lives,” by Robert Wilonsky, September 11 Fresh Start Well, it’s easy to say that Deep Ellum could “disappear” or lose its flavor. Frankly, however, it has lost most of this due to the aging of its landowners already. It was time for someone with at least a germ…
Courtney Clenney If you don’t mind, Mayor Tom would like you to stop with the “what-if questions” already, Jeez Louise. Mayor Tom Leppert whipped out his giant bedazzled scissors this afternoon to officially open the newly renovated Cotton Bowl, which looks every bit of its $57-million face lift. That was…
Now, how about some good news for the Dallas Independent School District. You recall Dalton Sherman, right? Course you do: Charles Rice Learning Center fifth-grader. Delivered the keynote at this year’s back-to-school pep rally. Was suddenly everywhere. Well, Dalton will be on The Ellen DeGeneres Show tomorrow. Writes your genial…
Like it or not, the Cowboys will miss this guy. Won’t they? Other than Scott, this corner of the blogdom is full of Roy Williams bashers. I assume his fractured forearm will be met with an unprecedented joy considering it means the absence of a Pro Bowl* player for about…
Daniel Rodrigue No, this was not the buffet spread at today’s drug-bust announcement. Yesterday, 300 law enforcement agents were involved in the largest one-day seizure of drugs and cash in North Texas — ever. They arrested 22 alleged members of drug trafficking cells associated with Mexico’s Gulf Cartel. Officers seized…
While slumbering along toward the finish line of a disappointing 2008, your Texas Rangers today are providing a distraction: Their 2009 schedule, otherwise known as next year’s map to failure. The Rangers open 2009 on Monday, April 6 at home against the Cleveland Indians. Here’s betting they have a new…
For whatever reason, I couldn’t access the agenda for Friday’s meeting of the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees; district spokesman Jon Dahlander was kind enough to send it. And for those who do not want to click through, here are the two items of note: 3. Consideration and…
Dallas Independent School District students cannot wear rosary beads to school — because, look, everybody knows that’s a gang symbol. But you can wear a turban into a Dallas County facility. That’s the word today from the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Texas, which bought a suit against the…
In January, Penguin Press will publish Bryan Burrough’s The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes, about such men as H. L. Hunt, Clint Murchison, Hugh Roy Cullen and Glenn McCarthy, the latter of whom was more or less the inspiration for James Dean’s Jett…
We can dream, no? Don’t much like our chances in either of this weekend’s international sporting cups – Davis or Ryder. Come to think of it, this dude has a better chance of being named Time’s Man of the Year. In tennis we’ll be playing against the world’s No. 1…
Frank Librio, the city’s director of public information, tells Unfair Park this morning that at last count there were 903 Hurricane Ike evacuees still living at the Dallas Convention Center, though an updated number is due within the hour. (Update: Says the city at 10 a.m., “The current registered head…
As you’re no doubt aware, Jeff Pearlman’s tell-most Boys Will Be Boys: The Glory Days and Party Nights of the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty is in stores. And this morning, The New York Times features a lengthy Q&A with the author, in which he picks Michael Irvin as the most “indispensable”…
Two items of interest in the in-box this a.m. First, from the U.S. Attorney’s office, an announcement concerning the gathering of the area’s top cops at 11 a.m. today: “U.S. Attorney Richard B. Roper and Special Agent in Charge James L. Capra of the Dallas DEA, will be joined by…
Anne Raymond at the CATOH press conference today The mayor and city council have used secret meetings to devise a plan to fund a convention center hotel with millions in taxpayers’ dough, and its time to give voters a say, since they’re the ones assuming the risk. At least, that’s…
Just for grins, go to Get Listy. Or Shopperati. Notice anything odd? Like, oh, the WFAA bug at the top left of the screen? Those aren’t actually Belo sites, mind you. They’re just two that belong to Belo Corp.’s newest content partner Noofangle Media, which will also provide content via…
As expected, Shared Hope International released today its 10th and final report dealing children being trafficked as sex slaves — and, fittingly, the report about Dallas was released in Dallas, where the organization’s wrapping up its conference. It’s a 149-page document, and for the most part it’s got good things…
In retrospect, his arrival was a tad overrated. Christmas ’06: The Texas Rangers trade pitchers John Danks, Nick Masset and Jacob Rasner to the Chicago White Sox for pitcher Brandon McCarthy. Nice. Can’t find the exact quote, but I remember Rangers’ GM Jon Daniels saying at the time that McCarthy…
The Dallas police updated the city council’s Public Safety Committee on crime stats again today — and, once more, crime’s down in Dallas, save for residential burglaries. Those have increased from 9,686 in year-to-date 2007 to 9,739 thus far in ’08. Homicides are down too, from 142 to 106 year…
Says the Friend of Unfair Park who sent this from the Eagles show Saturday night, when Fox News appeared on the big screen during “Dirty Laundry,” the AAC went “silent.” Probably the best sound the audience heard all night? We kid, we kid! No, that’s the answer: the Guess Who…
Even though this dates back to July, when the always high-larious Josh Howard suited up for Allen Iverson’s celebrity football game, only today has the video begun making the rounds — first on You Been Blinded, then on Deadspin, where some of the comments are, as usual, genius. As in,…
