Really, the title of Avery Johnson’s new book gets a little funnier every day. Two sports shorts with which to commence the day, before the Dallas Mavericks end it ’round 8:30ish with yet another first-round shalom, y’all. Howard Beck in The New York Times documents yesterday’s Mavs practice that wasn’t…
Mike Ware, head of the Dallas County District Attorney’s Conviction Integrity Division Seventeen Dallas County men have been freed from prison following DNA tests that have cleared their names. And till today, those cases have been fairly cut and dry. But Jeff Blackburn, senior counsel for the Innocence Project of…
Two weeks after Thomas McGowan became the 17th Dallas County prisoner released following DNA testing, 55-year-old James Lee Woodard becomes the 18th. On July 17, 1981, Woodard was sentenced to life in prison for the sexual assault and strangulation of a woman found near the Trinity River on New Year’s…
Tonight at 7 p.m. in Philly, the 7-0 Dallas Desperados play the 8-0 Philadelphia Soul — you know, the team owned by Jon Bon Jovi? Moments ago, Sports Illustrated posted a lengthy Q&A with Bon Jovi about tonight’s …um … historic contest of undefeated Arena Football League teams. Bon Jovi,…
Food Network We just got very interested in who’s gonna become The Next Food Network Star. Local connections and all. A Friend of Unfair Park wonders: Is the Lisa Garza mentioned below, as the Dallas contestant on the forthcoming season of The Next Food Network Star, the same Lisa Garza…
FLDS The state claims to have found evidence that 20 young girls living in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints compound in Eldorado became pregnant when they were between the ages of 13 and 16, which supports Texas’ allegations of a culture of systematic abuse that occurred…
Texas Department of Transportation What “negative perception?” Because this looks fine to us. Aside from the Love Field item on the Transportation and Environment Committee’s agenda today, the council committee will also discuss later this p.m. how to get the state to better tend to Dallas’ crap highway landscaping. Of…
View Larger Map On LA’s Homeless Blog today, PATH Dallas director Ken McGill offers a sneak peek at the $16.5-million one-stop homeless assistance “mall” set to open shortly at 1818 Corsicana Street, at the intersection of S. St. Paul Street. Notes McGill, PATH Dallas at the Bridge “will operate in…
Breaking news for the Liz Lemons of the world, or at least the 30 Rock viewers who get the headline: Food Network today announced the 10 peeps competing for the title of The Next Food Network Star, and one of them’s a local — name of Lisa Garza. The series…
Busy day at City Hall: Aside from the animal-ownership restrictions under consideration today during the Quality of Life and Government Services Committee’s powwow, the Transportation and Environment Committee will take up the discussion of modernizing Love Field Airport, per the Wright Amendment Reform Act of 2006. The city’s among the…
Shortly after noon at City Hall, the Dallas city council’s Quality of Life and Government Services Committee will discuss Proposed Ordinances for Animal Control. Among the suggestions to be considered: new guidelines for dealing with “dangerous dogs” and mandatory spaying and neutering for all dogs and cats within the city…
On April 2, 1978, the cultural tsunami that was the TV show Dallas debuted with an episode titled “Digger’s Daughter” — and, of course, the hard-drinking, hard-fighting and hard-effin’ Ewings may be far more responsible for the fall of communism than the Afghani fighters who beat the Russians courtesy some…
After last night’s dichotomous performances by the Mavs and Stars, it appears we’ll be having our spring over ice, thanks. Because while Dallas’ hockey team was dismantling the San Jose Sharks to take a 2-0 series lead, its basketball team put forth one of the most disturbingly ineffective efforts in…
The scene at Keller’s today. And I swear Tommy Lee and Ludacris are somewhere in this photo. Hell of a thing, getting caught up in a celebreality-show shoot while just trying to grab a burger and beer at 2 p.m. on a Saturday. Shoulda known something was up when the…
It’s less than a month into the baseball season, and the Texas Rangers have already hit rock bottom. Texas is tied with the Washington Nationals for the worst record in the bigs at 7-19, and team president Nolan Ryan is scheduled to meet this weekend with a different Washington (Ron)…
There’s very little to say about this lengthy clip from today’s episode of The Michael Irvin Show on ESPN-FM 103.3, during which Dallas Mavericks forward Josh Howard addressed this article that appeared over the weekend. Because, really, it’s no biggie. So, sure, the Mav went on the air and admitted…
Something tells me Mrs. Mike Modano ain’t gonna make too many friends amongst San Jose Sharks fans with comments like this one, posted today to her official NHL blog: “The San Jose arena is one of the loudest and most violent crowds that I’ve ever seen in person. It worries…
Two blocks behind Unfair Park HQ, at the intersections of Brown and Reagan streets, sits an empty lot worth $613,200. For more than a year, there’s been a billboard planted in the ground promising the Homes of Audubon Place — which, when completed, will feature 10 town homes, running between…
DISD school board trustee Carla Ranger As mentioned below, at last night’s meeting of the Dallas Independent School District’s board of trustees, Carla Ranger delivered a speech in which she questioned the ethics of board president Jack Lowe, whose company, it was revealed last weekend, has received some $10 million…
The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints now has a Web site documenting children being taken from their mothers. For some reason The Dallas Morning News doesn’t want to look in to the phone call that sparked the April 3 raid on the polygamist compound in Eldorado. As…
Prepare for the most overrated, underwhelming non-event in all of sports. No, not another ho-hum Rangers’ loss. It’s the NFL Draft, also known as the most overdone entity this side of Mel Kiper’s hair helmet. It’s a day when dork draftniks like Kiper and Gil Brandt and Norm Hitzges and…
Texas Department of Transportation See, this just-snapped traffic photo shows why you should commute to work at, like, 10 in the morning. Because 8’s just too early. Forbes has some astonishing news for Dallas commuters: Your drive to work s-s-s-s-s-sucks. Thanks, holmes. Specifically, ours is the fifth-worst commute amongst the…
