After Dirk Nowitzki’s one-legged, fadeaway, high-arcing, 18-foot shot – off the glass, no less – Friday night in Utah, TV analyst Hubie Brown was almost speechless. “C’mon!’ he exclaimed. “Some of the things this guy does at seven feet is just unfair.” Nowitzki was again brilliant over the weekend, helping…
Many thanks to the Friend of Unfair Park kind enough to send our way this afternoon Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington’s bipartisan list of 2010 Most Embarrassing Re-elects (and a Governor to Watch). The headline kinda says it all: Rep. Joe Barton, a hard R with a thing…
This morning in D.C., Attorney General Eric Holder met with the media to discuss Operation Broken Trust, a wide-ranging crime-bustin’ effort conducted by an alphabet soup’s worth of agencies intended to “protect American investors, to ensure the strength of our markets, and to prevent financial fraud schemes.” Following Holder’s opening…
Very sad news. One of my first/favorite memories as a snotty-nosed little kid was sitting atop Dad’s shoulders at the Cotton Bowl, watching Bob Hayes race under beautiful bombs from a Dallas Cowboys’ quarterback named Don Meredith. Meredith, by way of Mount Vernon and SMU, was a two-time Pro Bowl pick…
Back in October, NBC made the rather surprising announcement that it was picking up the locally shot Chase for an entire season — 22 episodes, boom. It was surprising given that ratings for the Monday-night procedural weren’t terribly good — it was averaging around 6.5 million viewers early during its…
I know he was miserable in Game 1 of the World Series and mediocre in Game 5, but the Texas Rangers wouldn’t have been to the Fall Classic in the first place without pitcher Cliff Lee. As baseball’s winter meetings start today at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista,…
You remember Chad Lacerte, right? He’s the man behind the Dallas Watersports Complex, which had the full support of the Dallas City Council was supposed to open on Fish Trap Lake till the Dallas Housing Authority sunk it, claiming it wasn’t in the best interests of the residents of West…
First thing my dad said to me this morning: “Don Meredith died.” Sure enough. An awful sad day. Dad, a Mustang grad, found out from one his closest friends — Don Woodward, an All-American swimmer on the Hilltop and Meredith’s next-door neighbor when they attended SMU. Turn out the lights…
On Friday we sneak-peeked that proposed $2-million economic development grant proposal intended to “support emerging development opportunities in North Oak Cliff.” Before Wednesday’s vote, the council’s Economic Development Committee is slated to take up the subject in mere moments; here’s the PowerPoint prepared in advance of their chitchat, which you…
10. Been saying Marion Barber’s done for a while. If he gets another carry over Tashard Choice this season it will be criminal. I know the Colts’ run defense is putrid, but you can’t deny that Choice is a much better running back than Barber at this point. Maybe even…
Chapter 31, Section 31-35 of the Dallas City Code already provides definitions for coercion (“… to approach or speak to a person in such a manner as would cause a reasonable person to believe that the person is being threatened …”) and solicitation (“… to ask, beg, solicit, or plead,…
We tried to get into Fair Park yesterday for The Big Doings and realized rather quickly we should have ditched the car elsewhere and taken the Green Line. During almost all of Saturday there was traffic for miles (30 was backed up like it was the last day of the…
Last month we listened in as Leslie West, Jack Bruce and Corky Laing played Memorial Auditorium in downtown Dallas on November 29, 1972. This morning, we go back four years earlier — to when Bruce, Ginger Baker and Eric Clapton came through town on Cream’s farewell tour, hitting Memorial on…
The memo, just in from Dallas City Hall, speaks for itself. Meters or private lots only. Well, hell, read it for yourself. Weekend listening tomorrow morning. Me, I’d start with this.Parking at City Hall Memo…
Erik Clapp, the Fort Worth filmmaker who tends to Bobbie Wygant’s archives, was sure he had in the stack o’ tapes an old interview with Leslie Nielsen, which we had planned to post earlier this week. Alas, he dug and dug but came up empty-handed. But Erik more than makes…
Speaking of historic landmarks …For more than a year, the Dallas Independent School District has been fighting the Landmark Commission to keep Adamson High School from being designated as a city landmark — so much so that in September ’09, the board passed a resolution that said, in part, “any…
Back in August we discovered that at long last, 508 Park Avenue — the building in which Robert Johnson, Bob Wills and perhaps even Charlie Parker recorded — had a savior: next-door neighbor First Presbyterian Church of Dallas. But almost four months later, the church has yet to seal the…
On the other side is the announcement that just landed in the Unfair Park in-box, in which the Texas Rangers detail ” a series of significant improvements in the video, technology, and audio systems at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington for the 2011 season.” (None of which involve Cliff Lee.) The…
Behind bars for more than 20 years, after being found guilty of the 1986 rape and murder of a Garland woman named Galua Crosby, Clay Chabot always maintained he was innocent. This morning, that all changed: In a Dallas courtroom, Chabot pleaded guilty to Crosby’s murder. He was poised to…
Mustangs young and old turned out at the Lakewood Theater last night, for a very special screening of Pony Excess — or “Exce$$,” if you prefer — Southern Methodist film-school grad Thaddeus Matula’s ESPN-bound documentary about SMU football’s high-scoring, well-paid glory days in the early ’80s, when each week brought…
So much for North Oak Cliff not needing City Hall …On Monday, the council’s Economic Development Committee will discuss an “economic development grant proposal to support emerging development opportunities in North Oak Cliff.” Which is kinda vague till you look at the corresponding item (No. 57, to be exact) on…
I’ll say it again: Having lived in the Love Field flight path for most of my 42 years, what noise? But some of you probably don’t feel the same way — like, for instance, those who’ve called or written Angela Hunt to complain about the uptick in rumble in recent…
