The Rangers want a fortune for Eric Gagne. We’d trade him for a six pack. As Richie’s out this week on vacation, we’ll instead turn to another former Startlegrammer for today’s high-and-inside pitch concerning the Texas Rangers’ moves, or not, as the July 31 trade deadline nears. MLB.com’s T.R. Sullivan…
This propaganda is on the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ watch list. Because, that’s why. Less than two weeks after kicking off its “nationwide discussion of ‘Islamophobia'” in Dallas, the Washington-based nonprofit Council on American-Islamic Relations held a similar event yesterday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. But a…
Unfair Park HQ is just a few stop lights away from the new Texas Rangers store on McKinney Ave., so maybe you’ll see us there this afternoon for an, ahem, historic occasion: “the first ever LIVE dot race outside Rangers Ballpark,” promises the press release the very persistent Rangers Communication…
Lia, at left, gets a farewell drowning from Casey Thompson on Top Chef. Last week, Shinsei’s Casey Thompson very easily could have gotten the pointy boot from Bravo’s Top Chef for her lousy tuna tartar — should have too, for putting her two at-risk partners on the judge’s grill. This…
WFAA-Channel 8 chief weather predictor man Troy Dungan said farewell-for-now last night, 31 years after signing on at the station. For his final forecast — during which Dungan was surrounded by “a cast of thousands,” meaning dozens — he had the right attitude: “If it’s wrong, what are they gonna…
A week after their daughter Emily Dowdy was released from an Oklahoma prison and sent to a treatment facility, Nancy and Charlie Jackson say they are still in a “state of disbelief.” Convicted of vehicular manslaughter after a 1999 car accident that killed Ryan Brewer, the 20-year-old son of an…
Last week, when news broke that a violent drug dealer out on bail allegedly killed a man in an Oak Cliff drug den, Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins largely blamed the murder on his office’s lack of resources. In fact, there’s a more accurate explanation of why Michael Wyatt,…
Oh, the shame: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” The Dallas County GOP must be feeling pretty Dickensian right about now, Buzz figures. Between their despised fearless leader in the White House turning more Captain Queegish daily, and local first-term Dems looking more and…
A little girl in a black and white polka-dotted leotard with a pretty, frilly skirt practices her turns on the practically empty ice rink at the Downtown Dallas Westin Hotel. Her skates are bulky, like cinderblocks on the ends of her skinny legs, but she doesn’t mind. She twirls on…
Tom Hicks’ Folly Start from scratch: I’ve been watching this franchise flounder since its inception (“Boy Blunder,” by Richie Whitt, July 12), and it sickens me more to watch them with each passing year. I played three years of pro baseball myself, but for a small-market, shallow-pocket team affiliated with…
When Jerry Jones acts, we all react. He flies to Lubbock, and next thing you know the Texas Tech-Oklahoma State game isn’t relocating to Dallas after all. He builds a $1 billion shrine to himself under the guise of football, and next thing you know Arlington is hosting the 2011…
Editor’s Note: Please see our follow-up report at the end of this article. The 2004 magazine ad for Silver American Eagles that caught Maureen O’Neill’s eye included a thumbnail history and some mumbo jumbo about the coins being “certified gem brilliant uncirculated” and “sonically sealed in a tamper-evident holder.” But…
Pete Schulte is running against Lupe Valdez — a fellow Democrat. Whuh-oh. Well, we just got off the phone with Pete Schulte, who plans to run against Sheriff Lupe Valdez in the Democratic primary next March. Only 29, Schulte works as a prosecutor in the District Attorney’s Office and is…
We need a hero. Well, it looks like embattled (should that be her first name now?) Sheriff Lupe Valdez may have an opponent in the Democratic primary. We don’t know much about the guy yet, other than he’s relatively young and works in the District Attorney’s Office, but we’ll fill…
Don’t know how the rumors got started — Seattle-based Fisher Communications-owned Pegasus News does, however — but Fair to Midland’s publicist just e-mailed Unfair Park and everyone else to let us and you know that the band ain’t playing no stinkin’ free show on Jul7 25 at the House of…
For frequent flyers who hate peanuts and don’t buy their toiletries in containers of four ounces or less, there’s hope yet: Later this month, a 13-foot-wide machine will be installed in Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport’s Terminal A, near Gate 29. It’s offered by a company called Shop24, and it will…
Interesting story last week in The Dallas Morning News on the struggles F.C. Dallas has had in attracting Mexican fans. In the story, G.M. Michael Hitchcock said he wasn’t interested in taking advantage of the new designated player rule (which allowed the L.A. Galaxy to sign David Beckham) to sign…
So, I’m up here in Chicago — yeah, yeah, doing this again, despite the cries of protest. And, funny thing, whenever anyone finds out I’m from Dallas, the very first thing they say is something along the lines of, “Man, we’d love it if Mark Cuban got the Cubs.” It’s…
Gamers are all atwitter (and pale, most likely, and possibly a little overweight) at the mere speculation that just maybe, there could possibly be some news to come from 2007 QuakeCon at the Hilton Anatole, which kicks off August 2. Seems Todd Hollenshead, CEO and co-owner of id Software, suggested…
Yesterday, we heard from a Friend of Unfair Park that the Dallas Veterans Administration Medical Center had a little mishap over the weekend. A handful of critical machines in the hospital ceased to function after a sprinkler line ruptured and flooded the floor. The hospital assures Unfair Park that staffers…
I am sure that if Jim Schutze were not on vacation, he would want to comment on at least one particular section of Bruce Tomaso’s piece today about how much dough The Trinity Commons Foundation has raised to Sink the Petition! Save the Trinity! I point you specifically to the…
Yesterday we learned that Palm Bay, Florida, got our former fire chief. Today, we discover Dallas gets in return the assistant county administrator from Palm Beach, Florida — a gentleman named Ray Waznie, and you might want to write down the name. He’ll be working in the city’s Development Services…
