Last time we saw a Ranger on the cover gas was $1.20 and this guy was a high-school sophomore. You haven’t even made it to your afternoon smoke break and already the Rangers have again failed to summit Mount Mediocrity. For the fourth time in the last two weeks Texas…
Sam Merten’s most favoritist ball player in the history of leather and wood graces the cover of this week’s Sports Illustrated, and as beautiful as the cover is, Albert Chen’s story is even better. The title: “The Super Natural.” The lead: Josh Hamilton is at peace now, at peace even…
The beast that ate Dallas. Is it possible to up and move a river? Because if so, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones will slap a “wide load” banner on the Trinity River project and steer it toward Tarrant County any day now. And the JFK museum, and Deep Ellum and the…
Enough with the flirting. Dear Mr. Cuban, Please don’t do it. I know you love baseball and the spotlight and you have more money than Sri Lanka, but don’t buy the Chicago Cubs. I know you’re more than thinking about it. You want it. And I don’t blame you. It’s…
Those wondering which beer you’ll be guzzling at Jerry Jones’ new billion-dollar stadium in Arlington come the 2009-’10 season and way beyond, wonder no more: Courtesy The Landry Hat, we now know it’ll still be Miller Lite, blech. So says Street & Smith’s Sports Business Journal, which brings news of…
Dave Faries, best known ’round here as the man who used to answer the Burning Question, is now posted in Prague, where he’s writing for The Prague Post. Among his duties: covering the Prague Panthers, currently in contention for the EFAF Cup — top honors for European American Football clubs…
Okay, enough grab-ass. On our way back to the grindstone, a little catching up: *Tony and Jessica are apparently the happiest un-couple ever. *Pacman Jones worked out at SMU yesterday and will wear No. 21 as a Cowboy. I guess No. $20,000 was taken. *Former Stars’ architect Doug Armstrong is…
Here’s Bacsik’s trading card, stamped with the wrong signature. It can be yours for the historically low, low price of $2.95. Some nine months after Mike Bacsik pitched his way into the history books by dealing Barry Bonds home run No. 756, ESPN’s Gene Wojciechowski profiles the former KTCK-AM intern’s…
The Texas Rangers just announced that colorful color analyst Tom Grieve will undergo prostate surgery and miss 2-3 weeks of the team’s TV broadcasts. They say these things are pretty common these days — Mavs head coach Don Nelson and Rangers hitting coach Rudy Jaramillo come to mind — but…
Rangers’ GM Jon Daniels may have traded for the AL MVP Gotta tell you, my first impression of Josh Hamilton wasn’t so swell. I was out at Rangers Ballpark last January for the team’s annual Fan Fest when Hamilton, the team’s new center fielder and born-again-and-again-and-again Christian, started talking to…
In hockey, two heads are better than one. In news that should surprise no one, the Dallas Stars have inked co-general managers Brett Hull and Les Jackson to concurrent three-year contracts running through the 2011 season. It seemed a desperate move when owner Tom Hicks fired former GM Doug Armstrong…
Look ma, no feet?! On a nightly basis you can head down to Victory Park’s plaza and watch Pete Delkus spar with Dale Hansen. And earlier this week it was the Mavericks’ Jason Terry trying to hit golf balls to the moon. Now? Would you believe motorcycle jumping? With a…
More than likely, he will probably, possibly, potentially be a part of the Cowboys’ offense this seson. Maybe, that is. Ken Hamlin (unsigned), Roy Williams (family vacation) and Terry Glenn (gimpy knee) weren’t present at yesterday’s Dallas Cowboys’ OTA (back in my beat writing days we called them “quarterback school”)…
I was totally prepared to be under-whelmed by the new Dallas Mavericks’ head coach, Rick Carlisle. Micro-manager bordering on control freak. Unyielding commitment to defense at the expense of offense. Impersonal. Indifferent. Shoddy communicator. Plodding half-court system predicated on him calling plays every stinking possession. Sound familiar? But after further…
For $45 million, he’d better be able to fly. I’m headed out this morning to Valley Ranch to watch some Cowboys’ OTAs (that’s “organized team activities” for some of you that’ve been mired in hoops ‘n hockey), to see who Tony Romo is fixn’ to shag now and to ask…
Avery Johnson, you’ve got company. On the heels of an embarrassing 5-1 loss to David Beckham and the Los Angeles Galaxy before a record crowd at Pizza Hut Park last Sunday, FC Dallas general manager Michael Hitchcock has just fired head coach Steve Morrow. Morrow will be replaced by fourth-year…
Sleep well, Stars fans. Sleep well. After teasing us with hints of a monumental comeback, the Dallas Stars were finally buried by the better team last night. Red Wings 4, Stars 1 wasn’t as close as the score indicates. Detroit, which advances to a Stanley Cup Finals series against Pittsburgh…
Don’t you wish this guy had baseball’s second-most wins, second-most strikeouts and best ERA in this uniform? I know, the Texas Rangers’ Dec. 22, 2007 trade of Edinson Volquez to the Cincinnati Reds for Josh Hamilton cannot be criticized. Not with Hamilton plugging a center field hole that’s leaked inconsistency…
Who knew there was a fast track from the Frisco RoughRiders to the Green Bay Packers? At 21 I had ambition. I had goals. I wanted to win the sports trivia contest at UTA’s Dry Gulch every Thursday night. I wanted to find the sonofabitch who stole two radar detectors…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have pointed our attention this a.m. to Mitch Albom’s column in the Detroit Free Press, previewing the previously unfathomable Stars-Red Wings Game Six tonight at the American Airlines Center. Albom, the favorite sports columnist of every mother in America, writes that Red Wings netminder Chris…
Goodbye, monkey. Hello, history? The Dallas Stars got their pride. They got the Joe Louis Arena monkey off Marty Turco’s back. Now – believe it or not – they’re trying to get even. For those of you that figured the Dallas Stars were primed for cremation when they fell behind…
Look for this guy’s wife at Ghostbar Saturday night. Just a guess. Remember last summer when David Beckham’s visit to Dallas, er Frisco, was a huge deal? Then, he tweaked an ovary or something and his no-show was even huger? Now, turns out, Mr. Posh Spice will play at Pizza…
