As it does every single time a big sporting event rolls into town, The Dallas Morning News took the time Friday morning to run an estimate of that event’s economic impact on the region. According to the paper, Monday night’s College Football Playoff championship game between Oregon and Ohio State…
ESPN anchor Bob Ley learned a lesson the hard way Wednesday: Don’t ask Kinky Friedman a question unless you really want to know the answer…
I’ve been a Cowboys fan since, well, I was born. I am very excited about this year’s playoff run and am feeling optimistic about the team’s chances in Green Bay on Sunday. But this, this … thing … you see in the GIF below, has got to stop. Please, God,…
Late Monday night, Rolando McClain’s house went up in flames. The $1.5 million, 7,500 square foot home located in a tony neighborhood on Lake Tuscaloosa in Alabama was unoccupied, but was destroyed by the fire. Alabama officials initially said that any fire involving a vacant, expensive home is suspicious. Now,…
Unfair Park thinks it’s time to resurrect the “Death to Flying Things” nickname.The Warriors’ Marreese Speights made a critical error during his team’s Saturday game against the Mavs. He lost his shoe in the general vicinity of Tyson Chandler. When his teammate Steph Curry tried to toss it back to…
After last night’s drubbing of the Bears in Chicago, Dez Bryant had one simple request: that the assembled press not censor his post-game rant when the ran it the next day — no “little stars,” no nothing. After waiting dutifully all day for someone, anyone, to heed this very important…
Monta Ellis, volume-scorer extraordinaire turned straw that stirs the Mavericks drink, hit a ridiculous spinning, off-balance fadeaway to beat the Bucks at the buzzer Wednesday night. Unfair Park thinks that’s a thing you should see. The celebration afterwards was almost as good as the shot itself, check out Mark Cuban…
The Cowboys have already lost the biggest game of their regular season. Thanksgiving’s debacle, the 33-10 drubbing at the hands of the Eagles, has left the team needing to win out to ensure its spot in the playoffs, something that was unthinkable after the team’s 6-1 start. 11-5 probably won’t…
That’ll teach me. After I praised the Cowboys offensive line for its best pass blocking display of 2014 Sunday against the Giants, that same offensive line, the one with three first-round picks and a growing reputation as one of the best position units in the league, laid a big, fat…
The Texas Legislature, when it meets in January, will be grappling with very serious issues. Criminal justice reform, immigration, tax policy, transportation — lawmakers will be making decisions that will shape the state’s future for years to come. State Representative Jason Villalba of Dallas, a rising Republican star who has…
First, a word about Odell Beckham Jr.’s second-quarter catch: It was the best catch I’ve ever seen happen in real time. I’m not sure if it was better than this Tyrone Prothro catch for Alabama against Southern Miss, but that was some magical stuff by ODB. I could watch that…
We did it you guys. The longest wait of every fall, the two weeks surrounding the Cowboys bye, are nearly over. The team sits at 7-3 having weathered, for now at least, a Tony Romo injury crisis, a defense that still isn’t very good and Jerry Jones getting busted for…
Here’s another thing I like about hockey. We’ve all seen in sports that moment when a highly trained athlete is made to look like a 5-year-old who just made the sort of mistake a 5-year-old might make. It’s one of the reasons we keep watching sports. These incredible athletes, these…
Well this sucks. As first reported by CBS’ John Heyman Giancarlo Stanton, the Miami Marlins slugger who has long been the dreamiest of all Texas Rangers dream acquisitions, has agreed to a 13-year $325 million contract with the Marlins that will make him the highest paid player in American professional…
If we’ve learned anything this week, it’s that net neutrality is the real enemy. Ted Cruz let us know that it’s Obamacare for the Internet. Rick Perry sent out a press release saying “President Obama’s call to saddle 21st century technology with outdated, unnecessary regulations from the era of the…
Sometimes, things are delightful for their simplicity. Cowboys’ receiver Cole Beasley’s response to a Twitter heckler Sunday was definitely one of those times. Beasley made his first fumble of the year Sunday afternoon against the Jaguars. Twitter user @massot15 thought Beasley needed to know he should hold onto the ball…
London games, at least from the various couches I’ve watched them on, are always odd. English fans, to their credit, are always enthusiastic, but their cheers are usually half-a-beat off. The extra quarter-of-a-second they need to process what happens on the field, combined with the generally terrible Wembly Stadium pitch…
The Dallas Cowboys, complete with their famous silver trousers, play their first game in London on Sunday. You should tear yourself away from Swansea vs. Arsenal (or as they would call it in America, “Swans – Gooners”) and watch a man with a malfunctioning spine attempt to defeat a team…
Everything you need to know about Michael Furrh you can learn from his outgoing voicemail message: Caddie Master at Caddie Club; golf ambassador for Rolling Hills Country Club; Guinness World Record holder. Hopefully you didn’t get bored and hang up, because that last part is key. At Arlington’s Rolling Hills…
Here’s another reason hockey is my favorite thing. See also: Our British Texan Falls in Love With the Stars Hockey has some real pantomime villains. Soccer, sure, there were some bad guys. Luis Suarez, for instance, is very keen on biting people, as you do. He was also suspended for…
One of the realities of the salary-cap era in the NFL is that flawed teams can still win Super Bowls. The 2011 Giants lost seven games. The 2012 Ravens lost six, as did the 2010 Packers and the 2007 Giants. If a team can do one thing really, really well,…
Here are some other things I like about ice hockey. See Also: Our Englishman Falls In Love With Weird-Ass Hockey There are approximately 11 billion shots per game (I discovered this number using a complex analysis that may or may not be flawed). There are so many shots that you…
