Whilst awaiting some return calls on this slow Presidents Day I was flipping through Mike Brooks’s two TicketStock slideshows, taken over the weekend at the Irving Convention Center. Toward the end of the first was this one, featuring Rangers lefty Derek Holland and … I have no idea, really. Had…
Back in November the Texas Rangers invited media folk out to the Ballpark in Arlington for a sneak peek at $11.5 million worth of renovations being made out in Vandergriff Plaza, where, among other things, the team’s adding a private-party zone, retooling the kids’ area and building a new bar…
A Friend of Unfair Park who knows of my affection for local relics, myself included, sends word: The Texas Rangers are selling off the outfield bleachers pulled out of the Ballpark in Arlington to make way for those $11.5-million renovations set to debut in a matter of weeks. And, turns…
An hour and a half after Texas Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton met the media to address the fact that, yes, he did have a few drinks earlier this week, team general manager Jon Daniels hopped on the phone with local media. Hamilton took no questions; Daniels had no choice. And…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have asked: Why nothing about Josh Hamilton’s alleged “relapse”? Well, because for now, we don’t know much, just that the recovering (and re-recovering) addict may have had something alcoholic (not sure what or how much) at Sherlock’s (no shit) on Monday and that Ian Kinsler…
The Mavericks — like virtually every other team during this bizarre, lockout-shortened NBA season — are nearly impossible to pin down. A combination of odd scheduling, injury adjustments and minimal practice time seemingly puts a different Maverick team on the floor every night out; in one game they’ll settle in…
Sometimes all you can do is take the win and move on. The Mavs were at home Monday night against the Suns, winning 93-87 in an ugly game in front of a seemingly disinterested crowd. It was the Mavs’ second straight game without Dirk Nowitzki, who is sitting out at…
Late into the evening yesterday, the sun was sinking over Arlington, but it was still warm out — 77 degrees, far more spring than winter, perfect first-pitch weather. And the Ballpark in Arlington was open too, of course, to introduce the score of the off-season: Yu Darvish, the 6-foot-5 would-be…
With a 4 p.m. deadline on the horizon, T.R. Sullivan wasn’t hopeful at daybreak: “The word Wednesday morning was that the Rangers’ optimism has waned a bit.” Sources have been saying in recent days that Japanese pitching sensation and magazine cover boy Yu Darvish wanted a five-year deal, the Texas…
As Wednesday’s 4 p.m. deadline nears in the negotiations between the Texas Rangers and Yu Darvish, the most significant hang-up is reportedly the 25-year-old’s request for a five-year contract and the team’s preference for a six-year deal, according to Yahoo! Sports’ Jeff Passan. Understandably, Darvish aims to become a free…
In case you missed it — which would have taken some doing, since it somehow merited its own Deadspin item yesterday — Randy Galloway’s ready to bench one of the Dallas Mavericks’ high-profile, under-performing acquisitions, Lamar Odom, who had all of six points in 23-plus minutes in last night’s target…
This morning a few Friends of Unfair Park asked: Is WrestleMania really coming to Cowboys Stadium? Um … I dunno? Kinda looked like it, maybe: Several popular wrestling websites, including this one, keep saying that WWE’s signature event, which is closing in on its 30th anniversary, is scheduled to take…
We began the week with the broadcast version of Your Reigning World Champion Dallas Mavericks’ visit to the White House to deliver President Obama his jersey. Moments ago, I see, the White House posted this nice little look behind the curtain starring Dirk, Jason Terry, Coach Carlisle and a decidedly…
There’s a book on the subject: The Catch: One Play, Two Dynasties, and the Game That Changed the NFL. I refuse to read it. Or even link to it. Five years ago, Chris Berman recalled the moment for ESPN. Won’t watch that either. Al Michaels narrated this piece about how…
About an hour ago Your Reigning World Champion Dallas Mavericks finally got their visit to the White House, where President Obama was presented with his very own Mavs jersey. Obama welcomed the team, former Mayor Ron Kirk and, of course, “the shy and retiring owner of the Dallas Mavericks,” as…
In October we noted a report from Pittsburgh-based Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights that said the Dallas Cowboys are having team-branded clothing made in “gross sweatshop conditions at the Style Avenue factory in El Salvador” — which Cowboys Merchandise Ltd. chief operating officer Bill Priakos denied in a…
Jonathan Bales is the founder of DallasCowboysTimes.com, a site dedicated to film study and statistical analysis of the Cowboys. As the seconds ticked away in the Cowboys’ prime-time loss to the Giants on Sunday, Cowboys fans were left with that familiar taste in their mouths. (You know the one –…
Reports out of Japan this morning had Yu Darvish visiting Arlington today — why, they do not say. ESPN Dallas’s Richard Durrett reports the pitcher and his pops and their peeps are here “to take a look at the area and get a better sense of the Texas Rangers organization.”…
We all knew it when we saw it, with 14 seconds to go in the first half and the Dallas Cowboys down 21-0 to the New York Giants: That Sunday Night Football shot of owner and general manager Jerry Jones, his head buried in his hands, would become the defining…
Editor’s note: Jonathan Bales is the founder of DallasCowboysTimes.com and occasionally writes for The New York Times. We thought it’d be fun to have him break out the Xs and Os and Oh Shits before Sunday’s big game. We apologize in advance for the nerdiness. While the “play-in game” that awaits…
That sound you just heard? That was any and all illogically bloated expectations for the Mavericks’ season hitting the ground with a thud. This isn’t your typical championship defense. The Mavs made it clear in the off-season that they weren’t content to merely bring back all of the components of…
In a New York Times piece this morning, Penn State’s interim head coach Tom Bradley acknowledges: Many of the Lions wanted to skip their trip to Dallas on January 2, when Penn State’s scheduled to play Houston in the TicketCity Bowl at the Cotton Bowl in Fair Park. The reason,…
