You know it’s a weird week when Mike Modano’s final home game as a Dallas Star is only the second-saddest story. Went out to Texas Stadium Sunday morning for a funeral and – hate to admit this – but I cried. For a building. I know, silly. Or is it?…
At 9 this morning, I asked Tom Hicks’s local spokesperson Lisa LeMaster to comment on reports out of England that he’s finally ready to sell Liverpool FC. No word yet — perhaps because The Official Word’s not expected till later this week. So, instead, looks like we’ll have to go…
The first blasts shot up at 7 this morning, setting off car alarms and cheers and waking up Sunday sleepers for miles — and those were just the pre-implosion fireworks. Minutes later the real show began, as a series of dynamite blasts horseshoed around Texas Stadium, throwing up a monster…
Mike Modano told us Wednesday: He won’t know whether he’s retiring till, most likely, July — after he turns 40 and around the time the training camp bell rings. And there are myriad other factors at work as well, among them whether or not there’s a new owner in place…
The crack of the bat. Allergies. Longer days. Bluebonnets. And, ah yes, the trumpet. Spring has definitely sprung. Tonight in Grand Prairie Lone Star Park kicks off another horse racing season with its $50,000 Premiere Stakes. The 6:30 post time will officially begin the track’s 65-date season which will run…
A while ago we looked at that Dirk-as-Tron video, which was yanked from Vimeo but resurfaced on YouTube just this week. Then, a few days back, came the comic-book origin story — not bad, not great. Both of those flashbacks are after the jump. Now, via USA Today today, we…
Mavs got a no-brainer, must-win last night over the Memphis Grizzlies to remain tied for second place in the NBA’s Western Conference with four games remaining. While Dallas jockeys to stay out of the Los Angeles Lakers’ bracket and while owner Mark Cuban fired a strange, but strong warning shot over…
Directly below you’ll find an interview with Mike Modano, who, for now, plays for one of the teams Tom Hicks owns, for now. But what about the other two? Like, oh … let’s say Liverpool FC. There appears to some breaking news on that front courtesy the U.K. Telegraph, which…
Don’t know what you’re doing tonight, but if you want to say goodbye to the face of Dallas hockey you’d better head down to the American Airlines Center. Because tonight’s game against the Anaheim Ducks will likely be the last home appearance in the star-studded career of Mike Modano. He…
Couple times a month Derrius Bell has trouble sleeping. Maybe it’s more that he has difficulty waking up. Or, in reality, is it merely that he can’t comprehend—much less detail—the full effect of multiple concussions suffered through the years on the football field? “I’ve tried to explain this to doctors,…
The Dallas Stars’ season ends Saturday night as it did last year: with a whimper, as once again Tom Hicks’s hockey club fails to make the playoffs. Yet it’s hard to believe tickets remain for tomorrow night’s final game of the season at the American Airlines Center. There is, after…
For whatever reason, Unfair Park’s cross-the-street neighbor Heritage Auction Galleries’ sale of one of four original Energizer bunnies this weekend is generating big news. Whatever. I was more interested in this item from the April Signature Sports Memorabilia Auction: Rafael Septien’s 1978 NFC Championship ring, made by the fine folks…
While Cowboys Stadium is a greedy, event-eating monster and Texas Stadium is an icon about to be reduced to novelty-act rubble, the Cotton Bowl is still a living, breathing attraction. Barely. Later this month in Phoenix the NCAA will likely grant certification to the start-up Dallas Football Classic, a bowl…
It’s been three weeks since New York-based Rhone Group offered to take 40 percent Liverppool FC off Tom Hicks’s hands for a lousy £100-million investment, which would have been enough to satisfy the Royal Bank of Scotland’s demand for a pay-down on that huge hunk o’ debt. Which means the…
Watched an episode of The Golf Channel’s Being John Daly last week and almost came to this conclusion: Tony Romo has become boring. Almost, I said. Romo played a couple Pro-Am rounds with Daly and the mix was – yawn – barely worthy of TV. Even when alongside one of…
10. Nothing better than seeing Roger Staubach and Nolan Ryan interacting before the game. Kind of gives us hope that – Ron Washington and Tiger Woods be damned – there are great role models who don’t, in fact, make mistakes. 9. Typical Scott Feldman, huh? Made a couple of mistakes,…
Long after Tiger Woods stops talking and the Texas Rangers have finished beating the Toronto Blue Jays, March Madness will finally end tonight at 8 when Butler plays Duke for the National Championship. (Smells like a Duke blowout to me.) Show of hands: Whose bracket has Butler in the final…
Sweet Science Trailer from chris howell on Vimeo.Our (all too brief) Dallas International Film Festival sneak peek will appear in the paper version of Unfair Park this week, with follows to run on Unfair Park during the fest’s run commencing Thursday night. But I ran into Dallas Film Society Chairman…
This is no longer the year before the year. This, finally, is the year. After Neal McCoy’s National Anthem and the obligatory military flyover and Roger Staubach’s ceremonial first pitch, Texas Rangers’ starter Scott Feldman will at 1:07 p.m. officially launch against the Toronto Blue Jays what I believe will be…
The greatest hockey player ever is teaming with two of the sport’s most iconic local faces in an attempt to buy the Dallas Stars, according to two sources familiar with the organization’s current business landscape. With long-time owner Tom Hicks intent on selling the team, a group led by Wayne…
For the first time since fall, the smell of hot dogs on the grills overtook the Ballpark in Arlington Friday afternoon, as the stadium came rumbled back to life for an evening exhibition against the Royals — a dry run for the park’s support staff, and C.J. Wilson, before the sold-out season…
I never understood why Metal Skool (formerly Danger Kitty) once again changed its name to Steel Panther two years ago — it was such the brand name already, thanks in large part to Special Guest Stars Kelly Clarkson and Jeremy Piven and Kelly Clarkson and Perry Farrell and old Skooler…
