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…
Is this indeed a Good Friday, Cowboys’ fans? It’s the end of “False Start. Offense. No. 76” as the Cowboys today released starting offensive left tackle Flozell Adams and starting free safety Ken Hamlin. Your starters, for now, are Doug Free at LT and Alan Ball at FS. Adams was a…
Five games. Three time zones. Two training camps. Your Dallas Cowboys are certainly expanding their brand as America’s Team. But is such nomadic pre-season good for them? The Cowboys will travel almost 5,000 miles this summer, compared to only 852 for the New York Giants. I think jet lag is…
Dirk did it. Again. As he’s done for the last decade around here, Dirk Nowitzki snapped out of ugly shooting night just in time to lift the Dallas Mavericks to an improbable, pulsating victory. This time – mired in a 3-for-16 night – he hit two 3-pointers late in regulation and…
Sure, the Dallas Mavericks produced an epic victory Monday night. Whipping the Denver Nuggets gave the inside track on the No. 2 seed in the upcoming Western Conference playoffs. But that momentum, that achievement – that seeding – could all be lost in the next 48 hours. Tonight the Mavs…
Jason Witten? Check. Miles Austin? Check. Patrick Crayton? Yeah, okay, check. Roy Williams? Hmm. Dez Bryant? Interesting. Entering next month’s NFL Draft the Dallas Cowboys have needs. At safety. At kicker. At offensive tackle. And, yes, at receiver. But are the concerns there enough to take a receiver with their…
A couple weeks ago, you may recall, we brought you a look inside what’s left of Texas Stadium, which, to our eyes, looked just about ready to come down.Not about to let the stadium go quietly, though, the city of Irving organized yet another tour of the old stadium today,…
When I was out at Rangers’ Spring Training in Surprise, Arizona, I saw Neftali Feliz compliment a 98mph fastball with a 78mph curve. Totally buckled the knees of the forgettable Seattle Mariners’ minor leaguer who struck out looking. Humiliated him. But then Feliz hit a batter, walked a batter, gave up two…
10. Is this really progress? Looked around American Airlines Center in the first quarter last night and seemed like everyone was not watching the game on the court, but rather looking down at the phone in their hands. Texting. In general, we’ve evolved to the point of going to games…
So last weekend Jesuit High School holds its annual athletic banquet fund-raiser thingamabob. Up for auction: Dinner with Dallas Cowboys head coach Wade Phillips, which went for a cool $8,500. So how much do you think someone bid on a meal with broadcasters Brad Sham, Babe Laufenberg and legendary NFL voice…
When the Texas Rangers open the 2010 season a week from day in Arlington they’ll have a legendary, championship-winning arm on the mound. If just for one pitch. Former Dallas Cowboy and NFL Hall of Famer Roger Staubach will throw out the ceremonial first pitch before the Rangers host the Toronto…
