Even though tickets go on sale Tuesday, there’s been no official announcement concerning the famous faces suiting up for the 2010 NBA All-Star Celebrity Game, which will take place February 12 at the Dallas Convention Center during the three-day Jam Session to be held in advance of the February 14…
I was there in February 1999 in Seattle for rookie Dirk Nowitzki’s first points as a Dallas Maverick. Still can’t believe I was at American Airlines Center last night for his 20,000th. Shortly after then-general manager Don Nelson acquired Dirk in a draft-day trade for Robert “Tractor” Traylor in ’98, the German…
Jerry Jones has had better teams. But not many better moments. Minutes after his team’s 34-14 shellacking of the Philadelphia Eagles last Saturday night in an NFC Wild Card Playoff Game at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, the Dallas Cowboys owner triumphantly marched toward the victorious locker room. On one arm,…
Everything I know about the Dallas Texans hockey team comes from The Handbook of Texas History’s Dallas Stars entry:Professional hockey in Dallas dates back to 1941, when the Dallas Texans joined the minor-league American Hockey Association. The debut occurred at Fair Park Ice Arena on November 6, 1941, when the…
As Brad Sham noted toward the end of yesterday’s presentation of the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee’s “Century in the Making” list at Woodrow Wilson High School, the thing ran a bit long — more than hour, and folks got a big fidgety. Shame. Because at the end…
Since I predicted the Dallas Cowboys would win a playoff game this year, to me they haven’t over-acheived. Merely achieved. At 12-5 with an NFC East championship and a playoff win for the first time since 1996, is it enough? Two questions:…
As promised, there they were this afternoon, seated on leather chairs perched upon the Woodrow Wilson High School auditorium stage: Roger Staubach, Troy Aikman, Michael Irvin, Tony Dorsett, “Mean” Joe Greene, Craig James, Daryl Johnston, Billy Sims. Also there, of course, was Woodrow’s favorite son, Tim Brown, joined by the…
First, the NBA All-Star Game. Then the Super Bowl. Could the Federation Internationale de Football Association’s World Cup in 2018 or 2022 be next? It’s not so far fetched now that Dallas has made the final cut as the USA Bid Committee has narrowed a list of 27 cities down…
I rip (make that ripped, past tense) Wade Phillips all the time, but, um, looks like Minnesota Vikings’ head coach Brad Childress needs a history lesson. On Dec. 28, 1975, the Dallas Cowboys traveled to frigid Metropolitan Stadium for a playoff game against the Vikings. Trailing 14-10 with less than…
In Texas, the old saying goes, there exist only two sports: Football. And spring football. God, after all, decreed Texas Stadium have a hole in its roof so he could look down upon his favorite team. Right? From the old wooden Fair Park Bowl through the Cotton Bowl, Texas Stadium…
In the wake of Tom Hicks Jr.’s blow-me missive to one Liverpool FC fan, and Tommy’s subsequent resignation from the club’s board of directors, Friend of Unfair Park PeterK sends along this essay from the U.K. Independent that kinda, sorta applauds Junior for, if nothing else, speaking the truth. Because,…
I guess the question at this point is, do you give a crap? About baseball players and their steroid use? During the 1998 Major League Baseball season I went to Houston a couple times as a reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram to cover the magical home-run chase between the St. Louis…
If you can’t beat ’em, sign ’em? For years Vladimir Guerrero tormented the Texas Rangers. Now, in a sign that new owner Chuck Greenberg has money and moxy and motivation, the Rangers will this week sign the free-agent slugger to a one-year contract. While Tom Hicks, Jr. has some fun with…
Let’s start this item with some kind words for (for now) Tom Hicks Sr.’s baseball club, which, at 12:30 p.m. today will help out Cedar Hill High School, where students returned from the winter break to find the baseball team’s field house ransacked and more or less destroyed by vandals…
The sun rose in the east this morning. But don’t kid yourself, it’s a vastly different planet for your Dallas Cowboys. A world, that is, free of monkeys, gorillas, primates, mandrills, King Kongs and, most imporantly, playoff pratfalls. In what will surely be referenced for years to come, owner Jerry…
10. Spit Happens. So do three-game sweeps that finally, unequivocally bury memories of 44-6. 9. Cowboys at Vikings next Sunday at noon. Get ready for a week of Tony-Romo-is-a-younger-Brett-Favre comparisons. One thing’s for sure: Cowboys are as hot as anyone. During their four-game winning streak they have never trailed. 8…
Earlier this evening, Paul Gardner — Spirit of Shankly Regeneration Liaison Officer and rabid Liverpool FC fan — sent word: Tom Hicks Jr.’s got a potty mouth. Which is no big deal, sure, except Hicks is vice president of Hicks Sports Group and a director of Liverpool FC, the soccer…
As I didn’t back in 2006, I still don’t get Dallas’ obsession with the University of Texas. I know there’s tons of alumni and it’s the big state university and lone star pride and yadda, yadda and more yadda. But it’s Commerce Street, not Sixth Street. It’s Reunion Tower, not…
Miles Austin has overcome being from Monmouth College. Miles Austin has overcome being an undrafted free agent. Miles Austin has overcome being buried on the bench until Week 5. Miles Austin has overcome playing receiver opposite Roy Williams. But … …
Hat tip, of course, to Mr. Spock for the headline suggestion — what, you’ve never heard the ancient Vulcan proverb? Shame. Anyway. Yes, looks like the former Dallas Maverick is headed to China, if this crudely interpreted Web site is any indication. Jerry Stackhouse, who said in October he wasn’t…
Chris Heinbaugh, Mayor Tom Leppert’s chief of staff, sends word this morning that Leppert and Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter (awesome) have made a bet on Saturday night’s Cowboys-Eagles game. But, blessedly, they’ve dispensed with the wackiness (no jerseys worn to council meetings) and gone straight for the sincere: “The…
It all started with a phone call to 105.3 The Fan’s Sybil Summers. A tip that the Philadelphia Eagles’ web site was posting something or other about Cowboys Stadium’s sacred star. A little investigative digging and – voila – Cowboys-Eagles III just got more interesting. The Bounty Bowl. Randall Cunningham’s fake…
