10. Lots of heroes Sunday night in Philly, but the biggest – smallest – play was made by rookie linebacker Victor Butler. With the Eagles down 7 and facing third-and-10 from Dallas’ 33, Donovan McNabb scrambled right into what seemed to be an open field for a good 10 to…
A couple of weeks back, during halftime of the SMU-Navy game at Ford Stadium, the university debuted two new mustangs donated by the National Wild Horse Foundation, on behalf of Madeleine and T. Boone Pickens. Which had more than a few folks wondering: What in the wide, wide world of…
Mark Cuban is sweating. Not the nervous kind of lather you work up fretting over a lawsuit slapped on you by Ross Perot Jr., a witch hunt targeting you by the Securities and Exchange Commission or the fact that, for the first time in memory, your basketball team didn’t sell…
A Mavs season-ticket-holding Friend of Unfair Park wonders: “Weren’t the Dallas Mavericks supposed to announce The New Voice of the American Airlines Center yesterday?” We appreciate the reminder — because, yes, November 4 was indeed supposed to be The Big Day, after Michael Taylor sat down at the mic for…
For those of you – both of you – not consumed by Cowboys-Eagles this weekend, NASCAR comes to town in the form of the Dickie’s 500 Sunday at.Texas Motor Speedway. Driving. Racing. Wreckin’. Watching. Drinking. Eating. Bowling? It’s the events surrounding the race that actually make NASCAR more circus than sport…
It was just one week ago that – despite his mediocre production – I was publicly defending Dallas Cowboys’ receiver Roy Williams. My reasoning? He was a better teammate than the dearly departed Terrell Owens. “A stand-up guy,” I wrote. “Good character.” Eff me. You guys watch the games. You see what’s…
We’re all supposed to be offended by a Dallas Cowboys’ cheerleader with black paint on her white face at Halloween. But what about …..
God knows the city’s been talking about it since forever — you know, finding another bowl game to stick in the Cotton Bowl, since the actual New Year’s Day Cotton Bowl Classic will now be played at the EnormoDome in Arlington, which is about 389 shades of ain’t-right, but, whatever…
I remember watching Mark Aguirre go off on the Denver Nuggets in March of 1984. In scoring 24 points in a quarter, the ball just seem to magically, directly commute from hand to hoop. He launched a wing jumper and you knew it was going in. Measured. Smooth. Beautiful. Nothing,…
Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback rating. Wins and losses? Definitely. Leadership? Uh-huh. When it comes to my weekly NFL Quarterback Rankings – if I had one of those little encircled R’s to signify a trademarked idea, it’d go here – the…
Roy Williams is the Dallas Cowboys’ third-highest paid player. And their fourth-leading receiver. So I ask you, what the hell is going on here? It may sound like nitpicking on a team that’s won three in a row heading into Sunday night’s showdown against the Eagles, but to win in Philly…
If your name is Newy Scruggs, Laura Dean-Mooney or Jesus H. Christ, you have permission to stop reading. The rest of you, I’d like you to think back to the last time you were driving while drunk, schnockered, intoxicated, tipsy, under the influence or, if you prefer, merely buzzed. Last…
This is Anfield, devoted to all things Liverpool FC, posted today a rather lengthy laundry list of all the things Tom Hicks has done wrong, far as Reds fans are concerned, since he bought the club with George Gillett more than two years ago. The sum-up — headlined “Hicks &…
After attending last Tuesday’s sluggish opener at American Airlines Center, I didn’t exactly think the Dallas Mavericks were a hideous outfit that would miss the playoffs. But I certainly didn’t see them beating the Los Angeles Lakers. Maybe: 1) The Washington Wizards don’t suck. 2) The Mavs don’t either. Hung…
No doubt you’ve already heard (and just pretended you didn’t): Daughtry’s landed the halftime gig at Cowboys Stadium on Thanksgiving Day, the annual kickoff for the Salvation Army’s Red Kettle campaign. Which prompted this locker-room meeting of the musical minds on Friday: Free Reign, meet Daughtry — which, apparently, is…
10. Ten. That’s how many Cowboys caught passes Sunday. Of the players eligible to be a receiver, only Tashard Choice got shut out. 9. Halloween hangover. The end of Daylight Savings Time. Whatever. Something weird was going on at Cowboys Stadium, for I coulda swore I saw Bobby Carpenter make…
Since the day he arrived at Valley Ranch in 1989 Jerry Jones has been in charge of well, you remember, everything from socks and jocks. But this morning on his weekly visit with me and Newy Scruggs on 105.3 The Fan Jerry – more unequivocal, more crystal clear and more adamant…
A Friend of Unfair Park who knows of my, um, interest (sure, why not?) in the American Basketball Association’s return to the DFW sends along this profile of Isaiah “J.R.” Rider, who, I’ll be damned, is set to make his return to pro ball with the North Texas Fresh outta…
During its 22 years of existence, the Dallas Video Festival has paid tribute to a great many pioneers and visionaries, among them Monty Python’s Terry Gilliam, Robert Smigel, Paul Reubens, Martin Mull, Mike Judge, Mystery Science Theater 3000’s Joel Hodgson and Slam Bang Theater creator Bill Camfield. To that list,…
Not over their careers obviously, because Terrell Owens is a no-brainer Hall of Famer and Roy Williams is a one-time Pro Bowler who in 2006 snuck in only after Torry Holt backed out with an injury. But this year – horrible for both as of yet – I’ll take Williams…
Last month, the Startlegram outed former Barry Bonds and Jose Canseco agent Dennis Gilbert as a would-be buyer of Your Texas Rangers, which the Beverly Hills-based Gilbert wouldn’t confirm at the time. That made sense: He’s still in pro ball (he reviews contracts for the Chicago White Sox, where his…
OK, here goes: I don’t much care for women’s sports. Because, let’s face it, they’re inferior. Call me a sexist, chauvinistic pig if you must. Just admit I’m right. It’s not that I don’t think women should work or vote or be astronauts or president. It’s just that I don’t…
