Went out and toured “new” Rangers Ballpark last month. Well, not exactly new, but how about refurbished? New video scoreboard in left field. Information ribbons wrapping the place. A fashion-forward brick wall behind home plate. My thumbs-up review is here. With a heralded youth movement playing in a spit-shined stadium, there’s…
First, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones says quarterback Tony Romo is untouchable. “I wouldn’t trade Tony for anybody.” Now head coach Wade Phillips – who never addressed his team after last season and has been publicly silent since 2008 – says he hasn’t talked just because, um, he hasn’t wanted to…
Texas Rangers fans attending games in Arlington this season will do something for the first time since their ballpark opened in 1994. Sorry, it has nothing to do with winning. Or does it? Thanks to a $4 million facelift, every fan in every seat at Rangers Ballpark will be able…
So says the Texas Tech athletics Web site this afternoon, as the Red Raiders make it official: Tech and Baylor are moving their next two games up to North Texas sooner than later. As in: This year, on November 28, the Red Raiders and Bears won’t play in Waco, as…
Since I rip Ken Hamlin’s birthday parties and Martellus Bennett’s rap videos, guess I should lay into Leonard Davis’ band as well. Wait, Leonard Davis is in a rock band? I saw Dallas Cowboys’ offensive lineman Marc Columbo at a Godsmack concert at the Palladium in 2006 and wondered what he’d…
A little radio industry birdie just chirped to me that the Dallas Mavericks and 103.3 ESPN have reached an agreement keeping the team in place through 2013. The Mavs would’ve become radio free agents after the current deal expired on April 1, but the sides finalized a new four-year contract on Monday…
More good news for Cowboys fans this morning comes courtesy of Julius Jones and Jacques Reeves. Remember them? Because the former Cowboys left via free agency and played kinda decent, the NFL has awarded Dallas compensatory picks in the fifth and sixth rounds in next month’s draft. The Cowboys, thanks…
The Dallas Cowboys and their new $1 billion stadium don’t have a corporate naming partner. (My idea looks better by the day.) Or, for that matter, an exclusive date with a TV network for the sparkling joint’s NFL debut. To which I say, fantastic! Let me repeat the off-season mantra I’ve encouraged…
Give the Dallas Stars credit for being spunky and resilient and stubbornly fun to watch. But the season’s over, right? To me it ended Saturday in San Jose. Not just with the 5-2 loss to the Sharks, but more so with another major injury. This one to Brad Richards, who…
Shockingly, this one isn’t on No. 76. In fact, it’s a good thing. At least I think it is. You tell me. The Cowboys last week mailed letters to all 2009 season-ticket holders, informing them that their dues for tickets and parking is surprisingly being delayed. Originally due April 1, customers…
A bestest Friend of Unfair Park directs our attention to Peter King’s Monday Morning QB column filed from the annual NFL meetings in Dana Point, California. A the bottom we discover that the Sports Business Journal may have had it wrong earlier this month — as in, AT&T isn’t buying…
What happened to the madness in March? Instead of dramatic buzzer-beaters and Cinderellas and Bryce Drew, the first weekend of the NCAA college basketball tournament brought us the Greg Gumbel Invitational – about as goose-bumpy as a piece of white bread laying on a chunk of cardboard. A year after all…
In case you haven’t noticed, the Dallas Mavericks’ new head coach is Prick Carlisle. His weekly radio shows with The Ticket’s Norm Hitzges have gotten progressively less insightful and decreasingly courteous. And last night he turned down right surly with ESPN Radio’s Chuck Cooperstein. For no reason. On the Mavs’ pre-game…
Instead of watching college basketball yesterday, I decided to get out the sticks for the first time this spring. Cue the Guinness guys: Brilliant! While one of my upsets delivered (Western Kentucky over Illinois) and one of my Final Four teams inexplicably pratfalled (Clemson?!), I carded a fresh 76 at…
I’ve been trying for some time to talk to Tom Hicks about livin’ it up in Liverpool, where every day it’s something: Liverpool FC sales talks with the Kuwatis “going really badly,” the re-signing of manager Rafael Benitez, the declaring of a cease-fire with partner and frienemy George Gillett. Today,…
Only 19 days until the Texas Rangers open the 2009 regular season at home against the Cleveland Indians. In other words, time for some mid-spring training grades. So far, so good I’d have to say. No major injuries. Josh Hamilton is pounding the ball. Michael Young is flawlessly fielding grounders at…
On February 24 SMU’s basketball team welcomed a special visitor to its sparkling new Crum Center practice facility. Ushered in by school president Dr. Gerald Turner, the guest was none other than Dallas’ newest celebrity resident, the Mustangs’ latest fan and the former leader of the free world. Fortunately, George…
It very well could happen in April. It’s already happened in March. In a shocking upset that definitely requires slow, detailed, further review, the Mavs Dancers were knocked off by San Antonio’s Silver Spurs, 69%-31%, in the first round of NBA.com’s annual dance team bracket. Not surprisingly, fans crowned the Miami Heat…
Tomorrow and Friday are two of the best sports days of the year. 32 college basketball games over 36 hours, tipping off Thursday at 11:30 a.m. with BYU-Texas A&M. And when it’s done, you can use your office pool brackets at toilet paper. Unless, that is, I let you peek…
Ah, the Dallas Cowboys’ off-season. A time to blog about ghosts and running and iPhones and, of course, the Dallas Cowboys. Thanks to Terence Newman, there’s even fresh meat to chew upon in between Terrell Owens’ departure and the NFL Draft’s arrival. Short version: Troy Aikman questions whether Tony Romo…
Speaking of athletes who don’t deserve any more bailouts … Former Cowboys’ quarterback Quincy Carter was arrested Feb. 27 for DUI. Less than two weeks later he was signed by another floundering football team – the Abilene Ruff Riders – desperate for passing and publicity. Sad, sad and double sad…
Ever tell you my Roy Tarpley story? In 1994-95 I’m covering the Dallas Mavericks for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. After some horrible seasons under Quinn Buckner and the like, the organization is abuzz. The Three J’s – remember them? – are in place and rejoining the rebuilding is the most talented,…
