So, I had the bright idea to go out to Carrollton tomorrow for a sportsy column about Dallas’ Blue Angels, the only varsity football team of home-schooled students in the state of Texas. It’s their, um, homecoming? But now I’m not going. Why? Not invited. Not even allowed. “We don’t…
The Basketball Jones Baron Davis almost killed the Mavs again last night. Musta left the bullets in the fedora. That’s it? That was the Dallas Mavericks’ statement game? Needing desperately to swagger into Oakland and blow out the depleted, winless Golden State Warriors, the Mavs instead turned back the calendar…
Dave Mirra will be in town this weekend to see if Dallas’ gravitational pull is enough to weigh him down. Doubtful. The perfect remedy for Trinity River tired head? Spend a weekend with thousands of dudes who don’t give a damn about our new toll road unless it includes a…
I thought that was Wilt Chamberlain. Hi-yo. Regardless, in case you missed it, here’s Mike Modano last night scoring points 1,232 and 1,233 against the San Jose Sharks, breaking Phil Housley’s record for most points raked up by a U.S.-born pro hockey player. Notes Deadspin this morning, “Wayne Gretzky finished…
So, you want a piece of Tony Romo’s fortune? If you’re a Hollywood starlet, get in line. If you’re the least bit Web-savvy, get to crackin’. For as little as $9.99 you can be at least an ancillary part of the Romo Empire, as proud owner of Internet sites such…
Last week’s death of The Sports Fan 990 AM was a total surprise. Or. Not. The struggling radio station with the questionable leadership and the meek signal failed to see its first birthday, pulling the plug and forgoing its all-sports format for what – last I checked – sounded like…
Another season, another first-round flame-out. Thanks to FC Dallas’ come-from-ahead loss to the Houston Dynamo Friday night, our teams’ playoff pratfalls continue to continue. Let’s see, the Cowboys, Mavericks, Stars, Desperados and now FC Dallas all failed to get out of the first round of the playoffs in their most…
“That’s … that’s … heroic,” I said last night, more than a little tipsy. “Heroic?” said the missus. “‘Uh-oh, I have the ball, and they’re chasing me — guess I’d better keep running.’ What’s heroic about that?” Fine. –Robert Wilonsky…
Tomorrow marks a major holiday — at least according to the folks at the AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic. Some four years back, the Cotton Bowl folks decided to commemorate the first Saturday in November as National College Football Day, so designated because on November 6, 1869, Rutgers defeated Princeton by…
WFAA-Channel 8 Sorry to disappoint, but I’m talking about this deceased equine, not that one. As I wrote in this week’s paper version of Unfair Park, Dale Hansen’s role in the 1980s SMU pay-for-play scandal made him more pariah than Peruna. He broke the story, which, coupled with the death…
For his role, Dale Hansen got death threats, extortion ploys and a dead bird. “It was a black crow delivered right to our office,” recalls Hansen, WFAA-Channel 8’s sports anchor. “It had a note pinned through its body: ‘You’re next.'” For its part, SMU football received even worse. A two-year…
What, you were expecting “Happy Halloween”? In the timeless words of Stuart Scott: Boo. Yah. It’s basketball season, damn it! The NBA actually tipped off last night, but Your Dallas Mavericks begin their 2007-’08 season tonight against the Cleveland LeBrons. I know, I know. Hard to get your basketball jones…
DallasCowboys.com The Dallas Cowboys’ holy trinity celebrated Tony Romo’s $67.5-million payday at a press conference today at Valley Ranch. On April 20, 1989, in Valley Ranch’s main meeting room, I attended a Dallas Cowboys press conference announcing the signing of their quarterback to a contract worth $11 million. On October…
Hell of a day for Tony Romo: First comes the news that he’s getting lap dances from Britney Spears (and, really, so can you at this point). Now, ESPN.com’s reporting that the Dallas Cowboys’ hot-shit QB has been offered “a six-year, $69 million contract extension, $31 million which is guaranteed,…
The Texas Rangers’ former “cooler,” once more trying to ruin somebody else’s good day We all know Alex Rodriguez — is all his disingenuous glory — tried to upstage the Boston Red Sox’s World Series championship by announcing, during the game, that he was opting out of his contract with…
Steve Orsini is very, very, very, very optimistic. A Friend of Unfair Park sends word that SMU’s athletic director, Steve Orsini, has popped on to Mustang Musings to post his own two cents concerning the firing of Phil Bennett and his 14-48 mustache. Very riveting stuff, as in: I mean…
Dallas Cowboys fans will find a troubling headline at People.com this morning: “Britney Spears Parties with Tony Romo.” That’s how he spent his bye weekend — and how she spent her Friday night, “after a long court hearing for her custody battle,” reports People. From the looks of it, he’s…
Irving High School’s Blake Beavan has Baseball America believing in Your Texas Rangers. Watching the Boston Red Sox take a 2-0 stranglehold on the Colorado Rockies last night, it struck me: How far — really now — are Your Texas Rangers from playing in a World Series? Honestly, I’m just…
Paul Lukas is obsessed with pro sports team’s uniforms — hence, his Uni Watch blog, updated daily, and his gig as ESPN.com’s uniform czar, a position maintained in these parts by KTCK-AM’s Craig Miller. This week, Lukas breaks down in exquisite detail the unis of Your Dallas Cowboys. Seems he…
Rod Price, by the way, was the guitarist for Foghat, whose “Slow Ride” the Dallas Cowboys QB apparently hasn’t mastered for Guitar Hero III. For those so inclined, below is something called TexasGamerTV’s brief coverage of the Tuesday-afternoon jam at Terence Newman’s house — and, yeah, the “Carmen” to whom…
The annual NBA.com general managers survey is out, and they’re hit-and-miss when it comes to Dallas Maverick Dirk Nowitzki. Of the seven ballers picked as MVP contenders, ain’t one of ’em named Dirk; instead, the GMs’ early-season picks are, in order, LeBron James, Tim Duncan, Kobe Bryant, Steve Nash, Kevin…
The devil arrives pushing a baby stroller. Dressed in fashionable shorts, snappy sandals and a black linen shirt, he shakes hands with parents, hugs cheerleaders and parks his future goddaughter in the front row of Bishop Lynch High School’s Roffino Stadium. Hardly looks the part of a lightning rod that…
