Greg Hardy, pass rusher and asshole extraordinaire, will miss the first 10 games of the NFL season. The former Carolina Panthers defensive end was signed by the Cowboys in March after a 2014 season that saw him miss 15 games. Hardy was placed on the commissioner’s exempt list — read:…
Texas High School athletes shouldn’t be tested for steroids any more, the state’s Sunset Commission says, because the state’s “steroid testing program is no longer effective.” Since 2008, the year the program started, it has confirmed 40 positive tests — less than one-half of 1 percent of all students tested…
SMU is out of the NCAA Tournament. After trailing by as many as 10 in the second half, the Ponies led by two in the final minute against UCLA. The Bruins Bryce Alford chucked up an off-balance three that had no chance. As it approached the plane of the front…
The Dallas Cowboys have signed free agent defensive lineman Greg Hardy to a one-year contract, the team announced on Twitter today. He’s just what the Cowboys need. The 2010 sixth-round pick from Ole Miss is a big, rangy outside speed rusher. He’s tallied 26 sacks in his last two full…
Again, a story is developing around Cowboys receiver Dez Bryant that creates more questions than answers, and again it stems from the work of NFL.com reporter Ian Rapoport. In November, Rapoport reported on six incidents — the most recent occurring in November 2013 — that resulted in DeSoto police responding…
It’s that time again. Another big event at Jerryworld is approaching, and the Morning News is credulously reporting an outrageous number for the event’s estimated economic impact. This time, it’s the Academy of Country Music Awards that’s supposed to hand the North Texas economy its latest event-related windfall, to the…
Friday’s Plano East versus Flower Mound boys basketball game featured three overtimes, multiple lead changes and a white power sign. It makes sense that the student section at Flower Mound High School’s basketball games would have a sign with the word “white” on it. After all, the Lewisville Independent School…
For the second time in less than six months, Cowboys backup running back Joseph Randle has gotten in trouble with police. Randle was cited by Wichita, Kansas, officers after they found marijuana in Randle’s downtown Wichita hotel room. The reason police were called to the hotel room is less innocuous…
By the ordinary laws of Internet fame, the universe should have long ago forgotten Teddy Bear the talking porcupine. It’s been three years his emergence as a viral celebrity, roughly 8.6 billion years in Internet time. Adorable though he may be, with his vaguely anthropomorphic squeaks and amusing dietary quirks,…
Terry Hendrix, as he notes in his lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court, is speaking for all of us. He’s speaking on behalf of Dez Bryant, all Dallas Cowboys fans and all people in and from the “Sovereign Republic of Texas.” His demands — make that our demands –…
As it does every single time a big sporting event rolls into town, The Dallas Morning News took the time Friday morning to run an estimate of that event’s economic impact on the region. According to the paper, Monday night’s College Football Playoff championship game between Oregon and Ohio State…
ESPN anchor Bob Ley learned a lesson the hard way Wednesday: Don’t ask Kinky Friedman a question unless you really want to know the answer…
I’ve been a Cowboys fan since, well, I was born. I am very excited about this year’s playoff run and am feeling optimistic about the team’s chances in Green Bay on Sunday. But this, this … thing … you see in the GIF below, has got to stop. Please, God,…
Late Monday night, Rolando McClain’s house went up in flames. The $1.5 million, 7,500 square foot home located in a tony neighborhood on Lake Tuscaloosa in Alabama was unoccupied, but was destroyed by the fire. Alabama officials initially said that any fire involving a vacant, expensive home is suspicious. Now,…
Unfair Park thinks it’s time to resurrect the “Death to Flying Things” nickname.The Warriors’ Marreese Speights made a critical error during his team’s Saturday game against the Mavs. He lost his shoe in the general vicinity of Tyson Chandler. When his teammate Steph Curry tried to toss it back to…
After last night’s drubbing of the Bears in Chicago, Dez Bryant had one simple request: that the assembled press not censor his post-game rant when the ran it the next day — no “little stars,” no nothing. After waiting dutifully all day for someone, anyone, to heed this very important…
Monta Ellis, volume-scorer extraordinaire turned straw that stirs the Mavericks drink, hit a ridiculous spinning, off-balance fadeaway to beat the Bucks at the buzzer Wednesday night. Unfair Park thinks that’s a thing you should see. The celebration afterwards was almost as good as the shot itself, check out Mark Cuban…
The Cowboys have already lost the biggest game of their regular season. Thanksgiving’s debacle, the 33-10 drubbing at the hands of the Eagles, has left the team needing to win out to ensure its spot in the playoffs, something that was unthinkable after the team’s 6-1 start. 11-5 probably won’t…
That’ll teach me. After I praised the Cowboys offensive line for its best pass blocking display of 2014 Sunday against the Giants, that same offensive line, the one with three first-round picks and a growing reputation as one of the best position units in the league, laid a big, fat…
The Texas Legislature, when it meets in January, will be grappling with very serious issues. Criminal justice reform, immigration, tax policy, transportation — lawmakers will be making decisions that will shape the state’s future for years to come. State Representative Jason Villalba of Dallas, a rising Republican star who has…
First, a word about Odell Beckham Jr.’s second-quarter catch: It was the best catch I’ve ever seen happen in real time. I’m not sure if it was better than this Tyrone Prothro catch for Alabama against Southern Miss, but that was some magical stuff by ODB. I could watch that…
We did it you guys. The longest wait of every fall, the two weeks surrounding the Cowboys bye, are nearly over. The team sits at 7-3 having weathered, for now at least, a Tony Romo injury crisis, a defense that still isn’t very good and Jerry Jones getting busted for…
