Saying that high school football is big in Texas will elicit a lot of “duh” looks. In fact, if you look in a mirror right now, you’ll probably see what we’re talking about. But there’s no harm in restating the obvious: Friday nights are meant to be spent under stadium…
Unfair Park certainly hopes it isn’t a mirage, that the Titans, Rams and Saints aren’t just bad. We really want to believe that the Cowboys victories the last three weeks are a sign of positive things to come. But we’ve been down this road before. We’ve had our expectations soar,…
The signs were there on opening day. Tanner Scheppers, the Rangers’ starting pitcher, was making his first major league start, not because he’d stated a case that he deserved to start the first game of the season, but because of injury. The bullpen, similarly beset by injuries, would melt down…
The last time Unfair Park mentioned that the Rangers were looking a little too competitive, the team proceeded to lose 14 of 20, so we decided we should speak up again. Under the temporary — for now at least — leadership of Tim Bogar, the Rangers have won 9 of…
Jerry Jones capped off what’s been a representative week for him with a vote of confidence for embattled NFL commissioner Roger Goodell on his weekly radio show on 105.3 The Fan. After being asked “What’s your feeling on the Ray Rice issue?,” whatever the hell that means, Jones answered from…
The 2014 Texas Rangers might not be the worst team in the club’s 42 years in Arlington — the 1972 and ’73 Rangers have at least a claim to that title — but 2014 has certainly been the worst year for the franchise as a whole. It started with the…
Dallas District Judge Dale Tillery denied Cowboys owner Jerry Jones’ request to seal court documents related to a lawsuit brought by an Oklahoma woman. Jana Weckerly claims that Jones sexually assaulted her in 2009 before the Cowboys covered it up. In addition to denying the request to keep documents stemming…
Unfair Park has no concrete information as to whom the Rangers are going to hire to replace Ron Washington, who resigned abruptly Friday afternoon. If we had to guess, we’d say the club is likely to hire an internal candidate. Former Rangers third baseman Steve Buechele currently manages the team’s…
Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington has resigned from the club to deal with an undisclosed personal matter, effective immediately. Bench coach Tim Bogar has been appointed interim manager for the rest of the season. The team has scheduled a press conference for 3:30 at which co-chairmen Ray Davis and Bob…
If an agreement between the NFL Players Association and the league can be reached before the league’s first full slate of games on Sunday, the NFL’s drug testing policy could be amended to lessen penalties for recreational drugs, as well as include blood-testing for Human Growth Hormone. And that’s good…
Former Texas Ranger Josh Hamilton’s relapse, the one in January 2012 in which he allegedly got drunk at the Sherlock’s near Park Lane and U.S. 75 and had sex with a woman in a bathroom stall, has received a proper memorial. The handicap accessible stall in the bar’s back bathroom,…
It’s a phrase that’s uttered too often at Little League games and on the playground. Even adults playing slow-pitch softball use it as a crutch. “You throw like a girl.” It’s an easy, if seemingly sexist, shorthand for the lunging, forearm focused, dart-throwing motion that happens to be one of…
Behind a seven-inning, two-run start from Nick Tepesch and a two-run ninth inning, walkoff rally capped off by Adam Rosales’ game-winning RBI single over a drawn-in infield, the Rangers knocked off the Angels yesterday, ending a four-game losing streak overall and a nine-game skid against the Halos. It was yet…
After two years of scrutiny, controversy and corruption, the Texas Education Agency last month finally announced that it would revoke the charter of Prime Prep Academy, the publicly funded charter school founded and led by Deion Sanders. With the school plotting its appeal, the hits have only continued, in the…
News reports this morning indicate that one of the Cowboys’ few defensive bright spots from last season, cornerback Orlando Scandrick, has been suspended for the first four games of the 2014 regular season for violating the NFL’s performance-enhancing substance abuse policy. Scandrick has already lost his appeal in the matter,…
Earlier this morning, a series of photos hit Deadspin ostensibly showing Cowboys’ owner Jerry Jones engaged in various stages of sexually suggestive conduct with two unidentified women. In its initial post, Deadspin asked for help finding the photos’ provenance. The apparent story behind the photos, posted a few hours later…
We’ve written elsewhere about what transpired at the Cotton Bowl last night. In short, at some point during a pre-season exhibition game that was charging $50 a head and up, one fan decided to charge the pitch. This happens a lot in sporting events around the world. People run onto…
The Cotton Bowl was filled with 57,000-plus soccer fans last night, there to see some of the world’s greatest footballers do some very mediocre footballing. It was slow and scoreless for the first hour or so, until Roma’s Francesco Totti scored at the 58-minute mark. Fans were irritated and bored…
Ahh, the post All-Star Break, post World Cup, post LeBron, post everything doldrums. The Wednesday and Thursday after the Midsummer Classic have been proven — by science! — to be, along with Christmas Eve, the deadest days on the American sports calender. Clearly, local athletes are just as bored as…
Saying Texas takes high school sports seriously is like saying it can get a bit warm here in the summer. Contests between kids make adults do crazy things, like, say, letting a certain former football player open up a state-funded charter school. Or worse. Check out some of the low-lights…
Multiple outlets are reporting that Emmanuel Mudiay, the No. 1 rated high school basketball player in the country, will forego his commitment to play for Larry Brown at SMU and instead play at least one season of professional basketball overseas before heading to the NBA. Mudiay has released the following…
The Rangers lost again yesterday. It’s the eighth defeat in a row and 22nd out of 25 for a franchise that’s won at least 90 games in each of the past four seasons. It was the latest lowlight in series that’s been — Yu Darvish and Adrian Beltre excepted –…
