There are only so many times one can look at a football game and say “A win is a win.” Early in the season, when a team is getting its bearings, scrappy victories can be a bit charming. In Week 12, against a team that dragged in a seven-game losing…
Cowboys fans no doubt had high hopes that something would come of that White House petition to remove Jerry Jones as owner of the Cowboys. Alas, the White House removed the petition from its web site, claiming it was because it had nothing to do with the operation of the…
In February, a ginger-haired young man named Ryan Naylor went on the reality show Shark Tank to pitch his business idea: a watch line that Naylor claimed looked great and improved health and balance using “negative ion technology.” Neither of those claims was true. The watches are hideous, basically DayGlo…
Thanksgiving and Cowboys football: Two shamefully gluttonous traditions that go hand in hand. As you load another heap of green bean casserole onto your plate, Romo throws an interception directly to Deangelo Hall. You muster a little hope for your waistline as you spoon a little “lite” Cool Whip on…
Over the course of a season in the NFL, or in any sport, it seems that the general mission of a team is to improve upon its demonstrated weaknesses and sustain its strengths. The second half of the Philly game provided a tiny glimmer of hope that the Cowboys could…
Remember those allegations that Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant beat the shit out of his mom in June? That now officially never happened. The DA’s office, after going to the trouble of filing a misdemeanor domestic violence charge, decided to dismiss them so long as he completes a counseling program…
San Antonio’s Alamodome wasn’t built for baseball. It didn’t have a big league baseball team when it opened in 1993, and it still doesn’t. In March, the Texas Rangers will fill that void, if only for a weekend. The club has inked a deal to bring the Rangers and the…
This morning, Deion Sanders took to 105.3 The Fan for a rare discussion of allegations that he’s been improperly recruiting athletes (e.g. a good chunk of state champion Grace Prep’s basketball team) to play at Prime Prep Academy. See also: – Deion Sanders’ Charter School and the Making of a…
In spite of all the off-season turmoil, in spite of the fact that Deron Williams went to Brooklyn rather than coming home, in spite of the what-might-have-been speculation about Chris Paul and Dwight Howard in green and blue, the Dallas Mavericks still came out ahead. See also: Mark Cuban Says…
The always-simmering debate over whether Jerry Jones has too much control over the Cowboys’ football operations was brought to a boil last week after former coach Jimmy Johnson traced the team’s “country club” atmosphere back to Jones. That sparked something of a back-and-forth about who was in charge in the…
The Cowboys’ victory over the Eagles yesterday means the team, even at 4-5, still has a realistic shot at the playoffs. That’s the good news. The bad news is that this was only one game against a terrible team, which does little to dispel the notion that the Cowboys are…
Through nearly three quarters, it seemed as though this would be the final blow to a season barely halfway over. Michael Vick was knocked out of the game in the second quarter, unable to return for postgame autographs. Rookie Nick Foles then took the helm and put the Eagles in…
The Dallas Mavericks Dancers unveiled new uniforms — and other stuff — during Monday night’s home opener against the Portland Trailblazers, and they quickly caught the attention of the Internet, which has been busy ever since. Here at Unfair Park HQ, there was some discussion of whether the new attire…
Just a few days after the 2012 MLB season kicked off in Japan, one of the elite players scheduled to become a free agent in the coming offseason took himself off the market. The Giants enticed Matt Cain to stay in San Francisco, signing him to a six-year, $127.5 million…
It was the result everyone was expecting: Cowboys go on the road against an undefeated, incredibly disciplined team and get beat, exchanging a shovel for a backhoe as they try to quickly dig the grave for the 2012 season. For a while, though, it seemed as if the Gauchos might…
Jeff Rohrer and Doug Cosbie played together on the consistently mediocre Cowboys teams of the 1980s, Rohrer as linebacker, Cosbie as tight end. Like their teammates and the rest of the NFL, they subjected their bodies to massive punishment each week — the type of punishment now linked to all…
Dallas is a sadder place now that Delonte West is no longer a Maverick. The man played solid D, could score some points off the bench, and was a generally entertaining presence. Sadder still is the state of West’s job search. He took to Twitter today to beg a team…
The Cowboys were well into their first-quarter meltdown on Sunday when Dez Bryant, the team’s embattled wide receiver, set up to return a Giants punt. Before the ball was snapped, the radio team of Brad Sham and Babe Laufenberg calmly suggested that Bryant, known for his casual handling of the…
I did some hard time in Cleveland a few years back, and I covered quite a bit of basketball. My time there overlapped some with that of Delonte West, who revealed himself to be tough, funny, weird, one of the few seemingly authentic athletes you’ll come across in the locker…
This year for Halloween, instead of playing on current trends like the Presidential race or zombies, the Cowboys decided to dress up like something tried and true: the Dallas Cowboys. In a game that bordered on parody, the Cowboys went to their old bag of fail and pulled out a…
The Mavericks’ announcement today that the Mavericks have indefinitely suspended guard Delonte West isn’t exactly a surprise. He never seems to make it long without a suspension of some sorts. Just last week, he was on the outs with the team for a day after a locker room tirade. But…
Tony Romo’s partying-in-Cabo-with-Jessica-Simpson-right-before-the-playoffs days seem to be behind him, but he’s still a hard man for Cowboys fans to love. Whether it’s a last-minute botched snap against the Seahawks, seemingly brain-dead end-of-game clock management, or any other number of meltdowns, he has an excellent way of counter-weighting his Pro Bowl…
