Don’t know how I missed it – maybe it’s because I’m from Duncanville – but Monday was the Chinese New Year. And 2009, as if you didn’t know, is the Year of the Ox. In the name of Wang Zhi-Zhi, what could that possibly mean for our Dallas Mavericks? *So…
One of our football coaches is headed to Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa. Surprise, he has nothing to do with your Dallas Cowboys. I blogged, oh-so briefly, about Grapevine Faith’s Nov. 7 high-school game against the Gainesville State Tornadoes. Ring a bell? Rick Reilly’s terriffic ESPN The Magazine column is here. For…
Since there’s nothing to do today other than stay inside and pray for these glaciers of ice to somehow melt by Spring Break, let’s take a look at the Cowboys shall we? Remember what owner Jerry Jones said immediately after his team’s 44-6 season-ending loss in Philadelphia? I do. “Where…
Been a while since we’ve heard about Tom Hicks’s adventures in Liverpool — where he’s headed this week, matter of fact, in advance of Liverpool FC’s weekend’s shoot-out with Chelsea. And depending upon which UK paper you read, the owner of Your Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars is either looking…
Over the weekend, Martellus Bennett posted this video in which he’s sporting a Dallas Cowboys helmet while throwing down some decidedly NSFW rhymes that are, let’s face it, not terribly tight for a tight end. Only way it coulda been worse? If he’d been sporting Mom jeans, which are worth…
… it’s good enough for Terrell Owens. Only days after the former Cowboys receiver announced his reality show, brought to you by the folks responsible for The Biggest Loser, the current (?) Cowboys receiver and VH1 offer news concerning Owens’s program, which doesn’t have a debut date as of yet:The…
Approximately 5,000 fans braved freezing temperatures and decades of losing at Saturday’s Rangers Fan Fest in Arlington. I was one of them. The highlights: *General manager Jon Daniels says he’s recently talked to shortstop third baseman Michael Young and that their relationship is on the mend. “If we have a 15-year marriage…
The girls from the Dallas Academy basketball team who were on the wrong end of that now-infamous 100-0 score have been making the national TV rounds; after the jump is their appearance on CBS’s The Early Show on Saturday morning, where they were introduced as “the exact opposite” of losers…
Not worthy of the “BREAKING NEWS” banner ‘cuz, really, you read this about three months ago. Remember? In the final analysis, these were strange bedfellows from the outset: The Cowboys, who rely upon an expansive signal, jumping under the sheets with a station that built its legacy in part by…
Give me “Alternate 2”. You? Thumbs up or down? Home Uniform…
This Dallas Mavericks promo was just posted to YouTube, and the Unfair Parkers who semi-regularly attend home games say they haven’t yet seen this at the American Airlines Center. The joke, such as it is, works only when the vid’s viewed in high-quality mode. Still, not even in the same…
I bet there were times over the last month when you read Tony Romo’s “sun’ll come out tomorrow” quotes and profanely muttered, “Man, he needs a $%&*$#@ publicist!” Well, he’s got one. Same one he’s had since – before, actually – he ascended to the throne of starting quaterback of…
From the same team that lost Adam Eaton in spring training 2006 just hours after general manager Jon Daniels announced his starting rotation comes news that top pitching prospect Eric Hurley has undergone rotator cuff surgery and is out for the 2009 season. In news that will surprise no one: Rangers…
It’s not exactly Calvin Watkins’ expose in Dallas’ Only Daily featuring five sources detailing the Cowboys’ anarchy at Valley Ranch, but NBA.com’s Art Garcia – formerly of your Fort Worth Star-Telegram – stirs your Mavericks’ pot a bit this morning. Garcia writes that Dirk Nowitzki hasn’t exactly “connected” with head…
Both have more money than Sri Lanka, wealthy enough to buy this blog with the change in their car’s ash tray. They are each passionate, energetic, innovative, way smarter than me and absolutely consumed, dare I say obsessed, with bringing a championship to Dallas. In the last couple years their teams coughed up No…
Just when you think Mark Cuban has mellowed, he shows a pulse. And just when you think he has tired of his tribulations, he shows some heart. The Dallas Mavericks’ owner—hip-deep in stock controversy and baseball snubbing and a fresh fine from the NBA—struggles these days to give his basketball…
Give the Rangers credit. They are trying. With the Cowboys imploding and the Mavs and Stars wallowing in mediocrity, our local baseball team has a prime opportunity to earn some much-needed love this winter. Texas hasn’t done diddly-poo as far as free agency, bringing in only reliever Derek Turnbow, pitching…
A Friend of Unfair Park directs our attention to the Dallas Cowboys’ official Web site, which published a Q&A with owner and general manager Jerry Jones last night. It’s not exactly the most illuminating interview — lots of assessing and evaluating going on, which is only, what, six months too…
Got a product for Mike Modano to endorse? Because, clearly, he’s on the market. Last week, he was spotted looking bored to death in a new N9NE Steakhouse ad. And today comes word that the Dallas Star is shilling for a Grapevine-based “super-nutritious health drink” called VaNu, which, he says…
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Zach Thomas. Unlike Brad Pitt in the movie, Zach didn’t exactly grow younger as he got older. But boy did he grow sick and tired in a hurry. This is how it was supposed to work: After a successful, yet ultimately unfulfilling career in Miami,…
Tony Romo loves to win. But does he really hate to lose? After his playoff pratfalls, late-season hiccups and post-game “The sun’ll come out tomorrow” bullshit press conferences, I think it’s a legitimate question. Romo regressed dramatically this season. In ball security. In practice habits. In decision-making. And, mostly, in leadership…
Let’s don’t call Laura Miller and her parade plans just yet, but the Mavericks may have found something. A luxury they haven’t enjoyed since, oh, forever. Or at least since Roy Tarpley. A mobile, athletic big man. It was – who else? – Dirk Nowitizki’s calm, fadeaway 18-footer that beat the…
