Granted, he’s a better player. Better defender. Better passer. Yeah, a better player. But after last week’s second-round playoff flameout by the Cleveland Cavaliers, LeBron James isn’t a more accomplished player than our own Dirk Nowitzki. Consider: Both have MVPs. Both have led teams to the best record in the…
So, the Friends of Fair Park only jumped the gun by three months when they sent out that tweet concerning the any-time-now announcement “that could really ROCK Fair Park.” Friend of Unfair Park Barney Gumble was right all along when he was the first to write in the comments: “I’m…
For no apparent reason, other than this marks the 47th anniversary of when Parade magazine began naming players to its All America High School Football Team, the Sunday supplement today has listed its The Top 10 High School Football Programs. The ranking process was simple enough: They just tallied up…
Still no word from Major League Baseball concerning its imminent seizure of Your Texas Rangers in order to expedite the sale to Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan’s Rangers Baseball Express. But, finally, there’s been direct contact with Monarch Alternative Capital, the main lender holding up the deal with Hicks Sports…
View more news videos at:http://www.nbcdfw.com/video. In 2007 Leonard Davis pulled a horse out of the mud. In 2010 he answered my musical inquiries without crushing me like an empty beer can. And Wednesday, he helped some ducks out of a sand trap. Yeah, I know. All you care about it is…
Way back in January Dallas made the cut of 18 cities that could maybe possibly fingers-crossed hold-your-breath host the Federation Internationale de Football Association’s World Cup in 2018 or 2022. We’re still months away from a final decision — that won’t happen till December 2 — but tomorrow, the USA…
Well, just because I keep Major League Baseball’s press-release page up-and-at-’em at all times, and I just noticed this: MLB commish Bud Selig was just presented the first-ever Taylor’s Award — so named for Plano West Senior High School baseball star Taylor Hooton, whose suicide in July 2003, at the…
Let’s face it, Dallas Cowboys receiver Roy Williams pops off like a No. 1 but produces like a No. 3. Latest example: Asked yesterday at the team’s golf outing at Cowboys Golf Club about incoming rookie receiver Dez Bryant, Williams was defiant, if not in total denial. I know people…
Another weird game at Rangers Ballpark last night: *Something I’ve never seen: With Ian Kinsler caught dead along the third-base line during an aborted steal of home, Oakland A’s starter Gio Gonzalez panicked and half-balked, half-wild-pitched him home with a crazy ass throw well wide of the out-of-his-crouch catcher. Saw…
One arrived from Minnesota in 1993, the other from Germany in 1999. In the spring of 2010, they both played what may have been their last games in Dallas. In between, Mike Modano and Dirk Nowitzki not only carved national Hall of Fame legacies, they altered the way we locals…
It’s very possible, if not downright likely, that at any second now word will come down that Major League Baseball has seized ownership of the Texas Rangers in order to wrap up the sale of the team to Chuck Greenberg — after which time the creditors will announce that, whoops,…
I like Ron Washington. Really do. It’s just that I … Hey, if this feels/sounds like deja vu all over again it’s because it is. Bottom line: I honestly don’t think the Texas Rangers’ manager is good enough to go with his gut instincts. I’m a quirky, color-outside-the-lines guy, but in…
With Phil Mickelson out and Tiger Woods out and golf pretty much dead, this year’s HP Byron Nelson Classic in Irving May 20-23 will be much ado about nothing The Pavilion. What’s new, right? That could change, if the dudes in red pants would think outside their yellow-roped box and give an exemption…
That’s what promoter Bob Arum suggests to Sports Illustrated today: Manny Pacquiao will return to the ring November 13, and right now, says Arum, “I have reserved the date and both the Dallas Cowboys Stadium and MGM Grand in Las Vegas are available. The cable systems and the satellite providers…
The Dallas Cowboys finally admitted Monday what we’ve all known for years: Bobby Carpenter is a blonde bust. Drafted 18th overall in 2006 before stars like Antonio Cromartie and Joseph Addai (thank you, Bill Parcells), Carpenter never carved a niche in Dallas. Too slow to play outside in the 3-4. Too finesse…
During his 1996 introductory press conference at Reunion Arena in which he bought the Dallas Mavericks from founding father Don Carter, Ross Perot Jr. offered a simple, serious question: “How many players are on the court?” And that, my friends, is all you need to know about the man trying to…
And now, for two facts that have never ever gone together in the past: 1. The Texas Rangers are 10th in the American League (out of 14 teams) in home runs. 2. The Texas Rangers have a winning record. I know. Weird. When the Rangers beat the woeful Kansas City…
On the field, they’re Your Texas Rangers — back atop the American League West, fresh off the first four-game series sweep since ’07 and headed into an early season showdown with one-game-behind-’em Oakland, riding its own perfect-game high. But off the field — what a mess: Sports Business Journal is…
I come bearing good news. In short: … the consensus among NFL Network insiders and analysts is that there is no market for Terrell Owens at this point, and it will take a training camp injury to create his next job…
In the maddening moments after yet another premature evacuation by the Dallas Mavericks, I know what you were thinking: Blow it up! Trade Dirk Nowitzki. Cut Jason Kidd. Fire Rick Carlisle. Ball-gag Bob Ortegel. Hang Mark Cuban. Change everything! I know, because I temporarily echoed those sentiments in the knee-jerk…
I like Ron Washington. Really do. I don’t necessarily trust his relentless optimism about everything and I lost a lot of respect for him for using cocaine in the middle of last season, but I like him. There is a part of him, however, that I don’t like. His in-game decisions…
A Friend of Unfair Park directs our attention to yet another Sports Business Journal story about Tom Hicks — this one, a massive profile that attempts to reconcile his personal wealth (“The Matisse on the library wall looks utterly appropriate”) with his professional woes (“his sports portfolio, once among the…
