What the what? There’s a mammoth blizzard in the northeast. There’s a – relatively speaking – mammoth blizzard outside your window. I got plans tonight, man. Big plans. Party plans. If you’re brave enough to get out and about tonight, I got your party hook-up right here …..
While the Mavs haven’t given folks a whole lot to get excited about lately with five losses in the team’s final seven games heading into Sunday’s All-Star Game (capped off by Tuesday night’s 36-point shellacking in Denver), hundreds of fans lined up yesterday afternoon at the Dallas Convention Center to…
So, Mark Cuban’s interested in biting off a piece of that Dallas Stars Popsicle — not the whole thing, mind you, just a taste. So he told Randy Galloway yesterday: “I have talked to somebody who is interested in buying the team, and I told them I would try to…
Mark Cuban, anyone?…
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is grumpy. Understandably so. His team has lost 5 of 7 – punctuated by last night’s embarrassing 36-point loss in Denver – heading into NBA All-Star Weekend right here in his own backyard. Cuban has apparently scrapped plans for an All-Star bash at his Dallas mansion, one…
Anthony “Spud” Webb dazzled Reunion Arena and captured America in 1986. Unfortunately, I’d seen his act before. As a horrible point guard for the 1981 Duncanville High School Panthers, I had the ball stolen from me on consecutive possessions by Webb, then a star at Wilmer-Hutchins. After the second theft, the…
I still have a puck from the first Dallas Stars game, played at Reunion Arena on Oct. 5, 1993. Went to the game with Troy Aikman and I remember going into the locker room and meeting Mike Modano and seeing lots of hot women in the crowd and thinking “Whoa,…
One of the more intriguing concerts scheduled around the NBA All-Star Week is a Saturday-night Haitian-relief benefit at the Palladium featuring Erykah Badu and Jamie Foxx. A couple of Friends of Unfair Park have asked how they can buy tix. Problem is, the event’s more or less sold out; I…
Yeah, yeah. Who Dat and all that. Congratulations. Hug a troubled city. Now, let’s move on. To 2010. Next season is now this season. When the NFL kicks off next season your Dallas Cowboys will be a favorite to play in Super Bowl XLV next Februrary in Arlington. According to one…
Since the Sports Business Journal story is subscriber-only, we’ll go with Convenience Stores News’s recap: Center Operating Company, which runs the American Airlines Center, is finalizing negotiations with nearby neighbor 7-Eleven to open a convenience store in the arena — a first for the Dallas-based company. It’s a 10-year deal…
Friend of Unfair Park PeterK shares yet another unusual eBay find: a 1903 cabinet card featuring one William Doyle, who, best I can tell, played for the mighty Dallas Giants of the Texas League from 1903 till 1905 — during which time he counted among his teammates one Branch Rickey,…
Let the branding begin as we transition from Super Bowl ads to NBA All-Star Week advertisers. Here’s a sneak peak at what to expect over the next few days as Dallas (and some place called Arlington?) becomes a city-sized billboard hawking everything from T-Mobile to Gatorade to Foot Locker to…
20. Some of us picked Saints 33, Colts 31, so we’re not terribly surprised. 19. Of all the things on my to-do list today, calling Barney Stinson – whoever the hell he is – isn’t one of them. 18. Entertaining, electric game. Two things that jumped out at me in…
Yes, yes it is Sportsy Thursday. So, then, from arena football to actual football …Late last night I was futzing around on eBay looking for something related to something else I’m working on when I came across this odd collectible: the contract allowing the Dallas Cowboys to hold their very…
Looks like it’s Sportsy Thursday ’round here. So, then, from puck to ball …Back in December we broke the news that the Dallas Desperados were on the comeback trail, along with the rest of an Arena Football League sidelined during the ’09 season. Turns out, the team that’s scheduled to…
It took a while, but Lisa LeMaster just sent a statement addressing The Hockey News’s report that Tom Hicks, fresh off closing a deal to sell the Texas Rangers, is also looking for someone to either invest in the team or take the Dallas Stars off his hands altogether. In…
[jump] Three thumbs up from me. Why? No cowboy hats … or spurs … or horses … or rope … …
I just returned from an out-of-the-office interview to find in the in-box the logo for next year’s Super Bowl in Arlington. I asked Super Bowl XLV communications director Tony Fay who designed this. He responded: the National Football League. Coulda sworn Jerry did it…
Tom Hicks has twice denied reports that he’s selling the Dallas Stars — in May of last year, when he first acknowledged that he was considering putting the Texas Rangers on the market, then again in October, when a report surfaced in the Globe and Main that lenders wanted him…
It’s a no-brainer that Dallas Cowboys running back Emmitt Smith will get voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame this weekend at Super Bowl XLIV in Miami. The question is, will he enter Canton as the NFL’s all-time best running back or simply the running back with the most…
If the Dallas Cowboys can do it, why can’t the Texas Rangers? Win a playoff game, that is. In case you’ve been too fixated on Wade Phillips’ contract, Jay Leno’s limbo or American Idol’s “Pants on the Ground” to notice, the Cowboys broke a 13-year post-season drought last month. The…
In case you haven’t noticed I’m a bit of a cynic. A skeptic. A glass-half-empty kinda guy. Okay, I can be an a-hole. But I’m genuinely fired up for the 2010 Texas Rangers. Why? New owner Chuck Greenberg. Met him for the first time last night at Jamey Newberg’s shindig, which…
