If you’ve read anything about the 2014 Cowboys, here or elsewhere, you’ve seen it repeated multiple times: The Cowboys are off to their best start since 2007. That team, which at 13-3 had the club’s best regular-season record since the Super Bowl-winning 1992 team, is easily forgotten. It faded down…
Two years ago, when I arrived in the States from the UK, I had a very vague idea of what ice hockey was. I was, though, sure that it was one of the most far-fetched sports out there. While most sports are played on the sort of easily accessible field…
In a move that’s a bit like Fiskars hiring Michael Irvin as a spokesman , MeUndies, a Los Angeles-based underwear company, is bringing on Cowboys backup running back Joseph Randle to sell $20 pairs of boxer briefs. Randle, who is making $495,000 this season, was arrested last Monday for absconding…
As the Cowboys have marched to their best seven game start since 2007, the accolades have been plentiful and plentifully spread around. DeMarco Murray has, deservedly, been lauded as the second coming of Tony Dorsett with each successive 100-yard performance. The defense is “improved” and “flying to the ball.” Tony…
While the Rangers’ hiring of Pittsburgh Pirates bench coach Jeff Banister to take over Ron Washington’s vacated managerial post didn’t come completely out of nowhere, it’s certainly a surprise. For those outside the organization, the first sign that Banister was a serious candidate for the gig came when he, along…
With the Orioles re-signing shortstop JJ Hardy, what was already thin free agent market at the position became threadbare. Beyond Hanley Ramirez, Asdrubal Cabrera and Stephen Drew the cupboard is largely empty, leaving big-market clubs like the Yankees, Mets, Dodgers and Tigers — all of which will look to sign…
Dude Perfect, the guys behind the 500-foot basketball shot from the top of Reunion Tower, have a new video out featuring Dallas Stars stalwarts Tyler Seguin and Jamie Benn. It’s undeniably cool. The top-line duo bowl a strike with a hockey puck from near center ice, take out targets around…
It happened again. The Cowboys dominated the first two-thirds of a game, just as they did against Tennessee and Houston, and found themselves in a fistfight to the finish. This time it was against the Seahawks in Seattle, a presumably impossible task, but the result was the same. The Cowboys…
It’s a cliche, sure, but in the case of West, Texas’ high school football team, it appears to be true. “The old saying is, what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger,” says David Woodard, West High School’s head football coach. “Our kids have gotten mentally stronger and physically stronger and…
After each of the Cowboys last four games — all wins, sending the team to 4-1 and its best start since 2008 — we’ve heard it: The team is winning because it’s running DeMarco Murray early and often. Even in the third game of the season, when the Rams jumped…
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…
