Ron Springs: One of the saddest columns I’ve ever written. I like to remember Ron Springs as Tony Dorsett’s capable backup. A guy with soft hands and nifty feet. Dangerous on the middle screen. A sneaky player who would sometimes rare back and fling a lefty halfback pass toward Drew…
Peter Lesser, the lawyer, does this abbreviated history of Dallas’ image in the world. It goes something like this: “Bump on a log, assassination. Bump on a log, Dallas Cowboys. Bump on a log, TV show. Bump on a log, Dallas Cowboys again.” Now we can add, “Bump on a…
Dear Mexican: First, it was the Native Americans, then it was the blacks, then the Japanese. For a while, Muslims. Now, I fear that American prejudice will soon overwhelm Mexicans. It’s one thing to get called a dirty Jap or border hopper, but tell me: Is it possible that America…
Ever wonder why Dallas gets screwed on things like mass transit but the suburbs always make out? Could it have anything to do with the fact that the leadership in Dallas has a basically suburban mentality? When I came here 100 years ago, the mayors of Dallas were major suburban…
Hey, take a close look at the ridiculous grand-standing going on over Reunion Arena, and then ask yourself the key question about our city council: Would I buy a used car from these guys? Led by Ron Natinsky, who’s calling for a special meeting next week, and Dwaine Caraway, the…
Businessman, former mayoral candidate and very brief candidate for the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board Edward Okpa complained last week that former city council member Al Lipscomb might have scotched his chances for a board seat by bad-mouthing him at last week’s city council meeting. Okpa said Lipscomb, who was…
Wonder if SMU AD Steve Orsini has an extra $400k laying around. Just in case. SMU football coach June Jones is going back to Hawaii. Relax. It’s just so he can avoid re-paying his former employer a cool $400,000. The University of Hawaii thinks Jones owes it the cash –…
Sometimes, despite having no punch line or manufacturing no local angle, I stumble upon stories just too good not to share. Like, say, this one. — Richie Whitt…
After the jump, a very interesting communication from former mayoral candidate Edward Okpa, which just arrived in my e-box. Okpa, as the Friends know, is one of the people who got slimed in the whole Dallas Area Rapid Transit board appointment process. –Jim Schutze…
Wait a minute. Can we just talk here? I don’t get the thing about how the city has a $50 million budget shortfall, but we can afford to build a $500 million hotel. Can we be so poor that we can’t fix our streets, but we can still afford to…
Dear Mexican: I’m a Mexican-American, but I always lie and tell people my ancestors were from Spain and immigrated to the United States in the 1920s. My whole family says this. We feel embarrassed if we tell people that our heritage is Mexican because Mexicans in the USA are so…
Your city council today appointed Dr. Claude R. Williams Jr. to the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board — which means, of course, no Joyce Foreman, the woman Mayor Tom Leppert and Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway got kicked off the board when this mess all started. Council member Mitchell…
Talk about a long and winding road. Tomorrow the city council finally votes to fill the seat on the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board left vacant when the late Lynn Flint Shaw resigned under a cloud last January 30. Shaw and her husband, writer Rufus Shaw, died March 11 in…
David Stanley When you think Penn State football, it’s Joe Paterno. Texas? Gotta go with Earl Campbell. Boise State? Blue astroturf. Boston College? Doug Flutie’s Hail Mary in the Orange Bowl. SMU? Hmmm. Can I phone a friend? In a confusing-yet-intriguing promo, CBS College Sports TV is somehow, I think,…
Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway has been sort of on my case ever since I wrote an article this article in the paper version of Unfair Park in March. He says I made him out to be a grandstander and a flim-flam man,…
Just came back from the “streetcar workshop” in the basement of City Hall. A bunch of trolley experts from around the country talked to a small crowd of downtown policy wonks, wonkettes and wonkerinas about building a trolley system in downtown. And guess what? It looks like the best idea…
The Top 5 things I command, okay request, you to do over the Memorial Day Weekend. Yes, there will be a pop quiz Tuesday morning. 1. Fly this. 2. Drink this. 3. Eat these. 4. Try to tell this guy from this guy. No wonder the Cowboys landed Super Bowl…
class=”blogImageCaption”>Longest road trip in Mustangs’ history? If ZZ Top can appear on American Idol, I guess anything’s possible. Even SMU’s basketball team embarking on an African Tour. The squad, led by head coach Matt Doherty, leaves Sunday for a 12-day trip to Senegal and South Africa. Why? Good will. Recruiting…
Let’s see, that’s $15, another $15, another $15 … oh, screw it. In the dumbest move since your Texas Rangers decided to fix their first base problems with a guy who has never played the position, American Airlines is announcing it will skip the nickel-and-diming of customers and go right…
Dear Mexican: Why did the Mexican comedian Cantinflas never catch on in Hollywood? I thought he was supposed to usher in the Mexican wave of actors and movies that would help transform Hollywood. Instead, that movement ended up flat as a tortilla. —El Curioso Dear Curious Gabacho: Do people even…
Johns Hopkins University Well, thank goodness for Morgan Lyons, that’s all I can say. A little birdie called to alert me to a very important meeting taking place Friday at City Hall to discuss building a trolley line through downtown and also to talk about the second downtown light-rail alignment…
The NCAA might wipe off the SMU dust and fire up ol’ Sparky one more time. Since the NCAA sentenced SMU’s football program to the death penalty 22 years ago, the organization has admitted its error by pardoning more than 30 schools that committed similarly egregious violations. Thanks to Division…
