Cuban’s Castle Crumbles

While Merritt was touring Amarillo, Mike Modano and Mark Cuban brought down the house (of sand) at The Palladium Friday night. The hosts of the Reebok 2008 Heroes Celebrity Baseball Game decided to play in the sandbox during the pre-game party.  Their playful roughhousing turned into a tumble off the chillOUT sand castle. While I was busy capturing the Kodak moment, Mike’s wife, Mandy (aka Willa Ford), was quick to clean off her sand covered man.

An Overheardian told me the next evening’s post-game fireworks were better than most he had seen on the 4th.  It makes me wonder, where are the best 4th of July fireworks in Dallas? Overheardians, share the scoop. The time to light up the night sky is here!Â

New York Times Opines on Teardowns

The Park Cities’ proficiency at tearing down houses got a shout-out in yesterday’s New York Times editorial.

SMU Goes Retro

The SMU athletic department announced uniform changes it hopes will remind fans of the glory days of the Pony Express. (more…)

SMU Football’s Identity Crisis Continues

For the umpteenth time in the last 20 years or so, the SMU football team has changed its uniforms and its helmets.

The Ponies are going back to their traditional white helmets with the red and blue stripes down the middle (good call) similar to what they wore up until 1997. SMU kept the white helmets, but ditched the stripes in 1997. The Ponies went to a navy helmet in 2003.

The new unis are a little different looking, too. Not bad. And I suppose it’s kind of cool that the June Jones era will begin with an entirely different looking team. Especially after a 1-11 year.

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Snakebit Kershaw Gets Another No Decision

Former Highland Park pitcher Clayton Kershaw was in line to earn his first Major League victory while pitching in his home state last night in Houston.

Kershaw went 5 2/3 innings for the Dodgers, leaving the game with a 6-3 lead. He gave up six hits with four strikeouts and two walks. But the Los Angeles bullpen couldn’t make the lead stand up. The first three relief pitchers gave up a run apiece to allow the Astros to tie things at 6-6 in the seventh.

Kershaw (0-2) will try again on Sunday at San Francisco.

The Dodgers then rallied for a 7-6 in 11 innings off a Jeff Kent solo homer.

Trinity River Corridor Gets Shrunk

You know when you’re in an airplane, and you look out the window and all the people look like ants, and you can see enormous parcels of land? Well, Charles Kindrick and Co. are in the process of constructing a 20 foot by 10 foot replica of 20 miles of the Trinity River Corridor which will look just like  Trinity  from an airplane, but without the exorbitant fees. (more…)

This is Getting Ridiculous

So I merely wanted to run an errand this afternoon, but my car was on empty. Normally, I would’ve just pulled into the 7-Eleven on Knox, but we all know that’s not possible. Since I was already turning onto 75, I decided to use the gas station on University and Greenville. Guess what? Same story. Different station. I’m annoyed.

Who Needs Libraries? Kids Do

I’ve been as guilty as anyone the last few years in thinking that public libraries have become obsolete. When so much information is so readily available on the Internet, and when online booksellers allow you to buy just about any book ever printed anywhere in the world from the privacy of your own underwear, who needs the stacks? At least, I feel that way sometimes about an affluent community like the Park Cities, where folks can afford to buy books and have high-speed Internet access.

But today we got another batch of wonderful pictures from Diane Galloway, who works tirelessly to promote the University Park Library. The picture I posted here reminded me how much fun I had trekking to the library on Saturday mornings with my mom, leaving with a big pile of books in hand.

I love the looks of wonder in these kids’ eyes. I may need to go get myself a library card.