Re: Hot Ticket: Coppell v. Trinity

For those who weren’t able to get tickets to the big game, KXTA (Channel 21) will broadcast the Class 5A Division 1 final live on Friday night. Apparently, they’re able to do so because the tickets sold out more than 48 hours in advance.

(And FYI, Glenn, I know we’re in the midst of producing our biggest issue ever of D CEO, but I’ve got some tailgating to do tomorrow afternoon.)

Jump for the release from XTA21:

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Pick a Replacement for “Metroplex”

Commenter Daniel had a good point in this post:

Chuck Norris and His Brother are About to Be Real Texas Rangers

Or at least real honorary Texas Rangers. Maybe you already heard this? Anyway. A few things:

• I originally read the lede to this story as: “In a perfect world, this afternoon’s ceremony would include Chuck Norris delivering a signature roundhouse kick to Texas Gov. Rick Perry.” I have to say, I wouldn’t mind a little more New York Post in my Dallas Morning News.
• Why now? No one knows. NO ONE. I hope this doesn’t foreshadow a revival of the Walker, Texas Ranger series. Unless Perry joins the cast as Walker’s taciturn, wise-cracking partner, Harrison “Haircut” Merriweather. Like a Southern Jerry Orbach. Catchphrase? Obviously, “Adios, mofo.” EDGY.
• I found this sentence odd: “As the official Sony Pictures website describes the show: ‘Walker’s independent crime-solving methods have their roots in the rugged traditions of the Old West.’”
• Also weird: The next sentence/paragraph is, “Not to mention the star’s background as a karate champion.” It’s like they just printed Jeffrey Weiss’ notebook, Hunter S. Thompson-style.
• I would be slightly more interested in this if Perry’s intro was simply him reading a list of “Chuck Norris Facts,” until the gag became tiresome, and then he kept going, and going, until it sort of got funny again, but this time in an uncomfortable way, and then THAT became unfunny, but Perry kept reading facts, one after another, not even really pausing, as Norris lost his forced smile, and then became tangibly angry, and Perry kept reading and reading, until people started to get worried about him, and then, just as his senior staff were about to push “send” on a phone call to get someone to quietly escort him from the stage, Perry abruptly stopped, stared down Norris, and delivered a perfect, almost beautiful in its symmetry, roundhouse kick directly to Norris’ bearded jaw, jumped into an old Camaro (with T-tops), and peeled out, away from the ceremony, away from Texas, and into his new life as a professional rodeo clown working the Southwest circuit, under the name of Hightop Pete, which, if anyone ever asks where he came up with that, he’d get a faraway look in his eye, take a long pull of his Marlboro Light, smile to himself, and then walk away. That would be kind of okay, I guess.

CEOs Like to Party, Too

Virgin Airlines wasn’t the only one hosting a bash last night. D CEO kicked off the holiday party season with a newsmakers event at the Westin Galleria. Among the top execs attending were (pictured, from left, in photo by Matthew Shelley) Eric Affeldt, CEO of ClubCorp Inc.; Rangers owner Chuck Greenberg, and the team’s COO Rick George. The three had reasons to celebrate; Greenberg and George for the Rangers’ terrific season and Affeldt for recently being named the “Most Powerful Person in Golf” by Golf Inc. magazine. Other newsmakers on hand: CiCi’s CEO Mike Shumsky, George Seay of Annandale Capital, Link America’s Andres Ruzo, KRLD personality David Johnson, and North Texas Commission CEO Mabrie Jackson. Jorge Calderon, Dallas market president of Capital One, which sponsored the event, gave away a baseball autographed by Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan, and two home plate seats at a 2011 Rangers game. Ryan Fox with Hinojosa Architects was the lucky winner of the prize package.

Tulsa Writer Looks For Substance in Dallas, Finds Oak Cliff

In what I can only guess is preparation for the hordes of Oklahomans coming to the area this weekend for the Big 12 championship and possibly to run in the White Rock Marathon, Tulsa World featured places to go in Dallas.

Writer Cary Aspinwall opens thusly:

“Is it merely flash and fluffy egos, preoccupied with image and materialistic pursuits?

Or is there an authentic Dallas lurking underneath, somewhere behind the Chanel bags and glitzy steakhouses?”

Aspinwall recommends Smoke, the Belmont, Bishop Arts, La Duni, Mia’s and Taco Joint.