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Sports, always a hot topic in the Dallas metro, dominates again this week as the Rangers have opened with a 9-3 spurt. The American League champs for the past two seasons, go gangbusters under they get to the World Series, when they wilt faster than a Caesar's salad on a Texas sidewalk in July. Will the third time be their charm?
The basketball playoffs are just around the corner with the NBA champions, the Dallas Mavericks, fighting this season just to make the playoffs. Their superstar, Dirk Nowitski, who carried the team on his back last season to the championship, has once again stepped up his game to try to get the team back in the playoffs.Â
He scored 35 points against Houston the other night with 21 of them coming in the fourth quarter. If any of you followed him last season, he 'singlehandedly'(that's a southern word) brought the Mavs back game after game with this fourth quarter play.
Dirk Nowitski and his fiancee, Jessica Olsson, at the ESPY awards.
Speaking of Dirk, he recently announced his engagement to the Swedish ex-model, Jessica Olsson, who is now an employee here in Dallas with a PR firm. What are the chances a nice boy from Germany would meet a nice girl from Sweden in a southern city in the U.S. and fall in love? Fate does have a way of bringing people together. Â
Big news about the practice of 'fracking' existing wells to bring up additional oil and gas. The EPA has now ruled that all wells must have emission-controlling devices on them by 2015. Currently only about 50 per cent of the wells in the United States have these devices.
The Barnett Shale wells here in north Texas are among those currently targeted as not being in compliance. Our esteemed congressman, Joe Barton, a republican from Arlington, has vowed to introduce legislation in Congress to block the rule from the EPA. Now, why am I not surprised?
That's it for this Friday's report from Dallas. See you next week, God willin' and the creek don't rise (that's Suthin' too)!
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yer this may be the year pal
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