The case against Jerry Jones is easy to make. Through admitted hubris, Jones destroyed the greatest Cowboys team of all time when he fired Jimmy Johnson after the 1993 season. He’s meddled constantly, ruining drafts and playoff chances more times than one can count on two hands. Jones might have…
The most important takeaway from the Dallas Cowboys’ 28-24 loss to the Los Angeles Rams Saturday night is simply that football is back. The result doesn’t really matter, although it had to feel good for the nearly 90,000 fans who crammed into the Los Angeles Coliseum to celebrate the return…
After just 289 games, Prince Fielder’s career with the Texas Rangers is over. As first reported by Fox Sports’ Ken Rosenthal, the hulking designated hitter will announce Wednesday that he is physically unable to continue playing, thanks to a damaged back that’s necessitated two disc fusion surgeries in the last…
The Rangers have sold out to win the 2016 World Series. Monday afternoon, already leading the American League West by six games and just before Major League Baseball’s non-waiver trade deadline, the team acquired outfielder Carlos Beltran from the New York Yankees. They also dealt for catcher Jonathan Lucroy and…
Prince Fielder is not going to take another turn at bat for the 2016 Rangers. The hulking designated hitter has a herniated disc in his neck, and doctors have recommended that he get surgery to fix it, the team announced Monday afternoon. It’s the second time in his three years…
Early Sunday afternoon, a Dodge van crashed into the Dallas Cowboys team bus as the van tried to make a left turn across traffic at the intersection of Pierce Ferry Road and State Route 93 just north of Kingman, Arizona. All four of the van’s passengers were killed. Each of the…
Following a disappointing 5-4 rubber-game loss to the Twins in Minnesota Sunday afternoon, the Rangers made the best of the situation and headed to their three-game set in Boston dressed in what the sartorially challenged might call “style.” There is enough going on in this photo to fill a blog…
When the Rangers and Arlington announced a plan for the team to play in new, climate-controlled digs as early as 2021, it seemed too soon. Globe Life Park — formerly The Ballpark in Arlington, Ameriquest Field and Rangers Ballpark in Arlington — had just turned 22 and wouldn’t be 30…
Thursday afternoon, Major League Baseball reduced Rangers second baseman Rougned Odor’s suspension for clocking Blue Jays right fielder Jose Bautista right in his face from eight games to seven. With Odor’s appeal of his suspension dealt with, he’ll begin sitting out tonight against the Pirates and for much of the…
University of North Texas’ athletic director, Rick Villarreal, will leave the school June 20, ending 16 years on the job. Villarreal’s time in Denton, which is coming to a mutually agreed end, according to the director and the school, was marked by improved facilities, poor hiring, hemorrhaging cash and disastrous performances on…
The city of Arlington got played. So did the city of Dallas. Pretty much everyone involved, save Rangers’ owners Bob Simpson and Ray Davis, got used for the benefit of the club. That’s a win, if you care about winning baseball or have suffered on the third-base of Globe Life…
Heading into the 2016 season, the Rangers looked set to have one of the best bullpens in baseball. They returned closer Shawn Tolleson, who converted 35 of 37 save opportunities after being named the Rangers closer in May 2015, as well as Jake Diekman, Keone Kela and Sam Dyson, the…
Rangers second baseman Rougned Odor has been handed an eight-game suspension by Major League Baseball for landing a textbook right hook to Blue Jays right fielder Jose Bautista’s jaw. Odor will appeal and his suspension could be reduced, but he’ll miss at least a handful of games whenever a final…
If any organization in baseball is capable of leading Matt Bush by the hand into becoming a productive big league pitcher, it’s the Rangers. For the second time in the last eight years, the team has taken on a former first overall pick with a history of substance abuse and…
The Rangers nascent rivalry with the Toronto Blue Jays went full boil Sunday afternoon, when Texas second baseman Rougned Odor landed a clean right hook to Blue Jays right fielder Jose Bautista’s jaw during the top of the eighth inning of the rubber match of a three-game series. Following being…
Heading into 2016, the Texas Rangers had many question marks. Despite winning American League West in 2015, last season had been a little fluky. They’d outperformed their advanced metrics and wrung the most they’d could out of a team that was beset with injury and, consequentially, occasionally haphazardly assembled. As…
Last spring, Skip Bayless took NFL cornerback Darrelle Revis to task. Fresh off a win in the Super Bowl with the New England Patriots, Revis jumped ship and headed to the New York Jets for a $70 million contract that included $39 million in guaranteed money. Bayless was mad, as…
Blackie Sherrod, revered former sports columnist at the Dallas Times Herald and The Dallas Morning News died Thursday. He was 96. Sherrod, voted Texas Sportswriter of the Year a record 16 times, left the Times Herald in 1985 for the Morning News, building a loyal following through what he called his…
For the first time in eight years, the Dallas Stars won a playoff series, defeating the Minnesota Wild 5-4 on Sunday night in St. Paul to wrap up their best-of-seven series 4-2. On paper, the Western Conference leading Stars should have easily dispatched the Wild, who had lost five straight…
Jordan Spieth will be back. The Dallas-bred golfer has one multiple majors and recovered nicely after botching the end of the 2014 Masters, so it stands to reason he’ll recover from his complete and utter disaster in Augusta this year, blowing a five-stroke lead on the final nine holes. Spieth’s…
Hopefully, this won’t happen again for a long time. It would be nice if, following picking fourth and 34th in the 2016 NFL Draft, the Dallas Cowboys didn’t have two picks that high for the foreseeable future. If the teams’ front office — led, as ever, by Jerry Jones —…
The NFL Draft begins one month from today. As Roger Goodell announces the results of the first round on April 28, the Cowboys, assuming they won’t trade down, pick fourth. That’s the highest they’ve stood in the draft in more than 20 years, thanks to 2015’s abysmal 4-12 record. Considering…
