I’ll admit it, my NCAA men’s basketball tournament bracket sucks. Got off to a horrid start with Louisville losing to Morehead State and got progressively worse as the weekend wore on. The Sour 16 carnage: I’ve lost three of my Final Four teams including my projected champion Pittsburgh. In other words,…
If St. Patrick’s Day wasn’t a good enough excuse to let the boss man cut you loose early to go drinking, perhaps you should consider a vasectomy. That’s right, you heard me. Dallas urologist Dr. Mitch Moskowitz is offering his version of March Madness, in the form of a vasectomy complete with…
Let’s make this simple, shall we? Sat down with Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington yesterday here in Surprise and asked him what I thought were some pertinent questions. Allow me to paraphrase, in the spirit of keeping this short and sweet in the wake of last night’s 3.5-hour, come-from-ahead 11-10 exhibition…
[jump] 5. I asked Jon Daniels the other day to give me an under-the-radar player to watch, maybe even on the back fields here on the Surprise campus. The name: Doug Deeds. And what do you know? Deeds started last night in left field and singled his first time up. Dude has…
You’ve waited for this moment all your life. Practiced. Rehearsed. Trained. Sacrificed. Compromised. Even went to college class, some of the time. But now, on the eve of a major company extending you a lucrative dream job, veteran workers at the company are suddenly urging you not to accept the job…
Don’t know what else to call it, I’m just getting a weird vibe here in Surprise, Arizona. The defending American League champion Texas Rangers somehow only have two starters (C.J. Wilson and Colby Lewis) inked into the rotation. Their elite closer (Neftali Feliz) might be a starter but his replacement (Alexi…
On the other side, for those who haven’t read it, is the class action complaint filed on Friday by the National Football League players (among those named: Tom Brady, Drew Brees, Payton Manning and homegrown Aggie Von Miller, who’s yet to be drafted) presently locked out by the team owners…
Couldn’t find the game on TV out here in the Arizona desert, but after watching the highlights I didn’t need to. I’ve seen this Mavericks movie a lot recently. The good guys die in the end. Last night in Portland the Mavs made their first 11 shots, hit almost 60…
Short shorts. Skinny players. No 3-point line. Jay Bilas at Duke instead of ESPN. A lot was different in college basketball the last – and only – time the Final Four descended upon Dallas. (College basketball’s March Madness will climax in Cowboys Stadium in 2014). In 1986 the stage was…
While I was out last week the Dallas Mavericks blew a seven-point lead in the final minute in a flabbergasting loss in New Orleans. Afterward, head coach Rick Carlisle called his team “soft.” Veteran shooting guard Jason Terry bristled at the suggestion, saying “I’m not soft, not me. I don’t…
After watching Neftali Feliz hurl an impressive first four innings of Monday’s 5-4 exhibition win over the Los Angeles Dodgers here in Surprise, Arizona, I sat down with general manager Jon Daniels to find out exactly where the 22-year-old fireballer fits in this season. Closer? Or starter? “I think that…
Never again let me criticize college football for rewarding 70 teams with bowl games. Because college basketball is now doing the same thing. And then some. This year – this week – March has increased, unprecedented Madness. Ohio State, Duke, Pittsburgh and Kansas are the No. 1 seeds as the NCAA…
And just like that, the man who saved Nolan Ryan’s job with the Texas Rangers has been replaced. By Nolan Ryan. I heard rumblings about this a couple weeks ago. Even hinted in a Whitt’s End and on 105.3 The Fan that there were – seemingly out of nowhere -…
In a crowded room deep within the substratum of Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, team president-turned-CEO Nolan Ryan tried to cast Chuck Greenberg’s surprising departure this morning in a positive light heading into the new season. Leaving after only seven months with the organization, Ryan did little to answer questions about…
Odd news to wake up to this morning: After being the man leading the charge to take control of the Texas Rangers last summer, and having been very much the public face of the franchise in the months since, Chuck Greenberg’s gone. Did he jump or was he pushed? According…
In the two months since Nigerian soccer star and Major League Soccer alum Uche Okafor was found dead in his Little Elm home, press from his home country has followed the blow-by-blow between the Little Elm Police Department, which has called Okafor’s death a suicide, and his family, who insist…
Ah, the rites of spring. Trees blooming. Allergy sufferers sneezing. Michael Young bitching. Spring breakers partying. And the Dallas Mavericks teasing. Or, for the first time in forever, will their annual March push actually carry them to an NBA championship? Admit it, your heart believes. But your head—given the benefit…
As a big fan of Tosh.0 — a 30-minute show on Comedy Central featuring YouTube clips and jokes from comedian Daniel Tosh — I set my TiVo for Sunday’s premiere of Tosh’s stand-up special Happy Thoughts. Finally got around to watching it last night. It sucked. Laughed maybe once. Nevertheless,…
In the comments of yesterday’s blog, commenter “sporty” posed the question of whether Neftali Feliz should be moved into the rotation since we both agree the Texas Rangers rotation needs help desperately. He said the “transition makes a lot of sense.” I disagree. The argument for Feliz becoming a starter…
You hear it every year around this time: Spring training stats are meaningless. And, sure, while that can be true for guys like Doug Deeds — the 29-year-old career minor leaguer who’s hitting .357 with two homers and four RBI for the Texas Rangers at the moment — there are…
Speaking of Fair Park attractions …Here’s another one: Beginning with the March 26 season-opener — a double-header pitting the Deadly Kennedys against Viva La Revolucion! and the Bombshell Brigade against last year’s champs the Lone Star Assassins — Assassination City Roller Derby moves into the Fair Park Coliseum. Which means…
The Texas Rangers just sent word: General manager Jon Daniels, who was only under contract through this season, today signed a four-year extension — the financial terms of which were not announced. Hard to believe, but should Daniels stick around through the 2015 season, that would mark his 10th anniversary…
