10. As of now, Wade Phillips has his regularly scheduled press conference today at 4 p.m. from Valley Ranch. But stay tuned. 9. Nose tackle Jay Ratliff vomited near the bench in the fourth quarter. Fans beat him to it hours earlier. 8. Seven points. Four turnovers. A 38-point defeat…
No doubt it’ll return; hell, maybe you can see it now. But I just went to look for something on the team’s official website and instead came up with what you see above, courtesy Network Solutions. WhoIs.Net shows it expired November 3, and that it was updated only today. When…
10. First play of the game in College Station, Oklahoma snapped the ball over quarterback Landry Jones’ head and out of the end zone for safety. Iconic Aggie radio voice Dave South’s peculiar call: “Touchback, Aggies!” What the what? 9. For a supposedly dumbass coach, LSU’s Les Miles sure gets…
Texas Rangers GM Jon Daniels and skipper Ron Washington hopped on a conference call late this afternoon to discuss Wash’s two-year contract extension — “a formality as much as anything,” as Daniels put it. The general manager said it was “clearly the first order of business” in the post-season, “making…
For the last month we’ve all been – gladly, of course – buried up to here in the Texas Rangers. Don’t look now, but the other sports in our city didn’t shut down. Let’s play some catch up, shall we? FC DALLAS – In the Major League Soccer’s Western Conference…
Not yet ready to let go of the 2010 season, Your Texas Rangers held that rally Wednesday evening in the Ballpark’s parking lot. We dispatched Intern Conner Howell to cover the wingding, attended by the team’s owners, the about-to-be-contract-extended skipper, much of the starting line-up, Lil’ Wash and a guesstimated…
Witnessed lots of folks outside Rangers Ballpark last night who believe in their baseball team. The Rangers Rally was a warm hug on a chilly night and the theory goes like this: The present belongs to the San Francisco Giants, but the future belongs to the Texas Rangers. You buyin’ it?…
One of our sports teams is super. The other one sucks. One team has validated hope, lifted spirits, bonded communities, dispensed goose bumps and reminded us how great sports can be. The other team has us eschewing common courteous greetings for “FML.” One team won nine games in October, pushing…
There was a time — 12 years ago, say — when I could have named each man in this photo by sight. Even, at the far right in the middle row, PR man Jerry Doggett, ex of WRR and, after his stint in Dallas, the longtime voice of the Brooklyn…
Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback ratings. Wins and losses? Definitely. Leadership? Uh-huh. When it comes to my weekly NFL Quarterback Rankings — if I had one of those little encircled R’s to signify a trademarked idea, it’d go here — the…
OK, so now what? The Texas Rangers just produced their latest, greatest season. Tonight at 6 at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington we’ll toast the 2010 team one last time with not a victory parade, but more so a second-place appreciation party to be shown on Fox Sports Southwest and heard on…
On the other side are details for tomorrow’s Rangers Rally, scheduled for 6 p.m. outside the Ballpark in Arlington. Long story short: Chuck Greenberg, Nolan Ryan, Jon Daniels, Ron Washington and a few players will get together for an hour to remember the “magical” season that was. Because, see, that…
And what a ride it was … 10. After an generous incorrect no-call on a check swing, Michael Young blasts a three-run homer to center field on the next pitch as Texas races to a 5-0 lead in Game 2 of the ALDS en route to a 2-0 series lead in Tampa…
We now return to your regularly scheduled football season where … Oh, dear. If you saw this coming – the Dallas Cowboys at 1-6 – raise your hand. I’m impressed. I’ll also, of course, need proof. Some of us thought the Cowboys would play in Super Bowl XLV. Most of…
10. Not sure what manager Ron Washington was doing going to closer Neftali Feliz in the 8th inning of a game the Rangers trailed 3-1. If the Rangers had forced extra innings it would’ve been an interesting mix-‘n-match bullpen. Unfortunately, Texas’ bats were too feeble to even force a second-guess…
Hey, at least one of our teams won on Halloween. Prediction: Just three games into the season and Jason Kidd’s swish from inside the Clippers’ 3-point line will be the longest shot made in the NBA this season…
[jump] Tonight will be the first November game in Rangers’ history and also the game of the season in Arlington. Even if they win tonight, the Rangers must find a way to win two straight games at AT&T Park, where they are 0-11 all-time. And if the Rangers don’t score…
10. All you Tony Romo haters, how’d that feel? You wanted life without the so-called “celebrity golfer,” you got it. By the way Jon Kitna, perfectly thrown passes tipped into interceptions suck huh? 9. David Garrard is a very mediocre quarterback. The Cowboys made him look like Johnny Unitas. Garrard…
Win or lose, tonight’s the final home game of the 2010 Texas Rangers season. And, yes, even the die-hards must admit at this late date (November 1, itself a remarkable achievement) that the Rangers’ chances of winning the World Series look slim. But Rangers owner Chuck Greenberg, posting to his…
[jump] 5. I’ll ask it again: How the hell can baseball take itself seriously with such horribly incompetent umpiring? Not only was the Game 4 strike zone drastically different from Game 3 – shouldn’t it be universally consistent in every game? – first-base umpire Jeff Kellogg blew two plays. Not…
Just returned from a long night of trick-or-treating to find the Rangers down by two and this picture in my in-box, courtesy the friend of a friend who works for MLB Advanced Media in NYC. That, of course, is 7-year-old Liam Roybal of Keller with The Real Ron Washington in…
10. Yes metroplex, for the first time ever there will be baseball … in November. Regardless of Tommy Hunter in tonight’s Game 4, Game 5 will be Monday night, Novembrer 1, at Rangers Ballpark at 6:57. And oh, by the way Giants fans, you know where you can stick those…
