Sam MertenThis just in: Sporting News has named its 2010 Major League Player of the Year — and it’s a certain Anchorman-quoting center-fielder for Your Texas Rangers. And as SN is quick to point out, that’s the consensus among 326 major leaguers — this isn’t no sportswriters’ award, keep in…
Pssst, I’m not supposed to talk about this. Like a no-no in the 7th inning, baseball’s unwritten etiquette says you’re not supposed to whisper a word about celebratory plans. Especially when you’re on the enemy’s fabled field. But, what the hell, this hasn’t happened in … forever: Here at Yankee Stadium…
10. And that, my friends, is why I wanted the New York Yankees. Between CC Sabathia and Mariano Rivera, this is a flawed pitching staff. Just ask the Rangers, who in this series have posted 5, 7, 8 and 10 runs in building a commanding 3-1 lead in the series…
I was prepared to be in awe. To be mesmerized. To shrink in the midst of baseball’s ghosts and glory. But, I gotta tell ya, new Yankee Stadium is just a ballpark. Can’t believe this place cost more to build than Cowboys Stadium. And can’t believe people actually pay for…
Hear ye, Hear ye: The National Football League is about to start fining players … for playing football. In another move away from its popular roots as America’s most entertaining and, yes, violent sport, the NFL is suddenly showing cowardice and promising to fine and/or suspend defensive players for what…
The Texas Rangers lead the ALCS over the New York Yankees, 2-1. In Monday night’s Game 3 they waltzed into fabled Yankee Stadium and laid an 8-0 whupping on the Bronx Bombers. The Rangers have dominated the series, out-scoring New York 20-8 with five of the Yankees’ runs coming in…
Writes Mike Lupica in this morning’s New York Daily News: “So now, after all the winning during the regular season that Joe Girardi talked about in a testy postgame interview session, after starting the postseason with four straight wins and maybe thinking the Rangers were going to be the kind…
10. How dominant was Cliff Lee tonight? I sat in the right-field seats of Yankee Stadium in the middle innings and I swear fans were wildly cheering foul balls managed by Nick Swisher. Any contact was cause for applause. 9. And why did I venture out of the comfy, cozy…
Courtesy Dallas StarsTo recap: Tom Hicks no longer owns Liverpool FC (though there’s another $1.6-billion-in-damages lawsuit a-comin’, guaranteed). Tom Hicks no longer owns the Texas Rangers (and Cliff Lee or no, still very sports nervous about tonight). But Tom Hicks, who paid around $84 mil for Norm Green’s hockey team…
10. Got my bag checked and my toothpaste confiscated at D/FW Airport. Do I look that guilty? 9. I’ll never get tired of flying into New York. That skyline is one of the best views on Earth. 8. Nothing more unnerving than the cab ride from LaGuardia Aiport into the city…
Hey look, now that the Texas Rangers did not in fact pull a 2006 NBA Finals el foldo, your Dallas Mavericks are baseball fans. Very cool. Here’s betting $1 that the Cowboys don’t find time to produce similar well-wishes…
There’s a stack of City Hall docs to review, but, instead, let’s begin the work week with two sports videos. The first speaks for itself. But, really, who didn’t watch the end of yesterday’s game and think: Benny Hill. Bonus video: And on the other side, Your Dallas Mavericks throw…
10. Bad as this looks – and 1-4 is bad – the season isn’t over. I know history says they have a 95 percent chance of missing the playoffs, but no one in the NFC is worth a damn. A 10-win season and, yes, a division championship is still possible. And much…
Look at it this way, if Cliff Lee beats the Yankees here tonight in Game 3 of the ALCS they’ll have to beat the Texas Rangers in three consecutive games or else face him again in Game 7 at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington on Saturday. Advantage: Rangers? Of course to…
10. I’ve never seen a scarier, more intense 5-run baseball game in my life. With closer Neftali Feliz flying 98-mph fastballs all over the joint in the 9th, the tension felt as though it were 3-2 instead of 7-2. 9. I know Elvis Andrus gets credit for manufacturing a 1-0 lead…
For seven innings, the guy wearing the Alex Rodriguez Texas Rangers jersey in Section 314 taunted the young man in the Alex Rodriguez New York Yankees jersey sitting but one row back. A lot of: “Yankees suck! Yankees suck!” And: “You’re on steroids! You’re on steroids!” Then came the eighth,…
10. Stupid mistakes at crucial times after dominating most of the game? Was I watching the Texas Rangers tonight or the Dallas Cowboys? 9. Great to see Josh Hamilton finally join the playoffs with a first-inning homer for an early 3-0 lead. Also great to see Big Tex lending his…
We’re about two hours from Pitch 1 of Game 1 of the American League Championship Series between the Texas Rangers and New York Yankees. I’m at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington where Nolan Ryan is talking to the national media, Josh Hamilton is taking batting practice and the glorious sun is shining…
Hell of a way to bookend the day — in a courtroom first thing in the morning watching Tom Hicks’s attorneys fight to keep ownership of Liverpool FC, then at the Ballpark in Arlington tonight to watch Tom Hicks’s old team fight to keep home-field advantage over the New York…
Or perhaps not.When last we left this saga we were told that ’round about 8 a.m. this morning, 160th District Court Judge Jim Jordan would rule on that temporary restraining order Tom Hicks and George Gillett asked for two long days ago in order to stop a U.K.-court-ordered sale of…
I’m at the George Allen this very moment, where attorneys representing New England Sports Ventures and Kop Holdings (which is to say, Tom Hicks) are squaring off over who owns Liverpool FC. In light of the UK judge’s ruling this morning, which basically tossed yesterday’s temporary restraining order, the attorneys…
Woe are the Dallas Cowboys. I still don’t think their season is kaput, but it doesn’t look good: *At 1-3, they’re firmly in the NFC East cellar. *Sunday they play at the Minnesota Vikings, an equally desperate 1-3 team. *You’d think the Cowboys would have the motivation factor, what with…
