Citing the Beatles song “The Long and Winding Road,” Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig told reporters this afternoon that he was “very restless” as the sale of the Texas Rangers was stalled by bankruptcy and a courtroom auction. “Nobody thought it would be that long, and nobody thought it…
Late last week the folks, season-ticket holders at Gerald J. Ford Stadium, had an offer: two ducats to SMU-TCU, which, sadly, I had to decline. Still, I watched and cheered and drank and cheered — Dad’s a grad, after all. Besides, I knew a certain Friend of Unfair Park was…
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…
When he defiantly refused to carry veteran receiver Roy Williams’ shoulder pads after a training- camp practice in San Antonio, Dallas Cowboys’ rookie Dez Bryant got lots of support. “Hazing is wrong!” some said. “He’s a football player, not an equipment manager,” others offered. “Dez is a man. He ain’t nobody’s…
I appreciate Josh Hamilton. Admire him. Think he should be this year’s American League MVP. Really I do. But I would feel even better about him had he participated in last Saturday’s locker-room celebration in Oakland with his alcohol-drenched Rangers’ teammates. It’s great news that yesterday Josh – who hasn’t…
Here’s hoping that Saturday’s Texas-OU game at the Cotton Bowl is better than last year’s yawny 16-13 Longhorns’ victory. The memorable 45-35 game in 2008 was a little more like it. Still, with pedestrian quarterbacks Garrett Gilbert and Landry Jones and what I think are two mediocre defenses, I’d be shocked if…
Tom Hicks, this shirt’s referring to you.For those wondering why’s it taking so damned long for Tom Hicks to part with the Dallas Stars, Mike Heika has the answer: The lenders are in control now (wuh-oh). That, coupled with Chuck Greenberg’s landing a something-point-something billion-dollar teevee deal, ain’t helping. (If…
Watched some Packers-Bears on Monday Night Football last night and it hit me how good Cowboys’ left tackle Doug Free has been this season. How’s that you ask? Bears’ defensive lineman Julius Peppers was all over the field in Chicago’s 20-17 win. (By the way, when their opponents have the…
The Rangers are back in the playoffs. The Cowboys are back in the race. And look now, but the Dallas Mavericks are back in training camp. Yes, already. Just five months after they walked off the court in the wake of another disappointing first-round playoff loss (this one to the San…
Usually by the time we start feeling fall, your Texas Rangers have long since raised the white flag. But I’ll be damned, tonight in Arlington they’re going to raise a championship banner. Cue Prince, it is indeed time to party like it’s 1999. When Nelson Cruz nabbed a lazy fly ball…
10. Oh ye of little faith. If you listened to me or read me last week I toldja this was coming. Negate some penalties, some missed field goals and some turnovers – tweak things – and the Cowboys would be fine. Way I remember it, I called for more Dez…
A Texas Ex-girlfriend forwards along the link to a site called Move Texas vs. OU Weekend, which is a petition crafted by The University of Texas at Austin Student Government demanding school officials reschedule next year’s Red River ShootoutRivalry. At the moment, and probably for good, Texas-OU’s scheduled to take…
The picture of Tom Hicks Jr. and his old man that spurred this morning’s front-page story in The Wall Street Journal.That Reds fans loathe Tom Hicks — and have almost from the moment he bought Liverpool FC in August 2007, then began making promises he couldn’t afford to keep –…
While we ignore crapola like this from north of the big border bloggers – Jimmy Johnson to return to coach the Cowboys? Really?! – let’s construct a blueprint toward something much more realistic: Making the Dallas Cowboys a better football team. We know they are talented. But in their first two…
This isn’t going to be a popular theory. In this knee-jerk, dog-pile news cycle, it’s chic and easy and lazy to call the Dallas Cowboys overrated. To label them underachievers. To say they are perpetually hyped yet eternally flawed. To pronounce them—at only 0-2—dead before Big Tex’s first “Howdy, folks.”…
Kit NelsonI just left a message on Bill Gallacher’s voice mail at his Calgary HQ to see if ESPN’s correct in saying he’s no longer interested in buying Your Dallas Stars. No reason to doubt Big Richard Durrett and ESPN’s Pierre LeBrun, or other reports outta Canada. Just curious, that’s…
After Sunday’s Worst Loss Ever (this week, anyhow), Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones hopped up to NYC to take in Yankees-Rays. Upon his departure from Yankee Stadium, Jerruh was accosted by a few fans in search of a signature, which he was only too happy to provide…
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…
Hey you. Over there. Yeah, you. The chick with the hair and the lips and the things and the big, bodacious, bountiful booty. What if you could get into an NFL locker room with your brains instead of your beauty? Interested? If so, no better place to start than Football 101 and…
Rangers lose. A’s win. Rangers win. A’s lose. Magic number this and first-round playoff match-up that. It’s all about as meaningless as David Buehler’s too-little-too-late 47-yard field goal if the Texas Rangers have to play October baseball without Josh Hamilton. Right? Hamilton is the Rangers’ best player. He’s having a Mickey…
Heritage Auction GalleriesFrom time to time I kill some time perusing the Heritage Auction Galleries website — maybe we’ll find more gems like these photos. And, sure enough, this morning I stumbled across this soon-to-go-on-the-block keeper: a photo of the Dallas Lightweights taken by one G. Bannon in 1901.This much…
Call me crazier than bat guano, but I actually think the Dallas Cowboys will be fine … fine … fine … fine … fine … fine. Damn, all the sudden it’s lonely in here. At 0-2 and an underdog on the road this week in Houston against the undefeated Texans, things…
