When I spoke with Mike Modano in April, he didn’t know what the future held — if he would be retiring following the season, if he’d move into ownership or if he’d come back and play one final season with the Stars or, God forbid, someone else. But he was…
The Dallas Cup will live on each Easter weekend as one of the world’s most prestigious youth tournaments. FC Dallas will anonymously toil away in Major League Soccer. And Starbucks-slurping soccer moms in their minivans will still dominate our roads and bogart our athletic field parking lots every weekend. But with…
A nod to old Dallas wrestler Fritz Von Erich? A psychological ploy by hitting coach Clint Hurdle? Fallout from last year’s swine flu? After seeing two more Texas Rangers smack extra-base hits last week and then make bizarre hand gestures — Ian Kinsler did a wide-arm double claw and Josh…
Since the day Michael Finley was released in 2005, your Dallas Mavericks have been searching. Looking for a consistent starting shooting guard who can create his own shot off the dribble, get to the free throw line and provide a viable alternative other than Dirk Nowitzki as a guy capable…
Well, well, well — the Texas Rangers Baseball Partners have filed a “revised” Chapter 11 plan, and Maury Brown, so far, seems to be the one guy who thinks this might could maybe be the redo that gets this sale over the hump. Or not. Which may not be the…
‘Round this time yesterday, Judge Michael Lynn all but postponed the Texas Rangers’ hopes of getting a sale done by the July 31 trade deadline by ordering most of the parties involved in the bankruptcy case into mediation on July 16. The one major party not invited to the dance…
Texas Rangers fans know, sooner or later, Tom Hicks will no longer own the club — probably not before the trade deadline, not in time to get Cliff Lee, but some day. Soon. Ish. And besides, for now, there’s an 11-game win streak to cushion the blow; even better when…
So, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Michael Lynn just — and I mean just — ordered mediation in the Texas Rangers’ Chapter 11 bankruptcy case. Which means …? Long story short: The sale of Your Texas Rangers won’t wrap in early July, which was the best-case scenario following Judge Lynn’s ruling earlier…
Of course Jerry Jones would never diddle with the most sacred star in sports, but you might be seeing a tweaked Dallas Cowboys’ uniform this season. Why? Hi-Definition TV, that’s why. For years and years and years me and my brother have wondered why the Cowboys’ home pants looked -…
Not expecting a lot from the Dallas Mavericks in tonight’s NBA Draft. They don’t have a first-round pick – Jason Kidd-for-Devin Harris ring a bell? – and own only the 50th overall selection, which, as we know, is about as valuable these days as mittens in Mesquite. The Mavericks haven’t hit…
Dan Beebe is David Blaine. With the boxed body of the Big 12 Conference seemingly sawed into pieces and displaced from coast to coast, the embattled commissioner of our state’s prestigious football fraternity last week dramatically, magically reassembled the body parts into a living, breathing, working whole. Presto! The result…
Tweak it. Or trash it. That’s the charge from the bankruptcy judge in the Texas Rangers’ proposed sale from Tom Hicks to Chuck Greenberg. When the judge decries that the Rangers have to modify their current plan – but not add more money to the deal – it seems like…
Yesterday afternoon, after U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Michael Lynn delayed the sale of the Texas Rangers to Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan’s Rangers Baseball Express pending some changes, both the Texas Rangers Baseball Partners and the first lien lendors had their reps send press releases huzzah-ing the opinion. Which, I know,…
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Michael Lynn’s memorandum of opinion in the Texas Rangers’ Chapter 11 case just appeared on PACER, oh, 15 minutes ago? And it’s below, all 28 pages. And: It would appear to be a good day for the creditors, as Lynn writes that he ain’t OK’ing nothing till…
Is it because he’s so powerful? So rich? So over-the-top passionate? Or is it because he’s won three Super Bowls? Built an unprecedented stadium that is gobbling up sports? Or kept his team popular, relevant and “successful” despite only one playoff win in 13 years? Whatever the reason, while Dallas loves…
After years and a decade of wandering aimlessly from youth movement to patch-it-together-retread program to losing season, the Texas Rangers in 2007 gave general manager Jon Daniels a contract extension and a mission: Rebuild the farm system. Build a major-league winner. Three summers later the Rangers have … arrived? With…
After saying that he’s 75-percent leaning toward not retiring and playing hockey again next season, all-time star of the Dallas Stars Mike Modano is now thinking the unthinkable – putting on the sweater of another team. Mike Modano, Detroit Red Wings? Criiiiiiiiiiinge. It’s still a situation of if he plays and…
After another fascinating True Blood last night, I caught Mike Modano on Fox 4’s Sports Sunday with Mike Doocy. Anyone else see this? I could’ve sworn Modano – who was in studio – said he is strongly leaning toward coming back and playing another season for the Dallas Stars. Didn’t jot…
Spent Father’s Day between the grill and the couch. OK, mostly the couch. Instead of another tacky tie for a gift, I let dear ol’ dad man the remote control. Went something like this: U.S. Open … Rangers … U.S. Open … World Cup … Rangers … U.S. Open … zzzzzzz…
Tomorrow in a Fort Worth courtroom, should all go according to plan, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Michael Lynn will rule on whether Hicks Sports Group can move ahead with its sale of the first-place Texas Rangers to Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan’s Rangers Baseball Express. But this morning in a subscription-only…
Back in March at Texas Rangers spring training out in Surprise, Arizona I asked team president Nolan Ryan his expectations this season for Josh Hamilton. Is the real Josh the player who had 54 RBI by June 1 in 2008 or the player who hit only 10 homers between numerous…
Some day, maybe, Tom Hicks will sell Liverpool FC. If, that is, the “asset stripper” (so said a newly elected MP in the House of Commons!) can find someone willing to pay the £800 million he insists the soccer team is worth (if only to make up for what he…
