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…
Dallas Cowboys receiver Miles Austin has a new contract. He doesn’t, however, have a new girlfriend. I’ll say it. “Kardaustian” ain’t so. At least not yet. While the Internet cranks up its buzz machine for the Miles Austin-is-dating-Kim-Kardashian rumors, this girl says not so fast. And, you’ll have to trust me on…
Now it’s time to return the favor. Because while battling lung cancer, the former Cedar Hill High School basketball coach needs a lift. His spirits should be at least temporarily boosted Monday when family, friends and colleagues hold the David Milson Charity Golf Tournament at Tangle Ridge Golf Club in Grand…
Kobe Bryant tonight will do something Michael Jordan never did: Win a Game 7 of the NBA Finals. I know the simpleton argument is that Jordan was so good his Chicago Bulls were never pushed to the brink. Nonetheless, Kobe’s feat in this series – Most Valuable Player, rallying his…
Ties suck. Unless, that is, you’re Troy Dungan. Or Megan Fox’s brother. Or some calf-ropin’ cowboy over at the Mesquite Rodeo. But don’t tell that to soccer. Especially don’t whisper a word to the wonderfully fanatical gaggle of American fans that converged on Trinity Hall in Mockingbird Station last Saturday…
One has a lone white star on a blue background, flanked by large swaths of white and red. It represents a state whose football conference was saved yesterday. One has a lone white star on a blue background, flanked by large swaths of white and red. It represents a country…
Cowboys Stadium hasn’t yet officially celebrated its 1st birthday. Yet, by my count, the joint in Arlington has already hosted: Pro football College football High school football Pro basketball College basketball A high-school prom A high-school graduation Professional bull riding International pro soccer Motorcross Concerts American Idol tryouts I’m sure I’m…
I was at Texas Rangers’ spring training out in Surprise, Arizona the day they signed journeyman catcher Matt Treanor. Honestly, it registered a .5 on my 1-10 scale. The Rangers had their catchers of the future in Jarrod Saltalamacchia and Taylor Teagarden. Behind them, they had Max Ramirez. Surely Treanor…
With his broad shoulders squeezed in tightly next to Chuck Greenberg, Texas Rangers president Nolan Ryan looked like he’d rather be tossing cow pies at the side of a barn or chasing snow monkeys than sitting in Fort Worth federal bankruptcy court this morning. But that’s exactly were he was,…
The Boston Celtics have the lead. But the Los Angeles Lakers have the advantage. Right? Boston needs just win one – tonight in Game 6 or in a Game 7 Thursday night – to clinch its record 18th NBA Championship. They won’t get it. As I said before the series, Lakers…
Who’s the commissioner/savior/magician of the Big XII Conference, David Blaine? In a death-defying, last-second escape that would make the famed illusionist proud, Big XII commissioner Dan Beebe has somehow kept his league alive and, I think, well. Lured to stay put by the carrots of doubled TV revenues, Texas and Texas…
