North Texas will be heavily represented in ESPN the Magazine’s upcoming Body Issue, according to the Associated Press. In addition to some athletes you might expect — the Arizona Cardinals’ Larry Fitzgerald, the Oklahoma City Thunder’s Serge Ibaka and the U.S. Women’s National Team’s Megan Rapinoe — the issue’s “Bodies…
The Associated Press is reporting the end of Dallas’ nascent and somewhat quixotic bid to host the 2024 Olympic Games. According to someone briefed on the U.S. Olympic Committee’s decision making process, the committee has selected Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington to further compete to represent the United…
Your browser does not support iframes. Texas Rangers outfielder Engel Beltre fractured his tibia. Catcher Geovany Soto tore his meniscus. First baseman Prince Fielder required neck surgery. And those are just a few examples of the Rangers’ injuries woes. With starting first baseman Mitch Moreland having surgery on his ankle…
Update, 4:51 p.m.: The below was written before this. The answer to the above question is no. Original story: Derek Holland. Matt Harrison. Martin Perez. Geovany Soto. Prince Fielder. Jurickson Profar. Engel Beltre. Three-fifths of the rotation, the starting catcher, the starting first baseman, the starting second baseman and the…
Mark Cuban has taken a thoughtful, nuanced approach to the Donald Sterling controversy, at once condemning the unapologetic racism the Clippers’ owner expresses on a leaked audiotape, and expressing deep discomfort with the precedent it sets to punish someone so severely for expressing his personal beliefs in private. Thoughtfulness and…
If you’ll indulge us for a moment, Dallas we’re going to briefly revisit one of the darkest points in our city’s history, a time when an unspeakable tragedy plunged millions into a state of bewildered mourning from whence sprang talk of shadowy conspiracies. We’re referring, of course, to the 2006…
Your browser does not support iframes.On Saturday night, the Rangers turned in yet another lackluster performance, dropping their second straight to the Toronto Blue Jays, 4-2. And yet the evening wasn’t entirely a waste thanks to 10-year-old Austin Chaney, a.k.a. the Foul Ball Kid. Watch the video above. You’ll see…
Deion Sanders, amazing football player, atrocious charter school operator, dropped by K104’s “Dede in the Morning” show on Thursday to field some friendly questions and share his perspective on current events. At least we think that’s what he means: I’m on K104 in Dallas right now. I’m keeping it so…
We were debating going with the more straightforward headline “Here’s a Shirtless Photo of Leonys Martin,” but we decided something a bit more artful would scare off fewer people. Make no mistake: That is about a shirtless Texas Rangers outfielder Leonys Martin, but it has a backstory. Via a tipster…
The Texas Rangers’ decision to rechristen their stadium the Globe Life Park in Arlington was easy enough to ignore. However lame the name might be — and it’s really, incredibly lame — no one could stop fans from calling it Rangers Ballpark. The blue-and-white Globe Life sign facing outward from…
It’s a pretty good time to be in Frisco, if you are the Texas Legends. Last week the Frisco City Council agreed to spend $90,000 in taxpayer dollars to purchase a basketball court for the minor league NBA team to play on. By coincidence, Frisco Mayor Maher Maso is good…
Orville Paul Dunagan and Bryan Coleman are friends. Scratch that. They were friends, neighbors and longtime softball buddies and teammates in a slow-pitch league in East Dallas. The moment their bond began to dissolve, on June 21, 2005, is now immortalized in Dallas County court records. That’s the day Dunagan…
Those of you who listened to Friday’s Final Four games on the radio were forced to endure not only a complete lack of moving images but also sportscaster Jim Gray’s brief but remarkably inane sideline interview with Jerry Jones, in which the Cowboys’ owner noted approvingly that AT&T Stadium’s TV…
Among the things you’d probably rather not see at a baseball game, coming in somewhere below a barrage of apocalyptic hell fire but slightly above an opposing team’s walk-off home run, is a tornado looming over the left-field fence. It’s a vision concern that might inspire panic in some. Ah,…
It’s cold comfort now, a day and a half after Stephen Curry’s game-ending dagger lifted the Golden State Warriors to a 122-120 victory over the Mavs at the American Airlines Center on Tuesday night, but the NBA has ruled that the Jermaine O’Neal “block” that set the stage for Curry’s…
The Cowboys’ move from Valley Ranch to Frisco is moving forward. On Monday, the Frisco City Council took a look at some initial plans for the 66-acre site. Of course, America’s Team can’t settle for a tasteful office complex and modest practice facility. The keystone of the project will be…
You’ll remember Shannon Stone as the 39-year-old Brownwood firefighter and father who tumbled to his death while reaching for a ball during a July 2011 Rangers game. Kind of hard to forget. He and his 6-year-old son, Cooper, are immortalized in bronze outside Rangers ballpark. A fitting tribute, the two-year-old…
Hello everybody, from The Ballpark With the New Name. We’re here at Rangers Opening Day, and will be documenting the thrills, the spills, and the silliness. Apologies for any mistakes – your live blogger is British, and thus totally unfit to document America’s national pastime, no matter how much he…
In case you kept your ears and eyes plugged this past weekend, let us tell you just four teams are still standing in the NCAA tournament. Florida, Wisconsin, UConn and Kentucky have all survived two grueling weekends of hoops and earned a trip to the Final Four in North Texas…
Our 2013 Best of Dallas award winner, and Observer writer, Michael “Grubes” Gruber, is renowned for nicknaming Rangers players. In fact, if you follow him on Twitter (@tweetgrubes) like thousands of other people do, then his Diamond Tweets covering the Rangers games are largely incomprehensible without extensive knowledge of the…
Pop quiz: A young high school athlete isn’t getting much playing time. As a parent, do you a) Encourage your teenager to buckle down and work harder; b) Have a few choice words with the coach; or c) Suggest that, you know, maybe academic decathlon might be a better fit…
When Eddie Gossage last week unveiled the “Big Hoss TV” — a 12-story, 20,633-square-foot video screen — it wasn’t just a coup for Texas Motor Speedway, it was a win for the entire state. Having North Carolina claim the country’s largest jumbotron is something no self-respecting Texan should be willing…
