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The Dallas Mavericks, with the advent of in-game GPS devices that tracks a player’s every twitch and movement, are already gleaning the last scraps of data available to measure on-court performance. Now it’s onto the next frontier: watching players while they sleep. The term of art that’s been coined for…

Well, looks like we get another fun off-season in Arlington! Yay! Nolan Ryan has resigned/retired from the Rangers effective October 31, and everyone has their thoughts on why this happened and what it means. I am one of those people. Why did it happen? One, some, all, or none of…

For a while now, at least since March, the writing on the wall has suggested that Nolan Ryan’s exit from the Rangers’ front office was imminent. That writing has now migrated from the wall and into an official announcement from the club. His tenure as CEO officially ends on Halloween…

Even now, legions of fans are descending on the State Fair for the legendary (and lopsided) match-up between the Big 12’s bitterest rivals. But before the cries of “Texas Fight!” and the invalid moaning of “Boooomer” carom through the Cotton Bowl, the schools’ respective editorial boards traded some good-natured barbs…

A couple of weeks ago, the Dallas Mavericks announced the signing of 6-8 forward Renaldo Balkman. Other than the name, which bears an uncanny resemblance to that of former Mavs star Rolando Blackman, news that the team had signed a guy who averaged 4 points a game over a handful…

Add comedian and Huell running mate Bill Burr to the list of people who aren’t blaming Tony Romo for Sunday’s loss to the Broncos. Related: Did anyone outside Theoretical Call-In Dumbasses actually blame Romo for the loss?…

As insanely dangerous as the event sounds — it consists of flimsy-looking stunt planes weaving through a series of large pylons at 200-plus miles per hour — there has been only one crash in eight years of Red Bull Air Races. It happened in 2010 in Perth, Australia, during a…

We asked former Ticket board op and master nicknamer Michael “Grubes” Gruber to autopsy the Rangers so we can throw their cadaver into our winter fire and focus on football. Here’s his hot-but-not-tremendously-hot sports take: This was a weird season for your Texas Rangers. For all intents and purposes, they:…

Some way, somehow, Mark Cuban managed to whittle down the 1,000-plus quality entries in his design-the-next-Mavs-uniform contest down to a final 10. For whatever reason, Buster the Armpit Lion didn’t make the cut. The submissions are currently up for a vote here. All of them are pretty quality, save for…

When TCU and SMU’s football teams face off this weekend in the battle for the coveted Iron Skillet, the Horned Frogs are expected to dominate. The three-touchdown spread falls a couple of touchdowns shy of an abject humiliation, but it at least represents a solid pounding. That’s not good enough…

Claudia Yamell Castillo may not come out atop North Texas’ (unofficial) Most Hated Person list for September. With a week to go, that Balch Springs teen who beat a puppy’s eye out with a tree branch has to be the current favorite. But Castillo is a strong contender for runner…

Plano East High School slaughtered Richardson’s Berkner Rams on Friday night in the completely metaphorical sense that its football team scored more points (34) than its rival (13). The night before, the slaughter was quite literal. Members of Berkner’s marching band arrived at the high school’s football field at around…

Hooter Boswell has been a bullfighter — a rodeo clown for the uninitiated — for more than 20 years, the past 15 of them on the circuit with the Big L Rodeo Company out of Oklahoma. In all that time, he’d managed to keep his face intact. Then came this…

Sports Illustrated is now on day two of its five-day rollout of its breathless investigation of the Oklahoma State University football program. Dez Bryant, the Dallas Cowboys’ wide receiver who played two seasons at OSU, was not mentioned in the first installment, which focuses on cash that boosters and coaches…

An hour before the kickoff of the Cowboys’ season at AT&T Stadium Sunday night, three American icons posed for a photo. If a weirder three-pack of American icons has ever posed for photo, we haven’t seen it. Weirder still is the placement of the Hulkster’s hand near Jerry’s crotch. We’re…

Deion Sanders, who has accused other NFL athletes of faking their head injuries for money, is cognitively impaired, four doctors have determined. Sanders has had no problem using his pedestal as a Hall of Famer and television analyst to talk shit about other former NFL players suffering brain damage. “The…

The Fort Worth Cats, Cowtown’s minor league baseball club, was supposed to make good on its debts on January 15, 2013. That’s at least what the team’s owner, former Congressman John Bryant, told us last December, explaining that the team was experiencing an acute but temporary cash shortage after the…

The soccer fields at the city’s $31.4 million Elm Fork Athletic Complex, at the western terminus of Walnut Hill Lane, are still several months from being put to use. City crews have been obsessively tending the sod this summer with an eye toward keeping it “in perfect condition” for next…

Unfair Park has no particular beef with Deion Sanders Jr. He, unlike his father, has never established a charter school and used it to get his own reality show, or tried to trick us into being a part of that reality show. He’s just your average SMU student who enjoys…

Earlier this week, the Houston Astros called up Max Stassi from the Double-A Corpus Christi Hooks. On Tuesday, he made his Major League Debut against the Rangers, going a solid 2-3. On Wednesday, he faced Rangers reliever Tanner Scheppers. Things did not go very well. On the SportsCenter replay, fast-forward…

“You look nervous,” is how Deion Sanders greets me, loudly, as we meet me for the first time. I am not nervous. “That’s just the way my face looks,” I respond. He says that I look fine but definitely nervous. I am confused. We are standing in a fancy indoor…