Hell hath officially frozen over. In Arlington, the Texas Rangers are still playing baseball. And in Dallas, Stars fans are now cheering for the Detroit Red Wings. Well, at least one of them. The Stars, off to a 2-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 start or whatever the hell it is these days in the…
George Gillett and Tom HicksFollowing yesterday’s surprising turn of events that landed the sale of Liverpool FC in the 160th District Court at the George Allen, attorneys representing the Liverpool board and Royal Bank of Scotland were back in U.K. High Court this morning trying to push through the sale…
This morning, via the social network, a Friend of Unfair Park was kind enough to shoot me a video made by Mark Cizdziel, who spent seven hours yesterday whittling down Rangers-Rays Game Five into quite the pro-looking highlight reel. It’s pre-, post- and in-game audio and video cobbled together from…
Gleefully, I was wrong about Rays in 5. In accordance, take this synopsis with a pinch of salt, a hint of lime, a chug of a six pack, then wake up Friday night and watch for yourselves. ALCS rosters won’t be set until Friday at 10 a.m. so there could…
11:54 a.m. With a Texas Rangers playoff game followed by a Dallas Cowboys contest, this could be one of the wildest, most wonderful Sundays in the history of metroplex sports. Up two games to one, the Rangers can close out their American League Divisional Series against the Tampa Bay Rays…
Dallas Cowboy by Kit Nelson, never more appropriate than today[Update at 4:41 p.m.: The original petition filed this afternoon has been added. It’s after the jump.]This morning we told you the U.K. courts had cleared the path for New England Sports Ventures to buy Liverpool FC — thus ending Tom…
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…
Late last night, Jamey Newberg was kind enough to send this sports highlight from the Texas Rangers’ first-ever post-season series triumph: Ford C. Frick finalist Eric Nadel’s final-out call, an homage to the late, great Mark Holtz. It’s below, courtesy Mike Disen of KRLD. Stop it, sports tears. Stop it…
At the time – April 30, 2009 – I called the Dallas Cowboys’ draft class of 2009 a “dirty dozen.” And, no, it was a compliment. Fast-forward to today and, unfortunately, it’s uglier than ever. Making room on the roster for a tight end in light of another injury to…
TexasRangers.comAs last night’s Game Five wore on, the damnedest thing began to happen: My neighborhood, in Northwest Dallas, began echoing with mighty, mighty shouts of joy. A few friends reported the same thing in other parts of town — you didn’t even need to have the Rangers-Rays game on to…
10. Antlers > Rays. Ironic that the Rangers – who for years and decades floundered playing feast-or-famine baseball founded on the home run – scored their first three runs via speed. Think about it, the Rangers small-balled, manufactured and ran their way to the American League Championship Series. Yes, Texas,…
To the Texas Rangers, tonight’s do-or-die game is unprecedented, uncharted territory. But as metroplex sports fans, we’re accustomed to these elimination scenarios. And, you know what? We’re pretty damn good at them. While the Rangers take their pathetic 3-11 playoff pedigree into tonight’s decisive Game 5 against the Tampa Bay Rays,…
Looks like about 3.5 times more of you – 885,000 homes to 250,000 homes – watched the Dallas Cowboys over the Texas Rangers on Sunday, so let’s not shun football today. Though Leonard Davis is admitting he sucks and Martellus Bennett is hurt and the Cowboys are 1-3 and old…
History isn’t on the Rangers’ side. But everything else is. When the Texas Rangers face the Tampa Bay Rays tonight at 7:07 at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, they’ll do so knowing they’ve never won a playoff series and that no 5-game baseball series has ever been decided via five wins…
George Gillett, left, and Tom HicksIt’s déjà vu all over again this morning in the U.K.: On the one side of the courtroom are attorneys repping the creditors trying to force the sale of a sports team owned by Tom Hicks; on the other side are Hicks’s attorneys. So perhaps…
There, on the High Court of Justice Chancery Division’s to-do list tomorrow, is one of two U.K. cases in which locals will keep a close eye: Royal Bank of Scotland PLC v Hicks & Others. As in: Tom Hicks, from whom the Royal Bank of Scotland wants the money owed…
In the aftermath of a stinging season-ending loss in Philadelphia in 2008, Dallas Cowboys’ quarterback Tony Romo shrugged his shoulders and infamously offered: “If this is the worst thing that ever happens to me, well, then I will have had a pretty good life.” In the wake of a stinging…
10. No two ways around it, your Dallas Cowboys are not a good football team. They are a collection of talented football players. But together they are not a good team. In linebacker Keith Brooking’s words, “We play really stupid football at crucial times in the game.” 9. Tony Romo was…
10. After a wasted weekend in Arlington we know this: Derek Holland isn’t ready to be a playoff pitcher. Saturday he allowed a single and a walk to ignite Tampa’s game-tying rally and in today’s Game 4 loss he served up a two-run homer to Evan Longoria that broke the…
10. ‘Twas an occurrence about as rare as Halley’s Comet this afternoon out here at Rangers Ballpark. In the Rangers’ 39-year history they’ve played 3,092 home games in Arlington. Game 3 was only the fifth playoff contest. Texas is 0-5 all-time in home playoff games. 9. In the owner’s box: Nolan Ryan,…
Back on July 11, I spent a couple innings with Texas Rangers general manager Jon Daniels inside a luxury suite at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington as the team finished a lousy four-game series with the Baltimore Orioles. His team would lose that day and limped into the All-Star break after…
10. I know the Rangers banged two more homers and generally roped the ball around the park, but I think Josh Hamilton set the tenor with his back-to-back superb catches — one diving — in the second inning. 9. As expected, Tampa starter James Shields was, well, James Shields. In…
