Seems like everyone except ESPN’s Buster Olney is picking the Tampa Bay Rays to beat our Texas Rangers in the best-of-5 American League Divisional Series. Which makes sense actually. The Rays are a 96-win team, the winner of baseball’s best division, with a 4-2 season series edge on Texas, and…
It’s been a question since forever: When oh when will the National Basketball Association or National Football Leaguer NFL start selling ad space on their team unis? Because, c’mon, the Euros do it and make millions. The WNBA does it. Some Major League Soccer teams do it. Why not everyone…
Be careful what you ask for. For the most part, seems like baseball fans in our parts feared the New York Yankees. Household names like Jeter and A-Rod and Pettite and Rivera and the 27 World Series have a way of intimidating opponents. Oh yeah, and the 1-9 playoff history…
10. Pretty sure the Sooners and Longhorns are just mediocre football teams. But I’m certain Texas was absolutely gutted — in emotion and field-position — by nine penalties. 9. The Longhorns will lose Oct. 16 at Nebraska, giving Texas three consecutive losses for the first time since 1999. Seems like we’re…
The 90 wins (just the fourth 90-win season in the franchise’s 39-year history). The nine-game win in the American League West (largest ever). The claw. The antlers. The playoffs. The excitement. Let’s face it, without Josh Hamilton in the post-season it would all amount to tantalizing foreplay with no payoff. Seeing…
Sam MertenFor a long while during the auction of Your Texas Rangers on August 4 — and into the wee small hours of August 5 — it looked as though Mark Cuban and Jim Crane’s Radical Pitch LLC might indeed take possession of the team. Every time Chuck Greenberg and…
Team president Nolan Ryan predicted a World Series victory for the Texas Rangers during a rally held this afternoon at the home plate gate outside Rangers Ballpark at Arlington. After general manager Jon Daniels issued brief comments to the few hundred fans gathered for the “Rangers Red Rally,” which celebrated…
I’ve seen Mavericks’ forward Popeye Jones inadvertently tip a jump ball into his own basket, giving the Cleveland Cavaliers two points. I’ve seen Cowboys’ defensive lineman Leon Lett inexplicably attempt to recover a blocked field goal on an icy Thanksgiving field at Texas Stadium, handing the Miami Dolphins a victory…
Odd confluence of sports and celebrities today.Like, for instance, this item outta the U.K.: Liverpool native and soccer-movie screenwriter Mike Jefferies has decided to take on Tom Hicks, who, as you’re no doubt aware, is still trying to keep hold of Liverpool FC. As Deadspin notes, Jefferies says he’s rounding…
lated by the Rangers’ AL West crown. But I’m not thrilled by the T-shirt. Gray? Coulda swore the Rangers’ colors were red and blue and … Gray? Or is it charcoal? And speaking of celebratory accessories …..
At the State Fair of Texas this year they’re selling—I kid you not—deep-fried beer and margaritas. Inside the Cotton Bowl on Saturday they’re giving away—in all likelihood—not a stuffed Snooki game prize but rather a spot in the BCS National Championship Game. There’s nothing quite like Fair Park in October,…
There was a crisp, cool nip in the air Monday night at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. We’ve experienced this before with the Texas Rangers. When the shadows grow long and the days dwindle short, baseball annually, promptly gives way to talk of the Dallas Cowboys, Texas-OU, the Dallas Mavericks, Fletcher’s…
Citing the Beatles song “The Long and Winding Road,” Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig told reporters this afternoon that he was “very restless” as the sale of the Texas Rangers was stalled by bankruptcy and a courtroom auction. “Nobody thought it would be that long, and nobody thought it…
Late last week the folks, season-ticket holders at Gerald J. Ford Stadium, had an offer: two ducats to SMU-TCU, which, sadly, I had to decline. Still, I watched and cheered and drank and cheered — Dad’s a grad, after all. Besides, I knew a certain Friend of Unfair Park was…
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…
When he defiantly refused to carry veteran receiver Roy Williams’ shoulder pads after a training- camp practice in San Antonio, Dallas Cowboys’ rookie Dez Bryant got lots of support. “Hazing is wrong!” some said. “He’s a football player, not an equipment manager,” others offered. “Dez is a man. He ain’t nobody’s…
I appreciate Josh Hamilton. Admire him. Think he should be this year’s American League MVP. Really I do. But I would feel even better about him had he participated in last Saturday’s locker-room celebration in Oakland with his alcohol-drenched Rangers’ teammates. It’s great news that yesterday Josh – who hasn’t…
Here’s hoping that Saturday’s Texas-OU game at the Cotton Bowl is better than last year’s yawny 16-13 Longhorns’ victory. The memorable 45-35 game in 2008 was a little more like it. Still, with pedestrian quarterbacks Garrett Gilbert and Landry Jones and what I think are two mediocre defenses, I’d be shocked if…
Tom Hicks, this shirt’s referring to you.For those wondering why’s it taking so damned long for Tom Hicks to part with the Dallas Stars, Mike Heika has the answer: The lenders are in control now (wuh-oh). That, coupled with Chuck Greenberg’s landing a something-point-something billion-dollar teevee deal, ain’t helping. (If…
Watched some Packers-Bears on Monday Night Football last night and it hit me how good Cowboys’ left tackle Doug Free has been this season. How’s that you ask? Bears’ defensive lineman Julius Peppers was all over the field in Chicago’s 20-17 win. (By the way, when their opponents have the…
The Rangers are back in the playoffs. The Cowboys are back in the race. And look now, but the Dallas Mavericks are back in training camp. Yes, already. Just five months after they walked off the court in the wake of another disappointing first-round playoff loss (this one to the San…
Usually by the time we start feeling fall, your Texas Rangers have long since raised the white flag. But I’ll be damned, tonight in Arlington they’re going to raise a championship banner. Cue Prince, it is indeed time to party like it’s 1999. When Nelson Cruz nabbed a lazy fly ball…
