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Liverpool's Soccer Team Still Isn't Very Good, and It's Still Tom Hicks' Fault

In the heady days of early 2007, then-Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars owner Tom Hicks added another major sports franchise to his portfolio with the £435 million purchase of Liverpool F.C. He and his partner, George Gillett, promised to deliver grand things, first-and-foremost a brand-new stadium, b ... More >>

Least Surprising Announcement of the Day: Liverpool FC Not Going With HKS's Stadium

​Seems like forever ago we were getting our first look at the then-£300-million Stanley Park stadium Tom Hicks was promising to build for his, um, beloved Liverpool FC; ah, the good ol' days -- January 2008, before the cracks gave way to the complete cave-in. Back then, though, Hicks gave the gig ... More >>

On Our Summer Reading List: The U.K. Book About Tom Hicks's Days as Liverpool FC Owner

​Well, this is certainly is disappointing -- there goes my first book. While using the Google Machine to find something Tom Hicks-related this evening, I came across this: a review published two days ago in The Independent of a book called An Epic Swindle: 44 Months With a Pair of Cowboys, which i ... More >>

Maybe Tom Hicks Was Right?

​On Wednesday we noticed Tom Hicks's UK attorney was back in court, trying to convince the judge to lift the order keeping him (and his former Liverpool FC partner George Gillett) from suing over the soccer club's £300m sale to New England Sports Ventures back in October. Hicks, you'll recall, br ... More >>

Ex-Canadian PM Brian Mulroney Says His Pal Tom Hicks Is "A Man of Principle and Honour"

​Tom Hicks is friends with Brian Mulroney, who served as Canadian prime minister from September 1984 to June 1993 -- and was, at one time, a senior counselor to Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst. Anyway. In the you-gotta-pay-to-read-it UK Times today, Mulroney op-eds about Liverpool fans' vilification ... More >>

Live from the George Allen Courts Building in Beautiful Downtown, the Liverpool FC Hearing

Left: Rob Ashfield, a native-born Englishman with season tickets to the LFC. At right: Tony Godfrey of Burleson.​Or perhaps not.When last we left this saga we were told that 'round about 8 a.m. this morning, 160th District Court Judge Jim Jordan would rule on that temporary restraining order Tom H ... More >>

As Liverpool FC Sale Moves Back to English Court, a Motion for Contempt Filed in Dallas

George Gillett and Tom Hicks​Following 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 ... More >>

Rangers Win! Hicks Loses!

TexasRangers.com​As 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 k ... More >>

Tom Hicks Files Suit Over Liverpool FC Sale -- and Finds Judge in Dallas to Stop It! For Now.

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 ... More >>

Tom Hicks Loses Round One In UK Legal Battle

Dallas Cowboy by Kit Nelson​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 over ... More >>

Wherein Ian McCulloch, That Guy from Snatch And an Angry Mob of Liverpool FC Supporters Offer Some Not-So-Kind Words to Tom Hicks

Well, there's no Shaft of Austin Powers or James Bond after all. But filmmaker Mike Jefferies has, as promised, just posted to the YouTube his short film Dear Mr Hicks, aimed at you-know-who over you-know-what. There are some familiar faces mixed in there, not that that's important. But for some rea ... More >>

Samuel L. Jackson To Go After Tom Hicks (?), While Fred Willard Tackles Tony Romo

​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 sa ... More >>

Seeing Stars, Seeing Red: The Tom Hicks Tee!

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 teev ... More >>

Liverpool Fans' Hatred of Tom Hicks Makes Page One of The Wall Street Journal

The picture of Tom Hicks Jr. and his old man that spurred this morning's front-page story in The Wall Street Journal.​That Reds fans loathe Tom Hicks -- and have almost from the moment he bought Liverpool FC in August 2007, then began making promises he couldn't afford to keep -- is certainly no s ... More >>

Today in Tom Hicks: Would-Be Stars Buyer Backs Out, Liverpool Board Poo-Poohs Refi

Kit Nelson​I just left a message on Bill Gallacher's voice mail at his Calgary HQ to see if ESPN's correct in saying he's no longer interested in buying Your Dallas Stars. No reason to doubt Big Richard Durrett and ESPN's Pierre LeBrun, or other reports outta Canada. Just curious, that's all. Beca ... More >>

Tom Hicks Gets a Whole Chapter in Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love

Dallas Cowboy by Kit Nelson​Based on Friend of Unfair Park PeterK's morning e-mail, I tracked down a copy of Dave Zirin's Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love. Peter hadn't seen the book but wondered whether Tom Hicks makes a cameo. It's much more than that: Chapter 15 is titled "' ... More >>

News & Notes With Tom Hicks, Mark Cuban, Luke Wilson and The Wyly Bros' Broker

Kit NelsonOne of Liverpool FC supporters' myriad posters advertising their disgust with Tom Hicks's asking price for the club​Some start-o-the-week news and notes while I roll a few fat blunts in preparation for this afternoon's Public Safety Committee meeting ...Remember when Tom Hicks said, why, ... More >>

Liverpool FC, Like Your Texas Rangers, Will Also Be Auctioned Off. That Should Be Fun.

Spirit of Shankly​Sam's back in a Fort Worth courtroom this morning, where Judge Michael Lynn's trying to decide just when to auction off Your Texas Rangers. Among those in attendance: Chuck Greenberg, Nolan Ryan and, for whatever reason, Rangers GM Jon Daniels and skipper Ron Washington, who, fro ... More >>

In Liverpool on July 4, Reds Supporters Are Declaring their Independence from Tom Hicks

Dallas Cowboy by Kit Nelson​Texas Rangers fans know, sooner or later, Tom Hicks will no longer own the club -- probably not before the trade deadline, not in time to get Cliff Lee, but some day. Soon. Ish. And besides, for now, there's an 11-game win streak to cushion the blow; even better when it ... More >>

Don't Mince Words, Liverpool FC Supporters. How Do You Really Feel About Tom Hicks?

​We've run this picture of Tom Hicks, oh, a million times in recent years; so have plenty of others -- it's iconic. So much so that I just saw it again on the UK Telegraph's Web site moments ago. Only this time, it was affixed to an American flag being set on fire by Liverpool FC fans outraged at ... More >>

Sure. It's a Liverpool FC Thing. But There's Something About How Hicks Holds a Bat ...

Dallas Cowboy by Kit Nelson​Yesterday -- which is to say, shortly before The Dallas Morning News ran this press release fromprofile of Tom Hicks -- a Friend of Unfair Park directed our attention to the Facebook page Liverpool FC Is Being Bled Dry - You Can Do Something About It. There I found, ... More >>

You Say Goodbye, And I Say Hello: Tom Hicks Is Finally Getting Out of Liverpool.

​Significant dates in Liverpool break-up history:April 17, 1970: Paul McCartney releases first solo album in the United Kingdom. It is accompanied by a self-interview, in which McCartney acknowledges, after much speculation, that the Beatles have broken up. He attributes his departure from the ban ... More >>

Before Hicks Looks For Liverpool Buyer, AP Says He Already Missed One Shot

​The U.K. papers say that today's the day Tom Hicks and Liverpool FC co-owner George Gillett will announce that, yes, they've asked hired Barclays Capital to find a buyer for their soccer team -- that's been the story ever since Sunday. And as we noted only yesterday, the Royal Bank of Scotland, t ... More >>

Jerry Jones Would Like Liverpudlians to Cut His Pal Tom Hicks Some Slack

Patrick Michels​In advance of the big fight at Cowboys Stadium this weekend, Jerry Jones spoke to, of all places, the UK Telegraph about a great many things -- such as his inspiration for the Enormodome ("I visited Wembley three times while it was being built") and how he'd never, ever, ever buy a ... More >>

Snow Angels: Everywhere Tom Hicks Looks, He Finds a Billionaire Willing to Bail Him Out

​So, Mark Cuban's interested in biting off a piece of that Dallas Stars Popsicle -- not the whole thing, mind you, just a taste. So he told Randy Galloway yesterday: "I have talked to somebody who is interested in buying the team, and I told them I would try to help them get a deal done." Makes go ... More >>

U.K. Papers Full of Reports That Tom Hicks Might Have to Sell Liverpool FC By Summer

George Gillett and Tom Hicks​Word out of Major League Baseball HQ is that yesterday's meeting among the creditors concerned about Tom Hicks's deal to sell the Texas Rangers to Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan yielded little of note. In short: "no deal killer," says here, which means the $530-$570 mi ... More >>

Canned Hunt: City Of Ate's Scavenger Type Thing

​This week, points for the first to locate the following:A restaurant with real "reality television" connections."Cheaters doesn't count. Sound too easy? Probably is, but no one has found last week's scavenger item, so...We're keeping last week's on the board, too:A restaurant or bar with a blue D ... More >>

Texas Rangers Pitch In to Help Cedar Hill High, While Tom Hicks Jr. Apologizes (Again)

​Let's start this item with some kind words for (for now) Tom Hicks Sr.'s baseball club, which, at 12:30 p.m. today will help out Cedar Hill High School, where students returned from the winter break to find the baseball team's field house ransacked and more or less destroyed by vandals. Texas Ran ... More >>

You Kiss Your Father With That Mouth, Tom Hicks Jr.? Ah, More Anarchy in the U.K.

Tom Hicks Jr.​Earlier this evening, Paul Gardner -- Spirit of Shankly Regeneration Liaison Officer and rabid Liverpool FC fan -- sent word: Tom Hicks Jr.'s got a potty mouth. Which is no big deal, sure, except Hicks is vice president of Hicks Sports Group and a director of Liverpool FC, the soccer ... More >>

At This Point, It's Almost Like Tom Hicks is the Bad Guy in a Really Good British Soccer Movie

This is Anfield, devoted to all things Liverpool FC, posted today a rather lengthy laundry list of all the things Tom Hicks has done wrong, far as Reds fans are concerned, since he bought the club with George Gillett more than two years ago. The sum-up -- headlined "Hicks & Gillett love the gree ... More >>

There's No Anarchy in the U.K. For Tom Hicks, Who's Not Defaulting on This Loan

George Gillett and Tom Hicks will keep their ball, for now.Never did get an official response from The LeMaster Group concerning last week's news that Tom Hicks and George Gillett's Liverpool FC lost a ton o' debt-service dough despite making a pile of cash at the turnstile. Oh, well -- the Guardian ... More >>

From the U.K., More Fiscal Woes for Tom Hicks as Liverpool FC Posts Enormous Loss

George Gillett and Tom Hicks may have to take their ball and go home.Soon enough, the breaking news of Tom Hicks's financial woes in England will make its way Stateside. Till then, these fresh headlines from the U.K.: "Liverpool owners Hicks and Gillett suffer £42m loss due to loans," says the Guar ... More >>

Amidst Accusations of "Financial Doping," Tom Hicks Not Ready to Sell Liverpool

Over the weekend, the rumors started mounting: Tom Hicks had approached Grandhi Mallikarjun Rao -- a builder of Indian infrastructure whose wealth ranks him among the world's wealthiest 200 -- about buying at least a piece of Liverpool FC. Folks close to the owner of the Texas Rangers and Dallas Sta ... More >>

10 Questions: Ian Green

A native of Liverpool, Green has been pulling pints...well, not quite pints...in local pubs for as long as any of us with shortened attentions spans can remember. Long a fixture at The Londoner in Addison, he moved to The Idle Rich in 2004.In his spare time he both plays soccer and watches, via sate ... More >>

After All the Fussin' Over Liverpool FC, Tom Hicks May Have to Sell

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Tom Hicks Jr. Now Understands the Phrase "Sins of the Father"

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Tom Hicks is Now a Global Billionaire Bozo

He's a vilified clown of an owner on two continents. Or at least he should be.

HKS and Tom Hicks Will Partner on a New Stadium for Liverpool FC

Kicks Against the Hicks

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Thousands Gather Today to Protest Tom Hicks -- In England, Alas.