Tom Hicks

Was Tom Hicks in England "Trying to Push Through a Deal" to Exit Liverpool?

​Directly below you'll find an interview with Mike Modano, who, for now, plays for one of the teams Tom Hicks owns, for now. But what about the other two? Like, oh ... let's say Liverpool FC. There appears to some breaking news on that front courtesy the U.K. Telegraph, which is reporting that Hic ... More >>

U.K. Reports Say Hicks Passed on Taking Money, Giving Up Control in Liverpool

​It's been three weeks since New York-based Rhone Group offered to take 40 percent Liverppool FC off Tom Hicks's hands for a lousy £100-million investment, which would have been enough to satisfy the Royal Bank of Scotland's demand for a pay-down on that huge hunk o' debt. Which means the 20-day ... More >>

News & Notes: Don't Waste Water, But Do Build a Better Block. And, More Than You Needed 2 Know 'Bout Palin4Life.

A few odds and sods on this Census Day:The fine folks at Bike Friendly Oak Cliff have posted a video follow-up to our post about plans to build The Better Block at the intersection of N. Tyler and W. 7th Streets on April 10 and 11. That's it up top, and it's rather self-explanatory ...So too is the ... More >>

U.K. Reports: Hicks Rejecting Offer for Liverpool, Bank Threatens to Repo Club

George Gillett and Tom Hicks​Word out of the U.K. has Tom Hicks refusing Rhone Group's offer of a £100 million for a majority piece of Liverpool FC, the exact amount he and George Gillett owe the Royal Bank of Scotland come July. I've asked Hicks's local spokesperson, Lisa LeMaster, wot the wot, ... More >>

In Three Weeks' Time, Tom Hicks Might No Longer Control Liverpool FC

Spirit of Shankly​Well, this is quite the surprise: Turns out Tom Hicks may be out as majority co-owner of Liverpool FC before the deal's done to make Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan the keepers of Your Texas Rangers. Over the last few days, the story's been bending to the point of this morning's b ... More >>

The Texas Rangers, With A New Owner And A New Season, Prompt A New Emotion: Hope

The Hockey News Reports Tom Hicks Has Hired Investment Advisor to Sell Dallas Stars

​Tom Hicks has twice denied reports that he's selling the Dallas Stars -- in May of last year, when he first acknowledged that he was considering putting the Texas Rangers on the market, then again in October, when a report surfaced in the Globe and Main that lenders wanted him to offload the hock ... More >>

Tom Hicks Confirms: Yes, He's Considering Selling the Dallas Stars After All

​It took a while, but Lisa LeMaster just sent a statement addressing The Hockey News's report that Tom Hicks, fresh off closing a deal to sell the Texas Rangers, is also looking for someone to either invest in the team or take the Dallas Stars off his hands altogether. In short: The report was rig ... 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 >>

Lawsuits! For a Long-Dead Project, There Sure Is a Lot of Activity Surrounding Glorypark.

One of RTKL's conceptual renderings of Glorypark, which has been dead going on two years now​RTKL -- the architecture firm hired by Hicks Holdings, Steiner Associates and myriad other companies to develop the dead-since-'08 Glorypark development next to the Ballpark in Arlington -- just sued pre ... More >>

Did Tom Hicks Strike Out By Turning Down a Better Deal for the Texas Rangers?

​Perhaps I missed this elsewhere, but in the wake of Saturday night's announcement concerning Tom Hicks's having hammered out a deal with Pittsburgh attorney Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan -- otherwise known as the Rangers Baseball Express -- there's news that the deal's anything but done. It come ... More >>

All About the Rangers Baseball Express as Hicks, Greenberg and Ryan Hash Out Deal

​No need to ask Lisa LeMaster for any further comment this time around -- the press release below, just sent out by Texas Rangers spokesman John Blake, is all we're going to get about the consummation of the "complex business deal" that's one step closer to putting Tom Hicks's ball club in the mit ... More >>

Canned Hunt: City Of Ate's New Scavenger Type Thing

​Consider this new feature an extended scavenger hunt.You know how they work. Here's how we muck it up a bit: Each week we will select an item--something in a local restaurant or pub (or maybe in several restaurants and pubs). Locate it and write in with the correct details, you earn a point. Send ... More >>

Says One U.K. Sports Scribe, If Nothing Else Tommy Hicks Has Blown Owners' Cover

Tom Hicks Jr.​In the wake of Tom Hicks Jr.'s blow-me missive to one Liverpool FC fan, and Tommy's subsequent resignation from the club's board of directors, Friend of Unfair Park PeterK sends along this essay from the U.K. Independent that kinda, sorta applauds Junior for, if nothing else, speakin ... 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 >>

Thomas O. Hicks: In Memoriam

​With his decision to sell the Texas Rangers to Pittsburgh sports attorney Chuck Greenberg, long-time owner Tom Hicks will willingly, yet grudgingly step into the shadows of Metroplex baseball. But how will he be perceived? While Greenberg, 48, and his group seek approval from Major League Ba ... More >>

Christmas Comes Early For Tom Hicks

​Last night, Texas Rangers exec VP of communications John Blake sent the word since heard 'round the sports world: Tom Hicks has 30 days to get a deal done with Pittsburgh sports attorney Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan before asking MLB (and his myriad creditors) if it's OK, pretty please, to sell ... More >>

Liverpool FC Fans Boast a Sunday Protest Kept Tom Hicks From Attending Arsenal Match

​Randy Galloway, Evan Grant and I received an e-mail at 4:20 this morning from Spirit of Shankly organizer Paul Gardner, in which he writes that a fans' protest before Liverpool FC's Sunday-afternoon match against Arsenal kept the owners out of Anfield: "Tom Hicks was turned away a few hundred yar ... More >>

Sure, Tom Hicks Wants to Keep the Rangers, But Will MLB Let That Happen? Doubtful.

​There's at least one person reading Unfair Park this morning: the Friend who sends along this piece by longtime New York Times baseball columnist Murray Chass, who wrote on Wednesday that now way in hell should Tom Hicks be able to sell Your Texas Rangers to Tom Hicks. Writes Chass, Hicks is the ... More >>

"There's a Future There": Why Roger Staubach Wants a Piece of Your Texas Rangers

SPORTMag.us​Late yesterday Tom Hicks made it clear: He intends to keep majority ownership of the Texas Rangers, despite all that danged debt. Three would-be buyers have already traipsed through Arlington to meet with Jon Daniels and Nolan Ryan, more parties may join the fray before the deadline, b ... More >>

Dallas Stars Fans, um, I Got Some Bad News

​Tom Hicks reiterated yesterday that his hockey team - unlike his baseball team - isn't for sale. My condolences, Stars fans. Also last weekend Liverpool soccer fans marched in protest against Hicks before a game against rival Manchester United. I know Hicks is personally rich enough to put c ... More >>

Saudi Prince Might Want All of Liverpool FC. Not Sure How Tom Hicks Feels About That.

George Gillett and Tom Hicks, who may have to cut that ball in half​On Tuesday, Nolan Ryan and Jon Daniels said that, well, it is possible that Tom Hicks could maintain a majority interest in the Texas Rangers, despite his efforts to sell the club since April. But how, with all that debt here and ... More >>

What's Your Hicks Hiccup?

When did you write off Tom Hicks: Before, after or perhaps during this photo op?​Unless you consider the Dallas Stars' 1999 Stanley Cup a lifetime pardon, we've all got one. That is, that moment when Tom Hicks did/said something so outrageously inane that you WTF'd him onto your permament s ... More >>

Seeing Stars: Creditors Finally Wonder Why Tom Hicks Isn't Selling Off His Hockey Team

​Five months ago, Tom Hicks's Hicks Sports Group defaulted on a $525 million loan; at the same time, he acknowledged that, yes, he was looking for someone who might be interested in buying some of the Texas Rangers offa him for the right price. Then, at the end of May, Hicks said he was, in fact, ... More >>

Tom Hicks's Acquisitions Venture Tries One More Time to Acquire Something

​Tom Hicks has been all kinds of busy making deals; alas, none of 'em Rangers-related. Instead, it's his publicly traded investment company, Hicks Acquisitions, making news this week, as once more he tries to keep the venture from being delisted by the New York Stock Exchange, which threatened to ... 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 >>

BREAKING NEWS: David McDavid Interested in Texas Rangers

I've hinted at this name a couple of times in the wake of Tom Hicks defaulting on a loan, selling Mesquite Rodeo and generally looking for a bailout. But now let's blurt it out unequivocally: David McDavid is interested in buying controlling interest of the Texas Rangers. "I have ... More >>

Says Tom Hicks, Selling Majority Stake in the Texas Rangers Will Be "Difficult Issue for Us"

Rick Ericson at The LeMaster Group forwards along the latest in a short line of Official Tom Hicks Media Releases -- though, as you're no doubt aware, this is by far the most interesting one yet. Because as the owner of the Texas Rangers told Randy Galloway yesterday, yup, he's willing to sell his m ... More >>

Sports Economics Prof Says Your Dallas Stars "Could Be the Second Team in Chapter 11"

This morning, the Toronto Star finds an economics prof who specializes in moneyball tomes to speculate that Your Dallas Stars may well wind up in Chapter 11. Because, after all, it was but one month ago that Tom Hicks willingly defaulted on $525 million in loans related to the Texas Rangers and Star ... 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 >>

The Rangers Are Losing Games, but Not Tom Hicks. So Sorry.

I can think of where Tom Hicks wasted $65 million.Just when some of you - okay, and most of me - blamed the Texas Rangers' weekend sweep in Detroit on the lack of a certain rosy-hued sartorial splendor, we've got a new scapegoat. The Rangers wore red again last night. But they also hande ... More >>

WSJ Says Tom Hicks "Could Eventually" Lose Control of Texas Rangers, Dallas Stars

At some point, no doubt, we'll get an official statement. Till then, well, here's what the Wall Street Journal (subscription-only, sorry) has to add to the story of Tom Hicks's refusal to pay off Hicks Sports Group's debt:Creditors to Texas financier Tom Hicks's Hicks Sports Group have declared the ... More >>

Report: Hicks Sports Group Defaulted on $525 Mil in Rangers- and Stars-Related Loans

Only days before the beginning of baseball season, Tom Hicks is, apparently, already down a strike: Something called FINAlternatives, which serves up hedge fund and private equity news, reports this morning that Hicks Sports Group -- the holding company for all of Hicks's sports-related ventures, in ... More >>

Tom Hicks to Sell Liverpool FC. Or, Tom Hicks to Keep Liverpool FC.

Been a while since we've heard about Tom Hicks's adventures in Liverpool -- where he's headed this week, matter of fact, in advance of Liverpool FC's weekend's shoot-out with Chelsea. And depending upon which UK paper you read, the owner of Your Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars is either looking to ... More >>

Wintry Mix: The Quiz

I can almost understand the BCS, just about explain the NBA's defensive three seconds and sometimes even comprehend Tom Hicks' vision to make the Texas Rangers a winner. But I am totally and utterly clueless about what was falling on my driveway last night/this morning. Sleet? Freezing r ... More >>

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

Tom Hicks' Liverpool FC Partner Meets With Detractors, Who Still Want Duo to Shut Up and "Sell Up"

Really, Rangers Fans, Why Can't We Form a "Supporters' Union" Too?

The Cavern Club: Tom Hicks Needs Money for Liverpool FC, ASAP

Kicking a Dead Horse: Just Why's the City Council Trying to Save Reunion Arena, Anyway?

Tom Hicks Has $2 Million In Stars Tickets He'd Like to Give You

Tom Hicks' Delay in Arlington Has 'Em Up in Arms in Liverpool. Again.

Ron Washington for Manager of the Year

Tom Hicks is Forcing Austin's Beloved Ice Bats to Find "A New Cave"

Stars Win ... Yawn ... Stars Win!

U.K. Cops Warn Tom Hicks to Stay Outta Liverpool Tonight. Not Gonna Happen.

Tom Hicks Is Burning Liverpool Bridges Left and Right This Morning

Tom Hicks, Looking for Some Positive Press, Throws Another Log on the Fire