​I’ve had this feeling before. Oh, say, for example a couple of weeks ago before the 0-2 Dallas Cowboys played the Houston Texans. I thought it then and I believe it again: The Cowboys will win this week. In fact, the Cowboys will beat the New York Giants by 10+…

10. The better team didn’t win Wednesday at Yankee Stadium, but the more desperate team did. The Rangers are on a magical, unprecedented playoff roll, but asking them to be good enough – to be mature enough – to sweep the 95-win defending champions in New York was unrealistic. Those of…

I became a sportswriter because of the Texas Rangers. Well, them and my creative imagination, general obsession for sports and refined knack for exaggerating the details of a game so much so that it grew larger than life. Started something like this: In the summer of 1972 in Duncanville, there…

As expected, this thing is a blowout. Not even close. Think about it: The New Yankees entered the American League Championship Series with 41 AL pennants; the Texas Rangers 0. The Bronx Bombers play in Yankee Stadium; the Rangers in a ballpark once controlled by broke-ass bum Tom Hicks. The…

Pssst, I’m not supposed to talk about this. Like a no-no in the 7th inning, baseball’s unwritten etiquette says you’re not supposed to whisper a word about celebratory plans. Especially when you’re on the enemy’s fabled field. But, what the hell, this hasn’t happened in … forever: Here at Yankee Stadium…

10. And that, my friends, is why I wanted the New York Yankees. Between CC Sabathia and Mariano Rivera, this is a flawed pitching staff. Just ask the Rangers, who in this series have posted 5, 7, 8 and 10 runs in building a commanding 3-1 lead in the series…

I was prepared to be in awe. To be mesmerized. To shrink in the midst of baseball’s ghosts and glory. But, I gotta tell ya, new Yankee Stadium is just a ballpark. Can’t believe this place cost more to build than Cowboys Stadium. And can’t believe people actually pay for…

Hear ye, Hear ye: The National Football League is about to start fining players … for playing football. In another move away from its popular roots as America’s most entertaining and, yes, violent sport, the NFL is suddenly showing cowardice and promising to fine and/or suspend defensive players for what…

The Texas Rangers lead the ALCS over the New York Yankees, 2-1. In Monday night’s Game 3 they waltzed into fabled Yankee Stadium and laid an 8-0 whupping on the Bronx Bombers. The Rangers have dominated the series, out-scoring New York 20-8 with five of the Yankees’ runs coming in…

10. How dominant was Cliff Lee tonight? I sat in the right-field seats of Yankee Stadium in the middle innings and I swear fans were wildly cheering foul balls managed by Nick Swisher. Any contact was cause for applause. 9. And why did I venture out of the comfy, cozy…

10. Got my bag checked and my toothpaste confiscated at D/FW Airport. Do I look that guilty? 9. I’ll never get tired of flying into New York. That skyline is one of the best views on Earth. 8. Nothing more unnerving than the cab ride from LaGuardia Aiport into the city…

Hey look, now that the Texas Rangers did not in fact pull a 2006 NBA Finals el foldo, your Dallas Mavericks are baseball fans. Very cool. Here’s betting $1 that the Cowboys don’t find time to produce similar well-wishes…

10. Bad as this looks – and 1-4 is bad – the season isn’t over. I know history says they have a 95 percent chance of missing the playoffs, but no one in the NFC is worth a damn. A 10-win season and, yes, a division championship is still possible. And much…

Look at it this way, if Cliff Lee beats the Yankees here tonight in Game 3 of the ALCS they’ll have to beat the Texas Rangers in three consecutive games or else face him again in Game 7 at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington on Saturday. Advantage: Rangers? Of course to…

10. I’ve never seen a scarier, more intense 5-run baseball game in my life. With closer Neftali Feliz flying 98-mph fastballs all over the joint in the 9th, the tension felt as though it were 3-2 instead of 7-2. 9. I know Elvis Andrus gets credit for manufacturing a 1-0 lead…

10. Stupid mistakes at crucial times after dominating most of the game? Was I watching the Texas Rangers tonight or the Dallas Cowboys? 9. Great to see Josh Hamilton finally join the playoffs with a first-inning homer for an early 3-0 lead. Also great to see Big Tex lending his…

We’re about two hours from Pitch 1 of Game 1 of the American League Championship Series between the Texas Rangers and New York Yankees. I’m at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington where Nolan Ryan is talking to the national media, Josh Hamilton is taking batting practice and the glorious sun is shining…

Woe are the Dallas Cowboys. I still don’t think their season is kaput, but it doesn’t look good: *At 1-3, they’re firmly in the NFC East cellar. *Sunday they play at the Minnesota Vikings, an equally desperate 1-3 team. *You’d think the Cowboys would have the motivation factor, what with…

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…

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…