Unlike the last couple of seasons, Monday’s Major League Baseball draft hit with the Texas Rangers still playing meaningful games. Headed into their Tuesday night series opener with the league-worst Baltimore Orioles, your hometown heroes are 30-27 and would make the playoffs as the American League’s second wild-card qualifier if…
Every spring in Dallas, one of two things happens: The Dallas Mavericks either play a couple of weeks of playoff basketball or lose the NBA Draft Lottery. No matter how bad the previous season or how good their odds are, the Mavericks never, ever move up so much as a…
As the crow flies, Dallas and St. Louis are separated by 547 miles. In this year’s Stanley Cup Playoffs, the distance between the Stars and the Blues was much closer. Through the first six games of their playoff series, each team had won three games. Each had scored sixteen goals…
When it happened Sunday afternoon, it was devastating. Up 3-2 in the series but trailing 2-1 on the scoreboard in the third period, the Stars were desperately pushing for an equalizer. The game seemed to be tilting their way, but the Stars had been unable to get a second puck…
For the Dallas Cowboys, the NFL draft went a lot like the rest of their offseason. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and the rest of the front office made eight picks on Friday and Saturday, buying a few lottery tickets, getting cute in spots and working around the edges of a…
Dallas Stars fans experienced a Stanley Cup playoff series victory on home ice for the first time in 11 years Monday night, as the Stars defeated the Nashville Predators 2-1 in overtime of Game 6 to win the series 4-2. Dallas joins a host of teams in this year’s Stanley…
The king is dead, so who’s next in line? That’s the question facing Dallas sports fans following Dirk Nowitzki’s pitch-perfect Mavericks denouement two weeks ago. Since dragging the Mavs to the franchise’s only championship in 2011, Nowitzki has been the undisputed face of professional sports in the city he’s called…
It’s been three years since the Dallas Stars found themselves in the NHL’s second season, the Stanley Cup playoffs. That 2016 team ended an eight-year drought by winning their first-round series, and excitement was high for the future. Right up until it wasn’t. The following season, the Stars missed…
In some ways, maybe Lubbock dodged a bullet. Things were, by all accounts, pretty subdued there Monday night after Texas Tech’s heartbreaking overtime loss to Virginia in the NCAA national championship game. That’s not to say that everyone took the loss with grace. Currently in Lubbock, Texas: Call out “Fuck…
Last week, a Denton County grand jury indicted former Dodgers, Rangers, Yankees and Montreal Expos pitcher John Wetteland on three counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child under the age of 14. Wetteland is accused of forcing a child to perform oral sex three times between 2004 and 2006 at…
Feel free to throw this back in our face when the Cowboys are picking through the scrap heap for offensive line or secondary cover after Week 3 of the 2019 season. But for now, on the day after the team traded for former Dolphins and Rams defensive end Robert Quinn,…
SURPRISE, Ariz. — Elvis … has been left to the rebuilding. Once upon a time, in what feels like some sort of perverted, parallel universe, the Texas Rangers’ shortstop was a joyful kid playing for a nearly champion. Today, on a sun-splashed March 1 at spring training, Elvis Andrus finds…
DeSoto’s Errol Spence Jr. is in a tough spot. Saturday night, the IBF welterweight champion of the world will take the long walk from one of AT&T Stadium’s locker rooms to the stadium’s 50-yard line before stepping into the ring for the biggest fight of his life. Spence is 24-0…
The news didn’t exactly come as a surprise, but it stung nonetheless. Slot receiver Cole Beasley is leaving the Dallas Cowboys for the Buffalo Bills. According to reports, Beasley’s new contract is for four years and $29 million, with $14.4 million guaranteed. In losing Beasley, 29, the Cowboys lost a…
Rangers general manager Jon Daniels seems to be trying to do two things at once. He’s trying to rebuild a major league roster and farm system that desperately need it, that’s his first priority, but he’s also trying to do so without completely ruining his team’s on-field product for four…
David Irving’s loss shouldn’t sting as bad as it does for the Cowboys. He played in just two games in 2018, registering a single sack and a paltry four tackles. Even before the NFL handed him an indefinite suspension Friday afternoon for violating the league’s substance-abuse policy — one of…
With six weeks still to go before the NFL Draft, the Cowboys have already filled one of their biggest offseason needs. Jason Witten, the teams longtime Pro Bowl tight end is coming back after one year in the ESPN’s Monday Night Football broadcast booth. “The fire inside of me to…
The NFL suspended Dallas Cowboys defensive end Randy Gregory indefinitely Tuesday afternoon. It’s the fourth time the 2015 draftee has been pinched by the league for violating its substance-abuse policy. Gregory has previously admitted to using marijuana to help cope with chronic anxiety. The Cowboys have been here before with…
When the Texas Rangers’ Double-A minor league affiliate threw its first pitch in Frisco 16 years ago, it was from the ground floor of an impending phenomenon. In its infancy, Stonebriar Centre offered vacant spaces and ample parking. The “$5 Billion Mile” was just a twinkle in some developer’s eye…
According to multiple reports, the Dallas Cowboys are moving on from one of their chief headaches, Terrance Williams, having decided not to pick up the wide receiver’s 2019 option. Williams will become an unrestricted free agent. The Cowboys drafted Williams out of Baylor in 2013, hoping he’d be the speedy,…
Monday, the 2019 Texas Rangers are going to take the field for their first full-squad workout in Arizona, kicking off the rituals that mark the return of spring, and baseball. At the end of the week, they’ll play their first spring training games and begin the process of figuring out…
You, my football-fiending friend, have just survived the toughest weekend of the year: the first with no NFL games of any kind, and the one that stands the longest from training camps in July and the 2019 season’s first weekend in September. The Mavericks aren’t going to make the playoffs,…
