Come for the offense. Stay for the fireworks. Leave when the pitching commences. The Texas Rangers’ offense is stunning. Josh Hamilton leads the planet in everything, will likely be an All-Star starter and is the American League’s first player to win consecutive Player of the Month awards to start a…
Terrell Owens is already an actor — far as you know. Now, you can add to that burgeoning list of potential future professions “stand-up comedian.” Because yesterday, round the time NFL commish Roger Goodell said he was partially lifting Adam “Pacman” Jones’ suspension and allowing him to practice with the…
Like our apologies, our popcorn is ready. Terrell Owens, gulp, team leader? Despite his flabbergasting drops and simmering potential for volatile locker-room destruction, T.O. has proven he deserves his new four-year, $34 million contract. And you know what else? He deserves our apologies. I’ll start with mine…
Sad that the proud ol’ joint is being saddled with Division II football. Seems every week we’re learning what $1.1 billion (with a B) will buy. A Super Bowl here. An NBA All-Star Game there. Throw in some classic college football rivalries and a Big 12 Conference Championship Game. But…
Among the group of baseball jerseys in my closet — behind Pudge’s and A-Rod’s Rangers ones — there’s an old, unworn Tampa Bay Devil Rays jersey with no name or number on it. When Tampa took Josh Hamilton with the No. 1 overall pick in 1999, I bought the jersey…
Is it just me, or does it feel like Mike Modano is about to take his Cup and go home? So, Stars fans, do you feel any better knowing that your team put up a better fight against the Detroit Red Wings in the West finals than the Pittsburgh Penguins…
Now the greatest kicker in all of Canada. We know kickers are a weird breed. Not in an immoral FLDS compound kinda way. But just a little off, ya know? Watch them in their natural habitat – isolated from real football – and you come away scratching your head as…
In other local sports-ticket news … One of my oldest friends is plenty pissed at the Dallas Cowboys — much like, oh, Terry Glenn, maybe? This morning, he discovered that after 37 years of sitting at the 50-yard line at Texas Stadium — where his family bought bonds in the…
This fascinating nugget’s been unearthed in an internal National Hockey League report on ticket revenues: Your Dallas Stars lead the league in ticket giveaways. Surprising, because Tom Hicks is a notorious cheapskate. And … not entirely surprising, because the owner likes to see a full house. Which is why his…
‘Scuse me, Avery. I believe that’s my chair. With TNT analyst Doug Collins apparently the Chicago Bulls’ choice and former Mavericks player Elston Turner jumping to the front of the line in the Phoenix Suns’ search, it’s looking more and more like Avery Johnson will have to slum it next…
Does part of you think we may never see this again? Me too. Terry Glenn needs a hug. And, as usual, Greg Ellis needs his blanky, his passy and, for good measure, a muzzle. One of the most discernable announcements of football season, Ellis is again unhappy with something or…
Madeja look. Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo is at it again. Ya know, being everywhere all the time right now. But this time, we’re going to have an awfully tough time working up some criticism. His latest “it guy” project isn’t jetting off to Cancun or jumping on stage or polluting…
It’d be easy to criticize the Dallas Cowboys for making Marion Barber the highest-paid running back in franchise history. The dude has started only one game in his three-year NFL career. He’s never rushed for 1,000 yards. And with a style as subtle as a taser, he’ll be susceptible to…
Kenneth Shropshire, director of the Wharton Sports Business Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania, has authored a second edition of his invaluable and utterly readable The Business of Sports Agents. The author of six books on sports and bidness today offers a sneak preview of the tome, which has been…
Last time we saw a Ranger on the cover gas was $1.20 and this guy was a high-school sophomore. You haven’t even made it to your afternoon smoke break and already the Rangers have again failed to summit Mount Mediocrity. For the fourth time in the last two weeks Texas…
Sam Merten’s most favoritist ball player in the history of leather and wood graces the cover of this week’s Sports Illustrated, and as beautiful as the cover is, Albert Chen’s story is even better. The title: “The Super Natural.” The lead: Josh Hamilton is at peace now, at peace even…
The beast that ate Dallas. Is it possible to up and move a river? Because if so, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones will slap a “wide load” banner on the Trinity River project and steer it toward Tarrant County any day now. And the JFK museum, and Deep Ellum and the…
Enough with the flirting. Dear Mr. Cuban, Please don’t do it. I know you love baseball and the spotlight and you have more money than Sri Lanka, but don’t buy the Chicago Cubs. I know you’re more than thinking about it. You want it. And I don’t blame you. It’s…
Those wondering which beer you’ll be guzzling at Jerry Jones’ new billion-dollar stadium in Arlington come the 2009-’10 season and way beyond, wonder no more: Courtesy The Landry Hat, we now know it’ll still be Miller Lite, blech. So says Street & Smith’s Sports Business Journal, which brings news of…
Dave Faries, best known ’round here as the man who used to answer the Burning Question, is now posted in Prague, where he’s writing for The Prague Post. Among his duties: covering the Prague Panthers, currently in contention for the EFAF Cup — top honors for European American Football clubs…
Okay, enough grab-ass. On our way back to the grindstone, a little catching up: *Tony and Jessica are apparently the happiest un-couple ever. *Pacman Jones worked out at SMU yesterday and will wear No. 21 as a Cowboy. I guess No. $20,000 was taken. *Former Stars’ architect Doug Armstrong is…
Here’s Bacsik’s trading card, stamped with the wrong signature. It can be yours for the historically low, low price of $2.95. Some nine months after Mike Bacsik pitched his way into the history books by dealing Barry Bonds home run No. 756, ESPN’s Gene Wojciechowski profiles the former KTCK-AM intern’s…
