We asked former Ticket board op and master nicknamer Michael “Grubes” Gruber to autopsy the Rangers so we can throw their cadaver into our winter fire and focus on football. Here’s his hot-but-not-tremendously-hot sports take: This was a weird season for your Texas Rangers. For all intents and purposes, they:…
Troy Aikman’s concussion in the third quarter of the 1994 NFC Championship game against the San Francisco 49ers is now just a footnote on the team’s march to a second consecutive Super Bowl victory, which itself gets lost in telling of the mid-’90s golden age of America’s Team. Aikman’s injury…
Some way, somehow, Mark Cuban managed to whittle down the 1,000-plus quality entries in his design-the-next-Mavs-uniform contest down to a final 10. For whatever reason, Buster the Armpit Lion didn’t make the cut. The submissions are currently up for a vote here. All of them are pretty quality, save for…
When TCU and SMU’s football teams face off this weekend in the battle for the coveted Iron Skillet, the Horned Frogs are expected to dominate. The three-touchdown spread falls a couple of touchdowns shy of an abject humiliation, but it at least represents a solid pounding. That’s not good enough…
Claudia Yamell Castillo may not come out atop North Texas’ (unofficial) Most Hated Person list for September. With a week to go, that Balch Springs teen who beat a puppy’s eye out with a tree branch has to be the current favorite. But Castillo is a strong contender for runner…
Plano East High School slaughtered Richardson’s Berkner Rams on Friday night in the completely metaphorical sense that its football team scored more points (34) than its rival (13). The night before, the slaughter was quite literal. Members of Berkner’s marching band arrived at the high school’s football field at around…
Hooter Boswell has been a bullfighter — a rodeo clown for the uninitiated — for more than 20 years, the past 15 of them on the circuit with the Big L Rodeo Company out of Oklahoma. In all that time, he’d managed to keep his face intact. Then came this…
Sports Illustrated is now on day two of its five-day rollout of its breathless investigation of the Oklahoma State University football program. Dez Bryant, the Dallas Cowboys’ wide receiver who played two seasons at OSU, was not mentioned in the first installment, which focuses on cash that boosters and coaches…
An hour before the kickoff of the Cowboys’ season at AT&T Stadium Sunday night, three American icons posed for a photo. If a weirder three-pack of American icons has ever posed for photo, we haven’t seen it. Weirder still is the placement of the Hulkster’s hand near Jerry’s crotch. We’re…
Deion Sanders, who has accused other NFL athletes of faking their head injuries for money, is cognitively impaired, four doctors have determined. Sanders has had no problem using his pedestal as a Hall of Famer and television analyst to talk shit about other former NFL players suffering brain damage. “The…
The Fort Worth Cats, Cowtown’s minor league baseball club, was supposed to make good on its debts on January 15, 2013. That’s at least what the team’s owner, former Congressman John Bryant, told us last December, explaining that the team was experiencing an acute but temporary cash shortage after the…
The soccer fields at the city’s $31.4 million Elm Fork Athletic Complex, at the western terminus of Walnut Hill Lane, are still several months from being put to use. City crews have been obsessively tending the sod this summer with an eye toward keeping it “in perfect condition” for next…
Unfair Park has no particular beef with Deion Sanders Jr. He, unlike his father, has never established a charter school and used it to get his own reality show, or tried to trick us into being a part of that reality show. He’s just your average SMU student who enjoys…
Earlier this week, the Houston Astros called up Max Stassi from the Double-A Corpus Christi Hooks. On Tuesday, he made his Major League Debut against the Rangers, going a solid 2-3. On Wednesday, he faced Rangers reliever Tanner Scheppers. Things did not go very well. On the SportsCenter replay, fast-forward…
“You look nervous,” is how Deion Sanders greets me, loudly, as we meet me for the first time. I am not nervous. “That’s just the way my face looks,” I respond. He says that I look fine but definitely nervous. I am confused. We are standing in a fancy indoor…
The NBA, like other professional sports leagues, is in the midst of a statistical and technological revolution. Advanced stats are helping teams better evaluate players and tweak in-game strategy while new gadgets emerge that better evaluate just about everything. Take SportVU, an advanced camera-tracking system recently purchased by 15 NBA…
Congratulations, Cowboys fans. When any rational human being would have long since turned away in disgust, you’ve stuck by your team, undaunted by nearly two decades of unrelenting mediocrity. Your patience has finally paid off — not with a Super Bowl victory, which is still probably too much to hope…
Alex Tanney completed more touchdown passes during his college career (157) than any quarterback in NCAA history, though you probably wouldn’t know it. Tanney spent his time as an undergrad in the obscurity of Division III, leading the Fighting Scots of Illinois’ tiny Monmouth College. Tanney is way more famous…
The Ticket is and has long been the undisputed king of Dallas sports radio, consistently owning its two main competitors, ESPN 103.3 and 105.3 the Fan. But The Ticket’s ownership of the local market has always been figurative, in the sense that it consistently gets two or three times as…
Fact: Mormons will stop at nothing to convert you, hence the young men dressed for a business meeting you occasionally see riding their bicycles through Dallas’ triple-digit summer heat. Everyone knows about that. Less famous is the basketball-hustler strategy documented in the video above, which has been making its way…
Already this summer, we’ve been fed a steady diet of Johnny Manziel-related news and speculation. Was the Texas A&M phenom kicked out of the Manning Passing Academy because he was hungover, or was he just sleepy? Does he really have a Texas Longhorns tattoo? If so, did he think that…
It’s been more than six months since our sister paper in Miami broke the news that Rangers slugger Nelson Cruz, who was listed in patient logs as “Mohamad,” was a customer of Biogenesis, a shady South Florida steroid clinic. Major League Baseball finally brought down the hammer today, suspending Cruz…
