I was at Texas Rangers’ spring training out in Surprise, Arizona the day they signed journeyman catcher Matt Treanor. Honestly, it registered a .5 on my 1-10 scale. The Rangers had their catchers of the future in Jarrod Saltalamacchia and Taylor Teagarden. Behind them, they had Max Ramirez. Surely Treanor…
With his broad shoulders squeezed in tightly next to Chuck Greenberg, Texas Rangers president Nolan Ryan looked like he’d rather be tossing cow pies at the side of a barn or chasing snow monkeys than sitting in Fort Worth federal bankruptcy court this morning. But that’s exactly were he was,…
The Boston Celtics have the lead. But the Los Angeles Lakers have the advantage. Right? Boston needs just win one – tonight in Game 6 or in a Game 7 Thursday night – to clinch its record 18th NBA Championship. They won’t get it. As I said before the series, Lakers…
Who’s the commissioner/savior/magician of the Big XII Conference, David Blaine? In a death-defying, last-second escape that would make the famed illusionist proud, Big XII commissioner Dan Beebe has somehow kept his league alive and, I think, well. Lured to stay put by the carrots of doubled TV revenues, Texas and Texas…
If you watched Sunday’s 7-2 win in Milwaukee, you’d think Texas Rangers pitcher Colby Lewis (two hits, including a key two-run single) is a better hitter than first baseman Justin Smoak (0-5 with five strikeouts). If you’ve been watching forever, you’re convinced it’s time to shove Michael Young into the organization’s all-time elite…
Actually, it’s more or less one key revelation — and we already had an idea what it was anyhow, which is: Houston’s Jim Crane offered more for the Texas Rangers than Chuck Greenberg. And, according to e-mails from Hicks Sports Group’s legal counsel and Major League Baseball made public in…
10. When the doors opened at 6 a.m. Saturday at Trinity Hall in Mockingbird Station, there were already 20 people lined up for a day of World Cup watching. We can rip soccer (and we will), but it’s hard to criticize its fans’ passion. 9. In a sport where you…
Apparently, one successful season a rebirth makes, as SMU sends word today that Gerald J. Ford Stadium’s about to get quite the upgrade with the installation of a new video scoreboard designed and manufactured by South Dakota-based Daktronics — the very same company responsible for that towering hi-def monolith installed…
Been meaning to get to this for a couple of days, ever since the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee sent out its weekly newsletter that said, at the very top:TOM LANDRY SUPER BOWL HIGHWAY: On Tuesday, June 15 at 3:30 p.m., the Host Committee along with Alicia Landry…
Dallas Mavericks fans certainly salivate over LeBron James. Dirk Nowitzki wouldn’t mind having him as a running buddy. Mark Cuban’s already been fined for flirting with LeBron. And mayor Tom Leppert likely would appreciate the $2 billion economic impact that the most coveted free agent in the history of sports…
Yeah, it’s the world’s biggest sporting event. But we’re not in the world, we’re in Texas. Dallas, more precisely, where football is king, spring football is queen, basketball is a part-time curiousity, hockey is a memory, baseball is foreplay to more football and soccer is … Stupid? A game played by…
10. Josh Hamilton may never return to the 2008 form in which he already had 17 homers and 67 RBI through 59 games, but all the sudden he’s a pretty dang good hitter. The drop to fifth in the order and the loss of the toe-tap timing mechanism have done wonders…
Never experienced a flash mob. But if it’ll help the Mavericks lure LeBron James to Dallas, I’m down. James, the 25-year-old superstar and arguably the planet’s best basketball player, will on July 1 become the most coveted free agent in the history of sports. Free to sign with any team—the…
Five months before their first dribble up in Frisco, the Texas Legends have already sold 13,000 tickets. Not bad for an NBA Development League franchise that doesn’t yet have any players and just a month ago unveiled a logo. “We have had an absolute blast and the response from our…
Good news: Your Dallas Cowboys will play in Super Bowl XLV right here in our back yard, Feb. 6, 2011 in Arlington. Bad news: They’ll lose to the New York Jets and – giggle – quarterback Mark Sanchez. So sayeth The Sporting News in its 2010 Pro Football Yearbook, which…
Since 1994 we’ve enjoyed the Big 12 Conference. Offices based here. Alumni living here. Championship games played here. Savor it. Because, perhaps as early as Friday, it begins to crumble. With the Big 12 having slapped a Friday deadline on Nebraska to essentially commit or quit, news comes from Omaha this…
In its Tom Hicks puff piece a couple of Sundays ago, The Dallas Morning News noted that Hicks expects to lose, oh, maybe a “couple hundred million” on the sales of the Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars. But no worries: Hicks told the paper he’d make up those losses when…
While UT-Arlington outfielder Michael Choice was the 10th overall pick in Monday’s Major League Baseball Draft, your Texas Rangers went with a two-pronged philosophy: 1. Players who had character. 2. Players that were cheap. Not necessarily in that order. The Rangers, mired in unprecedented bankruptcy proceedings, drafted Georgia high-schooler Jake Skole…
Tony Romo failed Monday in his bid to qualify for golf’s U.S. Open. But he succeeded as quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys. On December 28, 2008 after a 44-6 season-ending loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, Romo infamously shrugged during his post-game interview and said: “If this is the worst thing…
Tommy Hunter is a bulldog. A scrappy fighter of a pitcher who throws strikes and in his first start of the season hurled a complete game at the Tampa Bay Rays in Saturday’s sweltering heat. Rich Harden is a, well, I dunno honestly. I never seem to have the patience…
R.I.P, Big 12? Certainly looks so, as the Pac 10 over the weekend empowered commissioner Larry Scott to proceed with plans for expansion. In other words, let the raiding of the Big 12 Conference commence. Last week, news surfaced of the Pac 10’s plans, which center on adding Texas, Texas…
I’m sitting here doing what I do every Saturday — catching up on my Texas Rangers bankruptcy docs — when I notice this buried in a hearing order filed by the court at week’s end: “Copies of the Prepackaged Plan and Disclosure Statement, as well as any other document that…
