Thursday afternoon, Major League Baseball reduced Rangers second baseman Rougned Odor’s suspension for clocking Blue Jays right fielder Jose Bautista right in his face from eight games to seven. With Odor’s appeal of his suspension dealt with, he’ll begin sitting out tonight against the Pirates and for much of the…
University of North Texas’ athletic director, Rick Villarreal, will leave the school June 20, ending 16 years on the job. Villarreal’s time in Denton, which is coming to a mutually agreed end, according to the director and the school, was marked by improved facilities, poor hiring, hemorrhaging cash and disastrous performances on…
The city of Arlington got played. So did the city of Dallas. Pretty much everyone involved, save Rangers’ owners Bob Simpson and Ray Davis, got used for the benefit of the club. That’s a win, if you care about winning baseball or have suffered on the third-base of Globe Life…
Heading into the 2016 season, the Rangers looked set to have one of the best bullpens in baseball. They returned closer Shawn Tolleson, who converted 35 of 37 save opportunities after being named the Rangers closer in May 2015, as well as Jake Diekman, Keone Kela and Sam Dyson, the…
Rangers second baseman Rougned Odor has been handed an eight-game suspension by Major League Baseball for landing a textbook right hook to Blue Jays right fielder Jose Bautista’s jaw. Odor will appeal and his suspension could be reduced, but he’ll miss at least a handful of games whenever a final…
If any organization in baseball is capable of leading Matt Bush by the hand into becoming a productive big league pitcher, it’s the Rangers. For the second time in the last eight years, the team has taken on a former first overall pick with a history of substance abuse and…
The Rangers nascent rivalry with the Toronto Blue Jays went full boil Sunday afternoon, when Texas second baseman Rougned Odor landed a clean right hook to Blue Jays right fielder Jose Bautista’s jaw during the top of the eighth inning of the rubber match of a three-game series. Following being…
Heading into 2016, the Texas Rangers had many question marks. Despite winning American League West in 2015, last season had been a little fluky. They’d outperformed their advanced metrics and wrung the most they’d could out of a team that was beset with injury and, consequentially, occasionally haphazardly assembled. As…
Last spring, Skip Bayless took NFL cornerback Darrelle Revis to task. Fresh off a win in the Super Bowl with the New England Patriots, Revis jumped ship and headed to the New York Jets for a $70 million contract that included $39 million in guaranteed money. Bayless was mad, as…
Blackie Sherrod, revered former sports columnist at the Dallas Times Herald and The Dallas Morning News died Thursday. He was 96. Sherrod, voted Texas Sportswriter of the Year a record 16 times, left the Times Herald in 1985 for the Morning News, building a loyal following through what he called his…
For the first time in eight years, the Dallas Stars won a playoff series, defeating the Minnesota Wild 5-4 on Sunday night in St. Paul to wrap up their best-of-seven series 4-2. On paper, the Western Conference leading Stars should have easily dispatched the Wild, who had lost five straight…
Jordan Spieth will be back. The Dallas-bred golfer has one multiple majors and recovered nicely after botching the end of the 2014 Masters, so it stands to reason he’ll recover from his complete and utter disaster in Augusta this year, blowing a five-stroke lead on the final nine holes. Spieth’s…
Hopefully, this won’t happen again for a long time. It would be nice if, following picking fourth and 34th in the 2016 NFL Draft, the Dallas Cowboys didn’t have two picks that high for the foreseeable future. If the teams’ front office — led, as ever, by Jerry Jones —…
The NFL Draft begins one month from today. As Roger Goodell announces the results of the first round on April 28, the Cowboys, assuming they won’t trade down, pick fourth. That’s the highest they’ve stood in the draft in more than 20 years, thanks to 2015’s abysmal 4-12 record. Considering…
Let’s put this out here: There is no better playoff season in the four major sports than the NHL’s Stanley Cup playoffs. For the next two months, the best of the league’s best will embark on a thrill ride of pain and emotion, of heartbreaking goals, mysterious injuries, and mind-blowing…
The Texas Rangers started 2015 as an abomination. That went 7-14 in April and appeared set to wander as haplessly through the season as they had in 2014. They ended the season as a revelation, reversing what, at the end of July, had been an eight-game American League West deficit…
Texas horse racing, if you believe the people most dependent on it, is now doomed to die a slow death. Thursday morning, the Texas Racing Commission, in a 5-4 vote, decided to take a rule allowing historical racing terminals at Texas horse tracks off the books. Historical racing terminals are…
Dallas and Houston have never officially met in the Super Bowl, but that doesn’t mean we can’t find a good way to pit them against each other ahead of Sunday night’s Super Bowl 50 bonanza. Both metro areas fancy themselves as the state’s No. 1 football hotbed, but which really…
Throughout his Cowboys career, Joseph Randle toed the line between lovable flake — think Mickey Rivers — and toxic malcontent — think Greg Hardy. When he said DeMarco Murray had “left meat on the bone” following Murray’s posting perhaps the best single season by a running back in Cowboys’ history,…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s decision was inevitable. Once state Representative Myra Crownover asked for the AG’s opinion on daily fantasy sports, the opinion could only really come down one obvious way. Paxton, in an opinion issued Monday, says that the games are considered gambling under Texas law. That means…
Sunday, we are sad to say, was the last day for the Dallas location of Sherlock’s Pub — the one located near NorthPark Center at the corner of U.S. 75 and Park Lane. In a statement, the restaurant group that owns Sherlock’s and its sister locations said that the bar…
For anyone still paying attention to the Dallas Cowboys as they closed out their season with a sad loss to the halfway-trying Washington Redskins on Sunday, the failure of this past season must seem like one of the most disappointing in franchise history. Sure, there have been times when the…
