I wouldn’t have known it by watching two over-muscled and under-clothed men pummel each other senseless, in a cage no less, but mixed martial arts has rules. Surprising, too, that one of the rules is that you can’t have too much testosterone in your system. I learned these things from…
We love Josh Hamilton. For one, he’s a damn good baseball player who’s helped propel the Texas Rangers to its first two World Series. Plus, his backstory’s the stuff of Hollywood films. But we don’t love Hamilton as much as Hamilton loves Jesus and, to underscore that point, he’s releasing…
With the baseball season at the symbolic halfway point, we asked former Unfair Parker Sam Merten to root around in his beard and see if he could come up with anything to say. He obliged … and obliged … and … Sports are unpredictable. That’s why we watch. And there’s…
I have a Google Alert set up for Mike Miles, e.g. DISD’s new superintendent, so that whenever his name is mentioned on the Interwebs, I get an email. The past couple of weeks, though, the inbox has been flooded not with news of the MarineArmy Ranger-turned-school reformer but with a…
The Texas Rangers just sent word: Broadcaster Dave Barnett, who rambled incoherently about henchmen and botched robberies during a recent game, is out of the booth for at least the rest of the season. He’ll be replaced by radio play-by-play man Steve Busby. Per a statement from Barnett: I want…
So the Mavs have a very legitimate shot at landing the NBA’s top free agent, current New Jersey Net Deron Williams. This is his hometown. His mother lives here. The entire city would go apeshit if he took his talents to Victory Park. That hasn’t yet definitively tipped the scales…
So. We stumbled on this photo on Tumblr a while ago and had to ask: “Hey Texas Rangers. Why are so many of you holding assault weapons?” Rangers spokesman John Blake sent word from the road a few moments ago: “Several of the Rangers visited the Navy Seals Training Facility…
Update at 3 p.m.: Rangers communications chief John Blake sends out the following update: San Diego, CA–Texas Rangers television play-by-play announcer Dave Barnett will miss the final two games of the team’s series in San Diego. He will undergo an evaluation over the next few days after experiencing on-air issues…
Seriously, NFL? First you ban the clothesline, then you move kickoffs to within field goal range, and now you’re handing out sanctions because people are trying too hard? Some background: The league’s collective bargaining agreement bans “contact work” in spring practices. Specifically, there’s no tackling, pass rushing, live blocking or…
Heading into Tuesday night’s 10-3 ass-kicking by the Seattle Mariners, the Rangers and their fans had very little to complain about the 2012 season. Name an offensive stat — batting average, runs scored, hits, home runs, total bases, on-base-plus-slugging percentage (my personal fave) — and the Rangers were better than…
Eric Dickerson, the Pro Football Hall of Fame running back and better half of SMU’s Pony Express, has joined the growing list of former NFL players suing the league for failing to protect athletes from permanent neurological damage stemming from brain trauma. Dickerson, along with 14 other players ranging in…
Update: We wussed out and used a random-number generator to choose a winner from the most creative responses. Your winner? Sarah: My boss is crazy. My husband is crazy. My home is regularly festooned with dog diarrhea. I recently broke my iPhone and my pinkie toe. Unrelated, I fell down…
The Texas Rangers just confirmed what everybody already knew: Eric Nadel is a bad ass.The team announced at a press conference this afternoon that the longtime radio broadcaster, the voice that has narrated, if not propelled, its climb into Major League Baseball’s upper ranks, is the 2012 inductee into the…
The brief but magisterial career of Josh Hamilton’s magic baseball bat came to a tragic end when the slugger cracked it during his final plate appearance against the Los Angeles Angels on Sunday.Hamilton used the bat to pound four home runs into the stands of Camden Yards in Baltimore during…
“The Josh Hamilton relapse: What does it mean?” one headline blared, after Hamilton got drunk at a Dallas bar earlier this year. “Hamilton’s slip could cost him millions,” another professed. And we all thought: Sure, that makes sense. A couple teams get scared off, demand drops, price drops. But there’s…
So by now you’ve probably seen or heard about 55-year-old Sharon Simmons, who tried out to be a Cowboys cheerleader. For some reason I hadn’t heard of her, probably because I’m a Redskins fan and have been sitting in my bedroom with candles lit and YouTube on, looking at videos…
Dear Kid Who Missed the Catch and Started Crying So Was Given Another Ball: Man up. The truth is, you never even had it. You weren’t even close. Your arms are too short, for one. For two, you’re in the twilight of your infancy. If you were honest with yourself,…
I woke up this morning on the hunt for video of Yu Darvish’s Arlington gem from last night, for those who may have missed it. The numbers don’t do it justice (although with 10 Ks in 8 1/3, the numbers are great). The guy just looked like an ace last…
While the Mavs stare bleakly into James Harden’s beard and the Cowboys kick tires ahead of Thursday’s draft, the local sports world takes a minute to look longingly in reverse today, over the long, remarkable career of Pudge Rodriguez, arguably the best catcher of all time. (And what is baseball…
Larry Brown has agreed to coach SMU’s Mustangs, ESPN reports. The 71-year-old coach was inducted into the basketball Hall of Fame in 2002 and has coached in college, the NBA and the Olympics, winning a bronze medal in the 2004 games. He’s coached pretty much every NBA team, and even…
God bless the ESPN video librarian who dug up all this footage. The sprinkler is cool, but the immediate throw-back is even better…
We asked Seattle-based sports blogger and A.L. West obsessive Brian Elsner to review Yu Darvish’s Major League debut from a division foe’s perspective. These are his thoughts. 1. Darvish Needs to Rely on All Those Other Pitches Everyone raves about the number of pitches Darvish can throw; I’ve heard that…
