Going, Going … Yawn. How to Fix Baseball’s Broken All-Star Gala.

Not appearing tonight at baseball’s All-Star Game: Derek Jeter, Jose Reyes, Felix Hernandez, Justin Verlander, C.C. Sabathia, David Price and Albert Pujols.Injuries can’t be helped, but the mid-summer classic needs to be fixed. From last night’s boring home run derby to tonight’s exhibition, which will inexplicably determine home-field advantage in…

American Women: Fun to Watch Running Around in Soccer Shorts

You know what I think of women’s sports. Why watch them when you can see men run faster, jump higher or hit the ball longer? And you know what I think of soccer. A potentially entertaining game is ruined by archaic offsides rules, ridiculous fake injuries and the worst officiating of…

Triumph Over Tragedy: Rangers Roll Into All-Star Break

Thursday: The lowest point in the history of Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. Sunday: The high point of Texas’ baseball season. Was sitting at a blackjack table in Las Vegas when I looked up and saw Nolan Ryan in front of a microphone on TV. As the closed caption scrolled “Josh is…

The Tragic Accident at the Ballpark Last Night

ryan=”” reacts=”” to=”” fan=”” s=”” death=”” width=”560″ height=”420>At 10:02 last night, an email from the Texas Rangers arrived in the in-box bearing the subject heading “Statement From Texas Rangers CEO and President Nolan Ryan.” This is what it said: The adult male who during tonight’s game fell approximately 20 feet…

Are You Ready For Some (College) Football?!

In 65 days there will be football at Cowboys Stadium. And it will be before a sold-out crowd. NFL lockout be damned, LSU and Oregon will play in the Cowboys Classic Sept. 3. With 80,000 tickets already sold, standing-room only seats could go on sale as early as next week. Without the NFL,…

Is Josh Hamilton a 2011 All-Star?

Silver Boot secured? Check. First place in the AL West? Check. Representation in next month’s MLB All-Star Game? Che … Not so fast. While Ian Kinsler’s first two-homer game in almost two years lifted the Rangers over the Astros, 3-2, and gave them an intrastate five-peat, Texas may wind up with no starters…

Baseball Goes Bonkers: The Top 5 Championship Celebrations in Sports

Watched South Carolina win their second consecutive College World Series last night. Their celebration — gloves and hats flying in a giant infield dog pile — got me to thinking: Does baseball over-celebrate? Or, perhaps, do they do it just right? Think about the Mavs’ reaction after a 31-year wait to…

Ed-die’s Bet-ter … Clap-Clap-CLAPCLAPCLAP!

We’ve seen the Rangers in the World Series and the Mavs win the NBA Finals, and on Tuesday I was reminded just how great a Stanley Cup run can be when former Stars’ goalie Ed Belfour and current GM Joe Nieuwendyk were elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame. They’ll officially be inducted into…

Dirk Nowitzki Goes on Drinking Binges? You Don’t Say!

Still amazed that the Mavericks won the NBA championship. Still surprised they did it without a playoff point from Roddy Beaubois (who should be ready for 2011-12 training camp in October after another foot surgery). And I continue to be miffed at how little the sports world really knew about…

DeMarcus Ware the MVC: Most Valuable Cowboy

More than Tony Romo, Jason Witten and, yes, Mat McBriar, the most valuable Cowboy is DeMarcus Ware.Drafted 11th overall in ’05, the outside linebacker has led Dallas in sacks in all five of his seasons and is the only player in the NFL with at least 10 quarterback traps in…

Almost All My NBA Texas Exes Live in … Obscurity

Soon as the Mavericks “drafted” Texas shooting guard Jordan Hamilton, I received texts and tweets and a couple of phone calls from excited fans. Hamilton played for the Longhorns, so he must be good, right? W-R-O-N-G. Not sure if any school has more NBA busts than the one down south in Austin. Rick Barnes’…

Dirk Nowitzki’s Final Assist This Summer to … Michael Young

His Flamingo Fadeaway on the mound with a basketball was funny. And his cartoonish, exaggerated Max Patkin-like delivery was funnier. Dirk Nowitzki on Friday night was the best thing on a Rangers’ pitching mound in a while. Only thing better would’ve been if Michael Young’s leaping catch wouldn’t have saved Captain…

Texas Rangers and Josh Hamilton Are Fighting the Summer Blues

Alexi Ogando has suddenly produced three consecutive outings of five innings or less. Fourth outfielder David Murphy just went 1 of 9 to drop his average to .233. And the Rangers have lost 12 of their last 19 — including 3-3 on a homestand against the Astros and Mets — in…

The Top 5 Worst Draft Picks in the History of Your Dallas Mavericks

Determining the best Mavs’ pick of all-time is simple: Dirk Nowitzki. You know the story. In 1998 then-general manager Don Nelson took the giant German in a draft-day switcheroo with the Milwaukee Bucks for the late, not-so-great Robert “Tractor” Trayor. Just a week after their championship parade climaxed in the…

2011 NBA Draft: Meh.

Arizona forward Derrick Williams is a beast. He has 3-point shooting range, can score in the paint with either hand and has an NBA body that can bang and rebound on the low blocks. And that’s it. The rest of the 2011 NBA Draft class: Weak to questionable. Yes, even projected…