Cliff Lee left. Zach Greinke never arrived. Neither Vladimir Guerrero nor Bengie Molina were invited back. But the biggest, most unlikely conundrum for your Texas Rangers this off-season: Michael Young is still here. That is, unless somebody misplaced the Claw or the Antlers, too? To say the least, this hasn’t…
10. Pitchers and catchers report today. Means backyard pool parties and bikinis can’t be far behind. 9. Whatever happens the first week of camp, it can’t be more shocking than a year ago when manager Ron Washington announced that he had snorted cocaine the previous season. 8. Last year’s motto: It’s Time!…
Last time we saw Roddy Beaubois, we didn’t see nearly enough. After a sporadic rookie season highlighted by a 40-point game against the Golden State Warriors last March, the cat-quick combo guard almost single-handedly rallied the Dallas Mavericks to a win in Game 6 of the NBA Western Conference first-round…
Add leading scorer Brad Richards to the Dallas Stars’ list of injuries that has dragged their NHL season from surprising to so-so. The scrappy Stars jumped to an impressive start, getting even skeptical hockey neophytes like myself to pay attention. But somewhat lost in the middle of Super Bowl XLV and the…
Forget missing out on Cliff Lee and Zach Greinke at the front end of the rotation, a huge factor in how the Texas Rangers will defend their American League championship will be who pitches and how they perform out of the back end of the bullpen. I think the Rangers have voluntarily…
Three weeks ago, we took a look at the trailer for You+Dallas’s five-part webdoc about Jared Williams, who was 14 on October 1, 2009, when the Pinkston freshman was paralyzed from the waist down in a varsity football game against North Dallas High. The series, as you may recall, is…
When one party wants out, relationships are difficult to salvage. For now, Michael Young wants a divorce and the Texas Rangers are desperately seeking a lawyer to foster the proceedings. But what if it can’t happen before next weekend and Young reports to Surprise, Arizona for spring training? This could…
Just found these over on Heritage Auction Galleries’ website — a collection of 7-Eleven-sold football cards of Hank Stram’s Dallas Texans, circa 1960. Says Heritage, which will put them up for sale in April, they’re “among the rarest regionally issued card collectibles known in an genre of the hobby.” For…
On Wednesday we noticed Tom Hicks’s UK attorney was back in court, trying to convince the judge to lift the order keeping him (and his former Liverpool FC partner George Gillett) from suing over the soccer club’s £300m sale to New England Sports Ventures back in October. Hicks, you’ll recall,…
While the Texas Rangers seem dead-set on trading franchise icon Michael Young, fears about Josh Hamilton leaving were subdued today when the team announced a two-year contract through 2012 with the American League MVP. The deal, worth $24 million, allows both sides to avoid heading to arbitration next week. This new…
On December 16, 1989 the Dallas Cowboys were — according to their head coach, Jimmy Johnson — a laughably weak team. After watching his offensive line and running backs fail to score four times from the 1-yard line late in an ugly 15-0 loss to the New York Giants in…
It’s not often I stay up late to watch a duel between J.J. Barea and Samuel Dalembert, but last night’s 102-100 victory by the Dallas Mavericks over the Sacramento Kings was special. It kicked off the Bob Ortegel-less era with a win. And was the Mavs’ 10th consecutive victory. To which…
Packers 31, Steelers 25, North Texas 0. This pains me to write because I know a lot of good people did a lot of great work in preparing for Super Bowl XLV coming to the metroplex. But as the thousands of visitors left our towns in the wake of last…
It’s been a whole two months since last we contemplated Tom Hicks’s threat to sue for $1.6 billion over the sale — pardon, “epic swindle” — of Liverpool FC to New England Sports Ventures way back in October. But right on schedule, Paul Girolami, a barrister repping Hicks and George…
I was flattered when the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee approached me late in 2009 to help construct and singularly author its prodigious Century in the Making project. What started with 250 of the greatest moments in Texas football history — high school, college and pro — was whittled,…
Coming: Roddy Beaubois. Going: Bob Ortegel. While the Dallas Mavericks got a familiar face back at practice yesterday via their athletic French guard, they also said goodbye to the only TV analyst we’ve heard over the last 23 years. Beaubois, who broke his foot in August and hasn’t played this season,…
On the other side you’ll find the 11-page complaint filed yesterday in Dallas federal court titled STEVE SIMMS and MIKE DOLABI, individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, vs. JERRAL “JERRY” WAYNE JONES, NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE, DALLAS COWBOYS FOOTBALL CLUB, LTD., JWJ CORPORATION, COWBOYS STADIUM, L.P., COWBOYS STADIUM…
He’s been the face of the franchise for a decade, the team spokesman who was left to explain a lot of horrible Texas Rangers baseball. He’s been a batting champ, an All-Star Game MVP and a Gold Glove fielder with a sparkling image. He’s moved from second to short to…
I covered the Dallas Mavericks in the early 1990s when they won 11 and 13 games in back-to-back seasons. It wasn’t fun. For anyone. In ’93 the Mav-wrecks lost 20 consecutive games, so I can imagine the despair these days with the Cleveland Cavaliers. In the wake of losing LeBron…
As workers cleaned up the aftermath of Super Bowl XLV at Cowboys Stadium across the street from Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, the Texas Rangers equipment truck headed out this afternoon to the team’s spring training facility in Surprise, Arizona. Shortly before Josh Hamilton and Darren Oliver unveiled a banner to…
No doubt you’re well aware of the snafus that threatened to turn the most-watch-anything-ever Super Bowl XLV into The Game That Made a 9-Year-Old Boy Cry when he and his father were among the 1,200 denied access to those temporary bleachers that weren’t. And maybe you noticed: After being everywhere…
At a record $3 million for 30 seconds, seemed like most of the Super Bowl XLV ads were cars and movies and Fox promos. As I watched a run-of-the-mill On The Border commercial, I had to wonder if those folks really see $3 million in increased chips ‘n hot sauce ‘n margaritas…
