Texas Rangers v. Tampa Bay Rays: An ALDS Preview

Be careful what you ask for. For the most part, seems like baseball fans in our parts feared the New York Yankees. Household names like Jeter and A-Rod and Pettite and Rivera and the 27 World Series have a way of intimidating opponents. Oh yeah, and the 1-9 playoff history…

OU 28, Texas 20: My Top 10 Observations

10. Pretty sure the Sooners and Longhorns are just mediocre football teams. But I’m certain Texas was absolutely gutted — in emotion and field-position — by nine penalties. 9. The Longhorns will lose Oct. 16 at Nebraska, giving Texas three consecutive losses for the first time since 1999. Seems like we’re…

Rangers v. Rays: Josh Hamilton is Healthy, Hitting

The 90 wins (just the fourth 90-win season in the franchise’s 39-year history). The nine-game win in the American League West (largest ever). The claw. The antlers. The playoffs. The excitement. Let’s face it, without Josh Hamilton in the post-season it would all amount to tantalizing foreplay with no payoff. Seeing…

Texas Rangers Fans: Let’s Go Yankees! Clap … Clap … ClapClapClap!!

I’ve seen Mavericks’ forward Popeye Jones inadvertently tip a jump ball into his own basket, giving the Cleveland Cavaliers two points. I’ve seen Cowboys’ defensive lineman Leon Lett inexplicably attempt to recover a blocked field goal on an icy Thanksgiving field at Texas Stadium, handing the Miami Dolphins a victory…

Before Texas-OU, a Look Back at SMU-TCU

Late last week the folks, season-ticket holders at Gerald J. Ford Stadium, had an offer: two ducats to SMU-TCU, which, sadly, I had to decline. Still, I watched and cheered and drank and cheered — Dad’s a grad, after all. Besides, I knew a certain Friend of Unfair Park was…

2010 NFL Quarterback Rankings: Week 3

Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback ratings. Wins and losses? Definitely. Leadership? Uh-huh. When it comes to my weekly NFL Quarterback Rankings – if I had one of those little encircled R’s to signify a trademarked idea, it’d go here – the…

It Cost Dez Bryant HOW MUCH Not To Be Roy Williams’ Bitch?

When he defiantly refused to carry veteran receiver Roy Williams’ shoulder pads after a training- camp practice in San Antonio, Dallas Cowboys’ rookie Dez Bryant got lots of support. “Hazing is wrong!” some said. “He’s a football player, not an equipment manager,” others offered. “Dez is a man. He ain’t nobody’s…

Should Josh Hamilton Have Celebrated With His Rangers’ Teammates?

I appreciate Josh Hamilton. Admire him. Think he should be this year’s American League MVP. Really I do. But I would feel even better about him had he participated in last Saturday’s locker-room celebration in Oakland with his alcohol-drenched Rangers’ teammates. It’s great news that yesterday Josh – who hasn’t…

The Top 5 Best Games in the History of Texas-OU

Here’s hoping that Saturday’s Texas-OU game at the Cotton Bowl is better than last year’s yawny 16-13 Longhorns’ victory. The memorable 45-35 game in 2008 was a little more like it. Still, with pedestrian quarterbacks Garrett Gilbert and Landry Jones and what I think are two mediocre defenses, I’d be shocked if…

Seeing Stars, Seeing Red: The Tom Hicks Tee!

Tom Hicks, this shirt’s referring to you.​For those wondering why’s it taking so damned long for Tom Hicks to part with the Dallas Stars, Mike Heika has the answer: The lenders are in control now (wuh-oh). That, coupled with Chuck Greenberg’s landing a something-point-something billion-dollar teevee deal, ain’t helping. (If…

You Are Now Free to Believe in Doug

Watched some Packers-Bears on Monday Night Football last night and it hit me how good Cowboys’ left tackle Doug Free has been this season. How’s that you ask? Bears’ defensive lineman Julius Peppers was all over the field in Chicago’s 20-17 win. (By the way, when their opponents have the…

Oh Yeah, About Your Dallas Mavericks

The Rangers are back in the playoffs. The Cowboys are back in the race. And look now, but the Dallas Mavericks are back in training camp. Yes, already. Just five months after they walked off the court in the wake of another disappointing first-round playoff loss (this one to the San…

The Texas Rangers’ Magic Number: ZERO!!!

Usually by the time we start feeling fall, your Texas Rangers have long since raised the white flag. But I’ll be damned, tonight in Arlington they’re going to raise a championship banner. Cue Prince, it is indeed time to party like it’s 1999. When Nelson Cruz nabbed a lazy fly ball…

Cowboys 27, Texans 13: My Top 10 Observations

10. Oh ye of little faith. If you listened to me or read me last week I toldja this was coming. Negate some penalties, some missed field goals and some turnovers – tweak things – and the Cowboys would be fine. Way I remember it, I called for more Dez…