The picture of Tom Hicks Jr. and his old man that spurred this morning’s front-page story in The Wall Street Journal.That Reds fans loathe Tom Hicks — and have almost from the moment he bought Liverpool FC in August 2007, then began making promises he couldn’t afford to keep –…
While we ignore crapola like this from north of the big border bloggers – Jimmy Johnson to return to coach the Cowboys? Really?! – let’s construct a blueprint toward something much more realistic: Making the Dallas Cowboys a better football team. We know they are talented. But in their first two…
This isn’t going to be a popular theory. In this knee-jerk, dog-pile news cycle, it’s chic and easy and lazy to call the Dallas Cowboys overrated. To label them underachievers. To say they are perpetually hyped yet eternally flawed. To pronounce them—at only 0-2—dead before Big Tex’s first “Howdy, folks.”…
Kit NelsonI just left a message on Bill Gallacher’s voice mail at his Calgary HQ to see if ESPN’s correct in saying he’s no longer interested in buying Your Dallas Stars. No reason to doubt Big Richard Durrett and ESPN’s Pierre LeBrun, or other reports outta Canada. Just curious, that’s…
After Sunday’s Worst Loss Ever (this week, anyhow), Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones hopped up to NYC to take in Yankees-Rays. Upon his departure from Yankee Stadium, Jerruh was accosted by a few fans in search of a signature, which he was only too happy to provide…
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…
Hey you. Over there. Yeah, you. The chick with the hair and the lips and the things and the big, bodacious, bountiful booty. What if you could get into an NFL locker room with your brains instead of your beauty? Interested? If so, no better place to start than Football 101 and…
Rangers lose. A’s win. Rangers win. A’s lose. Magic number this and first-round playoff match-up that. It’s all about as meaningless as David Buehler’s too-little-too-late 47-yard field goal if the Texas Rangers have to play October baseball without Josh Hamilton. Right? Hamilton is the Rangers’ best player. He’s having a Mickey…
Heritage Auction GalleriesFrom time to time I kill some time perusing the Heritage Auction Galleries website — maybe we’ll find more gems like these photos. And, sure enough, this morning I stumbled across this soon-to-go-on-the-block keeper: a photo of the Dallas Lightweights taken by one G. Bannon in 1901.This much…
Call me crazier than bat guano, but I actually think the Dallas Cowboys will be fine … fine … fine … fine … fine … fine. Damn, all the sudden it’s lonely in here. At 0-2 and an underdog on the road this week in Houston against the undefeated Texans, things…
The thing that people like me — people who hate running — say about running is that they don’t do it unless they’re being chased. But I’m not even sure that being chased is an especially good reason to run. If you can’t outwit a dinosaur, thief or zombie using…
We’re at a rare, almost unprecedented and admittedly awkward spot in Texas Rangers’ history. The Rangers will win the American League West, but they’re still so far away with so much time left in the season that it makes for – honestly – some uninteresting and practically meaningless baseball here in mid-September…
In the past few hours, stories from the U.K. began surfacing: Tom Hicks isn’t leaving Liverpool after all, but has instead asked a Blackstone Group subsidiary to help him refinance his debt. Which suggested to some that Hicks’s has no intention of getting Yanks-out after — hence this weekend’s planned…
10. If I told you that Team A had edges over Team B in yards (410-308), plays (71-49) and time of possession (33:40-26:20) while holding its opponent to 1 of 11 on third downs and producing a special teams touchdown, you’d probably say that Team A had a 90-percent chance of winning that…
Kit NelsonA week ago today we told you that the Royal Bank of Scotland has given Tom Hicks till October 6 to find a buyer for Liverpool FC, or else it’s taking over. Hicks and George Gillett owe the bank £237 million. Hicks and Gillett want £800 million for the…
Hard to be persnickety about a defense that didn’t allow a touchdown in the season opener, but at some point the Dallas Cowboys’ pressure has to translate into points. Right? Continuing a troubling trend from 2009, the Cowboys harassed Washington quarterback Donovan McNabb and generally suffocated the the Redskins last…
It’s common sense that Ian Kinsler should not have been suspended. It’s also becoming pretty clear that he’s vital to the Texas Rangers’ post-season success. Loved me some Andres Blanco. He filled in with OK defense, scrappy base-running and even some pop in his bat. But in Wednesday night’s 11-7 win over the…
Once upon a time at a Valley Ranch far, far away, Jimmy Johnson drove his black Nissan 300Z into the parking lot and hurried into the building. He’d summoned a snotty-nosed, smart-ass reporter to his office, and I sat nervously in the foyer. After reading aloud my story in that day’s Fort…
When he bought a large chunk of land in Ennis back in the mid-1980s, Billy Meyer had a vision. He’d build the world’s fastest strip of concrete and let the United States government do the rest. But long after the over-hyped, under-producing Superconducting Super Collider went kaput in nearby Waxahachie,…
“It’s Time”, meet “It’s Over.” With an 11-4 thumping of the Detroit Tigers last night – combined with the Oakland A’s loss in Kansas City – the Texas Rangers won their first American League West division championship since 1999. I know the magic number is 10 and there are still…
If you want to go to Sunday’s Dallas Cowboys’ home opener against the Chicago Bears, good news: Over at StubHub there are more than 2,000 tickets available. And, get this, they are cheaper than 2009. The current average ticket price is $209, actually down from last year’s $222. Party passes are…
Like the BCS, style points count. So do geeky, black-and-white stats such as touchdowns and quarterback rating. 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…
