Some ignoamus loyal reader on this here blog recently theorized that the Dallas Mavericks sans Dirk Nowitzki could still make the NBA Western Conference playoffs. It’s July 1, not April 1. Quit your kidding. Because the Mavs realize that Dirk is priority No. 1 this summer – and perhaps vice-versa…
Your Texas Rangers enter July with the best record in baseball. And a new starting catcher. While rookie pitcher Omar Beltre surrendered a homer to the first Major League hitter he faced and lasted only four innings, Vladimir Guerrero turned a game, a series – and perhaps a season – with…
When you awoke Thursday morning, something probably felt weird. It should’ve, because—barring a last-minute contract agreement—for the first time since the spring of 1998 Dirk Nowitzki isn’t a Dallas Maverick. After a 12-year career, the greatest player in the history of the franchise is a free agent. As of Wednesday…
For the first time in a long time, Darren Oliver sucked. For the first time since June 11, the Texas Rangers lost a road game. Not to panic, but a lot of things that have gone right lately for Texas went wrong in Tuesday night’s 6-5 loss to the Angels…
The Dallas Mavericks will re-sign Dirk Nowitzki. General manager Donnie Nelson is flying to Germany as we speak to make sure of it, with a plan to be on Dirk’s doorstep at 11:01 tonight when NBA free agency commences. But a couple of developments have me thinking that might be…
Still trying to wrap my tiny, admittedly perverted sports brain around the Dallas Stars without Mike Modano. Or, even weirder, Modano in another team’s sweater. He is now – and perhaps forever – undoubtedbly, undeniably, unequivocally the face of the franchise. Right? Unless, of course, you want that honor to go…
True story. I just got through watching the trailer for Twelve, starring Chace Crawford as a drug dealer (hey now), when an e-mail from Sharon Parker, Six Flags Over Texas’s publicist, arrived in the Unfair Park in-box. Headline: “Tony Romo Spends the Day at Six Flags Over Texas.” She sent…
The Texas Rangers lead the Anaheim Angels by 4.5 games. They also owe them a biiiiiiig thank you. Where would the Rangers be without former Angels Darren Oliver and Vladimir Guerrero? Tonight in California the Rangers try to validate their unprecedented hot start in a three-game series against the team…
Strangely successful season for your Rangers so far. In spring training manager Ron Washington admitted to using cocaine. Their catching tandem is Matt Treanor-Max Ramirez, instead of the planned Jarrod Saltalamacchia-Taylor Teagarden. Chris Davis is gone, and forgotten? Their elite closer (Neftali Feliz) was auditioned as a starter back in…
Will Mike Modano play hockey next season? Maybe. Will he play as a Dallas Star? Nope. It’s official, the Stars no longer want the long-time face of their franchise. As predicted, this is sad…
When I spoke with Mike Modano in April, he didn’t know what the future held — if he would be retiring following the season, if he’d move into ownership or if he’d come back and play one final season with the Stars or, God forbid, someone else. But he was…
The Dallas Cup will live on each Easter weekend as one of the world’s most prestigious youth tournaments. FC Dallas will anonymously toil away in Major League Soccer. And Starbucks-slurping soccer moms in their minivans will still dominate our roads and bogart our athletic field parking lots every weekend. But with…
A nod to old Dallas wrestler Fritz Von Erich? A psychological ploy by hitting coach Clint Hurdle? Fallout from last year’s swine flu? After seeing two more Texas Rangers smack extra-base hits last week and then make bizarre hand gestures — Ian Kinsler did a wide-arm double claw and Josh…
Since the day Michael Finley was released in 2005, your Dallas Mavericks have been searching. Looking for a consistent starting shooting guard who can create his own shot off the dribble, get to the free throw line and provide a viable alternative other than Dirk Nowitzki as a guy capable…
Well, well, well — the Texas Rangers Baseball Partners have filed a “revised” Chapter 11 plan, and Maury Brown, so far, seems to be the one guy who thinks this might could maybe be the redo that gets this sale over the hump. Or not. Which may not be the…
‘Round this time yesterday, Judge Michael Lynn all but postponed the Texas Rangers’ hopes of getting a sale done by the July 31 trade deadline by ordering most of the parties involved in the bankruptcy case into mediation on July 16. The one major party not invited to the dance…
Texas Rangers fans know, sooner or later, Tom Hicks will no longer own the club — probably not before the trade deadline, not in time to get Cliff Lee, but some day. Soon. Ish. And besides, for now, there’s an 11-game win streak to cushion the blow; even better when…
So, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Michael Lynn just — and I mean just — ordered mediation in the Texas Rangers’ Chapter 11 bankruptcy case. Which means …? Long story short: The sale of Your Texas Rangers won’t wrap in early July, which was the best-case scenario following Judge Lynn’s ruling earlier…
Of course Jerry Jones would never diddle with the most sacred star in sports, but you might be seeing a tweaked Dallas Cowboys’ uniform this season. Why? Hi-Definition TV, that’s why. For years and years and years me and my brother have wondered why the Cowboys’ home pants looked -…
Not expecting a lot from the Dallas Mavericks in tonight’s NBA Draft. They don’t have a first-round pick – Jason Kidd-for-Devin Harris ring a bell? – and own only the 50th overall selection, which, as we know, is about as valuable these days as mittens in Mesquite. The Mavericks haven’t hit…
Dan Beebe is David Blaine. With the boxed body of the Big 12 Conference seemingly sawed into pieces and displaced from coast to coast, the embattled commissioner of our state’s prestigious football fraternity last week dramatically, magically reassembled the body parts into a living, breathing, working whole. Presto! The result…
Tweak it. Or trash it. That’s the charge from the bankruptcy judge in the Texas Rangers’ proposed sale from Tom Hicks to Chuck Greenberg. When the judge decries that the Rangers have to modify their current plan – but not add more money to the deal – it seems like…
