While I was gone the Texas Rangers, well, um, let’s face it … they crumbled. Starters not making it past the fifth inning. Bullpen overworked. Bottom third of the order about as effective as BP’s oil spill plans G, H and I. Four consecutive losses. Division lead kaput. Not good…
Mark Taborn is 37. Lives in Los Angeles. Works in the corporate world. And is a hack of a golfer carrying a 23 handicap. Weird, because not a single day passes that he isn’t confused for Tiger Woods. I spent my blogless vacation doing some productive things: Jumping on the P90X…
This morning in the Sports Business Journal, Daniel Kaplan recounts the wild doings in the Fort Worth courtroom where, at the end of last week, the Texas Rangers, their creditors and Major League Baseball squared off in Round One of the Chapter 11 Showdown. Unless you were in the courtroom,…
Yesterday — which is to say, shortly before The Dallas Morning News ran this press release fromprofile of Tom Hicks — Friend of Unfair Park PeterK directed our attention to the Facebook page Liverpool FC Is Being Bled Dry – You Can Do Something About It. There I found, among…
Back in September, at Cowboys Stadium, the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee debut its educational outreach initiative called Service Learning Adventures in North Texas — or, SLANT 45 for short. Long story short, it’s what Daryl “Mooooooooose” Johnston called “the largest service-learning project in our nation’s history.” Any…
Below you’ll find one of many docs submitted to the federal bankruptcy court this week concerning Your Texas Rangers’ voluntary Chapter 11 filing, done with the intention of finally sealing the deal with Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan’s Rangers Baseball Express. William Neary, the U.S. Trustee for the Northern and…
A small group of former NFL players scheduled a press conference this morning to question the NFL Players Association leadership and compare talks between the players and owners about a new collective bargaining agreement to the 1982 players’ strike. However, it wasn’t long before Jeff Nixon, an ex-Buffalo Bills defense…
Shortly after the Texas Rangers announced the team’s plans to resolve its ownership situation in federal bankruptcy court, Tom Hicks said he and his lawyers agreed “about a month ago” that this was the best way to handle the current impasse stalling the club’s sale to Rangers Baseball Express –…
Moments ago, John Blake, exec veep of communication for Your Texas Rangers, sent word that there is, at long last, a plan in place that will finally give Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan’s Rangers Baseball Express control of the team. And, yes, it does involve “a voluntary, ‘prepackaged,’ court-supervised process…
Allow me to clean out the been-meaning-to-get-to folder …This morning I made mention of Jerry Jones walking out of the Marriott Marquis in New York City last night with two Sports Business Journal awards: Sports Exec of the Year and Sports Facility of the Year. Which is relevant to this…
Two sports items with which to begin your Friday, starting with the news that the NBA’s looking into comments Mark Cuban made earlier this week to CNNMoney’s Poppy Harlow concerning his interest in LeBron James. That’s the interview in question above. But, in short: Was the Mavs man tampering by…
No Tiger. No problem. Phil Mickelson won’t be at today’s opening round of the HD Byron Nelson Classic out in Las Colinas. Neither will Tiger Woods or past champs like Sergio Garcia or Adam Scott or, really, anybody you’ve ever heard of outside Vijay Singh and maybe defending champ Rory…
No way it will be bigger than last summer when UFC took over American Airlines Center, but Mixed Martial Arts – in the form of Bellator – invades the metroplex again tonight. The BFC XIX will hold seven fights at the Nokia Verizon Theater in Grand Prairie, headlined by lightweight…
Michael Young is crushing the ball. That’s nothing new. He’s also playing flawlessly in the field. Again, nothing new. And last night he sparked a Texas Rangers’ 4-3 victory over the Baltimore Orioles with first his bat, then his hustle. Want something else not so new? We underappreciate him. I’ve…
Psst! Hey buddy, wanna buy a used watch? No? Then how about a broken, if not broke, local professional sports team? Plenty in stock. Last December on HBO’s failed Joe Buck Live, guest and Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was asked about his confidence in spending—amidst the worst economic crisis…
Loves me some Dez Bryant. So does Dallas Cowboys cornerback Mike Jenkins. And tight end Jason Witten. And even, yep, NBA analyst Charles Barkley…
Surprised by the reaction to Tuesday’s item about Girls Gone Wild: Search for the Hottest Girl in America. There was a computer hiccup in the afternoon, so comments were disabled for a while. But via text, in my email inbox and through calls to 105.3 The Fan most folks are…
Texas Rangers general manager Jon Daniels took a lot of crap early in his career. Altogether now … Chris Young and Adrian Gonzalez to the San Diego Padres for who?! If you remember the answer is Adam Eaton, you have an idea of just how far Daniels has progressed…
Your bucket list should never include kicking the bucket. An 87-year-old World War II Navy vet was being honored for his generous blood donations out at Texas Motor Speedway over the weekend when an accident on the track resulted in his death. Don Krusemark was a passenger in a corvette…
Finally got around to watching HDNet’s Girls Gone Wild: Search for the Hottest Girl in America last night. In a word: HolyHellWowzaI’mHooked. Couple of people have told me HDNet is struggling, that’s why proprietor and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is desperately partnering with GGW founder Joe Francis. Another skeptic…
It took all of three plays – without pads, mind you – to see the full Dez Bryant package. As last season officially melted into this season, the Dallas Cowboys held OTAs (Organized Team Activities) out at Valley Ranch. Their rookie receiver, as expected, dazzled. A burst of escape off the…
What the what? I was listening to the Texas Rangers Friday night against the Toronto Blue Jays and I left them in what I thought was good shape. Up 9-3 in the third inning. Rich Harden on the mound. Bats seemingly alive. Done. Then, yesterday afternoon, I got back around…
