Let’s play three strikes with your Texas Rangers. Your first-place Texas Rangers. Yes, I am surprised. And impressed. Steeeriiiike One – Chris Davis demoted. Davis is a good guy with a great glove, but the Rangers could afford to be patient with him no longer. You can swallow a .200-hitting Gold…
One. That’s how many foreign players—with a basketball pedigree void of a U.S. college—have excelled for the Dallas Mavericks. Granted, it was a biggie. In fact, the greatest player in franchise history and the best foreigner in NBA history: Dirk Nowitzki. But the number of failed experiments is considerably higher…
The Rangers tip-toed perilously close to a lost season last night. Instead, they wound up jumping all over a won game. I know we’re only two days into July, but coughing up a 7-1 lead and losing to the AL West division leaders last night might have been a kick to the…
So says Men’s Health in its July-August issue, in which the magazine ranks the top 100 major U.S. cities’ “sports-obsessed citizenry” and puts Arlington at the very top o’ the list with an “A+” ranking. Says here that myriad factors went into the ranking — everything from the number of…
So, the Mavs made a big deal yet? Well, GM Donnie Nelson promised a “very active summer,” so let’s hop to it. Actually, though NBA free agency is just hatching, Dallas may be already making progress. That is, if you consider re-signing Jason Kidd progress. Kidd may not be the…
We’ve got a handful of photo sets up from the weekend that, even if they’re not quite sports shots, are at least sports-related. Well, close enough they’re worth a mention here in the Sportatorium.First off, got to point out Mark Graham’s batch of photos from the big deal at Russ…
I admit, I’m rarely on a boat mutha effer! But I did happen to be close to this exact spot on Lewisville Lake over Memorial Day weekend. And unless I’m a dry-dock dork, this looks like one of those trick ’em-dick ’em photos where you try to find all the things out…
The Texas Rangers’ offensive woes are almost laughable now as the team last night fell two and a half games back of the Angels, losing 5-2 to Los Angeles after taking a 2-0 lead in the third inning on solo homers by David Murphy and Marlon Byrd. That’s a total…
Amazingly, we still have stashed on the server Polyphonic Spree’s “H-O-O-P-S Yes!,” the ’07 “anthem” penned for FC Dallas — what do you mean you don’t remember? Then perhaps you recall a time when Your Dallas Mavericks were “Rowdy, Loud and Proud,” courtesy PPT; and who can forget Pantera’s catchy…
The good news: The Texas Rangers got seven more hits and two more runs last night than they did on Sunday. The bad news: They suck. With a 5-2 loss to the Angels, the Rangers – who held a 5 1/2-game lead to start the month – are now 2…
After surviving last weekend’s Terror on the Tarmac, we figured photographer Danny Hurley had earned a sweetheart assignment for Unfair Park this week — so when we heard the Dallas Cowboys and Playboy bunnies were making red carpet arrivals outside AMPM Saturday night, we knew just who to call.The stars…
I got this buddy – let’s call him, let’s see, how about “Anthony”? – who has a fancy schmancy boat out at Lewisville Lake. Probably cost more than my house. Two weekends ago he was putting it into the water when his wife starts yelling out the window of his pickup…
Notable deaths in the last week: Ed McMahon. Farrah Fawcett. Michael Jackson. Billy Mays. The Texas Rangers? After getting 1-hit last night by someone named Chad Gaudin and losing two of three to a San Diego Padres outfit that hadn’t won a series since Memorial Day, a Rangers’ team that led the…
During last week’s minicamp at Carrollton’s Standridge Stadium, Dallas Cowboys head coach Wade Phillips was chatting with longtime radio voice Brad Sham. It had come to Sham’s attention that veteran linebacker Bradie James was suddenly likening Phillips to TV’s old Dr. Cliff Huxtable. Compassionate but stern. Fair but firm. Soft…
Though I’m always skeptical when a head coach drafts a player 24th overall and then contends he “pin-pointed” the kid all along – see: Jimmy Johnson on 7th-rounder Leon Lett, circa 1991 – I’m willing to forge into the Rodrigue Beaubois Era with an open mind. Well, I lied. I won’t…
While watching this tour of Cowboys Stadium, keep reminding yourself that Tashard Choice is third string. Third. The video, shot after a recent OTA, includes cameos by Marion Barber III, Roy Williams, Jerry Jones and the Jonas Brothers. And it’s hosted by the chattiest of Cowboys, who apparently owns a…
Like the Dallas Cowboys did a couple months ago, the Dallas Mavericks have made the decision to fortify their roster via quantity, not quality. But in an NBA Draft that features Blake Griffin, Hasheem Thabeet, James Harden and a bunch of extras, that might not be such a bad idea. Unwilling…
Over on The Ticket, Mike Rhyner (aka “Baseball Jesus”, the cockiest nickname in the history of sports, by the way) is quick to identify the “catastrophic moment.” The play/incident/injury/whatever that signals the beginning of the end each Texas Rangers’ season. Over the past 37 years it’s usually been multiple choice…
Dirk got duped. He went for an elaborate head fake and embarrassingly got caught in the air with nowhere to land. It could have been worse. Hpefully now that he’s talking about his ordeal with ex-fiancee Cristal Taylor in Germany it won’t be front-page news in Dallas. “I had some…
And, in international headlines this morning, Dirk Nowitzki wants to play with the German national team in the EuroBasket2009 tourney in Poland, which runs September 7-20. At least, if I read my Babel Fish translation correctly: “I believe already that it tingles/swarms.” He needs to get that checked. Oh, my…
Every so often, just for grins, I check out the auctions at Lone Star Online, which the city of Dallas, Dallas Area Rapid Transit, the Dallas Independent School District and other municipalities use to move surplus merch. Only, turns out the city of Dallas isn’t offloading flat-tire forklifts or Reunion…
This is a cruel joke. Texas Rangers fans who for decades have yearned for pitching are finally getting it, only to see their woody go limp when they finally need it. Something I thought I’d never type: The Rangers can’t pitch hit. Spent Father’s Day plopped on the couch not believing my…
