10. Bad as this looks – and 1-4 is bad – the season isn’t over. I know history says they have a 95 percent chance of missing the playoffs, but no one in the NFC is worth a damn. A 10-win season and, yes, a division championship is still possible. And much…
Look at it this way, if Cliff Lee beats the Yankees here tonight in Game 3 of the ALCS they’ll have to beat the Texas Rangers in three consecutive games or else face him again in Game 7 at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington on Saturday. Advantage: Rangers? Of course to…
10. I’ve never seen a scarier, more intense 5-run baseball game in my life. With closer Neftali Feliz flying 98-mph fastballs all over the joint in the 9th, the tension felt as though it were 3-2 instead of 7-2. 9. I know Elvis Andrus gets credit for manufacturing a 1-0 lead…
For seven innings, the guy wearing the Alex Rodriguez Texas Rangers jersey in Section 314 taunted the young man in the Alex Rodriguez New York Yankees jersey sitting but one row back. A lot of: “Yankees suck! Yankees suck!” And: “You’re on steroids! You’re on steroids!” Then came the eighth,…
10. Stupid mistakes at crucial times after dominating most of the game? Was I watching the Texas Rangers tonight or the Dallas Cowboys? 9. Great to see Josh Hamilton finally join the playoffs with a first-inning homer for an early 3-0 lead. Also great to see Big Tex lending his…
We’re about two hours from Pitch 1 of Game 1 of the American League Championship Series between the Texas Rangers and New York Yankees. I’m at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington where Nolan Ryan is talking to the national media, Josh Hamilton is taking batting practice and the glorious sun is shining…
Hell of a way to bookend the day — in a courtroom first thing in the morning watching Tom Hicks’s attorneys fight to keep ownership of Liverpool FC, then at the Ballpark in Arlington tonight to watch Tom Hicks’s old team fight to keep home-field advantage over the New York…
Or perhaps not.When last we left this saga we were told that ’round about 8 a.m. this morning, 160th District Court Judge Jim Jordan would rule on that temporary restraining order Tom Hicks and George Gillett asked for two long days ago in order to stop a U.K.-court-ordered sale of…
I’m at the George Allen this very moment, where attorneys representing New England Sports Ventures and Kop Holdings (which is to say, Tom Hicks) are squaring off over who owns Liverpool FC. In light of the UK judge’s ruling this morning, which basically tossed yesterday’s temporary restraining order, the attorneys…
Woe are the Dallas Cowboys. I still don’t think their season is kaput, but it doesn’t look good: *At 1-3, they’re firmly in the NFC East cellar. *Sunday they play at the Minnesota Vikings, an equally desperate 1-3 team. *You’d think the Cowboys would have the motivation factor, what with…
Hell hath officially frozen over. In Arlington, the Texas Rangers are still playing baseball. And in Dallas, Stars fans are now cheering for the Detroit Red Wings. Well, at least one of them. The Stars, off to a 2-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 start or whatever the hell it is these days in the…
George Gillett and Tom HicksFollowing yesterday’s surprising turn of events that landed the sale of Liverpool FC in the 160th District Court at the George Allen, attorneys representing the Liverpool board and Royal Bank of Scotland were back in U.K. High Court this morning trying to push through the sale…
This morning, via the social network, a Friend of Unfair Park was kind enough to shoot me a video made by Mark Cizdziel, who spent seven hours yesterday whittling down Rangers-Rays Game Five into quite the pro-looking highlight reel. It’s pre-, post- and in-game audio and video cobbled together from…
Gleefully, I was wrong about Rays in 5. In accordance, take this synopsis with a pinch of salt, a hint of lime, a chug of a six pack, then wake up Friday night and watch for yourselves. ALCS rosters won’t be set until Friday at 10 a.m. so there could…
11:54 a.m. With a Texas Rangers playoff game followed by a Dallas Cowboys contest, this could be one of the wildest, most wonderful Sundays in the history of metroplex sports. Up two games to one, the Rangers can close out their American League Divisional Series against the Tampa Bay Rays…
Dallas Cowboy by Kit Nelson, never more appropriate than today[Update at 4:41 p.m.: The original petition filed this afternoon has been added. It’s after the jump.]This morning we told you the U.K. courts had cleared the path for New England Sports Ventures to buy Liverpool FC — thus ending Tom…
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…
Late last night, Jamey Newberg was kind enough to send this sports highlight from the Texas Rangers’ first-ever post-season series triumph: Ford C. Frick finalist Eric Nadel’s final-out call, an homage to the late, great Mark Holtz. It’s below, courtesy Mike Disen of KRLD. Stop it, sports tears. Stop it…
At the time – April 30, 2009 – I called the Dallas Cowboys’ draft class of 2009 a “dirty dozen.” And, no, it was a compliment. Fast-forward to today and, unfortunately, it’s uglier than ever. Making room on the roster for a tight end in light of another injury to…
TexasRangers.comAs last night’s Game Five wore on, the damnedest thing began to happen: My neighborhood, in Northwest Dallas, began echoing with mighty, mighty shouts of joy. A few friends reported the same thing in other parts of town — you didn’t even need to have the Rangers-Rays game on to…
10. Antlers > Rays. Ironic that the Rangers – who for years and decades floundered playing feast-or-famine baseball founded on the home run – scored their first three runs via speed. Think about it, the Rangers small-balled, manufactured and ran their way to the American League Championship Series. Yes, Texas,…
To the Texas Rangers, tonight’s do-or-die game is unprecedented, uncharted territory. But as metroplex sports fans, we’re accustomed to these elimination scenarios. And, you know what? We’re pretty damn good at them. While the Rangers take their pathetic 3-11 playoff pedigree into tonight’s decisive Game 5 against the Tampa Bay Rays,…
