Spent the last hour trying to summon the strength to write this, if only because at this late date the thought of spending one more second on Tom Hicks’s attempts to sell his sports teams is just exhausting, like a string of 100-plus-degree days. But here goes, if only because…
10. Dez Bryant, wearing a walking boot on his sprained right ankle, made several nice plays in Monday’s only workout. But he wasn’t on the receiving end, but rather the passing end. Bryant threw left-handed passes to receivers, who in a seemingly lazy drill attempted to make one-hand catches. 9…
Arrived safely in The Alamo City for some Dallas Cowboys training camp Sunday afternoon after a brisk 4:37:00 drive that included exactly zero stops. 10. There is no easy way to get onto I35 south from 75. On Woodall Rogers there is down-to-one-lane construction and falling walls. And I’ve been…
Breaking news: To win a baseball game – even with your best pitcher on the mound – a team must score a run. Even two. Cliff Lee was good – not great – Sunday in a 4-1 loss to the Anaheim Angels. He pitched another complete game, something he’s done in all…
Not the going-to-Six-Flags kind of friend, mind you — the Dallas Cowboys QB doesn’t want to, like, hang out with you or anything. But for a few bucks he’ll, oh, I dunno, bake a virtual birthday cake and send your pal a happy-happy video via the Facebook. So note this…
Was it, as Roy Williams denies, karma? Or was it, as Jerry Jones suggests, Wade Phillips’ fault? Either way, the ankle injury suffered here in San Antonio Friday afternoon by rookie receiver Dez Bryant has yanked the momentum of Dallas Cowboys’ training camp to a screeching halt. Super Bowl expectations remain entrenched,…
Scott Feldman has been bad this year. He’s 5-9 with an ERA of 5.46. Feels like every game he’s staked to an early 3-0 lead only to give up five runs in 5.1 innings and walk off the mound tied or behind. Frust. Rating. He’s scheduled to get the ball…
Always said A-Rod was a tool. Now, according to the Texas Rangers’ ongoing bankruptcy auction in Fort Worth, he’s also an elevator. At least the New York Yankees’ third baseman is aligning himself with a Kone Inc., an elevator company that also filed an objection Wednesday to the outline of…
On the other side, some light morning reading you won’t find on the Texas Rangers Baseball Partners Information Site — eight of the myriad objections to the sale of Your Texas Rangers, which is set to go to the highest bidder on Wednesday. They were all filed yesterday in Fort…
For long-suffering Texas Rangers fans, it’s Christmas in July. No, not because of the healthy lead in the American League West or the headline-grabbing acquisition of pitching ace Cliff Lee. Even better, it’s the news that a prospective owner with deep pockets and high hopes is finally interested in the…
Well, that didn’t take long. Four days into his Dallas Cowboys’ career Dez Bryant started blaming that damned ol’ media for his mistakes. Be patient Dez, your Diva Club card is being laminated as we speak. Bryant, whom I wholly endorsed on draft day and who has dazzled on the field at training…
I’ve seen Spike TV’s Pros vs. Joes a couple times. Love the concept. Ordinary(ish) guys take on professional athletes in their sport. Handicapped, of course. Classic episode was Pacman Jones getting legitimately pissed when a nobody caught a touchdown on him in a game of flag football. Tonight the series…
Can’t recall the last time I recorded Rangers games — ’99, maybe? Nevertheless, even a few hours later Nelson Cruz’s 10th-inning walk-off last night was a thrilling thing of beauty — and towering enough to put the Rangers eight and a half up over both the A’s and Angels, so…
Cliff Lee is the shit. Tuesday night at Rangers Ballpark he proved it again. Lee went nine innings in a remarkable performance, striking out 13 Oakland A’s without a walk in a dramatic game the Rangers won, 3-1, on Nelson Cruz’ 10th-inning homer. It was the most strikeouts by a Rangers pitcher…
I’ll be down in San Antonio for Dallas Cowboys’ training camp next week. For now, I’m making calls. Talking to spies. Trying to get the skinny by chewing the fat. Some thoughts: New offensive tackle Alex Barron is better than expected. And Doug Free has struggled with his quickness at left…
Tampa Bay Rays’ pitcher Matt Garza tossed a no-hitter last night. It was the fifth this season in Major League Baseball, most since 1991. Funny thing is, now the San Diego Padres and New York Mets are the only current teams without a no-no in their history. Interesting thing is, what gives? Can it…
At this rate, Dallas Cowboys tight end Martellus Bennett will finish the season with more apologies than catches. Again yesterday Marty B was trying to explain another episode of “embarrassing the franchise”, this time when nude self-portraits showed up on the internet at a site called mediatakeout.com. No big deal, really…
I realize I’m getting waaaaaaay ahead of myself here, but some of us were sitting around the pool over the weekend drinking and getting creative and salivating over what if. As in, what if this is finally the year the Texas Rangers hold it together down the stretch and win the…
Sports Business Journal calls it a “unique marketing effort,” which is one way of putting it: The University of Texas at Austin, Crescent Court-based Branded Retail Energy Company and Houston-based Champion Energy Services this morning announced the creation of Texas Longhorn Energy. Which is? Well, put simply, it’s a marketing…
First, there were the billboards. Then, the poster. Then, the song. Then, the worldwide picture-taking campaign. And now, this: From an e-mail that just showed up in the Unfair Park in-box, “Liverpool fans kick off poster campaign against Tom Hicks. These are apparently going to start appearing in Texas.” So…
Roy Williams can’t carry Dez Bryant’s jock, so why should the Dallas Cowboys’ rookie receiver carry the veteran’s pads? Because he’s a rookie, that’s why. Troy Aikman baked cookies and took them on the team plane. As a Texas Rangers’ rookie, Jarrod Saltalamacchia wore a diaper on a road trip…
I’ll say it, Texas Rangers’ fever is at an all-time high. Sunday night’s 6-4 win improved Tommy Hunter to 8-0, allowed the Rangers to win three of four from the Anaheim Angels and pushed their lead to seven games with 63 remaining. More than 160,000 fans went to Arlington Thursday-Sunday…
