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Sports Central
July 20, 2010
Diane M. Grassi |
MLB's Gaming the Sale of Texas Rangers Continues The sale of the Rangers still awaits finalization and most importantly, the investment group to be awarded the final sale of the club has yet to be determined by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court and ultimately to be approved by MLB and its respective owners.   |
Sports Central
May 28, 2012
Jeff Kallman |
From Players to Owners: Now Gwynn Wants a Shot Nolan Ryan may have started something. His fellow Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn seems to have a hankering to become a baseball owner. |
BusinessWeek
May 27, 2010
Helyar & Keehner |
Tom Hicks Says Goodbye to Sports Besieged by creditors, Tom Hicks is selling three major sports teams. |
Sports Central
June 2, 2011
Diane M. Grassi |
A Fair Process to Becoming an Owner? The question needs to be asked as to whether presiding Commissioner of MLB Bud Selig makes major decisions such as team ownership based upon sound business acumen or subjective reasoning influenced by his personal relationships. |
AskMen.com
November 6, 2013 |
Is George W. Bush Going To Take Over Professional Baseball? Regardless of your positioning on the right or left side of the aisle, there is no denying the former Texas Rangers owner's qualifications for that job. |
Sports Illustrated
July 30, 2002 |
Saving baseball The August 5 issue of Sports Illustrated lays out a simple plan to get baseball back on track. Topping the magazine's list of suggestions is that Nolan Ryan be installed as the game's new commissioner. |
Sports Central
July 28, 2010
Ross Lancaster |
Don't Forget About the Team The focus with the Texas Rangers seems to be more on the ongoing ownership battle that has been played out in Texas courtrooms over the last several months. |
Sports Illustrated
May 22, 2001
Tom Verducci |
Crapshoot For the Texas rangers, trading Pudge Rodriguez involves too many risks and unknowns... |
Sports Central
June 23, 2005
Diane M. Grassi |
Roger(s) Hold 'Em in Texas Two not fully unexpected performances, but remarkable for their ages and compiled years in the majors, are those of pitchers Kenny Rogers, playing for the Texas Rangers, and Roger Clemens, ace of the Houston Astros pitching staff. |
Reason
May 2001
Dan Lewis |
It Happens Every Spring Baseball season is upon us. That means the moaning about the sport's economic disparity has likewise gotten underway... |
Sports Central
December 31, 2011
Jeff Kallman |
2011: Dickens Flummoxed Baseball's 2011 season was the best of times and it was the worst of times. |
Fast Company
July 2008
Jeff Pearlman |
The Texas Rangers' Young GM Jon Daniels is a geek who last played organized ball in Little League. Just 30, he's MLB's youngest GM, leading the Texas Rangers -- and a new breed of baseball execs. |
Salon.com
December 20, 2000
Allen Barra |
The Alex Rodriguez FAQ Is he worth all that money? Will these giant contracts ever stop? Is salary inflation driving up ticket prices? Ruining baseball? (Short answers: Yes, no, no, no.) |
Sports Central
December 23, 2008
Jeff Kallman |
Dock Ellis, RIP: The Edges Dock Ellis left an awful lot of people surprisingly warm by the man he actually was beneath the drug addling and away from the heat of the mound. |
Sports Central
November 14, 2010
Jeff Kallman |
The Wrong Expansion For Baseball MLB thinks the way to solve baseball's image and primacy problems is to expand the postseason. |
Sports Central
July 21, 2008
Ross Lancaster |
Hamilton, Rangers Turn a Non-Fan Around Josh Hamilton and, to a lesser extent, the Texas Rangers, this season have re-energized an extreme baseball cynic into, at least, a casual fan. |
Sports Illustrated
September 4, 2001
Stephen Cannella |
Collision Ahead? Things are looking up for Texas, but maybe not at catcher... |
Sports Central
September 18, 2013
Andrew Jones |
Wild Card Drama The National League has a fraction of the excitement contained within the American League as we enter the final two weeks of the 2013 major league baseball season. September baseball is bound to be exciting. |
Sports Central
December 28, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
MLB 2015: It Got Late Early Out There The author ruminates on this year's baseball games and famous players of years past. |
AskMen.com
Steve Seepersaud |
5 Insanely Bad Sports Deals Some team owners, eager to win games and, consequently, make a profit, make decisions so outrageous that fans are left scratching their heads. Here's a look at some of the craziest sports deals ever made. |
Sports Central
December 24, 2012
Jeff Kallman |
2012: Mime and Reason A look back at some of the odd occurrences during the 2012 baseball season, and players that passed away this year. |
Sports Central
December 31, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
MLB 2014: The Year in Review Baseball did a lot of blinking during 2014. Not to mention winking, nodding, prodding, clodding, and thrilling. |
Sports Central
October 31, 2011
Jeff Kallman |
Maybe We Get Our Goats at Last Maybe, little by little, people are beginning to get the idea that a baseball postseason goat doesn't always deserve the goat horns because he didn't do anything he wasn't supposed to do. |
Sports Central
June 4, 2005
Tyson Wirth |
The 10 Greatest Records in Baseball The heroes of baseball past should share the same celebration as Memorial Day, but too often, fans and managers get caught up in the pitching probables of the day, strategic moves that were made or missed, and minor injuries to the game's biggest names. |
Sports Central
June 20, 2005
Seth Gonzales |
Pitching or Hitting? How About Both? The Texas Rangers show a lot of promise with their young offense. Next focus: shoring up their pitching. |
Sports Illustrated
August 22, 2002
Stephen Cannella |
Hypocrite Hicks Owner's comments underscore baseball's (anti)trust problem. |
Sports Central
June 21, 2010
Joshua Duffy |
Lessons From Baseball's First Half At nearly the half-way point of the Major League Baseball season, we have a pretty good idea now of who is going to be what. |
Sports Central
November 2, 2010
Jeff Kallman |
A Bunt, a Bomb, and the Giants Win Oh, what a feeling it must be to be Aubrey Huff and Edgar Renteria. |
AskMen.com
December 27, 2000
Mark Simmons |
A-Rod Hits The Jackpot, Super Mario Returns Texas Rangers announced signing former Seattle Mariners shortstop Alex Rodriguez to a 10-year $252 million contract... Hockey world erupted when it was announced that Hall of Famer Mario Lemieux and current Pittsburgh Penguins owner would be returning and paying himself the league average salary of $1.4 million... |
Sports Central
August 1, 2012
Andrew Jones |
MLB Trade Deadline: Winners and Losers In today's game of big market teams, small market buyers have little chance of signing rentals in the offseason. It's probably no surprise; however, that the buyers are more often than not big market teams. But let's take a look at a few of the recent deals. |
Wild West
June 2007
Hart & Lalire |
Baseball in the West Our national pastime developed in the eastern United States, but it spread across the Mississippi far sooner than you might think. |
Sports Central
July 23, 2012
Ross Lancaster |
The Hottest Team in Baseball One of the teams that may trade for players to help for the stretch run and stands to benefit from the extra wild card is the Oakland Athletics, who are currently baseball's hottest team, posting a 14-2 record in July to go from having the AL's fourth-worst record to its fourth-best. |
Sports Central
November 8, 2010
Clinton Riddle |
Let the Cliff Lee Sweepstakes Begin Now that free agents are hitting the market, there's one player who everyone is watching. Wherever he ends up, that team is going to pay out the nose for him. And he'll be worth every cent. |
Sports Illustrated
May 9, 2001
Tom Verducci |
Addition by subtraction Doing away with downtrodden teams is the way to go... |
Sports Central
March 22, 2006
Diane M. Grassi |
Soriano Hung Out to Dry by Nats How often does a Major League Baseball all-star player is told after his trade to another team that he will have to give up his starting position or else? |
CFO
June 1, 2007
John Goff |
Pitch Fever American investors spend it like Beckham -- and borrow heavily, too -- to buy UK soccer teams. The big lure: global branding. |
Sports Central
September 17, 2004
Diane M. Grassi |
MLB and its Fans Need to Clean Up Their Acts Major League Baseball, as well as its fans, took a collective literal blow on Monday, September 13th at Oakland Coliseum at a game between the Oakland Athletics and the Texas Rangers. |
BusinessWeek
June 26, 2006
Mark Morrison |
This Buyout Game Ain't Over Yet In so-called retirement, Tom Hicks is acquiring and building at a frantic pace. |
AskMen.com
Ryan Murphy |
Ask Ryan: Kurt Russell's A Pro & More Sports Q&As: Is it true that Kurt Russell used to be a professional baseball player?... Are more New Yorkers fans of Knicks or Red Sox?... Do college mascots get paid to perform at ball games?... etc. |
Sports Central
June 11, 2005
Greg Wyshynski |
Sidney Crosby, Broadway-Bound? Does Sidney Crosby have the potential to be hockey's next superstar? |
Sports Central
July 25, 2011
Vito Curcuru |
Under the Radar Three teams to watch as the division races heat up are the Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Angels, and Arizona Diamondbacks. |
Sports Illustrated
February 13, 2001
Stephen Cannella |
Chat Reel Braves still a force to be reckoned with... |
Sports Central
October 18, 2010
Bill Hazell |
Yankees Hanging From a Cliff On paper, the 2010 ALCS is tied at one game apiece, with the teams heading back to New York for three games. |
Salon.com
March 31, 2001
Allen Barra |
Everything you know is wrong The major leagues are more competitive than ever, small-market teams can compete, and home runs and giant salaries aren't ruining the game. Plus: Who's going to Cooperstown? |
Sports Illustrated
September 3, 2002
Rick Reilly |
Fear Strikes Out Again The author gets a chance to face Nolan Ryan. |
Sports Central
October 5, 2012
Jeff Kallman |
Those A's, Dumb Enough to Win As of 3:53 PM Pacific Daylight Time, October 3, 2012, when Michael Young's two-strike fly completed its near-perfect trajectory into the glove of Coco Crisp striding forward to haul it down, Oakland, California believes in miracles. |
Sports Central
July 25, 2004
Diane Grassi |
How Small-Market Teams Can Compete As we have now crossed the threshold of the first-half of the 2004 Major League Baseball season, we will begin to see the races tighten up amongst the contenders for the various leagues' division titles and the wildcards. |
Sports Central
June 8, 2005
Matt Thomas |
Breaking Down the MLB Trade Deadline As the summer heats up in Major League Baseball, serious trade talks annually begin to percolate. |
Sports Central
October 25, 2010
Joshua Duffy |
Baseball No Longer Rules October After more than century of dominance in the american sporting marketplace, baseball is no longer king. |
Sports Central
September 8, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
Farewell to Washington: Temporarily? The Rangers, whose season was blown up by a rash of injuries that probably drove Ron Washington quietly mad, became the first team in baseball to be eliminated mathematically from a pennant race. |
