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In 2002, Tom Hicks famously sat on the deck of his yacht — less than a year after signing Alex Rodriguez to a $250 million contract, mind you — and excoriated fellow owners for not being more careful with their money. The levels of hypocrisy there were already off the charts, but it has only […]

I kind of went hog wild on the franchise devaluation thing around here last week. Some agreed, others felt I (and my pinch hitting friend Ethan) went a bit overboard. Well, let’s throw this bit of news into the pot and see what cooks up: Private equity legend Tom Hicks’ sports team holding company has […]

No, really: Rangers owner Tom Hicks is attempting to sell a minority share of up to 49 percent of the ballclub he purchased in 1998, he said on Tuesday at the team’s Spring Training complex. Merrill Lynch, the international investment banking firm, which became a unit of Bank of America last year, has been hired […]

This is interesting: Arlington police are investigating the discovery of a man’s body Tuesday morning near a pond at the Ballpark at Arlington. Few details are available, but the body was found at about 8:30 a.m. by ballpark security officers on the west side of the facility near Randol Mill and Nolan Ryan Expressway. Did […]

A couple of years ago I may have scoffed at the idea of depositing my money someplace simply because of a baseball connection, but in light of recent events, it may not be the worst idea in the world: Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan and investment firm founder Don Sanders, co-principal owners of the […]

The future is… in the future.

A-Rod free for two Thursdays!

Oh, yeah, they were bad enough in real life. But that performance may actually have been their best-case scenario.

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