WEST PREGAME: Rain gives the Warriors an advantage
Coach Leonard McAngus said part of the goal will be to make San Antonio Brackenridge one-dimensional tonight by either shutting down their running game or stopping their passing game, particularly 6-foot-7 wide receiver Gabriel Taylor. It's something that the weather ...

Could UTSA, Texas State be on WAC's radar?
With the Mountain West and the Western Athletic Conference squabbling over membership and stealing from each other, an interesting statement rose to the top Thursday that could make UT San Antonio and Texas State alumni very happy. WAC commissioner Karl ...

We're done, Greenberg/Ryan win battle for Rangers
According to Anthony Andro of the Star-Telegram, we're done. Nolan Ryan and Co.'s bid of $385 million right now, plus the $208 million to pay off the team's debt appears to have sealed the deal for Ryan and Greenberg. TR ...

Could Ryan go after Astros if he loses Rangers?
LATEST BID: Cuban & Crane, Total of $610 million with Greenberg and Ryan preparing another bid. The war is heating up. Cuban is returning bids, Greenberg and Ryan are responding quickly to those and the dollar amount is skyrocketing into ...

Waiting out the Rangers sale at midnight
LATEST BID (AS OF 11:55 P.M.): Chuck Greenberg/Nolan Ryan: $365 million for team + $208 million to pay off team's debt + $12 million escrow = $585 million total - I feel sorry for Anthony Andro of the Star-Telegram and ...

The Berkman trade in retrospect
Lance Berkman had to go. For his, the team's and the fan's benefit. That didn't make the break any less painful for all sides. He makes his home in Houston. He'd been the face of the franchise through some of ...

Baseball's unnerving walk-up music
Saturday's Astros game at the Juicebox left me unsettled. Not only did the team's alleged savior, Brett Wallace, go 0-for-4 with some truly ugly swings, Hunter Pence did the baseball equivalent of Rick-Rolling an entire crowd of 30,000 by walking ...

Oswalt watch 2010: It's a done deal
... So says MLB.com and ESPN.com. The deal, as the reports say, is J.A. Happ and two prospects, with Anthony Gose named as one of those prospects. Happ is someone I've expressed disapproval over before (mostly because I don't buy ...

Oswalt's standards are lowering
Roy Oswalt's standards, according to MLB.com's Brian McTaggart, are slowly but surely lowering. First, he was being really selective about which teams he wanted to go to, and he wanted his 2012 option picked up. Then he expanded who he ...

Oswalt wants Phillies to show some brotherly love, pick up $16M option
Rumors are swirling about Roy Oswalt being on the move, according to several sources. The blog Astros County has a nice roundup of what we've been hearing: Drayton McLane is saying there is nothing in the works as far as ...