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SEGUIN - One of the signs recommended for installation in Walnut Springs Park drew an objection from a member of the Walnut Branch Committee during the group's meeting Wednesday evening at City Hall. Most of the meeting of the committee concerned city staff recommendations for signage, benches, trash receptacles and a bike rack to be installed in Phase I of Walnut Springs Park which is nearing completion and is scheduled to be dedicated in May. Phase I is the area along Walnut Branch between Court, Guadalupe and Nolte streets. Julian Leal objected to a sign noting the locations of the...

There is more than honor that goes along with being the first overall pick in a draft. There is responsibility. Responsibility to do something special. Josh Hamilton has fulfilled his responsibility. Tuesday afternoon Hamilton capped off a special season by being named the American League's Most Valuable Player. In the 45 years since Major League Baseball began holding an amateur draft, he is only the sixth overall first pick to end up winning the game's highest individual award.

What a moment! George Bush 41 and George Bush 43 entered the stadium together tonight to throw out the first ball at the World Series. THE CROWD ROARED. Then GW threw a strike to home plate catcher Nolan Ryan to start off game 4. Barbara Bush was taking photos in the stands. What a wonderful moment.

<p>WASHINGTON — When the Texas Rangers finally made the World Series, there was only one logical reaction from old-time baseball fans in the nation’s capital.</p> <p>"First Minnesota, and then Texas. My heavens!" Charlie Brotman said. "Everybody but the real thing is there."</p>

The bad news is that Texas Rangers fans won't be seeing Cliff Lee for a few days at least. That's because of the good news that New York Yankees fans won't have to look at Lee assassinating their heroes yet again. And that's because of the worse news for Yankee fans that, when next they see their heroes, the club may be altered slightly (it usually is) but their heroes won't be brandishing the World Series rings to which their fans think they're entitled every year. They have the Rangers to thank for that. It couldn't possibly get any better...

It was a testament to how well Cliff Lee pitched Monday in Game 3 of the American League Championship Series—eight shutout innings, two hits, 13 strikeouts—that the most treacherous moment of his night occurred after he had beaten the Yankees. As he sat down for his postgame news conference, he slipped on his chair and became tangled in a microphone wire. A look of panic crossed the faces of the two Texas Rangers teammates who flanked him, Josh Hamilton and Michael Young, as if they feared a freak injury to their ace might sabotage their chances of reaching the World...

I'm still trying to figure out how the Texas Rangers blew an American League Championship Series Game One they practically had in the bank. How did the Rangers strafe CC Sabathia early and chase him in the fourth inning only to end up losing a one-run game because a bullpen that was a regular-season wonder turned out to be full of bull Friday? How did Texas starter C.J. Wilson, as fresh after a weeklong layoff as Sabathia wasn't, space it for a split second covering first base and let Brett Gardner turn a top-of-the-eight-opening grounder to first into an infield...

The easy part of the American League Championship Series will be enjoying the pitching showdowns in which Cliff Lee is involved for the Texas Rangers. Yea, verily, even against the Empire Emeritus. All things considered, the Rangers' and the Yankees' pitching may be about equal, if you don't consider advantage, Lee. It's the Rangers' first trip to any postseason series off a postseason series win. It's the farthest the franchise has gone since its birth in 1961. You say you forgot, or didn't realise the Rangers were that old? Gather 'round, pop the tab on a cold one. Learn how...

OMG!OMG The RANGERS WIN IT!!!For the first time in club history the Texas Rangers have won a Post Season Series!!!!  BRING ON THE YANKS!!!!!

CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- News Corp. is considering an acquisition of the Texas Rangers baseball franchise, according to a published report, in a move that would allow it to reap rewards from the team's resurgence in the standings. The company is "learning toward" entering a bid at the Rangers' bankruptcy auction Wednesday, the New York Post reported in its Monday editions, citing unnamed sources familiar with the situation. (The Post is also a News Corp. publication.) A News Corp. spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a MarketWatch request for comment. The media conglomerate's broadcast holdings include a number of regional Fox...

ARLINGTON, Texas — A baseball fan fell from the second deck at Rangers Ballpark Tuesday night while reaching for a foul ball, injuring himself and four other people. ..." "It’s a tough scene at the ballpark right now," one TV announcer said in the moments after the fall. ..." Morris’ friend Kevin Conner said Morris suffered a head injury and sprained ankle but no internal injuries, and he was joking with friends and family Wednesday. Conner said Morris is expected to be released soon from a Fort Worth hospital. Morris even got a visit from Nolan Ryan, the Hall of...

The Texas Rangers have filed for bankruptcy protection. It did not have to come to this. But by favoring a sale of the team from Tom Hicks to a group led by Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan rather than a richer, better capitalized deal that was being offered, Major League Baseball angered Hicks' creditors who stood to get shafted by the sale to the Greenberg group. Now the Greenberg deal is dead, Tom Hicks is reeling from an insane amount of debt and MLB may have to fund the team like it did last season. One must ask: What was...

Major League Baseball is considering seizing ownership of the Texas Rangers in an attempt to finalize a deal to sell the club to the group headed by Pittsburgh attorney Chuck Greenberg and club president Nolan Ryan, a source familiar with the negotiations told ESPNDallas.com on Monday. The Sports Business Journal, citing several sources, first reported Monday that the league could take control of the team under the "best interests of baseball" rule and sell the group to Rangers Baseball Express to avoid creditors blocking the agreement. That could provoke the creditors to take legal action, which might include an involuntary...

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN and ALICIA A. CALDWELL, Associated Press Writers Christopher Sherman And Alicia A. Caldwell, Associated Press Writers – Thu Sep 24, 3:37 pm ET McALLEN, Texas – Rancher Mike Landry recently came upon a group of unarmed men dressed in camouflage burglarizing his guest house and stealing a truck from his 11,000 acres in Terrell County, rugged country bordering the Rio Grande in West Texas. A couple of shots over their heads from his hunting rifle kept nine of them, all Mexican citizens, in place until Border Patrol agents arrived. "It has really gotten to be pretty spooky,"...

Last night I was watching the Texas Rangers play the Boston Red Sox, and I ended up seeing one of the most incredible odd-defying feats I have ever seen at a baseball game. In the 5th inning Josh Hamilton for the Rangers was batting and hits a foul ball into the stands. Not that big of a deal right but the really cool thing is it was caught by a 12-year-old boy (the only info we have is his name is C.J. from Cedar Hills, Texas) with his glove cleanly. It was smiles and high-fives all around and I was...

By far the movie’s gravest insult to posterity, however, is its treatment of the Texas Ranger captain, Frank Hamer, who may (or may not) have been instrumental in bringing them down. As seen in the movie, Hamer (played by Denver Pyle in an uncharacteristically dour performance) is a kind of harsh Puritan ideologue, so righteous that when Bonnie (whom Dunaway has made us love) flirtatiously poses for a funny snapshot with him, he spits savagely in her face. He considers her so morally tainted that he is sickened by her. Then later, like a serpent in a garden, he coos...

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The owner's suite at Rangers Ballpark is being renamed in honor of former President George W. Bush. Bush is also the former managing general partner of the Rangers, a position he held from 1989-94 before being elected governor of Texas and later as the 43rd U.S. president. After the completion of his second term in the White House earlier this year, Bush moved to Dallas. His first big appearance locally was throwing out the first pitch at the Rangers' homer opener April 6.

Arlington, TX—In order to get a piece of the action, the Texas Rangers will pay tribute to Muslims all over the world by halving half price tickets and parking for all Muslims that attend their game on Saturday, June 13, 2009. The Texas Rangers will play the Los Angeles Dodgers in interleague play, and feel that since Obama has praised the entire Muslim world, that they should also do the same thing, knowing that America has become a “Muslim Nation.” Many have speculated that this may be a bad move, but the owner—Tom Hicks—assures people that this is simply taking...

Arlington, TX—Having grown weary of competition, General Manager Jon Daniels announced that there will be a series of fines for good play. The announcement came Tuesday, April 7, 2009, in hopes of curtailing the success of the franchise during an economic malaise. According to Daniels, the decision wasn’t a difficult one. He insisted that success is a negative reminder to the unemployed, and that “feelings of guilt could cause tragedy amongst family members and baseball fans.”

Bush throws first pitch at Rangers home opener The ball easily makes it over the plate and to Josh Hamilton's mitt April. 6, 2009 ARLINGTON, Texas - Former President George W. Bush wound up his right arm with two windmill whirls, then fired a high strike to help the Texas Rangers start the season Monday. In his first big appearance locally since moving to Dallas from the White House, Bush received a standing ovation and overwhelming cheers from a crowd of about 40,000 after the public address announcer said, "We welcome home the 43rd president." Bush, the team's managing general...