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Texas Rangers outfielder Nelson Cruz fell to the 13th round, on average, in ESPN live drafts prior to this season, which seemed a bit strange, but it made him a nice bargain. Sure, there's outfield depth this season and Cruz has had trouble staying o...

Blog | June 18, 2013

ARLINGTON, Texas -- The Rangers ended their six-game losing streak Monday night, rallying from a three-run deficit to beat the division-leading Oakland A's 8-7. Now the question is can the Rangers keep the winning up? The Rangers scored as many...

In case you were busy learning hard lessons about hubris and foosball but mostly hubris, here's what you missed in sports on Monday: Tuukka Rask had a shutout and Daniel Paille had his second goal in as many games as the Boston Bruins seized a 2...

New York Giants Paul Schwartz spoke to an agent who didn't want his name used but who thinks Victor Cruz's only choice right now is to take the multiyear offer the Giants have made to him. The premise is that the Giants are who they are and don't ...

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ARLINGTON, Texas -- One overriding sentiment flowed through the Texas Rangers' winning clubhouse after Monday's 8-7 victory over the division-leading Oakland Athletics. A.J. Pierzynski said it. Ian Kinsler said it, too. "This was a great team w...

ARLINGTON, Texas -- Nelson Cruz delivered two monster home runs and the bullpen saved the day as the Texas Rangers snapped a six-game losing streak with an 8-7 victory over the division-leading Oakland Athletics, pulling within two games of the A's f...

Nelson Cruz homered twice, A.J. Pierzynski drove in three runs and the Texas Rangers snapped a six-game losing streak with an 8-7 win over the AL West-leading Oakland Athletics on Monday night.

There's a little-known rule in NFL blogging that says you're allowed to link to your own work during the final two weeks of June or the first three weeks of July. Things get slow this time of year; you do what you've got to do. In this morning's B...

Morning. Hope everyone had a nice weekend. We head now into a relatively dark period for NFL news -- the dead zone between minicamps and training camps, during which time players are away from their teams and apt to make only the wrong kind of news. ...

ARLINGTON, Texas -- The Texas Rangers' sixth consecutive defeat, a familiar 7-2 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday, in which the offense again did next to nothing, brought with it a short postgame players' meeting with manager Ron Washington. ...

John Force ended a 31-event winless streak Sunday in the NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals, beating Cruz Pedregon in the final round.

LAS VEGAS 11, COLORADO SPRINGS 5: Rafael Montero allowed five runs (one earned) in 5 1/3 innings in his return to Triple-A. Wilmer Flores, Zach Lutz and Rylan Sandoval all homered in the seventh against Steven Hensley. Andrew Brown earlier went deep....

ARLINGTON, Texas -- The Texas Rangers extended their season-long losing streak to five games with a 6-1 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday afternoon at Rangers Ballpark. The Rangers have scored six runs in five games. It's the first time th...

Nothing better than winning the first half of the season and poppin bottles! #gnats #playoffsbaby @You_Found_Nimmo pic.twitter.com/608R0WLKPg- Kevin Plawecki (@kplawecki26) June 15, 2013 COLORADO SPRINGS 6, LAS VEGAS 2: The Sky Sox scored th...

ARLINGTON, Texas -- The Texas Rangers' tailspin continued as the Toronto Blue Jays' Mark Buehrle and two relievers handcuffed Texas on five hits for an 8-0 victory Friday night in front of 37,203 fans at Rangers Ballpark. Only once did the Ranger...