Dennis Franchione seems to want a new hobby.

Perhaps he should have considered collecting stamps, instead.

Good news for douchebags! For what may be a limited time only, you can put away your Yankees and Red Sox gear and pretend to be a die hard Rangers fan! Bandwagon’s rolling… Hop aboard!

TY has learned that if you can’t overcome the officiating, you don’t deserve to win. It’s a valuable lesson, with lots of other potential sports applications.

For the past few years, North Texas fans have been keeping a close eye on lesser division athletics programs within the state of Texas. The threat of someone PASSING US BY is everywhere.

Today, the 2009 APR report came out. Another year, another NCAA paddling for North Texas.

The one thing that separates mere athletes from truly complete players is heart. To be a big time player, a guy has to have a big time heart. Unfortunately for the players in question, the cardiological reality is that a big heart usually turns out to be a weak heart.

More sexy fun VIP scoop from the Ballpark. National Anthem close encounters, Tom Hicks pimps out some tricks, and a question of etiquette regarding putting someone else’s nuts in your mouth.

Does Isiah Thomas have what it takes to succeed as a college basketball coach? Nobody really knows for sure yet.

But for every other school in the Sun Belt, FIU’s gamble is a guaranteed win.

When I go out in public, I am always listening to every stranger within hearing range. This happens because I refuse to make an effort to focus on the people or things nearby that are actually associated with me. I don’t need the camaraderie of good friends or the reassurance of my wife to brighten my day when I have the obscure stupid crap that I can hear from total strangers everywhere, every day.

Reasonable people know that small clusters of outliers have no real predictive value in determining the potential success or failure of nontraditional athletes. But Sports Experts (like us) know that if you can think of at least 3 or 4 past examples, you can argue ’till your face turns blue that Player X is not only capable, but in fact likely to achieve at an exceptionally high level. We’ve made it our mission to identify and catalog these Keys to Success.