Eric Nadel's vocal talents aside, there are some things you miss listening to Rangers on the radio, as I do when the kids aren't yelling too loud. One of those things in last night's 10-4 victory over the Tigers was Ian Kinsler's magnificent slide.

Kinsler gets points for making it safely to third base. He gets even more points for the innovative use of his head as a sliding tool.

(h/t Liberally Lean)

In the 72 hours since he announced that he was crowd-sourcing designs for the Mavericks' new uniforms, Mark Cuban has been swamped with quality submissions.

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Mark Cuban Wants You to Design the Mavericks' New Uniforms. For Free.

Take this suggestion posted to Cuban's blog:

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By the time Josh Hamilton packed his bags and set off for the West Coast and a $125 million paycheck, no one was particularly sad to see him go. His epic late-season collapse, neatly encapsulated by that botched fly ball, as well as his energy-drink binges and general histrionics, had been enough to permanently sour the relationship.

The intervening months have proved just how lucky Rangers fans are to be rid of Hamilton. First there was his comment that Dallas isn't a "true baseball town." Then, the weird Head & Shoulders commercial. On the field, his .214 batting average is embarrassing, as is his clear lack of effort.

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As we write this, the world's top golfers not named Tiger are descending on Irving for the Byron Nelson Championship. It's a big deal, one of the region's biggest sporting events and driver of an estimated $35 million in economic activity.

But before play begins on Thursday, the city of Dallas would like to make an announcement: It has officially stolen the Nelson. The PGA inked a 10-year deal yesterday that will bring the tournament to the Trinity Forest Golf Course come 2019.

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Cubes can have this one free of charge.

The last time the Mavericks overhauled their uniforms it was 2001, and Dirk was still a scrawny, clean-cut German import flanked by Steve Nash and Michael Finley. The previous design was two decades old and carried the reek of futility of the early '90s.

There have been a few minor tweaks since then, but the Mavs' wardrobe has remained mostly unchanged for the past dozen years. That's long enough for Mark Cuban. He announced on his blog today that the team's going to adopt new uniforms for the 2015-16 season.

But Cuban's not necessarily going to hire some expensive design firm to draw up the new duds. He's crowd-sourcing.

"You know what an NBA uniform looks like. You know what the Mavs colors are for today and the past," he writes. "We want some new ideas that stay true to our logo and at least close to our current color schemes. Show us what you got!"

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Texas Country Reporter

Spoiler alert: Charlotte Brown did not win the state pole vaulting championship over the weekend. The sophomore at Emory Rains High School, 70 miles east of here, cleared 10'6" on Saturday, putting her eighth out of nine contestants and more than two feet shy of victory.

Still, her performance was pretty impressive. Brown's legally blind. She was born with normal vision but developed infant cataracts and has been losing her vision ever since. She compares her vision to peering through a coffee stirrer, only everything on the other end is blurry, flat, and devoid of color.

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Ever since they parted ways with ESPN Dallas, sports talk duo Ben Rogers and Skin Wade have hinted that they had something else lined up. They've just been vague about what exactly that might be.

No longer. As Rogers announced a few minutes ago, he and Wade have officially found a new gig.

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When the New York Jets pushed Tim Tebow overboard sans parachute earlier this week, the quarterback had no shortage of suitors. None of them were with NFL teams, which all seem to have concluded that his miraculous 2011 season was a fluke and that he's not very good, but they were at least pigskin-related. The Lingerie Football League offered to take him on as a quarterbacks coach. If Tebow still thinks he can play at the professional level, the Omaha Beef of the Champions Professional Indoor Football League are offering $75 per game.

That's gotta sting for a guy who just last year commanded more than $1 million. Tebow himself has remained silent, but Billy Back, head coach of Allen-based indoor club Texas Revolution, has taken umbrage on his behalf. "We thought the $75 offer was insulting," Back told the Morning News on Wednesday. "We could offer him $225 per game and the $25 win bonus."

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After sneaking this creepy mirror pic at the gym, Cuban says the photo-sneaker promised to delete the photo. It showed up on Twitter instead.

What are those, anyway? Twenty-fives? Shoulder lifts, I'm thinking.

First in an occasional series, What is Mark Cuban Lifting?

When the city, AT&T and golfing legend Lee Trevino gathered at City Hall last November to announce plans for a PGA-caliber golf course in southern Dallas, they were long on such adjectives as "game changer" and "world-class" but short on details, like where the tens of millions of dollars to build the course was going to come from and what exactly they meant by "semi-private."

Those specifics have largely been hammered out, according to a briefing scheduled to be delivered to the City Council on Wednesday. We now know that the course will be run by a nonprofit called The Company of Trinity Forest Golfers, a recently registered organization that shares an address with a financial services firm on McKinney Avenue.

Here are the other things we now know:

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