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Jan. 22 - Jan. 28, 2021 Vol. 19, Issue 22 www.sportspagdfw.com FREE 2 January 22, 2020 - January 28, 2021 | The Sports Page Weekly | Volume 19 Issue 22 | www.sportspagedfw.com | follow us on twitter @sportspagdfw.com Follow us on twitter @sportspagedfw | www.sportspagedfw.com | The Sports Page Weekly | Volume 19 - Issue 22 | January 22, 2021 - January 28, 2021 3 Jan. 22, 2020 - Jan. 28, 2021 AROUND THE AREA Vol. 19, Issue 22 LOCAL NEWS OF INTEREST sportspagedfw.com Established 2002 Texas Motorplex hosts Funny Car Chaos Cover Photo: 4 AROUND THE AREA Funny Car Chaos features a wide open in a vote by the league’s head coaches. array of body styles and engine combina- This marks the 12th occurrence in the last 5 RANGER REPORT tions with an emphasis on safety. The 13 years the Sooners have collected the BY DIC HUMPHREY entertainment value and character of these honor. 6 GOLF, ETC Funny Cars makes them the most popular OU received four first-place votes and BY TOM WARD and identifiable drag racing vehicle on the 34 total points. Texas was picked second planet. with the other three first-place votes and 7 THE AMERICAN EXPRESS The Spell Paving Services 2021 Funny BY PGATOUR.COM Tickets on sale at texasmotorplex.com 33 points. This season marks just the sec- Car Chaos Championship Tour presented Schedule of Events ond (2006) that the top two teams are sepa- 8 TIGERS WOODS UNDERGOES by Red Line Shirt Club and Mears Mazda BACK SURGERY Thursday - March 25 rated by one point since the preseason poll BY PGATOUR.COM Volvo kicks off March 26-27, at the his- Pre-Party in the Pits was first conducted in 2000. toric Texas Motorplex in Ennis, Texas. NFL CONFERENCE 7:00 – 10:00 p.m. Oklahoma State was picked third fol- 9 CHAMPIONSHIP PREDICTIONS This event will make history as the first Friday - March 26 lowed by Baylor in fourth. Texas Tech, BY MIKE MCFEE time Funny Car Chaos and Outlaw Fuel Funny Car Qualifying Iowa State and Kansas rounded out the 2021 NFL HALL OF FAME Altered Series will co-headline two days of 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. preseason selections. Coaches are not 10 BALLOTING HAS BEGUN wild drag racing action. The $250,000 BY MIKE TANIER Outlaw Fuel Altered Qual. allowed to vote for their own team. championship tour will run at eight venues 8:30 p.m. The 2020 Big 12 softball season was 12 COLLEGE FOOTBALL NEWS AND across the country beginning in North NOTES Friday Night Live After Party After Q2 canceled prior to the start of conference BY BO CARTER Texas. Saturday - March 27 play due to COVID-19. Team schedules “We are thrilled to be hosting the AUTO REVIEW Spectator Gates Open for 2021 will be released when available. 17 BY KBB.COM world's only Outlaw Funny Car 10:00 a.m. Championship series with 200+ mph THE TICKET WINDOW Racing Starts 18 ground-pounding nitro action combined Noon with the Outlaw Fuel Altered Series,” said RESTAURANT REVIEW Funny Car Final Qualifier 19 BY RICHARD POLLAK Andy Carter, Texas Motorplex general 2:00 p.m. manager. “We have been building towards Funny Car/Fuel Altered Elims 5:00 p.m. hosting these mega-events for some time Winners Circle now. These two days will feature some of 10:00 p.m. Big 12 Men’s Basketball Schedule the most exciting and unpredictable racing Adjustments action in the country.” The following Big 12 men’s basketball Friday will feature multiple qualifying conference games have been rescheduled. sessions followed by a Friday Night Live Future schedule adjustments will be Follow us on After Party on the starting line open to any announced when available. ticket holder. Fans can meet and mingle Thursday, January 28 Twitter & Facebook with the racers and crews from some of the TCU at Kansas (Big 12 Now on ESPN+), twitter.com/sportspagedfw most entertaining race teams in the coun- try. On Saturday one more Funny Car 7:00 p.m. (originally scheduled for Jan. 26) Sooners the Favorite in Big 12 Softball Chaos qualifier will lead into a wild night Thursday, February 11 facebook.com/sportspageweek- Preseason Poll of racing action. 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Saint Louis SportsPage Weekly, take more than one copy of each SportsPage Weekly issue. 25. Saint Louis 25. Uconn 4 January 22, 2020 - January 28, 2021 | The Sports Page Weekly | Volume 19 Issue 22 | www.sportspagedfw.com | follow us on twitter @sportspagdfw.com RANGERS WITH DIC HUMPHREY The free agent market starting to move Chatwood to a $3.0 million one-year con- Don Sutton died at the age of 75 this week. tract which also provides for $2.5 million Sutton won 323 games over 23 seasons. in performance bonuses. He is most known for his durability. He The other big name free agent to sign started 756 games, third most in baseball was last season’s American League batting history behind Cy Young and Nolan Ryan. champion, D. J. LeMahieu. He re-signed After his playing career ended, he had a with the Yankees – a six year, $90 million marvelous career announcing baseball deal. LeMahieu had been looking for a games for the Atlanta Braves. four year deal at $90 million similar to the In 2020, seven Hall of Fame players contract Josh Donaldson signed with the passed away, the most ever in a year. This Twins last year. LeMahieu and Donaldson year may be just as devastating. In addi- have similar statistics and LeMahieu is tion to Sutton, Hall of Fame manager about the same age that Donaldson was last Tommy Lasorda passed away earlier this year. In the end, the Yankees were willing month. to pay $90 million, but went to six years to NOTABLE: keep the annual value down enabling New • The increased number of day games on York to stay under the luxury tax. the 2021 schedule – six more than any pre- As anticipated, former Ranger right- vious year – may not be all that startling. handed starter Corey Kluber signed with an Besides opening day, there are nine day East Coast team. He accepted a one-year, games on Mondays and Thursdays. There $11 million deal with the Yankees. New have often been as many as six weekday York had at least two holes to fill in their day games in the past, so the increase is Joey Gallo and Isiah Kiner-Falefa were signed before the arbitration deadline rotation. If Kluber returns to the form he just three.