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Fort-Worth Star Telegram — By DREW DAVISON ARLINGTON — With Texas Rangers owner Tom Hicks trying to sell the team, Thursday’s reports that the Hicks Sports Group borrowed millions of dollars from Major League Baseball caused a stir.On Friday, Rangers president Nolan Ryan said he doesn’t expect the team to be sold until after the season, at the earliest."Just because of the process it takes, I don’t expect to see anything happen during the course of the season," Ryan said. "If there is an ownership change, I think it’ll either be in the off-season or sometime next spring."When Ryan was ask...

Fort-Worth Star Telegram — Josh Hamilton will not return to Arlington until Sunday, at the earliest. General manager Jon Daniels said Hamilton, who is recovering from a torn abdominal muscle, would play another rehab game for Triple A Oklahoma today instead of coming back to the Rangers.Hamilton went 1-for-7 with a single and a strikeout Wednesday and 0-for-4 with a strikeout Thursday. On Friday, after a rain delay, Hamilton went 0-for-5 with a strikeout against Iowa."We’d like to have him back and playing, but we just want to make sure we do it right," Daniels said. "We want to give him a fair amount of time. He&...

Fort-Worth Star Telegram — By JEFF WILSON ARLINGTON — The big stage isn’t as intimidating as it was 11 months ago, when Tommy Hunter made his third big-league start in Boston.It was a quick one, too: 1 2/3 innings, seven hits, nine runs.But the right-hander found himself making his third start of 2009 on Friday night in front of a Rangers Ballpark in Arlington crowd bigger than what Fenway Park can hold. Hunter was pitching against the defending American League champions, so the stage again was pretty big.Tampa Bay, though, learned the difference a year can make — as well as the ability to throw four...

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Fort-Worth Star Telegram — By JEFF WILSON DES MOINES, Iowa — The latest wave of doom and gloom concerning Hicks Sports Group takes its origins from a caller to a satellite radio talk show who alleged that the Texas Rangers needed a $15 million loan from Major League Baseball simply to pay their employees this week.A report by Yahoo Sports cites a baseball source who claims that owner Tom Hicks won’t be controlling the Rangers much longer.All the while, though, the Rangers spent aggressively at Thursday’s deadline to sign international free agents, and the Dallas Stars committed $2.75 million over two ...