"Thomas Ollis "Tom" Hicks, Sr.", is an United States/American 'leveraged buyout' businessman living in Dallas, Texas. Despite Forbes Magazine estimating Hicks' wealth at $1 billion in 2009, Hicks was unable to pay off joint loans of circa £200 million the following year. Hicks co-founded the investment firm, Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst, previously owned 50% of the English football club Liverpool F.C., and is chairman of Hicks Holdings LLC, which owns and operates Hicks Sports Group, the company that formerly owned the Texas Rangers (baseball)/Texas Rangers, the Dallas Stars, and the Mesquite Championship Rodeo.

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It's disappointing, it really is. Our players know the rules. They know they are going to be tested. If any of them get caught, shame on them. I am disappointed.

Does the district look significantly different today than it did last year? The simple answer is no, not significantly.

There was a strong and unanimous feeling that this (the incident) was something that could not be repaired.

It was not a big deal. There's not a lot of joy in the Rangerdom right now. That's baseball.

I've suffered right along with all the rest of the fans. We lost like seven one-run games. When we hit, we did not pitch. When there was pitching, there was no hitting.

We asked if we could achieve a championship faster doing this deal or not making this deal. We felt we could make it faster doing this deal.

There is no doubt that the hard work of the Johnson staff and district staff as we implement new teaching and learning strategies is at the heart of this recognition, ... We are very proud of Johnson Elementary and our staff, and we fully anticipate that we will see more success as we move forward.

We have really been moved by so much tragedy that I said to our guys that we need to do something that can lighten their load momentarily and give the people a fun evening. We hope we can get several thousand to come out and have a good time.

We looked at that bad experience and said this is a great opportunity to use a problem solving strategy we're going to use in the future under ISO, a process to resolve issues related to quality.