Owner of two high successful Texas sports franchises, Tom Hicks is a longhorn to his soles. The Master Builder Texas Magazine Cover Story on Hicks. He calls owning the teams personal stuff, but these personal acquisitions have captured the public s imagination. Every fan hopes for an owner like Hicks he wants to win and will spend what it takes to do it. Sometimes he goes public with his expectations, placing pressure on his coaches, but on the whole he has been seen as a hands-off owner a healthy antidote to that other Dallas sports mogul, Jerry Jones.
Hicks drive to win seems deeply ingrained, but it s also part of a desire to give something back.
He believes that Dallas deserves to have a fine hockey team, North Texas deserves to have a great baseball team, says Hicks Muse partner Dan Blanks. It s not facetious. He feels he s gained a lot just by being born in this state, and he would like to see it getting better and better. Proving the point, Hicks practically apologized to me during our interview for the fact that he had lost out in the Roger Clemens trade war. Hicks seemed to feel personally accountable to me and all Texas baseball fans.