[Editor's Note: It's Spring Break and vacation got in the way of this weekend's reports. Here's something of a different flavor summarizing the two games at once.]
In Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, a book that this author did not read in high school but still got a near-perfect score on the test for thanks to SparkNotes (sorry, Ms. Lux), one character asks another how he went bankrupt. The reply is simple and curt and applies to much in life.
"Gradually, then suddenly."
It seems as though the same could be said about how the Texas Stars tumbled out of first place in the division.