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Rangers general manager Jon Daniels seems to be trying to do two things at once. He’s trying to rebuild a major league roster and farm system that desperately need it, that’s his first priority, but he’s also trying to do so without completely ruining his team’s on-field product for four…

David Irving’s loss shouldn’t sting as bad as it does for the Cowboys. He played in just two games in 2018, registering a single sack and a paltry four tackles. Even before the NFL handed him an indefinite suspension Friday afternoon for violating the league’s substance-abuse policy — one of…

With six weeks still to go before the NFL Draft, the Cowboys have already filled one of their biggest offseason needs. Jason Witten, the teams longtime Pro Bowl tight end is coming back after one year in the ESPN’s Monday Night Football broadcast booth. “The fire inside of me to…

When the Texas Rangers’ Double-A minor league affiliate threw its first pitch in Frisco 16 years ago, it was from the ground floor of an impending phenomenon. In its infancy, Stonebriar Centre offered vacant spaces and ample parking. The “$5 Billion Mile” was just a twinkle in some developer’s eye…

According to multiple reports, the Dallas Cowboys are moving on from one of their chief headaches, Terrance Williams, having decided not to pick up the wide receiver’s 2019 option. Williams will become an unrestricted free agent. The Cowboys drafted Williams out of Baylor in 2013, hoping he’d be the speedy,…

Monday, the 2019 Texas Rangers are going to take the field for their first full-squad workout in Arizona, kicking off the rituals that mark the return of spring, and baseball. At the end of the week, they’ll play their first spring training games and begin the process of figuring out…

You, my football-fiending friend, have just survived the toughest weekend of the year: the first with no NFL games of any kind, and the one that stands the longest from training camps in July and the 2019 season’s first weekend in September. The Mavericks aren’t going to make the playoffs,…

Dallas’ XFL franchise is set to make a far bigger front-office hire than anyone could’ve expected when Vince McMahon’s Alpha Entertainment announced plans to revive its football league in December. According to multiple media reports, the league will announce that former University of Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops will be…

It’s hard to overstate what the Dallas Mavericks pulled off Thursday afternoon. In exchange for disgruntled point guard Dennis Smith Jr., Wesley Matthews and DeAndre Jordan and two future first-round draft picks, the Mavs acquired center Kristaps Porzingis, Courtney Lee and Tim Hardaway Jr. from the New York Knicks. Porzingis,…

There are certainly worse places to spend late January than Orlando, but it’s hard to imagine any of the Cowboys coaches and players currently in Florida are all that happy to be there. Like everyone else in the NFL, Dak Prescott, Ezekiel Elliott, Leighton Vander Esch and Jason Garrett would…

At times this year, your faithful Observer sports correspondent was deeply wrong about the Cowboys. Like most of the media, local and otherwise, I declared Dallas’ heroes dead and buried after their Nov. 5 loss to the Titans dropped them to 3-5. Before the season started, I even chided the Cowboys…

Saturday is one of the nights that’s happened far too little for Cowboys fans over the last decade. Their team takes the national stage in prime time in Los Angeles, one upset away from playing in its first NFC Championship Game since January 1996. Defense travels, and the Cowboys have…

Don’t say we didn’t warn you. Here we are, 65 days from being totally sure that Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was going to dump head coach Jason Garrett after the season, and things have done a 180. Up is down, left is right, cats are chasing dogs and Garrett has…

Saturday night’s the thing for the Cowboys. Put together a solid performance — nothing out of line with what they’ve done over the last couple of months — and they’ll get a shot at making 2018 a truly special season. Succumb to history, their worst impulses or the turnover monster,…

The Cotton Bowl will be cool again in a little less than a year — literally and figuratively. Fair Park’s grand old stadium will host the NHL’s 2020 Winter Classic next New Year’s Day, becoming the 12th venue to host the league’s mid-season showcase. The Stars will be the host…

For the vast majority of the 20th century, North Texas had exactly one bowl game. On New Year’s Day or somewhere thereabouts, college football fans would brave weather of varying quality and head to otherwise deserted Fair Park to watch their team play in the Cotton Bowl. In 2003, things…

Globe Life Field, the home of the 2020 Texas Rangers, took another step closer to becoming reality Wednesday, as the club debuted a new rendering of the still-being-built stadium and gave an update on the construction at a holiday party for stadium workers. Rangers Executive Vice President of Business Operations…

Short of spending $600 million in free agency, nothing Texas Rangers general manager Jon Daniels could have done this winter would have turned his team into a contender. The Rangers are simply too many pieces away from competing for the franchise’s first World Series title. What the GM needed to…

The bad news for the University of North Texas football team and their fans is that they have to spend the weekend in Albuquerque. The good news is that, should the Mean Green knock off 10-2 Utah State in the New Mexico Bowl on Saturday afternoon, they’ll do something no…

For about a half-hour Sunday afternoon, it looked like the Cowboys were going to be playing three huge games to close out the 2018 regular season. Less than 15 minutes of game time later, however, those contests in Indianapolis, Arlington and New Jersey had been rendered effectively meaningless, setting up…