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This week, the hopes, dreams and chatter begin. The 2018 Dallas Cowboys, talented and burdened by expectations and history, are making their way to Oxnard, California, for training camp. Practices begin Thursday, with the team looking to wash the taste of an abysmal 2017 out of its mouth. Real football’s…

During a mid-day game Tuesday at the College Park Center in Arlington, Dallas Wings center Liz Cambage put up the best stat line any Dallas pro basketball player has ever put up. Playing just 37 minutes, Cambage scored a WNBA record 53 points, pulled down 10 rebounds and blocked five…

It wasn’t supposed to be this way. The 2018 Texas Rangers were supposed to be fringe contenders, hanging on to probably false wild card hope until mid-August or early September. They weren’t going to make the playoffs, but they weren’t going to be that bad, either. Instead, it has been…

Hundreds of people will file into Deep Ellum’s Canton Hall on Friday night to listen to three regulars and a special guest — not atypical for a venue that’s slated to host musicians such as Lil B, The Mountain Goats and Kurt Vile over the next couple of months. This…

The Cowboys’ already thin secondary might be getting a bit thinner. Second-year cornerback Marquez White faces a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after allegedly brandishing a gun at a fellow driver on the Dallas North Tollway late last year. White admitted Monday to flashing the gun at…

Rafael Palmeiro has proved something this spring and summer. It’s not exactly clear what. The Rangers legend and North Texas resident has played in about two dozen games for the Cleburne Railroaders, an independent minor league team. Palmeiro is 53 and was strongly linked to steroid use at the end…

By the time Luke Laufenberg sat down at Mia’s, his life was destined to get worse before it got better. “I was eating alone, hoping the pain in my bones would just sort of magically disappear,” Luke says of his lunch in December. “But before I could finish, it was…

Almost three years to the day after first agreeing to a free-agent deal, DeAndre Jordan and the Dallas Mavericks are ready to take the leap again. They agreed over the weekend to a one-year contract for a little more than $24 million, according to multiple reports. If and when the…

In the end, it made too much sense not to happen. Thanks to a trade with the Atlanta Hawks, the Dallas Mavericks came away from the NBA draft Thursday night with the player they’ve coveted throughout the draft process. Luka Doncic is 6-foot-8, has the ball-handling skills of point guard,…

When Dallas Cowboys right guard Zack Martin showed up at The Star in Frisco this week for the team’s first mandatory offseason mini-camp, it was in the air. After sitting out three weeks of organized team activities, the two-time All-Pro was about to get paid. Late Wednesday afternoon, the Cowboys…

Terrell Owens is too flashy, too cocky, too disruptive, too loud, too much, his critics say. Last year, the committee that selects who goes into the National Football League Hall of Fame spent more time deliberating about T.O. — whom they deemed a great player but a bad teammate —…

Depending on what General Manager Jon Daniels does at the trade deadline in July, this week could be the biggest of the Rangers’ season. With meaningful baseball almost certainly done in 2018 and the Rangers unlikely to contend in 2019, the kids the team has picked in the Major League…

An incident Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Terrance Williams will likely never live down started with an empty Lamborghini wrapped around a light pole in the middle of Lebanon Road in Frisco early Saturday morning. Police found the car, a blue 2017 Huracan, and went looking for Williams, the man listed…

The Cowboys’ tumultuous 2017 season had a little of everything. It had two three-game winning streaks and one season-killing, three game losing streak. It featured defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence becoming the All-Pro his backers always thought he could be and wide receiver Dez Bryant taking the fall off the performance…

Pingpong balls will decide the Mavericks’ future Tuesday night, live and in color on ESPN and all of the network’s streaming platforms. Whether fans or pundits like it or not, the NBA’s draft order is still determined, in large part, by chance. If the Mavs get lucky, they could speed…

On Monday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court killed the federal ban on sports betting outside Nevada, and there was, at least on the sports-friendly corners of the internet, much rejoicing. Behavior that, while routine, has been forced into the shadows, is headed for the light, at least in New Jersey,…

Let’s look at the ways Dallas sports have sucked in 2018. The year started with a Cowboys-free NFL playoffs in January. The Mavericks have been historically bad, and the Stars missed the playoffs after a hot start thanks to going 4-13 in March. Southern Methodist University missed the NCAA Tournament…

You know you’re the GOAT when you give a speech at your own funeral. On April 10, the Dallas Mavericks, at the merciful end of the worst season in franchise history, drew their second-largest crowd of the year to American Airlines Center. It certainly wasn’t there to show appreciation for…