Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s decision was inevitable. Once state Representative Myra Crownover asked for the AG’s opinion on daily fantasy sports, the opinion could only really come down one obvious way. Paxton, in an opinion issued Monday, says that the games are considered gambling under Texas law. That means…
Sunday, we are sad to say, was the last day for the Dallas location of Sherlock’s Pub — the one located near NorthPark Center at the corner of U.S. 75 and Park Lane. In a statement, the restaurant group that owns Sherlock’s and its sister locations said that the bar…
For anyone still paying attention to the Dallas Cowboys as they closed out their season with a sad loss to the halfway-trying Washington Redskins on Sunday, the failure of this past season must seem like one of the most disappointing in franchise history. Sure, there have been times when the…
TCU quarterback and Dallas native Trevone Boykin was charged with a felony in San Antonio early Thursday morning after a bar fight spiraled out of control. Like many brawls of its kind, it started with “some jaw jackin’ at the bar about the game” between patrons and members of the team…
It was made up. The fantasy that the Rangers would leave their comfy suburban confines for Dallas’ rough and tumble streets was never going to happen. It was a media story built around the wisp of a rumor that the club and the city were holding some back-channel meetings. People…
Tuesday’s action at the Texas Racing Commission ended in a push: Four votes for so-called historical racing, four votes against and one abstention. For now, to the chagrin of much of the state’s legislative leadership, the TRC’s regulations still provide for Texas horse tracks to allow patrons to bet on…
“This is a sausage fest,” Tony Romo said to no one in particular. He accepted his Miller Lite from the attendant in this hospitality room in a tucked-away corner of the Radisson Paper Valley hotel in downtown Appleton, Wisc. Romo had looked around the suite and seen that only one…
This is just what Jerry Jones does when he doesn’t have anyone around who will stand up to him. After one of his Cowboys teams has a bit of unexpected success, Jones begins to tinker, trying to find a way to return his beloved team to the Super Bowl promised…
It was fitting, the way the 2015 Cowboys were taken out behind the barn and put out of their misery by the Carolina Panthers, who administered a 33-14. The team that dumped Greg Hardy after he was convicted for beating his ex-girlfriend took out the team that took Hardy on…
Every year, sometime around Thanksgiving, local media will trot out a list or two celebrating the Cowboys’ Thanksgiving successes. While remembering Clint Longley’s “mad bomber” game or Jason Garrett’s win against the Packers in 1994 subbing for an injured Troy Aikman is fun, we’re not here to do that. In…
The Cowboys did not do what they needed to do after Tony Romo went down with a collarbone injury during the team’s week two win against the Eagles. They needed to win at least two of the seven games Romo would end up missing. Even one would have been nice…
Dez Bryant is understandably frustrated. His team, this year at least, is bad. The Cowboys are 2-6 and the team’s November has been dominated by Greg Hardy, after the release of further evidence in the defensive end’s alleged beating of Hardy’s ex-girlfriend. Thursday, Bryant took out a lot of that…
Friday afternoon, Deadspin released the staggering body of evidence it’s collected from the state of North Carolina’s case against Dallas Cowboys defensive end Greg Hardy. There are detailed, harrowing statements from witnesses, disturbing evidence of Hardy creating a cover story as his alleged assault on his ex-girlfriend was taking place…
Attend any pro sports event in Dallas, and you’ll be overwhelmed by patriotism. There’s red, white and blue everywhere, the national anthem gets sung with gusto and, if you’re at a Rangers game on the weekends, they’ll wheel out “God Bless America” for the seventh-inning stretch. There are color guards…
Joseph Randle, the guy who began 2015 as the Dallas Cowboys’ starting running back, might never play another down for the team, following reports from the NFL that the former Oklahoma State player is facing league discipline. The action stems an incident at a Wichita hotel in February that ended…
It doesn’t feel like it, but the 2015 Cowboys still have everything to play for. Despite the first five games of the season going as badly as they possibly could have, the Cowboys are still in decent shape to win the NFC East. They can still make the franchise’s first…
Let’s not talk about the end of the 2015 Rangers season. We’ve dissected it too much already. The Rangers should not have made the playoffs. They had the American League’s seventh best run differential. They were lucky, outperforming their Baseball Prospectus third-order record expectation by almost eight wins. The Blue…
The Texas Rangers have never been through anything like the seventh inning of Wednesday afternoon’s ALDS Game 5 with the Toronto Blue Jays. Neither have their fans, not in the 43 years the team has been in Arlington. It was, from the first pitch thrown to Rangers second baseman Rougned…
During the first week of August, when we first starting thinking that the Rangers might conceivably make the playoffs, we were talking about the possibility of a possibility. That they might be able to sneak in if everything broke right, grab the second American League wild card and get lucky…
On Sunday afternoon, with a 9-2 drubbing of division rival Los Angeles Angels, the Texas Rangers clinched the American League West title. Given the Rangers’ performance since their second consecutive World Series appearance in 2011, this should have been cause for unbridled celebration. But as slugger Adrian Beltre was shrieking girlishly under…
Correlation does not equal causation. We know that. But it’s certainly beginning to appear that whenever an SMU athletics program is on the verge of a national breakthrough, it’s also likely on the verge of NCAA sanctions. In the 1980s, the football team that achieved prominence built on the backs…
Ignore it. Ignore (almost) everything that happened in the Cowboys 39-28 loss to the Falcons. Joseph Randle, the team’s newly minted starting running back, is not as good as he looked Sunday. He’s not going to score three touchdowns a game — he may not score six more this season…
