Needing OL Help, Cowboys Sniffing Around Former Local Star Brian Waters

veteran Montrae Holland won’t be the answer at right guard in 2011, the Cowboys have begun re-working their offensive line as training camp ends here in San Antonio after this afternoon’s final padded practice at The Alamodome. Yesterday the Cowboys switched veteran Kyle Kosier and rookie 4th-round draft pick David…

2011 Dallas Cowboys Training Camp Day 13: My Top 10 Observer-ations

It wasn’t exactly football, but it was close. Sunday’s Blue-White scrimmage featured a couple of decent hits and some tackling to the ground. For the most part it was 75-percent speed, a juicy appetizer for Thursday’s Cowboys-Broncos pre-season opener  9. By my very unscientific and sorta distracted stat-keeping, Tony Romo…

Whitt’s End: 8.5.11

Whether you’ve reached the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt’s End:*Only at a Cowboys’ training camp can you look on the sidelines one day and see the guys from Deadliest Catch and the next find a dork in an ill-fitting suit and bow…

2011 Dallas Cowboys Training Camp Day 8: My Top 10 Observer-ations

10. Impressed yesterday that — on a players day off — 6th-round draft choice and receiver Dwayne Harris was running sprints and routes. All by his lonesome. 9. Mat McBriar isn’t exactly Rob Ryan, but he’s departing pudgy and heading toward fat. McBriar pulled his hamstring running in last Wednesday’s conditioning…

Rob Ryan’s National Story is a Non-Story

This is what happens when, for the first time in a long time, the Cowboys have no sexy new faces at training camp. Seems every player Dallas signs has already played with Dallas. The hottest topic in San Antonio is … Tony Romo Dez Bryant Jay Ratliff’s weight the Dallas…

Another Heat-Related Fatality. Another Preventable Death?

Still, long after we’ve realized that humans are no match for heat and that even football players aren’t indestructable super heroes, people are dying on football fields. Last week 14-year-old Tyquan Brantley collapsed and died in South Carolina and yesterday in Plano a football assistant coach died, apparently of heat exhaustion…

2011 Dallas Cowboys Training Camp Day 7: My Top 10 Observer-ations

For a couple of anxious minutes last Friday the Cowboys thought they’d signed Nnamdi Asomugha. Then on Monday for a curious second we thought they’d acquired Bears’ receiver/returner Devin Hester. Huh is right. DallasCowboys.com sent out a text/Tweet yesterday announcing “Cowboys Sign Hester!” Hey, look, we all make mistakes. I make…

2011 Dallas Cowboys Training Camp Day 6: My Top 10 Observer-ations

Per the new collective bargaining agreement, the Cowboys are tweaking their San Antonio schedule. Today’s padded practice ends at 4:15 p.m. instead of 5:30. Off day is moved from Wednesday to tomorrow. Plan accordingly. 9. Defensive coordinator Rob Ryan keeps calling cornerback Orlando Scandrick “special.” As in, “He’s a special player.” Scandrick’s…

Calling All Sweethearts: Texas Motor Speedway Wants You

We’ve got the Mavericks dancers, the Cowboys cheerleaders and now — starting today — tryouts to be one of Texas Motor Speedway’s Great American Sweethearts. Like drivers of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series TMS is on the chase this summer, searching for the newest member of the Great American Sweethearts…

Rangers: 2 Losses + 2 Trades = Better Team

Your Rangers lost two of three in Toronto over the weekend, and came out of it a distinctly better team. How’s that? Texas was handcuffed by (again) Brett Cecil Friday night and by Brandon Morrow Sunday afternoon. But more importantly, GM Jon Daniels pulled off two trades that instantly have transformed…

Cowboys Practice in San Antonio Finally

*Look for first-round draft pick Tyron Smith to be signed in time for this afternoon’s practice. He might be signing as we speak. *But as for Stephen Bowen, I hear he’s talking to the Redskins. *Even though Tony Romo and Kevin Ogletree wore backward caps, Dez Bryant donned a headband…

2011 Cowboys Camp Day 2: My Top 10 Observer-ations

10. Was it just me and Fox 4’s Mike Doocy, or was owner Jerry Jones choking up a bit yesterday when talking about the voyage that was lockout negotiations? “We took the boat out into a perfect storm and got the boat back home.” The older he gets, the more…

It’s Off to Camp Chaos for the Cowboys

You think the NFL lockout made you crazy? I submit to you the mind-set of Cowboys linebacker Victor Butler, who last week was so discombobulated that he inexplicably claimed to go eight hours without checking his phone for lockout updates, said he’d almost forgotten his July 29 birthday and developed…

Cowboys Training Camp 2011: Top 5 To-Do List

Arrived in San Antonio this morning and will attend owner Jerry Jones’ State of the Franchise press conference at 3 p.m. in The Alamodome. (After an off-season of relative silence and so many topics to cover, this baby could go 90 minutes.) In the post-lockout NFL, the Cowboys have hit…

Cowboys Stadium Getting Two New Voices in 2011

While the Cowboys cut familiar faces in an attempt to reshape their team on the field, the organization has also decided to give its stadium an audio makeover. Out as Cowboys Stadium public address announcer is Jody Dean, to be replaced by local award-winning sports reporter Roger Emrich. And for the…

In Case You Missed, Say, Popeye Jones

I was sure Cash Sirois was behind RetroMavs.com. But, no: He sends word that Ken Bonzon and Steve Chavera, the webmasters for Your Dallas Mavericks, are behind the champs’ new flashback site, which made its bow yesterday and, so far, features a few video flashbacks (including Popeye Jones and Tony…