Getting the obvious out of the way first, the NFL should get rid of the preseason or, at the very least, slim it down to one or two games from the four or five each of the league’s 32 teams play now. If the league wants to claim it takes…
Here’s a big tip ahead of college football’s opening weekend: Don’t sleep on University of North Texas. For the first time since the team’s Hayden Fry-led heyday in the late ’70s, the Mean Green are in position to return to national relevance, thanks to Texas’ best college quarterback, 17 returning…
Thursday night, the Cowboys kicked off the preseason against the 49ers. For Dallas sports fans, at least those capable of looking past the issues that make watching the NFL problematic, it was a good thing. The Cowboys’ first-team offense was ruthlessly efficient in a first-quarter cameo. The starting defense looked…
This hasn’t been the best offseason for the Dallas Cowboys. Jerry and Stephen Jones have been hammered for continuing their partnership with Papa Johns and supporting President Donald Trump and his stand against players kneeling during the national anthem. To make matters worse, last week quarterback Dak Prescott was ablaze…
Art Briles, two years removed from being dumped by Baylor University amid dozens of sexual assault allegations against his players, has another job coaching football. Briles has been hired as head coach of Guelfi Firenze, a team in the Italian American Football League’s first division, the team announced Thursday. “We…
Tuesday is deadline day for Major League Baseball. After 3 p.m., players can’t be traded without first being placed on waivers. For teams in playoff contention, it’s the last chance to reload before a stretch run. For clubs that are hopelessly out of it, like the Rangers, the deadline is…
Jerry and Stephen Jones spent the beginning of last week mining the Dallas Cowboys training camp facility in Oxnard, California. The father-and-son leadership duo made a series of comments, about the Cowboys continued relationship with Papa John’s, President Donald Trump and the national anthem over the week that put their…
During Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones’ annual state of the team news conference Wednesday afternoon in Oxnard, California, one of the biggest questions had to do with crappy delivery pizza. It wasn’t weird or inappropriate either, it’s just where we are in 2018. Jones is one of Papa John’s biggest…
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…
Defensive end Randy Gregory, one of the hardest of all the hard luck Cowboys, is back, just in time for training camp. The NFL announced Tuesday that Gregory, suspended for all but two games of the Cowboys’ 2016 and 2017 seasons, is eligible to join the Cowboys at the team’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…
The fallout from former Papa John’s chairman John Schnatter’s use of the word “n——” during an internal conference call reached Dallas on Friday afternoon. The Texas Rangers, without any comment, ended a longtime promotion that offered fans half-price pizza the day after the team scored seven runs in a game…
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…
This year has been something of a turning point for Major League Baseball. While it’s been almost two decades since the Chicago Cubs hosted the league’s first LGBTQ fan day at Wrigley Field in 2001, this year’s celebrations and events show that acknowledging and celebrating the diversity of baseball’s fan…
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 —…
