While Reddit is often maligned, fairly, as the internet's bathroom wall, there are spaces on the sprawling link-sharing site that provide genuine community. One such subreddit is /r/Cowboys. /r/Cowboys is a happy place, full of goofy inside jokes like the deification of Cowboys kicker Dan Bailey and the shared experiences of a fan base that's gone more than 20 years without an NFC Championship game experience. The subreddit's members are often genuinely insightful about the latest tidbit of news out of Frisco, Arlington or Oxnard. Stop by whenever you need a quick look at the Cowboys universe.

The painful truth is that Dallas is terrible for disc golf and has earned its reputation for offering few places to play. BB Owen takes the prize for the city's best, beating out the one in Oak Cliff with drainage tunnels crowded with homeless people. Still, the short course is fun to play, and there are no pesky hills to wear you down in the heat. The flat terrain and straight holes are good for beginners and seasoned players who want to calibrate the range of their throws without impediment.

Readers' Pick Oak Cliff Founders Park

If you want luxury, air conditioning, a coffee shop, a concealed-carry class or to rent a machine gun to try out, take your fat wallet up to Frisco Gun Club, the country club of DFW gun ranges. We, however, prefer to do our shooting in the great outdoors, where we're not hammered by the concussion of our neighbors' cannons and, to be honest, we can get a little more privacy. Better still, we like value for our shooting. (If you think golf is an expensive hobby, you haven't priced ammo lately.) For $15 Garland Public Shooting Range will let you shoot all day — you can even come and go during the day on a single pass — and it rents a variety of guns to try for another $15 all day. (You have to buy the range's ammo for its rental guns, but that's SOP at gun ranges, and the prices are reasonable.) Spotting scopes, safety glasses and ear protection can be rented for $2 each. It offers pistol, rifle and skeet stations and is open 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. every day. Yes, that includes Christmas, which is actually a pretty busy day. Hey, if Santa leaves you a sweet Sig under the tree, you don't want to have to wait around to try it out. We're all just kids at heart.

Readers' Pick DFW Gun Range and Training Center

Tanking in pro sports is often like Fight Club. The first rule of doing it is not talking about it. That's what made Mavericks owner Mark Cuban's May comments so refreshing. Cuban admitted that, once the Mavs were out of playoff contention, the team held veteran players out of games in hopes that the team would lose the rest of its games, increasing its odds in the NBA draft lottery. For their troubles — the team went 2-8 in its last 10 games of the 2016-17 season — the Mavericks landed the ninth pick in the draft, securing the rights to dynamic North Carolina State guard Dennis Smith Jr. Coming off a spectacular performance in the NBA Summer League, Smith appears to have been worth Dirk Nowitzki taking a few minutes off down the stretch.

This is one of our more awkward picks. The fact is, the best sporting goods store is dependent on your sport and how committed you are to it. If you're a serious camper or backpacker, you're going to REI. A cyclist? See you at Richardson Bike Mart or one of the other fine cycling stores in DFW. Training for another marathon? Take those tootsies to Run On! And so it goes. Academy is a big-box generalist in a market filled with niches — not to mention Amazon. Still, for the casual sportsperson who's looking for discounts and a wide selection of goods, those getting ready to try out a new sport or sign their kids up for little league, tailgaters and weekend barbecuers, or those just needing some casual workout togs, the big box has its charms. It has a little bit of everything, tons of locations throughout DFW and the sort of prices one gets by buying in volume, volume, volume.

Readers' Pick Academy Sports + Outdoors

The old-school batting cages at Ellen's in Cedar Hill feature pitch speeds from 45 mph to 85 mph, in addition to both fast- and slow-pitched soft balls. They're cheap as far as batting cages go at $1.50 for 20 pitches and have a comforting, no-frills, low-pressure vibe. You don't feel like you're wasting anybody's time by hacking at slow-pitched meatballs for an hour or two. After taking out your frustrations, be sure to enjoy the complex's miniature golf course, one of the best in DFW.

Readers' Pick Topgolf

Pluckers Old Town is everything a great sports bar should be and nothing it shouldn't. On college football Saturdays and NFL Sundays, the Upper Greenville wing joint has plenty of screens, enough to broadcast any game anyone might have shown up to see. The wings are very good, as are the bevy of fried appetizers and desserts — seriously, the fried mac and cheese and fried Oreos are delicious, despite the self-loathing they might induce later. The beer, available in pints and 34-ounce "Mother Plucker" mugs, is cold and cheap. There isn't anything healthy on the menu, but that would just be a distraction anyway.

Readers' Pick: The Rustic

There are Rangers fans out there who still, somehow, think Joey Gallo is not good at baseball. They're wrong. Gallo may be hitting below .200. He may strike out in nearly 40 percent of his plate appearances. But thanks to his tremendous power, above-average base-running and decent defense, he is still an above-average Major League regular. Gallo is going to hit more than 30 home runs this year while getting on base more than 30 percent of the time and being a great teammate. As he is, he's good enough to be a starter on a winning team. If his game matures and he begins to make more contact, he's capable of being a perennial MLB All-Star.

Quarterback Dak Prescott is the face of the Cowboys, and the Cowboys couldn't be in better hands. After being drafted in the fourth round of the 2016 NFL draft, Prescott led the Cowboys to 13 wins and a division title. He did so while earning the respect of his teammates and his adopted city, charming fans with his easy smile and earnestness that borders on dorkiness — seriously, the guy listens to Train's "Drops of Jupiter" to get fired up before games. Prescott has the game to lead the Cowboys back to the promised land and the personality to etch himself on Dallas' sports Mount Rushmore.

It's time to give the devil his due. In August, Jones went into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He's turned the Cowboys into the world's most valuable sports club at an estimated value of $4.2 billion and finally, thank God, turned over most of the team's day-to-day operations to his son Stephen. The Cowboys play in a beautiful stadium for which the city of Arlington helped to pay and are a money-making machine. If this core of Cowboys players (led by Dak Prescott, Ezekiel Elliott and Dez Bryant) wins a championship, Jones may finally earn forgiveness for chasing Jimmy Johnson out of town after Super Bowl XXVIII.