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Let’s start by giving credit where credit’s due. For the last seven years, the Cowboys front office has performed spectacularly on draft day. The team’s 2019 roster, arguably the Cowboys’ most talented of the salary cap era, has been built almost exclusively through the draft, with the exception of Amari…

Despite July’s agitation and August’s frustration, it’s hard to imagine now, at the beginning of September, that anyone’s going to remember Ezekiel Elliott’s holdout even six months from now. Wednesday morning, just as the Cowboys began game-week preparations for the New York Giants in earnest, the team announced that it’s…

To the drumbeat of blue-balls fans tortured by a quarter-century of frustrating foreplay, and the backbeat of construction clangabang violently serenading the team’s annual state-of-the-union address, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones set the tone for the 2019 season by … pretending to be deaf. Eschewing traditional softball questions for a…

Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott’s holdout situation — perched in the purgatory between “Don’t worry about it” and “Hey, maybe this is going to be a thing” for most of the offseason — is officially a thing. When the Cowboys wake up Friday morning, there’s going to be nothing…

Everything about Dallas’ new XFL team is warmed over. It’s participating in a once-defunct league in a stadium — Globe Life Park — that would be defunct if not for the XFL saving it from implosion. Its coach, ballyhooed as his prospects once were, won his only college football national…

Tuesday afternoon, the message went out. The Cowboys were planning a press conference to “announce a contract extension for a current member of the team’s roster.” Sound the alarms, right? One of the team’s ongoing contract headaches was about to be solved, bringing the team a step closer to being…

Robert Quinn, the newly acquired pass rushing complement to DeMarcus Lawrence, is the latest in a long line of Dallas Cowboys to run afoul of the NFL performance-enhancing drug policy. Thursday, the league suspended Quinn, who is currently recuperating from a broken hand, for the first two games of the…

After having heard Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones’ interview with KTVT’s Bill Jones on Monday, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the Cowboys not-so-kindly old owner might finally be getting it when it comes to the ongoing drama with running back Ezekiel Elliott. Jones, as children often do, expressed a…

A month ago, there was a legitimate question about what the Rangers should do at Major League Baseball’s July 31 trade deadline. They were solidly in contention for a playoff spot — albeit a wild card — and making fans and media alike wonder whether they’d undervalued what looked, at…

Forget Cowboys training camp in Oxnard. Forget Ezekiel Elliott’s impending holdout, Dak Prescott’s contract worries and Jason Witten’s exhumation from cold storage. Definitely don’t think about Joey Gallo’s injured hamate bone, the trade deadline or how many games in a row the Rangers need to win to get themselves back…

Rangers designated hitter, left fielder and kinda, sorta second baseman Willie Calhoun is going back to the minors, the team announced Tuesday, to make room for Hunter Pence’s return from the injured list. That’s the what. Given Calhoun’s performance since rejoining the Rangers on May 15, the why is much…

Fans of the Dallas Fuel now have more reason to anticipate the Overwatch League 2020 season. Along with a shake-up in the overall league structure, Dallas’ team in the competitive esport will host more home games and finally relocate their operations to North Texas. The Overwatch League, currently one of…

With the Cowboys still two weeks or so from reporting to training camp and the blessed release that comes with the beginning of the regular season almost two months away, 2019’s summer silly season is already in full swing. It’s going to get worse before it gets better. Monday, Pro…

Ezekiel Elliott will not be punished for a May incident during which he was briefly handcuffed by Las Vegas police after knocking over a security guard at a music festival, the NFL announced Wednesday afternoon. Elliott met with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to discuss his actions Tuesday. A bystander video…

Los Angeles Angels starting pitcher Tyler Skaggs died in Texas today, the team announced Monday afternoon. The Rangers and Angels series opener, slated for tonight at 7:05, has been cancelled. “It is with great sorrow that we report Tyler Skaggs passed away earlier today in Texas,” the Angels said in…

It’s officially July. That means feeling your organs slowly cook as Dallas makes its annual transition to a searing, urban hellscape, sneaking up to the most convenient nearby rooftop for fireworks and, most important, the start of Cowboys training camp in Oxnard, California. Football, in a way, is back, making…

Monday night, one of Dallas sports’ biggest-ever sure things turned out to be a sure thing. Luka Doncic, the Mavericks’ preternaturally talented 20-year-old forward, picked up the NBA’s Rookie of the Year Award, putting a bow on what was a rookie season for the ages. As Doncic officially starts down…

Unlike the last couple of seasons, Monday’s Major League Baseball draft hit with the Texas Rangers still playing meaningful games. Headed into their Tuesday night series opener with the league-worst Baltimore Orioles, your hometown heroes are 30-27 and would make the playoffs as the American League’s second wild-card qualifier if…

Every spring in Dallas, one of two things happens: The Dallas Mavericks either play a couple of weeks of playoff basketball or lose the NBA Draft Lottery. No matter how bad the previous season or how good their odds are, the Mavericks never, ever move up so much as a…

As the crow flies, Dallas and St. Louis are separated by 547 miles. In this year’s Stanley Cup Playoffs, the distance between the Stars and the Blues was much closer. Through the first six games of their playoff series, each team had won three games. Each had scored sixteen goals…