Alamo Bowl Meltdown: Boykin Arrested in Bar Melee

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…

The Rangers Were Never Going to Move to Dallas

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…

The Cowboys’ 5 Biggest Thanksgiving Turkeys

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…

Dez Bryant Absolutely Lost It in the Cowboys Locker Room Thursday

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…

New Greg Hardy Photos Are Disgusting, But We Already Knew the Score

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…

Military Displays at Dallas Sporting Events Were Paid Ads

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…

What’s Next? A Way Too Early Preview of the 2016 Rangers.

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…

Rangers Dream Season Ends in Seventh Inning Nightmare

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…

The Rangers T-Shirt Arlington Deserves

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…

SMU Returns to NCAA Probation Glory Days

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…

The Cowboys Are Going to Be Fine

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…

10 Most Devastating Sports Injuries in Dallas History

Putting a list together of Dallas most psychically painful sports injuries was no easy task. For injuries to matter to fans — let’s stipulate that every injury matters to the player to whom it happens, especially in the NFL, where contracts aren’t guaranteed — the team being affected needs to…

SMU Stalks Teenagers on Social Media

College football players get scrutinized on social media. That’s one of the anti-perks of taking the world’s highest-profile unpaid internship. Ohio State quarterback Cardale Jones, perhaps the 2015 Heisman Trophy front-runner, is probably most famous for his brutally honest 2012 tweet about not being at Ohio State to “play school.”…