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For about a half-hour Sunday afternoon, it looked like the Cowboys were going to be playing three huge games to close out the 2018 regular season. Less than 15 minutes of game time later, however, those contests in Indianapolis, Arlington and New Jersey had been rendered effectively meaningless, setting up…

Major League Baseball is seriously considering banning infield shifts that put more than two players on either side of second base as early as the 2019 season, according to a lengthy new report from The Athletic’s Jayson Stark. While banning the shift would be the most significant change to MLB…

Do their job Sunday afternoon in Arlington and the Cowboys can make the rest of their 2018 regular season pretty simple. They won’t have to worry, as they did last year, about results in Detroit, Seattle or Carolina, nor will they face the pressure of having to win out merely…

Thursday night’s setup should be familiar for Cowboys fans. Their heroes are in the midst of a mixed bag season. They’re talented, but imperfect, getting ready to face one of the NFL’s gatekeepers. A loss wouldn’t destroy their season, and a win won’t make it, but the result of the…

In 2018, Dallas sports were all about the individual. The city’s usual suspects, the Cowboys, Rangers, Mavericks and Stars, were universally mediocre or worse, leaving sports fans to look for joy in the superlative performances of DFW’s bumper crop of 20-something stars, many who captured spots high on this list…

Jason Garrett’s coaching career is a cockroach. Ugly, basically untouched by evolution and capable of surviving anything short of global annihilation. Two weeks after being left for dead following a desultory performance in a Monday night loss to the Tennessee Titans at home, the Cowboys knocked off the Falcons in…

Through the first 11 games of his NBA career, Mavericks forward Luka Doncic has been a revelation. He’s averaging more than 20 points and six assists per game while making weekly appearances on SportsCenter for his spectacular ball-handling and passing. Doncic appears to be worth everything the Mavericks gave up…

Monday night’s debacle against the Titans wasn’t the last game of the Cowboys’ 2018 season worth paying attention to, as it turns out. Wednesday afternoon, former Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant signed a one-year deal with the New Orleans Saints. On Thursday night, Nov. 29, Bryant and the Saints come…

Monday night was bad enough. In front of an inexplicably enthusiastic crowd at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, the 2018 Dallas Cowboys capitulated, losing 28-14 to the Tennessee Titans. The Cowboys’ season is over because they gave up four touchdowns to an offense that had only scored as many as three…

Can’t touch the net, or even dream of dunking. If named head coach, promises the team would have started the season 0-8. Admits to being only a 50 percent free throw shooter. Nine months ago, didn’t know the name Mark Cuban. Despite that flimsiest of basketball résumés, Cynthia “Cynt” Marshall…

Jon Daniels wasn’t waiting just to wait, as it turns out. Saturday, after USA Today’s Bob Nightengale broke the story, the Rangers general manager confirmed that he’d hired Los Angeles Dodgers third base coach Chris Woodward, less than a week after the Dodgers’ season ended in a five-game World Series…

While Texas Rangers fans still don’t know who’ll get the ball when the club opens its new stadium the season after next, they now know one pitcher it won’t be. Highland Park High School-ex Clayton Kershaw re-signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday afternoon, committing himself to at least…

The Dallas Cowboys fired offensive line coach Paul Alexander on Monday, continuing the bye week shake-up that began with the team trading its 2019 first-round draft pick for Oakland Raiders wide receiver Amari Cooper last week. Alexander got the ax seven games into his Cowboys tenure, following a number of…

After dropping to 3-4 following a dismal performance against the Redskins on Sunday afternoon in D.C., the Cowboys were seemingly left with two choices. Go in the tank, get the best possible pick in the 2019 draft and reload with more than $70 million in salary-cap space during the off-season…

The waiting, at least, is over for Cowboys wide receiver Terrance Williams. Thursday afternoon, the NFL announced that the sixth-year enigma has been suspended three games for his behavior before, during and following an arrest for public intoxication this spring. Frisco police arrested Williams after he flipped head first over…

For the second consecutive year and third in the last four, the Cowboys enter Week 6 of the NFL season at a crossroads. They are, like they were in 2017 and like they were in 2015, 2-3 and lurking on the periphery of the NFC playoff picture. Win Sunday in…

Before the season, an argument could’ve been made that Terrance Williams was going to be the Cowboys’ No. 1 wide receiver in 2018. Despite underachieving during his first five years in Arlington, Williams had a chance to escape Dez Bryant’s shadow for the first time. He still had the game-breaking speed,…

The 2018 Rangers are dead. Out of the race by May, this year’s model of Arlington’s finest limped to a 67-95 finish, ending up last in the American League West. That got their manager fired despite his having won two division championships in four seasons at the helm. They saw…

Texas Rangers manager Jeff Banister has been fired, the Rangers confirmed Friday afternoon. Bench coach Don Wakamatsu will serve as interim manager for the remainder of the 2018 campaign, according to John Blake, the team’s longtime executive vice president of communications. Banister’s dismissal comes after rumors surfaced over the last…

The University of North Texas football team had a chance Saturday to set the table for a season that could put the formerly moribund program on the national map for the first time in decades. All the Mean Green had to do, after starting their season 2-0 with wins over…