Last week, as Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben and Mrs. Butterworth saw their runs as racist caricatures and corporate mascots come to an end, calls began to ring out about a name closer to home. Chicago Tribune columnist and native Texan Steve Chapman started the drumbeat. It’s time, Chapman said, for…
If the Cowboys don’t take the field in 2020, it won’t be anything new for the team’s newest signing. Aldon Smith hasn’t played in an NFL game since 2015, despite being one of the best pure pass rushers to enter the league in decades. The Cowboys, as they have for…
Just like that, Travis Frederick is done as a member of the Dallas Cowboys. The five-time Pro Bowl center announced his retirement Monday afternoon at just 30 years old. Frederick chalked up his decision to walk away to the lingering effects of Guillain-Barré syndrome, an autoimmune disorder with which he…
The true nightmare scenario for the Cowboys’ offseason, the one in which, somehow, Jerry Jones botches the whole thing and forces Cowboys fans to watch as Dak Prescott plays for someone else in 2020, is off the table. As absolutely everyone expected, the Cowboys placed the franchise tag on Prescott…
Things, as you’ve surely noticed, are getting weird. Thursday brought a cascade of bad news, from the critical — the U.S. still isn’t testing nearly enough people for the coronavirus — to the mundane — sports, basically all of them, are canceled for the foreseeable future. Dallas, Texas, the United…
The waiting, always the hardest part, is over for Dallas sports fans. On Thursday, YouTube TV and Sinclair Broadcasting Group, five days removed from an emergency extension that kept Fox Sports Southwest on the streaming service, agreed to a long-term contract extension. That means local broadcasts of the Mavericks, Stars…
The notices began filing into YouTube TV’s subscribers’ inboxes Thursday morning, just after, or just before, the streaming TV service sent out a preemptive tweet. “Starting February 29, 2020,” the email’s third paragraph read, “you will no longer be able to watch live, on demand, or recorded content from your…
Jason Witten isn’t ready to retire again. The legendary tight end, a year removed from his return from the Monday Night Football broadcast booth, said last week that he intends to play in 2020, regardless of whether the Cowboys want him back. Which leads us to this list. No matter…
A little before noon Wednesday, a Twitter account with fewer than 50 followers caught a viral wave and sent Cowboys fans into a panic. Amari Cooper, the team’s star free-agent wide receiver had been, according to @TOffseason, shot “in a parking garage in the Dallas area.” The tweet was bullshit…
Dallas’ hometown team in the Overwatch League, the Dallas Fuel, opened the 2020 competitive season with a two-day festival at the Esports Stadium Arlington. After a less than stellar 10-18 season in 2019, capped by a disappointing 12-loss streak, the Fuel hoped to clinch a pair of wins at home as the first chapter in a redemption story.
It’s officially put up or shut up time for all of you out there who consider yourselves true, degenerate pro football fans. With Patrick Mahomes, Andy Reid and the rest of the Kansas City Chiefs having put the cherry on top of the NFL’s 2020 sundae, it’s time, this weekend,…
Los Angeles Lakers superstar and five-time NBA champion Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash in California Sunday morning, the Los Angeles Times and multiple media outlets confirmed. Four others, according to the Times, died in the crash and have yet to be identified. Bryant was 41 years old. As news…
It’s like they always say, a ballpark’s not a ballpark until it’s branded with its corporate sponsor’s logo. Globe Life Field, the Rangers’ new home, is starting to look a little like a finished article. Thursday, the team released video of the park’s sign being hoisted into place, along with…
The quickest emotion to crowd its way to most Rangers fans’ minds Monday was schadenfreude. The Astros, the team they’d had to watch bring the state of Texas its first World Series championship in 2017, six years after the Rangers gave theirs away, ended up not being so special after…
In 2018, one of the North Texas stops on the PGA Tour was moved to southern Dallas from Las Colinas in Irving. It was the fulfillment of a promise by Trinity Forest Golf Club’s backers that the new course — and the city’s $12 million investment — would attract a premier…
Sometime Wednesday afternoon, the Dallas Cowboys, for the ninth time in their history and their eighth time under the ownership of Jerry Jones, are going to announce that they’ve hired a new head coach. Mike McCarthy, he of a dozen mostly successful seasons and one Super Bowl victory with the…
That was fast. Monday morning, less than 24 hours after the Dallas Cowboys officially severed ties with Jason Garrett, the team’s coaching search is over. According to multiple media reports — the first of which came from Fox Sports scoop machine Jay Glazer — Jerry Jones and company have agreed to…
On the afternoon of New Year’s Day, right about the time the Dallas Stars face off against the Nashville Predators at the Cotton Bowl, the forecast calls for a chance of rain and temperatures in the mid 50s — not balmy, maybe, but well above freezing. Hockey, not to put…
Ask 10 Rangers fans about Ian Kinsler, who retired last week after a decade-plus in Major League Baseball, and you’ll get 10 different answers. Most of them will be bad, something about his lack of hustle maybe or his propensity for popping up. Eventually, someone will bring up his comments…
Being a Dallas sports fan in 2019 is about hope. The good kind that comes from the city’s best-ever crop of young athletes and the bad kind that leads you down the path to still, after all these years, being disappointed by the Cowboys. One of these days, one of…
You probably don’t need reminding, but we’ve been here before. A talented but underperforming Cowboys roster led by Jason Garrett has arrived at a mid- to late-December crossroads. Their record isn’t great, but a single win will get them into the NFL playoffs, a place where strange and stranger things…
This fall, Dallas Stars head coach Jim Montgomery was in trouble. His team, fresh off a surprise performance in the playoffs, began their 2019-20 campaign 1-7-1, striking a blow to their hope of returning to the postseason. Then Montgomery righted the ship, leading his team to a 16-4-2 record in…
