Heading into the 2017-18 offseason, the Cowboys faced several large predicaments. They needed to sign DeMarcus Lawrence. They needed, and still need, to do something about Dez Bryant’s contract. They needed to do something to shore up the team’s linebacking corps and offensive lines after a series of disastrous games…
Finally, finally, the Cowboys’ long battles with the NFL over Ezekiel Elliott’s 2017 domestic violence suspension and Commissioner Roger Goodell’s new contract seem to be coming to an end. Wednesday, as first reported by ESPN’s Adam Schefter, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones agreed to fork over nearly $2 million in legal…
Heading into the 2017-18 offseason, the Rangers had one big goal on the personnel front: signing Japanese two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani. The team, still a few years away from anything beyond fringe contention, wasn’t interested in any of the big domestic free agents and showed as much, electing instead to…
As soon as the Cowboys 2017 season ended, the team had a single priority, one thing it had to do before the 2018 season kicked off. Somehow, it had to secure the services of DeMarcus Lawrence, 2017’s breakthrough defensive star and the Cowboys’ first elite pass rusher since DeMarcus Ware…
Rangers broadcaster C.J. Nitkowski’s social media-inspired comeuppance couldn’t have come as a shock to anyone who’s paid much attention to the former big league vagabond. Since giving up on his Major League dreams and becoming a broadcaster in 2013, Nitkowski has frequently shown himself to be thin-skinned, reactionary and generally…
Former Mavericks President Terdema Ussery, a driving force in the team’s front office for almost two decades, repeatedly harassed, demeaned and made unwanted advances toward multiple team employees before his departure from the club in 2015, a report released by Sports Illustrated on Tuesday night claims. Another team employee, Mavs.com beat…
Without Texas, there wouldn’t have be a Nigerian bobsled team at the 2018 Olympics. In 2016, Seun Adigun, a University of Houston track coach and former track and field Olympian, recruited Mesquite’s Ngozi Onwumere — who served as Nigeria’s flag-bearer in the games’ opening ceremonies — to form Nigeria’s first…
This week the Rangers kick off the long road toward what appears to be an inevitable also-ran finish with the beginning of spring training in Surprise, Arizona. The team’s pitchers and catchers showed up last Wednesday, as required, with position players trickling in over the rest of the week before…
Former Heisman Trophy winner and Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel announced his return to football Wednesday, spurning a potential offer from the Canadian Football League for a spot in the Spring League, a four-game showcase of mostly former NFL players in Austin in late March and early April. “Football has…
As a franchise, the Mavericks have done almost everything. They won a championship in 2011. They fielded one of the worst teams in NBA history, going 11-71 during the 1992-93 season. They made one of the greatest comebacks in NBA Finals history in Game 2 of the 2011 Finals, and…
The Dallas Mavericks, for this season and probably a couple more, aren’t going anywhere. Despite having some good players, including forward Harrison Barnes and star rookie point guard Dennis Smith Jr., the Mavs simply don’t have the talent to compete in a Western Conference that includes two championship-caliber teams —…
Mercifully for Cowboys fans, the 2017 NFL season is over. Like seemingly every Cowboys team with high expectations over the last decade — here’s looking at you, 2008, 2010, 2015 — this year’s team crashed and burned thanks to regressions from key players — hello, Dak Prescott and Dez Bryant…
The Harlem Globetrotters are in Dallas, preparing for a couple of their typically zany basketball exhibitions this weekend. The traveling hoops troop took advantage of some time at the Mavs practice facility Wednesday to show off their ball-handling with an assist from Mavs head coach Rick Carlisle and Dirk Nowitzki…
Seventeen years ago, the Dallas Cowboys and the New England Patriots finished the 2000 NFL season in the same spot, 5-11, well out of the playoff hunt. Both teams featured first-year coaches — Dave Campo for the Cowboys and Bill Belichick for the Patriots. Both teams, although they didn’t know…
Anybody but Philly. That’s the prayer, the mantra, the fondest hope for Cowboys fans as they struggle through another year of dashed hopes. As the Eagles take the field against Minnesota this weekend for the last stop before the Super Bowl, Dallas sports bars will be packed with a wave…
As far as counterfactuals go, it’s one to which Cowboys fans hadn’t given much thought before the 2017 season: What if the Cowboys hadn’t drafted Ezekiel Elliott with the fourth pick of the 2016 draft and had taken the player many experts thought they would, Florida State cornerback Jalen Ramsey?…
Dallas has a long, proud history of Summer Olympics success. Skyline High School’s Michael Johnson is one of the best sprinters of all time. Tamika Catchings starred at Duncanville High School before winning four Olympic gold medals on the basketball court. Nastia Liukin and Madison Kocian both trained at North…
Dallas’ biggest sports story of 2018 isn’t going to be the Cowboys. Jerry Jones isn’t going to fire Jason Garrett, so his team won’t escape mediocrity. It’s not going to be the Mavs, who are still a couple of years away from competing in the NBA’s loaded Western Conference, or…
Like the 2008, 2010 and 2015 Cowboys, the 2017 Cowboys were supposed to be different. They’d learned the lessons of a largely successful yet bitterly disappointing 2016 and were ready to play in the Cowboys’ first NFC Championship Game since the 1995 season. They weren’t different. The 2017 Cowboys, doomed…
As Christmas approaches, the legacy of the 2017 Dallas Cowboys is still in flux. If the Cowboys win their two remaining regular-season games and get some help, they’ll qualify for the playoffs, completing the resurrection of a season that appeared dead on Thanksgiving. If they miss the playoffs, this year’s…
Something happened to the Cowboys for the first time during their 2017 season Sunday night in Oakland: They got lucky. Scrapping for their playoff lives against the Raiders, the Cowboys survived two Dak Prescott interceptions, an injury to All-Pro left tackle Tyron Smith and a 55-yard pass interference penalty that…
After a season that began with Super Bowl-high expectations, the Dallas Cowboys, about to play their 14th game of the year, are left to compete for the NFC’s booby prize, the sixth seed in the playoffs. Even if the Cowboys manage to beat the odds and get in, they’ll face…
