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The Dallas Cowboys cut wide receiver and return specialist Lucky Whitehead late Monday afternoon, shortly after the team completed the first practice of its 2017 training. Whitehead, already on the chopping block thanks to his lack of development as a receiver, gave the team all the excuses it needed to…

Training camp, finally, is here, and everything feels like the early ’90s again. The heat is oppressive, the Rangers are oppressively mediocre and the Cowboys are desperate to get back on the field in hopes that their fans and the media will pay a little less attention to some of…

Daryl Nkemakola Ibeneme, better known as DJ DTrain, has gone underground. After telling police that he was punched in the face during a fight at Clutch in Uptown on Sunday night, Ibeneme has been radio silent. He’s stayed off his usually prolific social media profiles, refused to respond to interview requests…

Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott was involved in a fight Sunday night at the Clutch Dallas bar in Uptown, according to multiple media reports. According to the Dallas Police Department, police responded to the bar on Cedar Spring Road in Uptown at 9:40 p.m. Sunday. Nkemakola Ibeneme, a Dallas…

One of the easiest lines to draw between eras of sports history is before and after free agency in each of the U.S.’ four major leagues. Before free agency, players were stuck with the team that drafted them or signed them out of high school until they retired, were traded…

At some point far into the future, it’s possible that a Dallas Maverick will mean as much to the franchise, and to the city of Dallas, as Dirk Nowitzki. It’s possible, in the same way that it’s possible that Dak Prescott could finish his career with more Super Bowls than…

Dallas Cowboys legend and NFL Hall-of-Famer Emmitt Smith announced Tuesday that he’s leaving the real estate brokerage he helped start in order to start — get this — a new real estate company. Four years ago, Smith founded E Smith Realty Partners with partners Sharon Morrison and Brant Landry. Landry left the…

It’s that time of year again. Early July brings with it one of the deepest lulls on the sports calendar — the days surrounding the MLB All-Star Game are the most barren of the year for sports fans. The only relief is ESPN revealing the athletes they chose for their…

After the Dallas Mavericks’ worst season in 19 years, the team had a top 10 pick in the NBA Draft on Thursday night. The Mavericks didn’t get cute with their selection, either, opting to stay at No. 9 and select the best player available rather than trading their pick, as…

On Wednesday Jerry Jones met the Pope. He was one of a group of NFL Hall of Famers who met Pope Francis in what the Pro Football Hall of Fame is calling The Vatican Huddle. The photos and social media coments are vintage Jones. “Teamwork, fair play and the pursuit of…

For a variety of reasons, Major League Baseball’s annual draft takes place with considerably less fanfare than those of the country’s three other major sports leagues. While the NFL, NBA and NHL drafts are offseason showcases, MLB’s takes place with little pomp and ceremony every June, with picks announced as…

The Rangers made a move Friday afternoon that would’ve been unthinkable at the beginning of the season. The team, reeling from the effects of seven losses in nine games, elected to designate Sam Dyson, one of the cornerstones of the team’s 2015 and 2016 division championships, for assignment, giving it…

On Tuesday afternoon — two months before training camp — the Dallas Cowboys 2017 defense suffered a huge blow. The NFL has suspended David Irving, perhaps the Cowboys’ most physically gifted pass rusher, for the first four games of the upcoming season. Irving, according to the league, violated the NFL’s…

One of the more telling sets of numbers that comes out before any given NFL season is the list of expected win totals for each NFL team set by, as Brent Musberger calls them, our “friends in the desert” in Las Vegas. This year, most sports books have elected to set…

Steve Borden doesn’t fit the mold of the typical Waxachie resident. Unless you happen to think of a pro-wrestler who frequently travels to Dubai and Qatar to fight.

Tony Romo finally won something. On Wednesday, he’ll get his thanks from the Texas Legislature, which will honor the old gunslinger with House Resolution 1464. The resolution, sponsored by Laredo House Representative Richard Raymond, and co-sponsored by local Reps Jeff Leach, Jason Villalba, Matt Krause and Victoria Neave, praises Romo for…

Heading into the first round of the NFL Draft on Thursday, the Cowboys faced a simple yet daunting task:  rebuilding their defense. Between the Cowboys devastating playoff loss to the Packers on January 15 and the beginning of the draft, seven members of the Cowboys 2016 defense caused gaping holes…

No matter what happens over the next three days, the Dallas Cowboys 2017 NFL Draft will not be better than the team’s 2016 draft. Last year, the Cowboys picked up a game-breaking running back in the first round (Ezekiel Elliott), a franchise quarterback (Dak Prescott) in the fourth round and…

“Sorry I’m sweaty,” Mark Cuban says, shaking hands with the ESPN China correspondents waiting for him outside the Mavericks locker room at American Airlines Center. He’s wearing shorts and a sleeveless shirt, just minutes removed from the stair machine he habitually exercises on while taking pregame questions from basketball beat reporters. The two-person…

If the Rangers finish the season behind a competitor by a single game, Sunday’s outing in Seattle against the Mariners will lilt be one fans will wish they had to do over. Somehow, in the span of four hours at Safeco Field, the Rangers managed to cough up both a…