Let’s put this out here: There is no better playoff season in the four major sports than the NHL’s Stanley Cup playoffs. For the next two months, the best of the league’s best will embark on a thrill ride of pain and emotion, of heartbreaking goals, mysterious injuries, and mind-blowing…
The Texas Rangers started 2015 as an abomination. That went 7-14 in April and appeared set to wander as haplessly through the season as they had in 2014. They ended the season as a revelation, reversing what, at the end of July, had been an eight-game American League West deficit…
Texas horse racing, if you believe the people most dependent on it, is now doomed to die a slow death. Thursday morning, the Texas Racing Commission, in a 5-4 vote, decided to take a rule allowing historical racing terminals at Texas horse tracks off the books. Historical racing terminals are…
Dallas and Houston have never officially met in the Super Bowl, but that doesn’t mean we can’t find a good way to pit them against each other ahead of Sunday night’s Super Bowl 50 bonanza. Both metro areas fancy themselves as the state’s No. 1 football hotbed, but which really…
Throughout his Cowboys career, Joseph Randle toed the line between lovable flake — think Mickey Rivers — and toxic malcontent — think Greg Hardy. When he said DeMarco Murray had “left meat on the bone” following Murray’s posting perhaps the best single season by a running back in Cowboys’ history,…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s decision was inevitable. Once state Representative Myra Crownover asked for the AG’s opinion on daily fantasy sports, the opinion could only really come down one obvious way. Paxton, in an opinion issued Monday, says that the games are considered gambling under Texas law. That means…
Sherlock’s Pub closes and, along with it, the Josh Hamilton shrine dies.
For anyone still paying attention to the Dallas Cowboys as they closed out their season with a sad loss to the halfway-trying Washington Redskins on Sunday, the failure of this past season must seem like one of the most disappointing in franchise history. Sure, there have been times when the…
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…
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…
Tuesday’s action at the Texas Racing Commission ended in a push: Four votes for so-called historical racing, four votes against and one abstention. For now, to the chagrin of much of the state’s legislative leadership, the TRC’s regulations still provide for Texas horse tracks to allow patrons to bet on…
“This is a sausage fest,” Tony Romo said to no one in particular. He accepted his Miller Lite from the attendant in this hospitality room in a tucked-away corner of the Radisson Paper Valley hotel in downtown Appleton, Wisc. Romo had looked around the suite and seen that only one…
This is just what Jerry Jones does when he doesn’t have anyone around who will stand up to him. After one of his Cowboys teams has a bit of unexpected success, Jones begins to tinker, trying to find a way to return his beloved team to the Super Bowl promised…
It was fitting, the way the 2015 Cowboys were taken out behind the barn and put out of their misery by the Carolina Panthers, who administered a 33-14. The team that dumped Greg Hardy after he was convicted for beating his ex-girlfriend took out the team that took Hardy on…
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…
Fifteen years later, Dorothy Newton is speaking out about the abuse she suffered at the hands of her ex-husband.
The Cowboys did not do what they needed to do after Tony Romo went down with a collarbone injury during the team’s week two win against the Eagles. They needed to win at least two of the seven games Romo would end up missing. Even one would have been nice…
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…
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…
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…
Joseph Randle, the guy who began 2015 as the Dallas Cowboys’ starting running back, might never play another down for the team, following reports from the NFL that the former Oklahoma State player is facing league discipline. The action stems an incident at a Wichita hotel in February that ended…
It doesn’t feel like it, but the 2015 Cowboys still have everything to play for. Despite the first five games of the season going as badly as they possibly could have, the Cowboys are still in decent shape to win the NFC East. They can still make the franchise’s first…
