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Sometimes, things are delightful for their simplicity. Cowboys’ receiver Cole Beasley’s response to a Twitter heckler Sunday was definitely one of those times. Beasley made his first fumble of the year Sunday afternoon against the Jaguars. Twitter user @massot15 thought Beasley needed to know he should hold onto the ball…

London games, at least from the various couches I’ve watched them on, are always odd. English fans, to their credit, are always enthusiastic, but their cheers are usually half-a-beat off. The extra quarter-of-a-second they need to process what happens on the field, combined with the generally terrible Wembly Stadium pitch…

The Dallas Cowboys, complete with their famous silver trousers, play their first game in London on Sunday. You should tear yourself away from Swansea vs. Arsenal (or as they would call it in America, “Swans – Gooners”) and watch a man with a malfunctioning spine attempt to defeat a team…

Everything you need to know about Michael Furrh you can learn from his outgoing voicemail message: Caddie Master at Caddie Club; golf ambassador for Rolling Hills Country Club; Guinness World Record holder. Hopefully you didn’t get bored and hang up, because that last part is key. At Arlington’s Rolling Hills…

Here’s another reason hockey is my favorite thing. See also: Our British Texan Falls in Love With the Stars Hockey has some real pantomime villains. Soccer, sure, there were some bad guys. Luis Suarez, for instance, is very keen on biting people, as you do. He was also suspended for…

One of the realities of the salary-cap era in the NFL is that flawed teams can still win Super Bowls. The 2011 Giants lost seven games. The 2012 Ravens lost six, as did the 2010 Packers and the 2007 Giants. If a team can do one thing really, really well,…

Here are some other things I like about ice hockey. See Also: Our Englishman Falls In Love With Weird-Ass Hockey There are approximately 11 billion shots per game (I discovered this number using a complex analysis that may or may not be flawed). There are so many shots that you…

First, the obvious. In last night’s loss to Washington, there were a few very small things that could have shifted the outcome in the Cowboys favor. If DeMarco Murray doesn’t fumble inside the 10 with just under 13 minutes left in the second quarter, the Cowboys probably win the game…

Several local and national Native American leaders were out to protest the Washington vs. Cowboys game on Monday night in Arlington. Their objection? The Washington team’s name, which is a long-held racial slur toward indigenous peoples. The name that starts with the letter R. You know the one we’re talking…

If you’ve read anything about the 2014 Cowboys, here or elsewhere, you’ve seen it repeated multiple times: The Cowboys are off to their best start since 2007. That team, which at 13-3 had the club’s best regular-season record since the Super Bowl-winning 1992 team, is easily forgotten. It faded down…

Two years ago, when I arrived in the States from the UK, I had a very vague idea of what ice hockey was. I was, though, sure that it was one of the most far-fetched sports out there. While most sports are played on the sort of easily accessible field…

In a move that’s a bit like Fiskars hiring Michael Irvin as a spokesman , MeUndies, a Los Angeles-based underwear company, is bringing on Cowboys backup running back Joseph Randle to sell $20 pairs of boxer briefs. Randle, who is making $495,000 this season, was arrested last Monday for absconding…

As the Cowboys have marched to their best seven game start since 2007, the accolades have been plentiful and plentifully spread around. DeMarco Murray has, deservedly, been lauded as the second coming of Tony Dorsett with each successive 100-yard performance. The defense is “improved” and “flying to the ball.” Tony…

While the Rangers’ hiring of Pittsburgh Pirates bench coach Jeff Banister to take over Ron Washington’s vacated managerial post didn’t come completely out of nowhere, it’s certainly a surprise. For those outside the organization, the first sign that Banister was a serious candidate for the gig came when he, along…

With the Orioles re-signing shortstop JJ Hardy, what was already thin free agent market at the position became threadbare. Beyond Hanley Ramirez, Asdrubal Cabrera and Stephen Drew the cupboard is largely empty, leaving big-market clubs like the Yankees, Mets, Dodgers and Tigers — all of which will look to sign…

Dude Perfect, the guys behind the 500-foot basketball shot from the top of Reunion Tower, have a new video out featuring Dallas Stars stalwarts Tyler Seguin and Jamie Benn. It’s undeniably cool. The top-line duo bowl a strike with a hockey puck from near center ice, take out targets around…

It happened again. The Cowboys dominated the first two-thirds of a game, just as they did against Tennessee and Houston, and found themselves in a fistfight to the finish. This time it was against the Seahawks in Seattle, a presumably impossible task, but the result was the same. The Cowboys…

It’s a cliche, sure, but in the case of West, Texas’ high school football team, it appears to be true. “The old saying is, what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger,” says David Woodard, West High School’s head football coach. “Our kids have gotten mentally stronger and physically stronger and…

After each of the Cowboys last four games — all wins, sending the team to 4-1 and its best start since 2008 — we’ve heard it: The team is winning because it’s running DeMarco Murray early and often. Even in the third game of the season, when the Rams jumped…

Unfair Park certainly hopes it isn’t a mirage, that the Titans, Rams and Saints aren’t just bad. We really want to believe that the Cowboys victories the last three weeks are a sign of positive things to come. But we’ve been down this road before. We’ve had our expectations soar,…

The signs were there on opening day. Tanner Scheppers, the Rangers’ starting pitcher, was making his first major league start, not because he’d stated a case that he deserved to start the first game of the season, but because of injury. The bullpen, similarly beset by injuries, would melt down…