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I was privy to an interesting conversation between veteran Cowboys safety Gerald Sensabaugh and 2nd year cornerback Orlando Scandrick today in the locker room. The two were talking about how to defend the Eagles passing game. I'm no NFL coach, but I was able to glean this: when playing defense against McNabb, most of the time look for the ball to get there on a line. The two were talking about how to defend when one's back is to the quarter...
DALLAS @ PHILADELPHIA On paper these are two very similar teams with dynamic, young WRs and hot QBs. The Cowboys have the edge in the running game and if Dallas averages over 5 ypc the Cowboys are the 63 percent favorite. However, if the Eagles hold the Cowboys to under 4 ypc Philadelphia is the heavy 70 percent favorite. Donovan McNabb is projected to have an excellent game with 2 TDs and 250 yards passing. If Dallas...
Adam Duerson from si.com wrote an article previewing the Cowboys-Eagles game this Sunday night. His first few paragraphs talk about Romo's record in big games, which he defines as games against teams that finished the season with an above-.500 record. Whether that definitio...
From the Texas Rangers Media Relations Department: Arlington, Texas - Texas Rangers General Manager Jon Daniels formally announced today that the club has named Clint Hurdle as the team's new hitting coach. The hiring fills the only vacancy on the Rangers' 2010 coaching staff. "Clint adds another experienced, successful coach to our major league staff," said Daniels. "He's demonstrated an ability to communic...
The Horned Frogs first test will be this weekend in San Diego State. The Aztecs are 4-4 and are coming off two big wins that make a bowl appearances seem like a reality. "Anytime we have gone to San Diego, it has been a tough ball game...
Nancy Lieberman, once the recipient of the Wade's Trophy, given to the nation's outstanding women's collegiate basketball player will be named as the first female head coach of the NBA Development League. The hiring of Lieberman as the new head coach of the Frisco NBA Development League franchise will mark the historic first of a female head coach in either the NBA or NBA D-League. Team owners Donnie Nelson and Evan Wyly will make th...
So after 8 weeks of the NFL season, we have a pretty good idea of what's going on, right? The Saints, Colts, and Vikings are very good. There are a bunch of teams that area really, really bad. And then a whole lot of teams somewhere in between. But it's interesting to look back at where we were a year ago at this time. Washington began the 2008 season 6-2 (they finished 8-8). Buffalo was 5-2 (finished 7-9). Green Bay started 4-3 (finis...
We were out this morning visiting with June Jones and a couple of the Mustang football players. The turnaround is happening right before our eyes, SMU has a 4-4 record, including 3-1 in Conference USA. We knew Jones would turn the SMU program around -- that's what he does. And they still have some work to do, because while they've won some close games this year, they've also lost a couple in overtime. But coming off back-to-back 1-11 s...
Since Jerry Jones has owend the Cowboys, the team has started the season 5-2 or beter 8 times. The DMN had a nice breakdown of the results. Here you go: 2009 - 5-2: we'll see where this 5-2 start takes them. 2007 - 6-1: 13-3, won NFC East, lost to Giants in playoffs 2003 - 5-2: 10-6, lost in wild card round 1995 - 6-1: 12-4, won Super Bowl XXX 1994 - 6-1: 12-4, lost NFC Championship 1993 - 5-2:...
While Gary Patterson and TCU are stealing all the headlines in DFW, June Jones has the Mustang .500 with a 4-4 record. Check out these photos from their workout on Monday. Everyone should be very happy with the way that the Cowboys dispersed of the Seattle Seahawks. The 38-17 win was done with great efficiency in every aspect of the game. Offensively, Romo had another mistake free game with 10 different receivers getting the ball, the defense made some key stops early in the game and applied pressure constantly on Matt Hasselbeck as they continue to improve, the kicking game was again excellent as David Buehler ...
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This from the Flower Mound Marcus and Flower Mound high school booster clubs. It's for tonight's rivalry game, played at UNT's Fous Field in Denton. Kickoff is 8 pm.
Cowboys head coach Wade Phillips says pro bowl defense tackle Jay Ratliff got hurt in practice yesterday. Its a right knee injury, Ratliff listed as questionable on the team's injury report. If he can't play, its a huge impact on the defense. I did a story that ran on channel 8 on Wednesday centering on the improved pressure the cowboys defense is generating. Several of the cowboys tell me it all starts with the havoc Ratliff...
ESPNDallas.com is reporting that Rusty Greer has interviewed for the Texas Rangers hitting coach position. The former Rangers fan favorite is currently serving as the Assistant Head Coach at Texas Wesleyan University under former teammate Mike Jeffcoat. What does everyone else think about Greer being a possible replacement for Rudy Jaramillo? Greer was a .300 hitter in nine seasons with the Rangers, but does that mean immediate succes...
To say that the Dallas Cowboys and Buffalo Bills No. 1 receivers have been a disappointment this season, would be an understatement. Roy Williams has 12 catches for 230 yards and a touchdown in a Cowboys uniform. T.O. also has only one touchdown with 18 catches for 242 yards. I didn't realize that there such a budding rivalry between the two of them?
Never in the history of sports has eating hot dogs been a bigger story. Move over Kobayashi, Jets rookie Mark Sanchez is coming for you. Does anyone else think this story is just plain dumb? The guy was hungry? He wasn't feeling good. While I can think of better things to eat when feeling queasy, this is not a story. "I wasn't trying to take away from anything the team had going on," Sanchez told the media on Wednesday. "Peo...
This from the webside coldhardfootballfacts.com. I'm just posting it. So whatever you think of this, don't shoot the messenger. But I am interested in your thoughts.
The NFL requires 1,500 pass attempts to quality for "official" league records. Dallas QB Tony Romo, after his team's 37-21 w...
I wrote about this after the Carolina game, and I think it's worth revisiting every once in a while throughout the season. As we all know, one of Tony Romo's goals in the off-season was to work on protecting the ball better. On Sunday, he had his third no-turnover game of the season. Last year, he had only one of those (in the 13 games he played). When Romo's been bad this year, it's been real bad - 4 turnovers against the Giants and 2...
The Dallas Mavericks are expected to be a good team once they get all their players on the floor, but tonight, their start to the season wasn't as good as they hoped. Dirk Nowitzki looked like a one man show at times as he scored points 34 points, but it wasn't enough. The Washington Wizards won the season opener 102-to-91. Shawn Marion's debut in a Dallas uniform produced 16-points, but he got into foul trouble early. Drew Go...
The Dallas Mavericks kicked off another season at the American Airlines tonight. Brue Hornsby played the national anthem which was a nice treat. He had a Steinway Piano at center court. Before tipoff, forward Shawn Marion grabbed the microphone to tell Mavericks fans that the team needed their support this season but he really wanted to wish everyone a Happy Halloween. You might have guessed, he's not very shy. Quinton Ross s...
With their 37-21 win over Atlanta, the Cowboys are now 3-0 under Wade Phillips coming off a bye week. But the winning doesn't stop there. In 2007 (their 13-3 season), the Cowboys didn't play during Week 8 of the season. They returned from the bye and won 38-17 at Philadelphia. Then they won their next two games as well, at the NY Giants (31-20) and home against Washington (28-23). In 2008 (their 9-7 season), the Cowboys were of...
From snap to score it took 8 seconds. It was classic Romo. Taking a risk that nearly ended in no points and a crescendo of boos from a fan base wondering what their quarterback was thinking. Instead, it was a game-changing touchdown that helped propel the Cowboys to their biggest win of this young season. Mesmerizing and magical, Romo eluded a slew of Falcon defenders, and instead of throwing the ball away with time running out in t...
Cowboys linebacker Bradie James says Marcus Spears sack gave the defense a great kick start. The Falcons put together an 8 minute drive for the games first score, but the next time they had the ball, Spears said he took advantage of the Falcons offensive line paying too much attention to Jay Ratliff. "Spears got the first sack and that set the tone," said James. Against a Falcon offense that hadn't given up a sack in 4 games...
The Cowboys have announced a press conference for 4:30 P.M. today. The players had the day off in what is called a "Victory Monday." Wade Phillips just wrapped up his media availability. The Dallas Morning News is reporting that the Cowboys have agreed to terms on an extension with linebacker DeMarcus Ware. Ware led the team with 20 sacks last season. At this time, there is no details on the numbers of the contract. Joe Trah...
While a lot of the defensive attention was put on Keith Brooking playing his old team, it was safety Gerald Sensabaugh coming back from an injured thumb that proved to be vital to the Cowboys win on Sunday. "In the NFL you can't hold anything back. When you hold back, that's when the other team's scoring points. As long as I can play full speed, I'll be out there," stated Sensabaugh after the It's been four years since Mark McGwire elected to "not talk about the past." Since then, the former slugger has been quiet and almost in hiding. Making very few public appearances and electing to not do interviews. It's all about to change! Today, Tony La Russa announced that McGwire will replace Hal McRae as hitting coach for the St. Louis Cardinals. "I don't know how many years I have left to manage, and I wanted to take th...
Football in some ways does mirror life. It is a journey, not a quick moment that defines the result. Hopefully life is long and results in ups and downs that ultimately can be judged as having been a success. But since it is a long process, if you don't enjoy the journey you are wasting valuable time. That's how I feel about a football season. There will be ups and downs and hopefully the end result will be a success. This 37-21 victo...
Once again the college football polls have shown how big of a joke they have become. The mighty USC Trojans have jumped up to No. 4 in both the AP and the USA Today Coaches Poll. With one loss, Pete Carroll and crew are ranked ahead of TCU, Boise State, Cincinnati, and Iowa, who all have no losses. Now I wouldn't have a problem with this if USC had lost to someone decent, but they didn't. The 8th ranked TCU Horned Frogs took a giant leap towards their conference title hopes and a national BCS bid defeating the 16th ranked BYU Cougars 38-7 before a sellout crowd of 64,000 at LaVell Edwards Stadium in Provo, Utah. For the second year in a row the Frogs have defeated the Cougars by a 25 point or better margin. Saturday's 31 point defeat by TCU was BYU's largest margin of lost since a 52-21 loss to Utah November 20, 2004. ...
Cowboy's owner Jerry Jones said yesterday that he turned down an offer for one of his young players before Tuesday's trade deadline and today reports indicate that player was Tight End Martellus Bennett. "I just think that's part of this league and part of things going on the NFL," Bennett says. "I'm happy to be a Cowboy. This is where I want to be so thank you Jerry." The Cincinnati Bengals were apparently the team trying to a...
He's best known as the Cowboy player who once ate a cricket on a bet. And his nickname instantly became "Cricket." I know an almost invisable fullback nicknamed "Cricket" might not hold a great deal of weight to the general public when it comes to his opinion. But "Cricket" might have a point when it comes to the Atlanta game, "We're stronger than they are up front," he told me. "So let's run the ball and impose our will." Cowboys linebacker Keith Brooking says there are plenty of people in the Falcons organization that he still cares about deeply, but he said jokingly he still wants to "bash their heads in" Sunday. The Senoia, Ga native played 11 seasons for the Falcons, after graduating from Georgia Tech. He's all about Atlanta football. He's also incredibly emotional on the football field: see his head-butt into the chest of linebackers coach Reggie...
The Cowboys have been awful in the red zone in the past 3 games. I actually call the area inside the opponents 20 yard line "the green zone." Its where pro players make their money. Given that, the Cowboys are in a red zone recession. 9 trips in the last 3 games have netted just 2 touchdowns, and in 3 of those trips, they came away with no points at all! In this offensive-minded NFL that'll get you beat, unless of course, you're playing ...
He may not be the go to guy on the field, but Roy Williams is proving otherwise in the locker room. More honest talk from the Cowboys highest paid receiver today. Its been a little more than a year since Jerry Jones pulled the trigger on what has become a much-maligned trade. He gave up first, third, and sixth round picks and is paying Williams $45 million over six years. When asked about his performance, Williams said, "It's...
We know turnovers and penalties can kill a football team ... so why aren't the Cowboys dead yet? This is a team that ranks high in penalties and low in turnover margin. Start with the penalties - Dallas is 5th in penalties per game, at 7-point-4. And those flags are costing the Cowboys 66 yards per game, which is 4th worst in the league. 23 different Cowboys players have commtted a total of 37 penalties. Floze...
The honors just keep coming for Tony Romo.....Oh wait, the football honors haven't been coming as of late, but he did pick up some hardware recently from Golf Digest. Romo has been ranked the No. 1 amateur golfer among professional athletes. He beat out the likes of people like Craig Hentrich, Jerry Rice, Mark McGwire, Mike Schmidt, Brett Hull, and The off week creates some real problems for critics and experts of the great game of football. They don't have a game to analyze so they have to pick apart what has been done and guess what is coming up next. That's a tough job because the way the league functions, who knows what to expect? Let's start with the off week practice schedule. Wade Phillips has to do what he thinks is right for this team at this time and sink or swim with t...
I'm guessing Tom Brady has been pretty sick of the questions from the national media lately. Some NFL analysts have been saying that the future hall of famer will never be the same after his injury. If you are going just by what he has done on the field, today proves that he is still the best quarterback in the NFL. It's halftime in New England, but the second half really doesn't need to be played. Brady After another disappointing loss, the Redskins can't keep Jim Zorn, can they? Washington is 2-4, and next week they have a home game against Philadelphia. This column was written in February 2008, right after Zorn was hired. The columnist is so on the money with his criticism of Zorn, that it's almost eerie r...
Tiger Woods spent a few days in North Texas the last few days, even hanging out with the Cowboys after attending the U2 concert Monday night. Cowboys coach Wade Phillips says he enjoyed the opportunity to speak with Woods, who "talked about being a leader." Woods was at the Valley Ranch practice facility on Tuesday after sharing a suite at Cowboys Stadium Monday night with Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo and tight end Jason Witten. ...Cowboys Running back Felix Jones knows the bye week has come at a perfect time. "Right now, I'm just looking at right now," says Jones. Jones hurt his left knee in week three against Carolina, and he hasn't played in a game since. "Well, it's frustrating but this is football, a very physical sport. It's going to happen," says Jones. "It's just how you deal with it and how you come back." Jones says there is a good possibility t...
If you didn't see it last night during the 5:00 newscast, check out Dale poking Oprah with a stick (she's no different than anyone else sitting in that chair when Dale is on set). It was enough to get a mention on the celebrity website, TMZ. You'll have to scroll down a little ways, or just Control+F (find) "Opr...
In the past ten games there is one thing that is clear about the Dallas Cowboys. When Tashard Choice gets touches, he produces. Choice put in another solid performance yesterday running for 92 yards on 8 carries and a score. "That's the story of my career, huh, just making the most of my opportunities,'' Choice told reporters after the game. ``I got in the second half and got to run the football more and got the chance to make some...
Reports out of Austin are that running back Tre' Newton, who suffered a mild concussion, and In his first career start, Miles Austin looked like receivers of the past. Only his performance was better. While it's easy to say that he was playing a winless K.C., no other Cowboys wide receiver has ever topped 250 yards in a game. Austin becomes only the 15th player in NFL history to do it. But more importantly, he might have given the Cowboys some confidence going into the bye week. Let the debate begin. Should the 4th year veter...
Deion Sanders is an NFL Network analyst, and this morning they had him talk about the Dez Bryant situation (Bryant was suspended earlier this week for lying to the NCAA about his relationship with Sanders). The whole interview is transcribed below, but a couple highlights first: Deion: "Now the problem w...
No. 9 TCU opens its fifth season of Mountain West Conference play when it travels Here is what AccuScore is forecasting for the game:
In a recent interview with DallasBasketball.com, Mavs owner Mark Cuban stated that this year's team is better than the 2006 Finals team. While Cuban might be just throwing us all sunshine, it's promising that he would go out on a limb that far. "Trust me, Mavs fans: If we stay healthy, this is a good, good, team. I never make predictions. But our top 12 guys are off...
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