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July 2008 ArchivesFrom Ted Madden in Oxnard: Just a little while ago, we finished shooting Dale's one-on-one interview with Cowboys tight end, and real good guy, Jason Witten. One thing he said during the interview that stuck out to me was this: "We have a lot of all-star names, but the team has to be first." It sounds pretty cliché, but earlier this week, when Hansen interviewed linebacker Bradie James, he said almost the exact same thing: tha... * Tomorrow the team will practice at 9:00 a.m. and again at 3:30 p.m.
* Head Coach Wade Phillips will conduct his daily media briefing at 2:45 p.m.
* There will be two practices on Saturday July August 2.
* NFL referees will join the Dallas Cowboys at training camp from July 31-August 2. The NFL referees are tentatively scheduled to give their presentation to the media on Friday Augus... It has finally happened ... and I honestly didn't think it would - Jessica Simpson has come to Oxnard to hang out with her quarterback boyfriend Tony Romo - celebrity gossip sites have the pictures of her and Romo going to dinner this week Romo wears that cap - shirt - and shoes every day...
With the departure of Terry Glenn, the Cowboys receiving corps looks a little different this year, even after not having Glenn all last season. By all accounts Patrick Crayton is the number 2 followed by a clump at 2- how ever many receivers they keep. That list includes Sam Hurd(my pick for #3), Miles Austin, Isaiah Stanback, and Danny Amendola. While driving home from working out this morning, Dola(as we called him at Texas Tech), w...
* Tomorrow the team will practice at 2:30 p.m.
* Head Coach Wade Phillips will conduct his daily media briefing at 5:00 p.m.
* There will be two practices on Saturday July August 2.
* NFL referees will join the Dallas Cowboys at training camp from July 31-August 2. The NFL referees are tentatively scheduled to give their presentation to the media on Friday August 1 following the conclu... I just made a walk through the Cowboys compound here in Oxnard, Calif. to see how others experience of the California Quake went. Just about everyone I spoke with said they felt it and it seemed to be most players' first experience of an earthquake. Greg Ellis tells me that he was doing an interview with former Cowboys VP of Player Personnel , Gil Brandt, and his chair started shaking. Ellis said, "That was pretty cool... It was my f... Our hard-working crew in Oxnard, Calif. has sent back a collection of photos from Tuesday's practice session at Dallas Cowboys training camp:
• With training camp only five days old with today being number six, I find myself(while part of the crew back in Dallas) longing to be in Ox-"nurd"(as Jerry Jones would say). Not only would the weather be a nice break from this 100 degree plus heat, but just to see some football and contact in person would be nice. But, that will not come for a couple of more weeks, so let's have some fun. Not that I am a known analyst, but everyone likes to th...
From all indications, everyone seems to be OK in Oxnard, Calif. after the Los Angeles earthquake (5.4 magnitude just east of LA). I was in our work... NOTE: All times PDT
OXNARD, Calif. (AP) -- Dallas Cowboys cornerback Terence Newman Coach Wade Phillips said Newman got tangled up with a receiver Phillips doesn't consider the injury serious. Newman, who went to his first Pro Bowl last season, left the
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was on with me live last night on Sports Special, and some of you are apparently a little bit ... NOTE: All times are in PDT
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Quotes from Tony Romo: "It's going good, you know guys are working h... The Dallas Cowboys agreed to contract terms with first-round draft The team does not release the terms of player contracts. Both players are expected to report to camp Saturday, although it is unlikely they will be available for the morning practice. The Cowboys have practices scheduled for 9 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. in Oxnard, Calif. ... It is just another example of what a business this game is. Cowboys paid Terry Glenn a lot of money last year when he couldn't play because of a bad knee and they didn't want to do it again. Glenn says he was willing to sign a split contract, get more if he played... less if he didn't. But the Cowboys decided they didn't want to do that either. This is the reality of the NFL game with a salary cap. You can't pay good players... Just another day in paradise and now it really begins. Cowboys have their 1st practice in California today but not before the typical Cowboys opening cermonies. Los Lonely Boys sang the national anthem and there wasn't even a game. A couple thousand fans lined the fence waiting for their favorite players to show up. The 1st day was just helmets and shorts, there's very little hitting in any NFL camp anymore. But tha... WFAA crews in Oxnard, Calif. report the Dallas Cowboys have waived receiver Terry Glenn. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said Friday the team planned to let him go after weeks of a dispute over whether the 34-year-old would sign an injury waiver. Glenn missed all but the final game of the regular season last year after two surgeries on his right knee. He didn't want to sign a waiver that would pay him just $500,000 of... From WFAA's Sean Hamilton in Oxnard: Terrell Owens was one of the last on one field, but still got a huge round of applause. And former Cowboys head coach Dave Campo, now the secondary coach, got a big cheer as did current head coach Wade Phillips. From WFAA's Sean Hamilton in Oxnard: Stephen Jones just walked off the field and says he is going to talk to the Cowboys unsigned rookies and their agents. Firstr-round picks Felix Jones (RB, Arkansas) and Mike Jenkins (CB, South Florida) did not travel with the team to California. Jones is optimistic they will be able to reach deals with both players soon. Update: Stephen Jones not commenting, says Jerry Jones is working on it and he was on the practice field about 4:30 central Friday. ESPN is reporting that Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Terry Glenn has reached an injury settlement agreement with the team. What it means is that Glenn will be in training camp and that if he were to be injured the team would not owe him all of his $1.7 million contract. Previously, the te... Get your popcorn ready! We've got you covered for Cowboys Camp. A good place to start is this story on Jerry Jones and expectations. And of course constant updates here on our sports blog and specifically in the Cowboys s...
Hold your horses. It's not likely this latest reported signing is going to have an impact, heck he probably won't even make the team. But the Dallas Cowboys signed former Princeton quarterback Jeff Terrell. His best hope is to make the practice squad. He was in training camp with the Kansas City Chiefs last year before playing one game for the Austin Wranglers Arena team. The Cowboys have three other quarterbacks in ... No not Jerry Jones, Terrell Owens, Tony Romo, Adam Jones, Wade Phillips or even Leonard Davis... No... it's... Dale Hansen and his shirt with some first thoughts on the Dallas Cowboys 48th training camp. Dale's video blog on the start of Cowboys training camp. ...Wade Phillips: "We have a tougher schedule than the Giants this year... because we won the division." The Cowboys will play all the 1st place teams from the NFC because they won the division. "State of the Team" Press Conference hits 45 minute mark! Wade Phillips: "This isn't last year's team; this is this year's team." No kidding? Presser ends at 7:18 CDT. Opening Ceremonies start tomorrow at 3:30 CDT Wade Phillips just said "the Giants won it all" but was quick to point out that his team only lost 3 games in the regular season last year and the Giants went 4 and 4 their last 8 games. Jerry Jones said that HBO's reality show "Hard Knocks" will not affect the team's preparation at all. Jerry paid homage to Tex Schramm, saying he had a wonderful way of making his team popular and Jones has tried to learn from Tex. No new news on Terry Glenn. Jerry is still in talks with Glenn's agent and hopes something will be resolved soon. Stephen Jones says all the draft picks have been signed with the exception of 1st round picks Felix Jones (RB, Arkansas) and Mike Jenkins (CB, South Florida). Jerry Jones opened the State of the Team presser saying "its great to back in Oxnerd." Not sure why he calls it "Oxnerd" instead of "Oxnard." He also says the next 12 months will be the most exciting time in the history of the franchise. Really? 5 World Championships and the next 12 months will be the most exciting? The Cowboys have landed. Channel 8 Sports Reporter Ted Madden and I just made it back from Point Mugu Naval Air Station where the Cowboys team plane landed at approx 4:40 CDT. After signing autographs for some of the military and their families, they boarded busses and headed to the Residence Inn in Oxnard, CA. We are now gathered at the team hotel awaiting the "State of the Team" press conference to start. It was scheduled to start at 6:0... The Dallas Cowboys have landed at Point Mugu Naval Air Station in California, just south of Oxnard and the team's training site. The team touched down about an hour late due to a problem at DFW. We have lots of video before the Cowboys left DFW like this gem: Coach Wade Phillips kissing his wife goodbye. The Dallas Cowboys waited 44 minutes on the runway at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport before departing just after 2 p.m. The players, coaches and staff boarded their charter to Point Mugu Naval Air Station, just south of where they will train in Oxnard, Calif., shortly after 1 p.m. and sat on the runway from 1:18 p.m. to 2:02 p.m. A problem with some ground equipment prevented them from leaving on time. A team ... From George Riba at DFW Airport: Of course both have contract issues. Jones, the team's top draft pick out of Arkansas, has not yet signed with the team. And Glenn is in a dispute over an injury settlement with owner Jerry Jones. Also of note receiver Sam Hurd and safety... The Cowboys have signed second-round draft pick Martellus Bennett, a tight end from Texas A&M, fourth-round pick Tashard Choice, a running back from Georgia Tech and sixth-round pick Erik Walden, a linebacker from Middle Tennessee State. Still unsigned are first round picks Felix Jones, a running back from Arkansas, and Mike Jenkins, a cornerback from South Florida. Fifth-round pick Orlando Scandrick, a cornerback from Boise ... Here are some of the top storylines to keep an eye out for during the Dallas Cowboys training camp: 1. Adam Jones. Will the suspended corner be reinstated and will he start? 2. Roy Williams. Will the oft-criticized safety be cut as former personnel guru Gil Brandt suggested could happen? 3. Anthony Henry. What will happen to last year's starter at cornerback, will he move to safety to replace Williams or keep his starti... The wait is over. More than six months after the Cowboys playoff loss to the eventual Super Bowl champion New York Giants, the new season is about to begin. This afternoon the Cowboys fly to Point Mugu, Calif., just south of Oxnard where they will train until Aug 12. Much more to come. Maybe some humans actually do work at the NCAA. James Bradshaw, who played on Trinity High School's state champion football team last year, has had his college football scholarship reinstated. Earlier this week the NCAA ruled that his scholarship was not valid because of the way his eighth grade Spanish class was coded on his transcript. Bradshaw's family says the NCAA reinstated the scholarship this afternoon, just in... Rangers are currently playing in Chicago to finish up their series against the White Sox. The game is 3-3 going into the 3rd. Kevin Millwood has just left the game with another "apparent" injury. He wasn't wxactly lights out, and he hasn't been very good since the Rangers decided to pay him $11 million per season. Just wondering, does anyone else seem to notice that when he struggles, he always ends up hurt? I'm just playing d... Gil Brandt is a legend for helping build the Dallas Cowboys from expansion team to America's Team. Now the 29 year Valley Ranch vet, who has made a post-Cowboys career of analyzing football, has a juicy tidbit that has been a bit buried. Brandt said this week that Roy Williams, the Cowboys' Pro Bowl safety, could be released if he doesn't play better during the team's training camp, which starts Friday in Oxnard, Calif. ...As the East Valley Tribune in Arizona puts it, "The Cardinals are trying to 'protect the nest.'" So the team is making fans who want to buy ticket to the Dallas Cowboys game Oct. 12 to also buy tickets to the Cardinals pre-season game Aug. 7 vs. New Orleans. "Our goal is to have as many Cardinal fans in the stadium as possible," the paper quoted a team spokesman as saying. If you remember before the Cardinals moved to t... You know it's the off-season when the Dallas Mavericks are involved in numerous trade rumors. Last week, there was speculation Ron Artest would be next to don the white, blue and black. All the Mavs would have to give up in exchange was Josh Howard and most likely Brandon Bass. Well, another week and another rumor. This time it's Atlanta Hawks forward Josh Smith. This is another deal that would involve Josh Howard. We all heard after H... There are 34 bowl games scheduled for the end of this year and the beginning of 2009, up one from last year. First, that is way too many and means 68 teams will play in bowl games, more than half of 119 eligible schools. The real sign of the excess is the Sun Belt Conference announcing it has signed agreements with three bowls, giving the worst conference in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) a total o... UT Arlington senior infielder David McLeod is the Toughest Batter to Strikeout in the nation. He was named to the honor by the NCAA for the 2008 season. McLeod, a four-year letter winner, struck out only five times in 200 at-bats during his senior season, for a 40-1 at-bat-to-strikeout ratio. The infielder from Houston was named Honorable Mention Southland All-Conference as a senior. McLeod never struck out mo... The Dallas Stars have acquired a former top pick of the Los Angeles Kings. The Stars traded for right wing Lauri Tukonen, a first-round selection (No. 11 overall) in the 2004 Entry Draft by the Kings. Tukonen has skated in five career NHL games with the Kings. The Stars sent left wing Richard Clune, Dallas' third-round selection (No. 71 overall) in the 2005 Entry Draft, to Los Angeles. "Lauri is a promising pros... TCU is the best team in the Mountain West Conference not from the State of Utah. Problem is both BYU and Utah also play in the MWC. Two-time defending conference football champion BYU was predicted to capture its third consecutive title in 2008 in a poll of media members. BYU was 11-2 overall and finished with a top 20 ranking in the final USA Today Coaches (t-14), Associated Press (14) and Harris (18) polls. Not that he needs to be defended, but Cowboys Head Coach Wade Phillips took the extra step to backup quarterback Tony Romo as a hard working, focused quarterback. Speaking to about 650-youth middle school and youth coaches, Phillips drew a nice response when he said Romo hasn't missed a workout in two years that he's been the head coach. "I don't know anything about Jessica," Phillips said, "So don't ask me anything questions... Roy Williams can take a big sigh of relief. The Cowboys safety should be among the Dallas players glad to see New York Giants tight end Jeremy Shockey traded to the New Orleans Saints. The Saints will get second- and fifth-round picks in the 2009 draft. How many times did Shockey just find Williams in space and burn him for a touchdown? I can't count that high. And it's a good move for the Giants who did jus... From the so strange it has to be true department, Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Terrell Owens came to the rescue of a reporter who was hit by a car after the taping of the ESPY awards in LA last week. Read the reporter's account here. ...Todd Dodge's second season as coach of the University of North Texas football team may not be much better than his first - at least if you believe what the coaches in the Sun Belt Conference say. The Mean Green was picked to finish seventh out of eight teams this season in the preseason poll, voted on by the leagues head coaches. Defending conference champion Florida Atlantic is picked to repeat with six of the eight first pl... Finally, six months after the Dallas Cowboys 21-17 playoff loss to the New York Giants the Cowboys head to Oxnard, Calif. for training camp this week. It should be an eventful camp. The Cowboys, by pretty much all prognostications, are a favorite to represent the NFC in Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa February 1. That what you expect from a team coming off a 13-3 season with 13 returning Pro Bowlers and the addition of another Pro... With the Texas Rangers' luck this season calling up position players from the minor leagues and seeing major league performances, Taylor Teagarden's week shouldn't be so surprising. Monday the catcher played in the 2008 XM All-Star Futures Game at Yankee Stadium. Wednesday the University of Texas and Carrollton Creekview High School product was named to the 2008 United States Olympic Baseball Team. Friday he was called... If you're longing for the days of three-pointers and rebounds, the Dallas Mavericks want to get you all decked out for basketball season, and at a deep discount. The Mavs are hosting their summer warehouse blow-out sale at the AAC Saturday. And it is a sale. Hats, t-shirts, sweatshirts, jerseys, jackets and warm-ups will be priced 50-80 percent off the wholesale price. But the real question is will there be some really ... With the trade for Adam Jones and the drafting of Mike Jenkins in the first round, Dallas Cowboys rookie fifth round pick Orlando Scandrick of Boise State could be overlooked. But the Cowboys appear to have made a commitment to the cornerback by signing him to a four-year, $1.85 million contract, according to dallascowboys.com, the team's official site. What's notable about the signing is that the Cowboys customarily don't si... For all the Hank Blalock fans out there, he's finally back, back at third base. With the emergence of Longview native Chris "Crush" Davis at First base, Blalock's career at first base for the Rangers lasted.....0 games. When Blalock originally got hurt in April, the Rangers were playing Ben Broussard(now with the Yankees AAA team) and Chris Shelton(now at Triple-A Oklahoma) at first. At the time, the move seemed right especially with Ramon Vaz... The Dallas Mavericks' Josh Howard and Sacramento Kings' Ron Artest are the same age, 28. Both have been All-Stars. Last season, they averaged very similar statistics, Howard with 19.9 points, 7 rebounds and 2.2 assists per game and Artest with 20.5, 5.8 and 3.5. If you total them with steals and blocks per game Howard has 30.3 and Artest 32.8. That's what I like to compare, their total contributions. Artest has an edge. He als... I watched the morning workout of Darvis Patton, a former TCU sprinter in Arlington today, and was impressed. Of course when you know this guy just ran a 9.89 and a 9.84 at the Olympic trails a few weeks ago, it's easy to be wowed. Patton is a 1996 graduate of Lake Highland and seems to be getting better with age. After all, he failed to make the relay team of his high school track team at a time when Marcus Stiggers was gathering all ... SMU will be hosting some of the best tennis players in history. The Stanford Championships, one of eight events on the 2008 Outback Champions Series, the international champions' tennis circuit featuring tennis stars 30 and older will be played at SMU's Turpin Tennis Stadium. The tournament from October 22-26 will feature a field of eight players that will include Jim Courier, Todd Martin, Mark Philippoussis and defending champ... The Dallas Stars will begin the 2008-08 season against a familiar foe, both a conference rival and former head coach when Ken Hitchcock and the Columbus Blue Jackets come to Dallas Oct. 10 at 7:30 p.m. The Stars will also host nine of the 15 Eastern Conference teams, up from the five inter-conference games the last three seasons. The Stars 41 home games features 20 weekend contests (six Friday, 10 Saturday, four Sunday). ...Former TCU All-American Jake Arrieta and fellow former Horned Frog Eugene Espineli will be playing for the United States Olympic team in next month. TCU is the only school with two former players on the squad. "To be the only university with two players represented on the Olympic baseball team exemplifies the greatness of TCU and the development of players in our program over the years," said TCU head coach Jim Schlossnagle. <... I don't exactly get it, but ESPN's ESPY Awards won't be broadcast until Sunday night despite the ceremony being held last night in Los Angeles. Maybe ESPN was too busy broadcasting the replay of the All-Star Home Run Derby, but the night after the All-Star game, which is virtually devoid of any sports, would seem like the perfect night to broadcast the awards. Instead, ESPN waits until baseball is back from the break. At any ... News 8's Jim Douglas has an interesting story about James Bradshaw, a standout lineman form Trinity High School's state championship team. (Read it and watch video here.) At this point, he's not allowed to attend Arkansas-Pine Bluff next month on a full-scholarship because of a transcript glitch that misidentified a Spani... I did a story on Orville Rogers, a 90-year-old Dallas man who runs competitively. In March, he set a couple records for his age group at a meet in Boston, in the 800 meter run and the mile. Here are a few things about Orville I couldn't fit in the story that were interesting: Orville was named after Orville Wright, one of the Wright brothers. He was a pilot for Braniff Airlines for 32 years, until his retirement in 1977. Branif... It's a little bit of a tease. But if the muggy July weather has you thinking hockey, the Dallas Stars can at least give you something to look forward to. The Dallas Stars announced the team's pre-season schedule today, including four games at American Airlines Center in Dallas. They will play seven pre-season games in 2008 in all. Also announced is that the Stars' four-day training camp will open September 19 at the Frisco Dr ... In the end, the Luis Yanez story follows exactly what your parents always tell you: When you make a mistake, fess up. Yanez, the 19-year-old boxer from Duncanville, will go to Beijing after all as part of the U.S. Olympic boxing team. But here is the key: Yanez agreed to pay a fine, undergo sports counseling and make a public apology. He also will personally apologize to his teammates and keep from making public remarks on th... As if Alex Rodriguez wasn't getting it enough from the New York papers, the Grand Prairie AirHogs baseball team is hosting an "A-Rod & Madonna Night" promotion for tonight's game against the Shreveport Sports. The team will poke fun at the latest gossip about the two mega-stars. One dollar tickets will be offered to any couples coming to the game who claim to "share an agent." Fans will also receive dollar admission i... No matter how many times Michael Young came up in the All-Star Game Tuesday night and stretching past 1:30 Wednesday morning in New York you, or I at least, kept thinking Young would win it. He's simply clutch. I just didn't think it would take to the 15th inning. Two years ago Young was the MVP of the game when he hit a game-winning triple. This time it was a sacrifice fly that gave the Texas Ranger and the American League a ... Ken Hamlin will be a Dallas Cowboy for years to come and that is the right move by owner Jerry Jones. Aside for the obvious benefit of nullifying his off-season designation as the franchise player (which would give him a one-year contract at $4.4 million dollars, the average salary of the league's five highest-paid safeties), which he was not happy about, it provides stability at a position that has plagued the Cowboys since Darren Wo... I watched the home run derby with some friends and fellow sports fans last night, and a few things stand out... After his second home run in the first round, the one that hit the wall behind the right-centerfield seats, the crowd and players went so crazy that the contest was stopped down for a few moments. Again, this was after his second home run. When the first round ended, players from both leagues surroun... The college football season kicks off in a month and a half and the University of North Texas has set the times for its games. The Mean Green begins at a Big 12 school, Kansas State, at 6 p.m. on Aug. 30. UNT's first home game is against Tulsa on Sept. 6 at 6 p.m. Then another big road game at SEC power LSU at 7 p.m. on Sept. 13 in Baton Rouge, La. North Texas begins its Sun Belt Conference schedule hosti... The Josh Hamilton story just keeps getting better. A walk-off home run for a Rangers win over the Angels last week, then Monday night he electrified Yankee Stadium with a barrage of long balls in the first round of the All-Star Home Run Derby. He was in a different league, seemingly at will powering towering blasts to right field, the upper deck and where few balls have ever been hit. He hit 28 total home runs in the... If you're hungry for some insights to UNT football or maybe you're curious about the spread offense or just like a free lunch, then you can dine with North Texas head football coach Todd Dodge Wednesday. Dodge and his staff will have a noon lunch at The Trophy Club Country Club Wednesday to talk about the upcoming football season. The lunch is free, but you must register through UNT. The UNT football team opens its se... USA Boxing Judicial Committee has declined to reinstate Duncanville boxer Luis Yanez to the U.S. Olympic team. There has to be more to the story then Yanez has told. It just doesn't seem right that USA Boxing would kick off a key member because he wanted to help his sister while she battled substance abuse. Sure he there was some call confusion, but something just seems off. It'll be interesting to see what happens in... The Cowboys head to Oxnard, Calif. in a week and a half. It's time to get your fix of Dallas Cowboys football. George Riba takes a look at what some of the players have been up to in the off-season. ...One of the most controversial and outspoken television personalities is out of a job. After 27 years as the lead college basketball analyst for CBS, Billy Packer is being replaced by Clark Kellogg, who has been at CBS for 16 years. He'll call his first Final Four with Jim Nantz in April. It's a bit of a shocking move, but maybe it shouldn't be. As much icon as lightning rod, Packer is both what you want and what you hate in a... Do you have a dog that is ready for the spotlight? Well Texas A&M is looking for a new pooch to replace Reveille VII, who just retired as the school's mascot. Reveille has been a tradition in College Station since 1931. This seventh dog is the fifth consecutive collie to hold the job and the new one will maintain the status as the highest ranking member of the Corps of Cadets, as a Five-Star General. She's also known as "the f... Ian Kinsler just extended his hitting streak to 25 games in the Texas Rangers Sunday game against the Chicago White Sox. That's impressive, but Kinsler may very well be on his way to earning MVP honors this season. There are a lot of interesting story lines on the Rangers this season. Of course Josh Hamilton's evolution from drug addiction to All-Star outfielder and Milton Bradley is having a career year as an outfielder/DH and doing i... The good news is, the Rangers are at home. The bad news is, they're playing another first place team. This is a tough stretch for the Rangers leading into the all-star break, but so far, pretty good. That split with the Angels was a good one, considering who the Rangers' starting pitchers were in each of those four games. The Sox have been playing really well. After sweeping the Cubs a couple weeks ago, they swept the Indians, split fo... The Dallas Mavericks have signed guard Keith McLeod and forward James Singleton. McLeod (6-2, 190) was a member of Montepaschi Siena, the winner of the Italian National Championship in 2007-08. In four games, he averaged 4.5 points, 0.3 rebounds and 0.3 assists in 14.4 minutes in Euroleague play. The four-year pro has played with four NBA teams (Minnesota, Utah, Golden State and Indiana) and holds career averages of 5.5 points, 2.7... |
