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Breden Morrow: Q&A with the media

6:52 PM Thu, Oct 01, 2009 |
Josh Harvey

Brenden morrow spoke with the media on Thursday after the Stars practice. Dallas get things started this Saturday at home against Nashville.


What are your thoughts on the start of a new season? Just another old regular start, or is there something special about this one?
"I think anytime you start the season there is some excitement. For me, personally not playing for half of the year, I'm looking forward ...



Stephane Robidas signs contract extension

5:09 PM Thu, Oct 01, 2009 |
George Riba

From Dallas Stars:

Dallas Stars General Manager Joe Nieuwendyk announced today that the hockey club has signed defenseman Stephane Robidas to a four-year contract extension worth $13.2 million. This extension puts Robidas under contract through the 2013-14 season.

"We are very happy to sign Stephane to this contract extension," said Nieuwendyk. "He has been a rock for this team on the blue-line and is a key member of our leader...



Athens' favorite son Kevin Till passes away

2:07 PM Thu, Oct 01, 2009 |
Ted Madden

We featured Kevin earlier this year, please take the time to watch his story again. When we talked to him in February, Kevin was a senior at Athens and played on the basketball team. He recently had undergone surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his brain.

Kevin was put on hospice a couple of weeks ago, and passed away this morning. One of the Till's neighbors e...



AccuScore Report: Cowboys vs Broncos

2:05 PM Thu, Oct 01, 2009 |
Josh Harvey


DALLAS @ DENVER
The Broncos are 3-0, but are underdogs at home vs the Cowboys. The Broncos run defense has played surprising well, but they wil have their hands full with Dallas. The Cowboys are averaging over 130 rushing yards. If Denver can limit the Cowboys to under 125 rushing yards they pull close to even with Dallas winning 49 percent. However, if Dallas runs for over 125 yards the Cowboys are heavy 88 pe...



Jerry Jones: Expect Barber to play

2:00 PM Thu, Oct 01, 2009 |
Josh Harvey

According to several media outlets, Jerry Jones stated that he Marion Barber should play this weekend against the Denver Broncos.

From DallasNews.com:

"He did more than we thought," Jones said of Wednesday's practice. "I'm glad he's looking as good as he did. I think we made the right decision last week [not playing Barber against Carolina]."

More to come later tonight w...



Why can't we stop talking about TO?

12:11 PM Thu, Oct 01, 2009 |
Ted Madden

I don't know the answer to this, but I do know that I'm part of the problem....

A couple quick thoughts on Terrell Owens. I think he has the maturity of a 12-year-old, I KNOW that he manipulates the media (in one case it led to him being the lead story on Sports Center), and I thought the Cowboys served themselves well to let him go in the off-season.

But then there's this: when we did a story on DeSoto's Corey Borner -- the y...