Sports
January 16, 2024
Take a Bow, Jerry—the Dallas Cowboys Flamed Out Again
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones wants all the control over America’s Team—even when it means taking credit for another dreadful playoff exit.
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Politics & Policy
July 17, 2023
The Texas Billionaire’s Guide to Befriending Clarence Thomas
Harlan Crow and Jerry Jones have bought access to the Supreme Court justice through carefully curated gifts. What do Michael Dell, Tilman Fertitta, Elon Musk, and others have to offer?
Best Thing in Texas
May 2, 2023
A Dallas Cowboys Scout Got to Draft His Own Son
Chris Vaughn, the team’s assistant director of college scouting, shared the good news with sixth-round pick Deuce Vaughn.
Sports
February 10, 2023
Is a Texas Granny’s Curse Behind the Cowboys’ Super Bowl Drought?
An Arlington native says the Dallas Cowboys won’t win another championship until the team restores her grandmother’s bluebonnet patch.
Sports
January 23, 2023
Another Year, Another Dallas Cowboys Playoff Disaster
After Sunday’s loss, “America’s Team” is now 0–7 in NFL Division Round games since 1996, and 0–3 with Dak Prescott as quarterback.
Texas Icons
January 17, 2023
The Dallas Cowboys Used to Sell NFL Dynasties. Now They Sell Drama.
It’s been almost thirty years since America’s Team last played in the Super Bowl, yet fans remain hooked on Jerry Jones’s soap opera.
Books
November 21, 2022
The Ego Clash That Doomed the Cowboys to Three Decades of Mediocrity
Jimmy Johnson’s memoir, ‘Swagger,’ is another salvo in the catty, decades-long feud between the former coach and Jerry Jones.
Film & TV
March 31, 2022
The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Reality Show Ends Its Run on CMT
‘Making the Team’ was the cable channel’s longest-running reality program. After sixteen seasons, why did it decide to pull the plug?
Sports
February 22, 2022
Jerry Jones Can’t Hide From the Cowboys Voyeurism Scandal
The owner of the NFL’s most valuable franchise is no stranger to controversy. But this time, Jones and his organization have never looked worse.
Sports
January 13, 2022
Can the Cowboys Make It Back to the NFC Title Game for the First Time in 25 Years?
Days before Dallas faces the San Francisco 49ers in the first round, Jerry Jones is already talking Super Bowls.
Sports
September 9, 2021
No Matter How This Season Goes, We’ll Still Be Talking About the Cowboys
With Dak Prescott, Ezekiel Elliott, and DeMarcus Lawrence at full strength, Dallas could be headed back to the playoffs. But first, Tom Brady.
Sports
September 2, 2021
Sportscasting Legend Dale Hansen, Known for His Viral Social Commentary, Signs Off
For 38 years, the famed Dallas newsman’s Cowboys criticism and impassioned pleas on racism, gay rights, and sexual assault were must-see TV.
Sports
January 7, 2020
Dear Cowboys Fans: Here’s How to Psych Yourself Up for the Mike McCarthy Era
Jason Garrett is finally out—and Jerry Jones replaced him with the Jason Garrett of Wisconsin.
Sports
August 7, 2019
The Dallas Cowboys Are About to Enter Salary Cap Hell
Ezekiel Elliott’s holdout is just the beginning of difficult contract decisions the team must soon make about its young stars.
Music
January 17, 2019
With Kaaboo, Jerry Jones Just Launched the Least Hip Music Festival in the Country
Gen-X'ers rejoice: Here's a chance to see all of your favorite 1990s bands in one weekend.
Sports
November 9, 2018
This Angry Letter to Jerry Jones From a Seven-Year-Old Cowboys Fan is Incredible
Tell it how it is, Rylan.
Sports
October 23, 2018
Is There Any Way the Cowboys Won the Amari Cooper Trade?
The team gave up a first-round draft pick for a receiver who’s been anything other than a sure thing in recent years.
The National Podcast of Texas
August 10, 2018
Dale Hansen: ‘The Single Greatest Thing About America Is the Freedom to Protest’
The Dallas-based sportscaster sounded off on NFL protests, Trump calling LeBron dumb, and why he doesn’t ‘stay in his lane’ in this week’s National Podcast of Texas.
Sports
July 31, 2018
Jerry Jones May Have Single-Handedly Blown Up the NFL’s New Anthem Policy
The outspoken Cowboys owner may have finally said too much.
Sports
November 15, 2017
Jerry Jones Has Gone Rogue
The maverick owner has long done things his own way, but his latest challenge to the NFL is his boldest yet.
Sports
August 23, 2017
The Dallas Cowboys’ Comeback
The most exciting Cowboys team in a generation was built, not bought—and that has made all the difference.
Sports
June 21, 2017
Jerry Jones Met With The Pope
The pontiff did not weigh in on if Dez caught the ball during the 2015 playoff game against the Green Bay Packers (but come on, it was a catch).
Sports
September 12, 2016
Here’s Sun in Your Eye
How sunlight streaming into AT&T Stadium may have caused the Cowboys to lose a game.
Sports
August 10, 2016
Art Briles Spotted on the Sidelines of Several NFL Training Camps
The former Baylor coach, relieved of his duties after recommendations from a law firm hired to investigate his program’s sexual assault scandal, has been busy traveling lately.
Sports
April 4, 2016
Some WrestleMania Ticket Holders Were Pretty Mad At Jerry Jones Last Night
WrestleMania’s North Texas stop was not without its hiccups.
Sports
March 24, 2016
If Jerry Jones Thinks A Link Between Football And CTE Is Absurd, He Should Talk To This Cowboy Hall Of Famer
Jerry Jones is a brain-injury truther.
The Daily Post
January 12, 2016
The Newly Created Cowboys Club Will Give You Access To Dallas Cowboys Practices
Hard to see what could go wrong with the Cowboys Club.
Sports
November 23, 2015
Greg Hardy Told Jerry Jones That He’ll “Really Work” To Improve His Behavior, But What Was He Doing Before?
Greg Hardy doesn't seem sorry for his past mistakes, and that behavior is bringing the team down.
Sports
January 13, 2015
New Technology By AT&T Will Make Watching a Game at AT&T Stadium More Like Watching a Game at Home
Whether you’re in the nosebleeds or the luxury boxes, the experience you’re really competing with is your living room.
Sports
January 12, 2015
#JeSuisDez, Marinelli Moving on, and Other Notes From the Last Cowboys Game of the 2014 Season
So much for that, then.
Sports
November 13, 2014
The Star, the Dallas Cowboys’ New Facility in Frisco, Is Jerry Jones’s Latest Monument to His Team
Here's the shiniest new thing in Jones' collection of shiny new things.
The Daily Post
October 23, 2014
Apparently Even Jerry Jones Didn’t Expect the Cowboys to Be Playoff Contenders this Season
If he did, he'd probably have reconsidered turning over his stadium to the NCAA for the college football championship when the Cowboys could still be hosting a home playoff game.
Sports
October 16, 2014
Everything Is Looking Pretty Rosy for the Cowboys*
*Except the shoplifting running backs, declining national popularity, opponents preparing for Ebola, etc.
Sports
September 3, 2014
Michael Sam Is A Dallas Cowboy*
*Practice squad member—which still makes Jerry Jones the most progressively-minded person in the NFL.
Trolling
January 2, 2014
14 Predictions about 2014
What’s Ahead for Rick Perry, Ted Cruz, George Strait, Jerry Jones and other Texans.
Sports
December 16, 2013
Should the Cowboys Fire Jason Garrett Already?
After blowing a 23-point halftime lead to lose at home to a Green Bay Packers team led by a quarterback who wasn't even on the roster a month ago, the question is very much in the air.
Sports
January 25, 2013
The Dallas Cowboys as the Oakland Raiders
Cedric Golden of the Austin American-Statesman wonders when Jerry Jones will "will trade in his designer suits for a set of silver-and-blue warm-ups," a la former Raiders owner Al Davis.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Why the Cowboys Should Go Socialist
Hey Jerry, want to win another Super Bowl? Sell the team to its own fans a la Green Bay Packers, says Dallas Cowboys author Joe Nick Patoski.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Beyoncé to Perform at Super Bowl XLVII
The superstar is playing the halftime show at the Super Bowl this season, and Reliant Stadium is one of two contenders to put on the game again in 2017. All that's missing now? The Texans.
Sports
January 21, 2013
No Wins, No Glory Hole
Cowboys fan and Grantland writer Bryan Curtis ponders Jerry Jones as the contemporary version of the Texas oilman while wondering if the team will ever hit a gusher.
January 21, 2013
Jerry’s Secret? Cowboys Stadium Goes “PINK”
Give me a W! Give me a T! Give me an F! The Dallas Cowboys become the first National Football League team to have its very own in-stadium Victoria's Secret PINK boutique.
Sports
January 21, 2013
How ’Bout Them Cowboys?!
The ones at Cowboys.com, that is. A URL the Dallas Cowboys failed to buy is now a "an online dating community for men who enjoy the same country living lifestyle."
Sports
January 21, 2013
Jerry Jones Will Rap For Pizza
A new Papa John's commercial reveals that Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is every bit as good at rapping as he is at being an NFL general manager.
Sports
January 21, 2013
A Cinematic Ode to Tailgating at Texas Stadium
The documentary America's Parking Lot, which premiered at SXSW, captured the last days of tailgating at Texas Stadium with some of the team's most impassioned fans.
News & Politics
January 21, 2013
Rick Perry and Mark Cuban Are Both More Popular than Jerry Jones
But Tim Tebow is more popular than all of them. Public Policy Polling released the last part of its January Texas voter survey.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Your 2011 Dallas Cowboys: The Five Stages of Grief
Jerry Jones still hasn’t gotten past “denial,” but everybody else who lives and dies with America’s Team is trying to move on.
Sports
January 20, 2013
Texas Primer: The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders
How much are the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders paid per game?
Art
January 20, 2013
Paint by Numbers
How Jerry Jones made Cowboys Stadium into one of the state’s best art galleries. Seriously!
Sports
January 20, 2013
The Devil and Mr. Jones
How about those Cowboys? Ever since the team's egotistical owner, Jerry Jones, fired coach Jimmy Johnson in a fit of pique, the 'Boys have never been on a slippery slope to perdition. But it's die-hard fans like me who are in hell.
Sports
January 20, 2013
Jerry Jones
“I don’t like confrontation, although it’s alleged that I do. But I learned playing football that confrontation is necessary. You’d better get another sport if you don’t acknowledge and accept and willfully go after confrontation.”