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Can you spare $350 million?
And you think the Texans' season is going badly? Get a load of what Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is facing, and I'm not talking about whether to fire head coach Wade Phillips (H/T Brad Humphreys): Industry watches as...
Cowboy business
The Texans are the toast of their local cheerleading team, but the unquestioned NFL team of Texas remains the Dallas Cowboys. This Glenn Hunter/D Magazine interview of Cowboys owner Jerry Jones confirms that the Cowboys business model is performing...
Opting out with meaning
Earlier this week, the owners of the National Football League elected to opt out of the final two years of the league's Collective Bargaining Agreement with its Players Association. The Mile High Report and Stacey Brook do good jobs...
Say what, Jerry Jones?
So, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is lobbying the Texas state legislature to intervene on the National Football League's behalf in the league's dispute with the cable companies over carrying the NFL Network's slate of games. As I understand Jones'...
Cheerleading the Cowboys?
We already know that the Chronicle sportswriters lead the nation in pre-season puff pieces about local professional football team. But now the Chron sportswriters are expanding the reach of their incessant cheerleading to Dallas with this soft toss about new...
Super bidding
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is pulling out all of the stops today to convince the other NFL teams owners to award Dallas Super Bowl XLV in 2011 -- Hall of Famer QB Roger Staubach will assist Jones in Dallas'...
Kelo ripples hit the Cowboys stadium project
As noted in this earlier post, the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in Kelo v. City of New London inevitably will have ripples, including the use of government's eminent domain power to increase the value of privately-owned professional sports franchises...
H.R. "Bum" Bright, RIP
H.R. "Bum" Bright, a longtime Dallas-based businessman, died Saturday night at his Highland Park home after a long illness. Mr. Bright was 84 at the time of his death. Although Mr. Bright was best known for his ownership of the...
The $300 Million Cowboys Victory
Lest anyone think that the Big Tuna is in any hot water with Dallas Cowboys' owner Jerry Jones over the rather pathetic turn in the Cowboys' season, Reid Slaughter of the Frontburner makes a persuasive case to the contrary: THE...
The intangible value of professional sports franchises
These prior posts have been following Jerry Jones' efforts throughout this year to obtain lucrative public financing for a new stadium in the Dallas area, which resulted in Arlington voters approving a financing deal for Jones and the Cowboys this...
New Dallas stadium proposal
Following up on this post from a couple of months ago on Dallas' proposal to Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones to build a new stadium in Fair Park for the Cowboys, Professor Sauer posts this analysis of Jones' counter-offer to...
Cowboys back to Fair Park?
This Dallas Morning News article is about the proposal that Dallas officials have made to Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones to bring a new Dallas Cowboys stadium to Fair Park, which is the location of the Cotton Bowl, the stadium...
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