Jake Kemp is here to tell you about Rashan Gary. And Jalen Thompson. But the most important thing he can tell you is, for the time being, the Cowboys' talk of change was real. Suddenly, the offseason is fun again. www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...

New for D Magazine: The Stars’ reinforcements have arrived, and not a moment too soon www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...

Good news: the Stars keep winning in spite of a tragicomic run of injuries. Better news: what happens if this team gets healthy, after two smart deadline moves and a whole lot of adversity? Here's @tiffin.bsky.social doing what he does: www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...

I simply can't believe the guy who made an app to help you "cheat on everything" would turn out to be untrustworthy

We brought out the big guns on the show this week. Kick back with me, @machinesports.bsky.social, and the legendary Dale Hansen for a hell of a conversation about Dale’s one-of-kind career. However much you know about him, you’ll still learn things: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tahk...

I've been thinking about the Rangers' decision to display One Riot, One Ranger, and what it says about who this team is for. So I wrote about that. It's a big ol' bummer. www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...

I've been thinking about the Rangers' decision to display One Riot, One Ranger, and what it says about who this team is for. So I wrote about that. It's a big ol' bummer. www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...

The Mavericks made the Anthony Davis trade for salary relief and draft picks. But what if they landed a player, too? Here’s @boweman55.bsky.social on Marvin Bagley — what he’s brought to Dallas so far and what the chances are of him sticking around in Dallas www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...

So, last week, Jake had a chat with a Mavs fan in a focus group for the new arena. The early ideas include Personal Seat Licenses and every ticket costing north of $95. Read it, and get angry: www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...

A lot of people can write a "what matters in Rangers spring training?" piece. Nobody can do it quite like @zcrizer.bsky.social. Unless, that is, someone else packaged really smart baseball takes in the guise of a minor leaguer writing a letter to his parents. www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...

Does the NFL Combine actually help NFL scouts or does it create for traps to fall into? Let @mikelikessports.bsky.social @machinesports.bsky.social and Voch Lombardi weigh in.

Voch Lombardi is a one of one, and it absolutely ruled having him on this week’s show with @machinesports and me. The most fun Cowboys and draft talk you’ll watch this week. youtu.be/bKJinzNgf7I?...

After entering the 2025 season making me seriously write about Mazi Smith, Dallas enters the 2026 offseason with three good DTs. They all have $20M+ cap hits, the team is over the cap before franchising George Pickens, and the defense still isn't good. Anyway! www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...

The Cowboys' defense has one position of strength: DT. That's not the same thing as saying the Cowboys have DT figured out. Here's @riversmccown.bsky.social on how the new defense will need to solve an old, good problem: three quality starters for two spots. www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...

Apparently Brandon Aubrey has decided that the answer to this question is $10 million www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...

Stars hockey is back tonight, so @seanshapiro.bsky.social called some NHL scouts and coaches to talk about the team, the defense, and, yes, what Dallas might do at the trade deadline. Must-read stuff here www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...

During Christian Parker's intro presser, Brian Schottenheimer talked about wanting to build a new culture on defense. But nailing the DC hire was only the start of that. David Moore is here to tell us what else must happen. www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...

My latest for D Magazine: what the Dallas Stars really need at the 2026 trade deadline, and why it's more than you think, and somehow less than you think. www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...

It's Combine week. Can we all do each other a favor and just take for what it is, and not make it into too much of A Thing? www.youtube.com/shorts/5o3Qo...

Anyone else find it jarring to go from "greatest U.S. men's hockey moment in decades!" to "regular-season NHL games" in 72 hours? Well, we are, which means thinking about what's in front of the Stars. Here's @davidcastillo.bsky.social doing that like only he can: www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...

The Mavericks are back tonight, and they very likely won't win. You can say that about a lot of these next 28 games. So, what stuff is worth watching for the bigger picture? Brian Dameris has you covered. www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...

Behold, an ironclad way to celebrate American gold medal greatness: watching the latest episode of StrongSide: The Show with me, @machinesports.bsky.social, and our dude @ktfuntweets.bsky.social! Lotta Cowboys talk, lotta goofiness, lotta fun: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0CG...

A little backstory from @mikelikessports.bsky.social on my Hannah Bilka story info.dmagazine.com/strongside-h...

The Stars sent seven players to the Olympics. How have they been doing? @tiffin.bsky.social has your one-stop shop on everything that's been going down in Milan. www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...

Gonna declare that @seanshapiro.bsky.social's piece about Miro Heiskanen really, really, *really* wanting his Finnish Olympic moment was indeed prescient www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...

There are few axioms in this business, but one of them is if you don't like @rjandersonwrites.com, you're the asshole. I will miss his writing, but that pales in comparison to how much better he's going to make the Nationals. Hooray, good things happening to good people!

The Cowboys have made it clear that they want to bring Javonte Williams back, on better contract terms. He's earned that. But leave it to Jake Kemp to ask the important question: is it the best use of Dallas' resources? That's more complicated. www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...

Hey, guess what? We got @timcato.bsky.social on the show this week. He knows Mavs things. My cohost, @machinesports.bsky.social, also knows Mavs things. My recommendation to you, a person who wants to know Mavs things -- among other things -- would be to watch us www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQw5...

The Rangers' best prospect is likely out for the season. Just before that, they shipped five interesting ones to Washington. So what exactly is left on the farm, and who could be called upon this season? @zcrizer.bsky.social has the answers. You may not like them. www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...

Miro Heiskanen watched the Four Nations from his couch, surgically-repaired knee still healing. Now in Italy, he's ready for his Olympic moment & a statement that he's been waiting to make on the international stage for years My latest for @dmagazine.bsky.social www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...

When Miro Heiskanen takes the ice for Team Finland today, he’ll be representing his country for the first time in four years. @seanshapiro.bsky.social caught up with him about what these Olympics mean and why it’s all bigger than a possible medal: www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...

Second dose of StrongSide! The NBA trade deadline officially made the Mavericks Cooper Flagg's team. Now what? @boweman55.bsky.social takes stock of the aftermath of the Anthony Davis trade, and what Dallas should do with its newfound flexibility (and draft picks) www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...

The NFL offseason is officially here, and the great David Moore is going on record: this is the year the Cowboys get back to spending a bunch of money. And you can thank Robert Kraft for that. www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...

With the Anthony Davis trade the Mavs are signaling that their priorities have shifted to solely focusing on the future of Cooper Flagg. @mikelikessports.bsky.social @machinesports.bsky.social

Good morning. I wrote one last farewell to Anthony Davis, a dude who will not be remembered fondly for stuff mostly out of his control. He was willing to do some reckless stuff to suit up on a doomed team, and I hope his next stop works out better for him www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...

New show! It's Dallas Open time, so the great John Isner joined us in studio for all kinds of tennis talk. Plus: I get told about the A.D. trade live on camera, and which Olympic sport could @machinesports.bsky.social and I do if we had two years to train? youtu.be/9l5AnA8Ubz0

Jake Kemp on the Anthony Davis trade is as exceptional as you'd expect. www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...

The Stars are back to playing great hockey, except it's different than what we saw to open the year. Here's @tiffin.bsky.social with an outstanding one-stop shop on why Dallas has bounced back so strongly heading into the Olympic break: www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...

Jake Oettinger's Olympic experience begins this week. How did he get there? @seanshapiro.bsky.social spoke with the Stars goalie and his father about a journey that's surprised even them. I thought this part was particularly cool: www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...

StrongSide, The Show is going up a little late this week due to the weather, but @machinesports.bsky.social and I are making it worth your while with the great @zcrizer.bsky.social! Come get the full Rangers lowdown from one of the very best doing it on this team: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slz0...

What should you pay a kicker? Usually, not much. But Brandon Aubrey is an anomaly. What’s that worth to the Cowboys? @riversmccown.bsky.social goes down the contract rabbit hole and comes up with an answer www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...

So, back in 1980, @dmagazine.bsky.social did the definitive story of how the Mavs were founded. It never went online because we didn't have a hard copy to digitize at the time. On Friday, Norm Sonju's son emailed us a bunch of PDFs, and now it's up. A must read: www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...

So, we know MacKenzie Gore has completed the Rangers' rotation. The question now is whether that rotation is strong enough to make a playoff team out of a team with an iffy bullpen and iffier lineup. Good news: @zcrizer.bsky.social thinks it can be. www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...

So much good stuff in Jake Kemp's take on Christian Parker, but this bit may be my favorite. Jake always arrives at a viewpoint I wish I thought of: www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...

Good morning. I am here to get you excited about the MacKenzie Gore trade -- both for what Gore will do on the mound and because he's the sort of asset the Rangers do very well with, at the expense of an asset they don't. This is good. Column: www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...

So, why *have* the Stars been so bad lately? I dispatched the smartest analytical mind covering them, @davidcastillo.bsky.social, to rank every reason behind their slump. This is the piece to read to understand what's going wrong: www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...

Nobody I'd rather read on this

We are halfway through Cooper Flagg's rookie season, which a good time to check in on exactly how good he's been. So here's Brian Dameris doing just that, with insight from a couple Mavs names you know: www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...

Tonight, the Baseball Hall of Fame announces its latest class. It won’t include anyone with a prominent Rangers career. So, who will the next true Rangers Hall of Famer? The great @zcrizer.bsky.social deep dived: www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...

Just became the last man in America to finish Better Call Saul, and it is beyond me how someone could consider Breaking Bad a better show than that. What a masterpiece.