Retired star running back Tony Dorsett is one of more than 300 former players suing the National Football League. Dorsett is one of more than a dozen plaintiffs in concussion-related lawsuits with the NFL.
Dorsett says that the league pressured injured players to “get back out” on the field, causing long-term brain damage.
Dorsett recalls a helmet-to-helmet shot that knocked him out cold in the second quarter of a 1984 Cowboys-Eagles game, the hardest hit he ever took during his career.
“Did they know it was a concussion?” he asked rhetorically. “They thought I was half-dead.”
Last night the Mavs got their 2011 Championship rings in a 15-minute pre-gam ceremony. Now you can watch the complete ceremony courtesy of Fox Sports Southwest:
Dirk Nowitzki with another clutch basket in crunch time + the foul vs the Boston Celtics last night. Dirk finished with 16 Pts, 7 Reb, 4 Ast as the Mavs beat the Celtics 90-85.
President Barack Obama saluted Dirk Nowitzki and the Dallas Mavericks today as the NBA champions made the traditional trip to Washington D.C. that the NBA champions make.
One thing was clear in last nights defeat in New York and that is that Doug Free is not a premier left tackle, even though he gets paid like one.
This season he allowed 9.5 sacks and committed six holding penalties and five false starts. The 11 penalties were the most by any Cowboy this season, and makes it back-to-back seasons that Free has had that dubious honor.
“I don’t know how to really answer that at the moment,” Free said after Sunday night’s season-ending loss. “It’s not something that’s running through my mind right now, with the loss and all. It’s not something I’m really concerned about.”
The Cowboys’ season ended Sunday where it began in September at MetLife Stadium. This time it was with a 31-14 loss to the New York Giants, who ripped the NFC East title away with two wins against the Cowboys in the final five weeks.
For the second straight year the Cowboys finished third in the NFC East, but this season was a much greater disappointment because it was another late-season fade. The Cowboys lost four of their last five games to finish 8-8.
Although he expected a win at MetLife Stadium, Jerry Jones emphasized this week that Jason Garrett would continue to be the Cowboys’ head coach regardless of the regular-season finale’s score.
Jones didn’t change his mind after a 31-14 loss to the New York Giants with the NFC East title on the line, ending the Cowboys’ season with an 8-8 record.
When Kobe Bryant got word that the Lakers had traded away Lamar Odom this past offseason, he let it be known that he wasn’t too pleased with management’s decision to send last season’s Sixth Man of the Year to the Dallas Mavericks for very little in return.
However, based on the way Odom has performed thus far with his new team, maybe the trade turned out to be a blessing in disguise. As it turns out, Odom is having trouble just getting from one end of the court to the other.
There will be no playoffs for the Dallas Cowboys again this season as they lost 31-14 to the New York Giants, 31-14 in a win-or-go-home game.
What it means?
The Cowboys’ season is over. For the first time since 2004 and 2005 they will miss the playoffs in consecutive seasons. You can blame the five fourth-quarter leads lost during the season, the season-ending injury to running back DeMarco Murray or not taking advantage of a weak schedule.
Draft position:
The Cowboys will have the 14th pick of the NFL draft in April. They are tied with seven other teams at 8-8 but their strength of schedule is .473, which places them at 14.
