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2020 American Athletic Conference Football Preview July 31 - August 6, 2020 Vol. 18, Issue 49 www.sportspagdfw.com FREE 2 July 31, 2020 - August 6, 2020 | The Sports Page Weekly | Volume 18 Issue 49 | www.sportspagedfw.com | follow us on twitter @sportspagdfw.com Follow us on twitter @sportspagedfw | www.sportspagedfw.com | The Sports Page Weekly | Volume 18 - Issue 49 | July 31, 2020 - August 6, 2020 3 July 31, 2020 - August 6, 2020 AROUND THE AREA Vol. 18, Issue 49 LOCAL NEWS OF INTEREST sportspagedfw.com Established 2002 No season tickets for Cowboys fans Cover Photo: 4 AROUND THE AREA nity at single-game tickets. If they opt out, completions (2nd, 710), passing yards they can still purchase tickets through the (2nd, 8,565), total offense (2nd, 8,928), TD 5 RANGERS REPORT open platform and retain tenure, seat loca- passes (3rd, 64), passing yards per game BY DIC HUMPHREY tion and associated benefits for the 2021 (5th, 237.9), total TDs responsible for (5th, 6 GOLF, ETC. season and beyond. 70) and completions per game (6th, 19.72). BY TOM WARD Of the 30 quarterbacks named to the PETITION DRIVE LAUNCHED Watch List, only two registered more yards FOR JIM THORPE in 2019 and three threw for more touch- 7 BY BOB WHEELER Dallas Cowboys will not make season downs. QUICK LOOK THE WGC ST JUDE tickets available for 2020 season Buechele has been named to the 8 INVITATIONAL BY PGATOUR.COM Citing limited seating at AT&T Stadium Maxwell and Davey O'Brien Award Watch because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the WGC ST JUDE INVITATIONAL Lists, as well as the Wuerffel Trophy 9 PREVIEW Cowboys announced that season tickets Watch List. He was also selected as CBS BY PGATOUR.COM will resume in 2021. Sports' No. 1 player in the conference AMERICAN ATHLETIC CONFER- The Dallas Cowboys still intend to play Buechele Selected To Manning Award heading into the 2020 season, and the top ENCE FOOTBALL PREVIEW football this year as the NFL attempts an Watch List quarterback in the state of Texas by Dave 10 BY NCAA.COM unprecedented season amid the COVID-19 SMU's Shane Buechele was named to Campbell's Texas Football. Athlon Sports, COLLEGE FOOTBALL NEWS AND pandemic. the Manning Award Watch List Thursday, Dave Campbell's, College Football News 12 NOTES BY BO CARTER There won’t be any Cowboys season the Allstate Sugar Bowl announced. The and Phil Steele's Magazine have named tickets, however. AUTO REVIEW award honors college football quarterbacks him a preseason first-team all-conference 15 BY KBB.COM Citing limited seating at AT&T Stadium and is the only award that takes the candi- selection. that is the result of policies set by the NFL dates' bowl performances into considera- Buechele was a member of the Watch 16 2020 NFL SCHEDULES BY TEAM and guidelines from the government and tion in its balloting. List in 2019 and was twice named to a BY STAFF CDC, the Cowboys on Thursday Buechele returns for his second season Manning Award Star of the Week (Nov. 11 18 THE TICKET WINDOW announced that season tickets won’t be on the Hilltop as SMU's all-time leader in & Sept. 30). available in 2020. They will resume in single-season passing yards (3,929) and Ten finalists will be selected prior to RESTAURANT REVIEW 2021. passing touchdowns (34). He also set the the postseason and the winner will be 19 BY RICHARD POLLAK Cowboys announce that, because capac- program record for single-game passing announced following the College Football ity at AT&T Stadium will be “limited” in touchdowns with six against Temple. Playoff National Championship. In addi- 2020, season tickets aren’t available this Buechele registered 4,034 yards of total tion to the Manning Award's yearly honor, year. Will resume in 2021. Season-ticket offense last season, which ranks second for each week during the regular season, eight Follow us on holders can opt in to purchase limited a Mustang. quarterbacks are recognized as Manning number of seats for limited number of Along with Buechele's touchdown total, Quarterbacks of the Week. Twitter & Facebook he also led the American Athletic games. 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First, the The top two set-up relievers were supposed Marlins have some of their top prospects in to be Rafael Montero and Joely Rodriguez. the 60-man pool. The idea was to keep Both are already on the Injured List. The them active so they would continue to bullpen difficulties are getting more critical develop since there is no minor league by the game. baseball this year. The Marlins don’t want The Rangers woke up Thursday morn- them playing in the Majors for several rea- ing ranking 29th in batting average at .181, sons. 30th in runs scored with 13, and 28th in The next problem is dealing with the 40- home runs with four. There’s blame to go man roster. The 20 or perhaps even more around. Willie Calhoun hasn’t gotten a hit in the pool that aren’t on the 40-man roster yet, and there is concern that he is having must be put on the 40-man in order to join mental difficulties dealing with the pitch in the active roster. Getting them on the 40 the face and broke his jaw in March. isn’t a huge problem as players on the Others expected to be strong contribu- active roster with the Coronavirus can be tors at the top of the batting order are placed on a special Coronavirus Injured Danny Santana batting .059 and Shin-Soo List which takes them off the 40-man.