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Stars end twenty year drought Sept. 18 - Sept. 24, 2020 Vol. 19, Issue 4 www.sportspagdfw.com FREE 2 September 18, 2020 - September 24, 2020 | The Sports Page Weekly | Volume 19 Issue 4 | www.sportspagedfw.com | follow us on twitter @sportspagdfw.com Follow us on twitter @sportspagedfw | www.sportspagedfw.com | The Sports Page Weekly | Volume 19 - Issue 4 | September 18, 2020 - September 24, 2020 3 Sept. 18, 2020 - Sept.24, 2020 AROUND THE AREA Vol. 19, Issue 4 LOCAL NEWS OF INTEREST sportspagedfw.com Established 2002 Luka Doncic named to All-First Team Cover Photo: 4 AROUND THE AREA rebounds and 8.7 assists in 54 games players' association, the first time the before to the restart (through March 11). sport's championship will be played entire- 5 RANGERS REPORT The 2018-19 Kia NBA Rookie of the Year ly at one site since 1944. BY DIC HUMPHREY saw his numbers increase in the bubble, as As part of an agreement finalized this 6 GOLF, ETC. he nearly averaged a 30-point triple-double week, the Division Series, League BY TOM WARD (30.0 ppg, 10.7 rpg, 9.7 apg) in Orlando en Championship Series and World Series will U.S OPEN PREVIEW route to being named a unanimous Kia be part of a bubble designed to minimize 7 BY PGATOUR.COM NBA All-Seeding Games First Team selec- exposure to the coronavirus, which deci- NINE THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT Luka Doncic named to All-NBA First tion. Doncic finished the regular season mated the regular season and limited it to a WINGEDFOOT Team 9 BY PGATOUR.COM with averages of 28.8 points, 9.4 rebounds 60-game schedule for each club. The best- The NBA announced this week that and 8.8 assists in 61 games (all starts), of-three first round of the postseason -- NFL WEEK 2 PREDICTIONS Mavericks guard Luka Doncic was named becoming just the third player in NBA his- expanded from 10 to 16 teams this year -- 10 BY NFL.COM to the 2019-20 All-NBA First Team. He tory to average at least 28-9-8 for a full will be at the top-seeded teams. DALLAS COWBOYS WEEK 2 becomes the third Maverick to earn All- 11 MATCHUP season (Oscar Robertson, Russell The World Series will be at Globe Life BY NFL.COM NBA honors, joining Dirk Nowitzki (12 Westbrook). Field in Arlington. The AL Championship times) and Steve Nash (twice). He also DALLAS STARS READY FOR THE Doncic ranked sixth in scoring (28.8 Series will be at San Diego's Petco Park, 12 STANLEY CUP FINALS joins Nowitzki (2005, 2006, 2007, 2009) as ppg), 17th in rebounding (9.4 rpg) and and the National League at Globe Life BY JON DAVIS the only Mavericks to garner All-NBA third in assists (8.8 apg). He became the Field. 13 SMU REPORT First Team accolades. seventh player since the ABA/NBA merger The AL Division Series will be at San BY DIC HUMPHREY Doncic (6-7, 230), who was 21 years, (1976-77) to finish a season ranked in the Diego and Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium, 168 days old on the final day of the 2019- top-20 among qualifiers in scoring, and the NL Division Series at Globe Life COLLEGE FOOTBALL NEWS AND 20 regular season (Aug. 14), becomes the 14 NOTES rebounding and assists (Kareem Abdul- and Houston's Minute Maid Park. BY BO CARTER sixth player to earn All-NBA First Team Jabbar, Larry Bird, Grant Hill, Kevin Texas is last in the AL West at 17-30 honors at age 21-or-younger, along with AUTO REVIEW Garnett, James, Westbrook). with little chance of advancing to the post- 17 BY KBB.COM LeBron James (2006), Max Zaslofsky season. They are nine games out of the (1947), Kevin Durant (2010), Tim Duncan Wild Card race. 18 THE TICKET WINDOW (1998) and Rick Barry (1966). James (21 The World Series was last played at one years, 110 days) and Zaslofsky (21 years, site in 1944 at Sportsman's Park in St.Louis 19 RESTAURANT REVIEW 114 days) are the only players to achieve where the Cardinals beat the Browns 4-2. the feat at a younger age than Doncic. In New York's Polo Grounds hosted all the fact, if the season would have ended on its games in 1921 and 1922, the last two sea- Follow us on originally scheduled date (April 15), sons it was the home of both the Giants Doncic would have been the youngest to and Yankees. The Giants won both titles. Twitter & Facebook ever do it. World Series To Be Held in Arlington; AL teams in mathematical contention The second-year guard becomes the First Time at One Site Since 1944 are to start a transition period Sept. 22 and twitter.com/sportspagedfw first player named to the All-NBA First With 13 games left in the season, Texas is NL teams the following day in which up to Team in either his first or second season nine games out of the Wild Card race 28 active roster players, 12 taxi-squad facebook.com/sportspageweek- since Duncan in 1998-99 (Duncan made The World Series will be played entire- players and 50 additional personnel rang- the First Team in each of his first eight sea- ly at the Texas Rangers' new ballpark in ing from bullpen catchers to front-office Publisher Contact Us sons from 1997-98 to 2004-05). Sports Page Publishing Group, Main Number (214) 683-1469 Arlington as part of a bubble agreement staff must remain at the team's transitional LLC P.O. 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Pittsburgh 2:30 6:00 4 September 18, 2020 - September 24, 2020 | The Sports Page Weekly | Volume 19 Issue 4 | www.sportspagedfw.com | follow us on twitter @sportspagdfw.com MLB TEXAS RANGERS Rangers youth movement in full swing 94.7 MPH exit velocity. Almost insta- neously, the game was over as Tucker’s shot was right to first baseman Ronald Guzman for the final out. The final score was 1-0. Gibson is 2-5 with the complete game win. The game time was 2:36. It was the first complete game shutout in Gibson’s career, and just the fifth nine inning complete game shutout pitched in the Major Leagues this season. Texas got another nice pitching per- formance from Jordan Lyles in Thursday’s finale. Lyles completed seven innings allowing just three hits. Unfortunately, one of those hits was a home run from Tucker with a runner on base. That propelled Houston to a 2-1 win. Lyles is 1-5 with the loss. Certainly, it’s disappointing to lose the series, but the two strong pitching perform- ances from Gibson and Lyles are a good Veterans Elvis Andrus and Rougned Odor are not assured starting jobs next year sign for the Rangers’ future.