SSEECC WWeesstt FFoooottbbaallll PPrreevviieeww August 28 - Sept. 3, 2020 Vol. 19, Issue 1 www.sportspagdfw.com FREE 2 August 28, 2020 - September 3, 2020 | The Sports Page Weekly | Volume 19 Issue 1 | www.sportspagedfw.com | follow us on twitter @sportspagdfw.com Follow us on twitter @sportspagedfw | www.sportspagedfw.com | The Sports Page Weekly | Volume 19 - Issue 1 | August 28, 2020 - September 3, 2020 3 August 28, 2020 - Sept.3, 2020 AROUND THE AREA Vol. 19, Issue 1 LOCAL NEWS OF INTEREST sportspagedfw.com Established 2002 Dallas ESPN Radio ending local programs Cover Photo: 4 AROUND THE AREA talk show hosts Jean-Jacques Taylor, Steve with knowledge of Turner’s thinking. Dennis, Tim Cowlishaw, and others. Turner has been an assistant coach at 5 RANGERS REPORT Cowlishaw left the show in late July. SMU for the last seven seasons. He was BY DIC HUMPHREY A station that with former Fort Worth Star- previously a coach at Wichita State. 6 GOLF, ETC. Telegram sports columnist Randy Texas has lost two assistants this offseason. BY TOM WARD Galloway as its main host briefly chal- Luke Yaklich left for a head coaching job NINE THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT Dallas ESPN Radio Affil Leaving lenged local ratings monster The Ticket in at Illinois-Chicago. Jai Lucas left for a job OLYMPIA FIELDS Cumulus, Ending Local Programs the ratings will essentially function as a at Kentucky. 7 BY PGATOUR.COM ESPN Radio 103.3 Dallas will "no place holder for ESPN Radio in a major QUICK LOOK NORTHERN TRUST longer be run locally by Cumulus" effec- market. 9 OPEN BY PGATOUR.COM tive Oct. 8, and it is expected that ESPN ESPN Radio said in a statement to the Radio will "discontinue all local program- SEC FOOTBALL PREVIEW - Star-Telegram: “Our relationship with 10 WEST DIVISION ming ... and will air national ESPN shows, Cumulus in Dallas will be ending in early BY ROBERT CORTINEZ and broadcasts of games," according to October. We will announce our plans for 12 COLLEGE FOOTBALL NEWS AND Mac Engel of the Ft. Worth Star Telegram. KESN-FM shortly. Listeners will continue NOTES What began 17 years ago in the DFW to hear the top-notch programming they BY BO CARTER market with ESPN Dallas radio and expect to receive from ESPN.” AUTO REVIEW ESPNDallas.com is dead. ESPN made the With rival sports talk stations housed in Chick-fil-A College Football Hall of 15 BY KBB.COM same mistake countless other organizations the same building in downtown Dallas, the Fame Marks Sixth Anniversary in 2020 NFL SCHEDULES BY TEAM do: In effort grow the monster it over pairing was odd from the outset. For obvi- Atlanta 16 BY STAFF expanded, and now it shrinks. As a result, ous reasons, the priority was 1310 The The Hall has become a national platform more good people will lose their jobs. for celebrating the game and its greatest THE TICKET WINDOW Ticket. 18 Employees were told on Aug. 14, that “This was nothing really new,” Bennett legends. effective Oct. 8 the station will no longer RESTAURANT REVIEW said. “You see competing news talk sta- The National Football Foundation 19 BY RICHARD POLLAK be run locally by Cumulus who owns and tions all over the country do this.” (NFF) highlighted today the sixth anniver- operates The Ticket. After Galloway retired, the station sary of the Chick-fil-A College Football It is expected that ESPN Radio will dis- never really tried to be a competitor against Hall of Fame, which opened Aug. 23, 2014 continue all local programming on KESN The Ticket in the traditional sense. 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Rangers don’t want to part with Lynn, but The Rangers are about ready to put if the right deal gets offered, they likely Rougned Odor out of their plans if he’s not will take it. there already. Solak has been the Rangers’ This season has proven to be a step steadiest hitter this season, hitting enough backward in developing a pennant contend- to earn a spot in the Rangers’ lineup some- ing Ranger team. With the time frame where. He has played mostly in the out- moved back, the clock is clicking on Gallo field this year and has shown improvement going to free agency. It’s a given that there. However, Solak’s natural position is Gallo won’t be a Ranger when he becomes second base which he started there a free agent. He will command a huge Wednesday night. The Rangers appear contract, and this season is such a financial ready to look at him as a permanent solu- disaster that the Rangers will take years to tion for second base. get back financially to make lavish free Lance Lynn is 4-0 with the win over Oakland in what might have been his final start as a Ranger The activity around Monday’s trade agent deals.