We don’t know and never will know how Brian would have fared if his last name was Smith instead of Schottenheimer. And that makes the new Dallas Cowboy football coach a risk.

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It's not up there with having the audacity to fire legendary coach Tom Landry on a golf course in Austin, but Jerry Jones' fumbling of Mike McCarthy's exit from the Dallas Cowboys is, at best ...

McCarthy leaves looking like the bigger man. Partially because of the malaise that began to coat the Cowboys' fan base and ...