Cotton Bowl

The Last Word: Dallas FC Trinity GM/Coach on Home Debut of North Texas’ First Women’s Pro Soccer Team

by | Sep 3, 2024
When a new sports franchise has its home debut, it usually doesn't play one of the world's best teams. But that's exactly what Dallas Trinity FC did at the Cotton Bowl Thursday. North Texas' first-ever women's pro soccer club lost 6-0 to Spain's world-famous FC Barcelona Femini. But as today's Last Word notes, it was still a big win for Dallas and for women's sports in the region.
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The Last Word: Dallas Mayor Invites Kansas City Chiefs To Move Back to Dallas
by | Apr 4, 2024
Kansas City Chiefs fans love their football team—but they hate taxes more. Jackson County, Mo., residents voted down a proposed 40-year, three-eighths of a cent sales tax that would have helped fund an $800 million renovation of Arrow Stadium. Now Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson has invited the Chiefs to come back home to Dallas.
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NASA Is Inviting You to Watch the April 8 Total Solar Eclipse at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas
by | Feb 29, 2024
The free "Sun, Moon, and You" event at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas' Fair Park will offer a sky-side seat of an amazing total solar eclipse (fingers crossed for clear skies). Scientists and astronomers will be taking the stage along with space explorer characters from the PBS show "Ready, Jet, Go."
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$140M Cotton Bowl Renovations Help Fair Park Keep Texas-OU Game Through 2036
by | Dec 7, 2023
An ongoing voter-approved renovation of the Cotton Bowl has helped spur UT and OU to continue their historic rivalry at Fair Park for years to come. The teams have been playing each other at the stadium since 1929.
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Local Investors Anurag Jain and Ross Perot Jr. Help Bring Major League Cricket to North Texas and Beyond

by | May 23, 2022
The investors joined Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and others committing a total of $120 million to the MLC. Noted sports architect HKS is designing a "world-class" Major League Cricket stadium in Grand Prairie. Upon completion early next year, it's expected to be the leading venue for cricket in the U.S., the MLC says.
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Dallas Strong Benefit Concert Set
for Memorial Weekend 2018
by | Jul 17, 2017
Zak Chaouki was inspired to create the Dallas Strong Music Festival after watching the news about the law enforcement deaths unfold last year.
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