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DALLAS — Less than three months after Dusty May finished a 37-3 season at Michigan with a national championship, the Dallas Mavericks made him their head coach. May has never coached in the NBA. Mike Schmitz points instead to the different jobs May held before reaching Dallas, from working in...

DALLAS — Cooper Flagg won Rookie of the Year in April with 56 of 100 first-place votes. His second NBA season comes after a summer that Mike Schmitz says Flagg has spent working in the Dallas Mavericks gym. Flagg started all 70 games he played and averaged 21.0 points, 6.7...

DALLAS — The Dallas Mavericks finished 26-56 last season, 12th in the Western Conference. Mike Schmitz took over as general manager May 8. Since then, he said Dallas has gotten bigger, longer, more athletic, and more skilled. Four days before Schmitz arrived, Dallas named Masai Ujiri president of basketball operations...

SEATTLE — Sam Howell started the Dallas Cowboys' preseason opener Saturday night and played the entire first half. Joe Milton III, who had been listed as the No. 2 quarterback, took the second half of a 17-7 win over the Seattle Seahawks at Lumen Field. Howell went 8-of-12 for 94...

SEATTLE — Camden Brown caught two touchdown passes in his first NFL game Saturday night, and afterward he talked about the week that led into it. Brown's younger sister died on Aug. 13, 2021. Saturday's preseason opener at Lumen Field came two days after the fifth anniversary. Doctors did not...

WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Wyatt Langford went 3-for-4 and hit the home run that put the Texas Rangers in front Saturday night in a 5-3 win over the Athletics at Sutter Health Park. With Corey Seager on base in the sixth inning, Langford drove a two-run homer to left-center for...

WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Texas Rangers have not crossed Wednesday off the schedule for Jacob deGrom. His right triceps tightened during Thursday's start in Anaheim. Imaging Friday produced no new findings, and deGrom remained day-to-day Saturday. He had not yet resumed playing catch, but manager Skip Schumaker said deGrom...

WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Wyatt Langford hit a two-run home run to put the Texas Rangers ahead in the sixth inning Saturday night, and Jacob Latz recorded the final 6 outs of a 5-3 win over the Athletics at Sutter Health Park. The victory ended a four-game losing streak for...

SEATTLE — Camden Brown caught touchdown passes from both of the Dallas Cowboys' backup quarterbacks Saturday night as Dallas opened the preseason with a 17-7 win over the Seattle Seahawks at Lumen Field. The undrafted rookie caught all 3 of his targets for 62 yards and scored twice. Sam Howell...

SEATTLE — Phil Mafah was ruled out for the remainder of Saturday night's preseason opener against the Seattle Seahawks with a chest injury. The Dallas Cowboys announced Mafah was done for the night as the fourth quarter began at Lumen Field. Mafah finished with 4 carries for 9 yards. Dallas...