Dallas Round-Up | Rangers Running Away – Cowboys’ Rookie Grounded For Preseason

Online football betting players looking to wager on Dallas for the upcoming season will have received some bad news about the Cowboys’ star rookie, who could be behind the eight-ball heading into the regular season.  But we start in the major leagues, where the Texas Rangers are well on their way to the American League West crown.

Texas Rangers

If the Rangers were an NCAA football betting option, they would likely be Boise State, a team who is far ahead of anyone else in their conference.   The Rangers are coming off a tough week in which they faced two teams from their division on the road,  first dropping two of three in Los Angeles to the Angels, and they had split the first two games of their three-game set in Seattle with the Mariners before Thursday night’s finale.  David Murphy had a solid week, hitting .286 with a pair of homers and six RBIs in six games, while Vladdy Guerrero hit just .217 and knocked one out, but he drove in a team-high eight runs during the week.  As for the pitchers, Rich Harden returned from the disabled list to have his best performance in two-plus months in a win over the Angels, but that was probably the highlight of the week as the starting pitching struggled.  Tommy Hunter was hammered for the first time this year, taking his first loss, and it’ll be a test of the 24-year-old’s strength to see if he can bounce back.  Now, heading into Thursday’s game, the Rangers have an eight-game lead over the Angels, and a nine-game lead over the Athletics, who will host the Rangers this weekend in a three-game set.  Texas will be looking to avenge a series loss in Oakland from back in early May. The Rangers will then head to New York to face the Yankees in a possible playoff preview, and Texas was swept at the new Yankee Stadium in June.

Dallas Cowboys

NFL betting players have seen Dez Bryant cause quite the stir in his first camp, first with his “I’m not carrying pads” fiasco, and now the wideout may have to miss the entire preseason with a high ankle sprain.  Owner Jerry Jones questioned whether Bryant should have been practicing that late in the practice, but he backed off his comments and is leaving the coaching to Wade Phillips (for now, anyway).  Another rookie, linebacker Sean Lee, is battling a quadriceps injury, so the Cowboys are just trying to get to the preseason with no more ailments.  Bryant is obviously the more important loss as the Cowboys were trying to get him as many reps as possible, and he even signed a contract to get to camp on time.  This is just bad luck, and online betting players will be hoping that is all for the Cowboys this year.