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What the Dallas Wings' possible relocation to Downtown Dallas could mean for the team
Dallas Wings may move to Downtown Dallas
The Dallas Wings could be the latest professional sports team to play its games in Downtown Dallas. The City of Dallas will vote on Wednesday about a potential move from Arlington to the Dallas Memorial Auditorium.
DALLAS – The Dallas Wings could be a step closer to playing games in the city of Dallas.
Wednesday, Dallas city leaders could vote on a resolution to bring the WNBA team to Dallas. The team currently plays in Arlington at UTA.
With Caitlin Clark and other big names joining the WNBA, women’s basketball is at its peak in popularity.
Now, the city of Dallas is trying to make the Wings call Dallas its home in a newly renovated arena.
Women’s basketball has been talked about nonstop this year.
More than 18 million people watched the college national championship game between South Carolina and Iowa, topping viewership for the men’s final.
Dorothy Gentry is a WNBA writer. Her stories are published in The Athletic, Slam and D Magazine.
“These women are balling from high school to college and then into the league. So the product is awesome,” she said. “And then of course the accessibility. They’re on television now; not just locally, national outlets.”
This week, the Dallas Wings announced for the first time in franchise history a sellout of season tickets. Other WNBA teams did the same.
The latest draft class has a lot to do with that. Players like Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese have become household names.
Dallas Wings CEO on this year’s WNBA Draft picks
Greg Bibb, the president and CEO of the Dallas Wings, joined Good Day to talk about the team’s 2024 WNBA Draft picks. He said Jacy Sheldon from Ohio State, Carla Leite from France, and Ashley Owusu from Penn State will each bring something to Dallas.
Clark was the first pick overall for the Indiana Fever, a team the Wings host next week for a preseason game.
“The Wings selling out for the first time in their history. That is amazing. I think it’s just part of the growth that we’re seeing,” Gentry said. “It’s like, again, the accessibility, the fans, the followers. And the natural progression is to start selling out these arenas and getting that revenue that these women deserve.”
The city of Dallas wants a piece of the action.
City Council has a vote scheduled Wednesday to bring a professional sports team to Dallas Memorial Auditorium next to the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center.
Dallas Memorial Auditorium
The resolution does not name the Wings, but the team announced over the weekend it is in talks with the Dallas mayor.
The Wings currently play on the UT Arlington campus.
If approved, the Wings would move to a newly renovated arena, part of the new convention center master plan.
Voters already approved the funding for the project.
In a statement, the Wings president and CEO said, “The city of Arlington, the University of Texas at Arlington and College Park Center continue to be wonderful partners, and we look forward to continuing that relationship during the 2024 and 2025 seasons. The city of Dallas’s proposal offers a fitting, world-class stage for our remarkable athletes and devoted fans, and we look forward to commenting further at the appropriate time.”
“The fans are still coming to Arlington to see the Dallas Wings,” Gentry said. “But you have to say that being Dallas downtown, same area as The Star, same area as the Mavs, same area, you know, there. And that centralized location could only be a good thing for them as well.”
The terms of the contract the team would agree to obtain occupancy on March 1, 2026.
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The first two days of the 2026 NFL Draft are officially in the book. So far the Dallas Cowboys have been busy.
They made two trades in the first round, moving up and then down, and ultimately came away with Caleb Downs and Malachi Lawrence. Early in the second round they dealt a fifth-round pick to acquire veteran linebacker Dee Winters, and then they took Jaishawn Barham in the third round.
These are important moves as things relate to the upcoming season for the Cowboys, but there is still work to do.
Remaining Dallas Cowboys Selections
As things stand the Cowboys have four selections to play with on Day 3. They have two extra fourth-rounders that the Eagles gave them when Dallas moved down from 20 to 23 overall, and they have dealt away all of the three fifth-round picks that they began the draft with. Two were spent to move up from 12 to 11 to select Caleb Downs and the other was swapped for Dee Winters.
How do you feel about the Day 3 ammunition? The Cowboys are going to be quite busy early in the fourth round and that is going to be the serious bulk of what they do barring any other trade down the road.
The latest FC Dallas injury report is out ahead of their match against the Seattle Sounders. See who is out, who is questionable, and who will be missing for the hosts.
Here is the official list from MLS and FC Dallas1:
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Out: Anderson Julio (lower leg), Bernard Kamungo (lower leg)
Questionable: Logan Farrington (lower body), Petar Musa (lower body)
Suspended: none
On Loan: Tsiki Ntsabeleng (Mamelodi Sundowns FC), Enes Sali (Al-Riyadh), Malachi Molina (Nashville SC), Geovane Jesus (North Texas SC), Enzo Newman (North Texas SC)
Unavailable (off-roster): Daniel Baran, Jaidyn Contreras
International Duty: none
Seattle’s availability report:
Suspended: none
Out: Yeimar Gómez Andrade (hamstring), Paul Arriola (adductor), Pedro de la Vega (knee), Nikola Petkovic (knee), Cristian Roldan (head)
Questionable: Kim Kee-hee (calf), Albert Rusnak (hamstring), Ryan Sailor (knee)
International duty: none
BDS Notes:
This being the third game in seven days for FC Dallas, rotation was likely always going to be part of the story going into Seattle. Now layer in the injuries, and it becomes a requirement.
The big ones are on the questionable side with both Petar Musa and Logan Farrington coming in on the questionable side of things. Following the Minnesota game on Wednesday night, it did appear that Musa was carrying an injury of sorts when he exited the game in the second half. Head coach Eric Quill couldn’t fully comment on his status after the game, but seeing him land on the questionable side is what I was expecting.
Farrington on the other hand, that one is a bit of a surprise. It will be interesting to see if Quill opts to hold both players out and go with a different look up top this weekend from the jump, or if he rotates a bit more with his lineup.
My gut tells me we may see an attacking trio tomorrow night of Santiago Moreno, Joaquin Valiente and Patrickson Delgado. Which would be…wild.
Seattle on the other side, they’re dealing with several big injuries for this weekend. Cristian Roldan, Paul Arriola, and Yeimar being out is a bit of a surprise, though there were reports that Arriola was not in training this week.
Injury news changes everything heading into Matchday. Members get the full tactical breakdown of how FC Dallas adapts to the various injuries.
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