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Cowboys-Texans expert predictions: Can Dallas keep things close on national stage?

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12 months ago

November 17, 2024

Cowboys-Texans expert predictions: Can Dallas keep things close on national stage?

How far have expectations fallen for the 3-6 Dallas Cowboys?

After entering the season with hopes of repeating as NFC East champs and going on a playoff run, they now host the Houston Texans on Monday Night Football having not scored a touchdown at home in nearly two months. It’ll be a backup quarterback leading Dallas into the game, where a realistic best-case-scenario for the Cowboys might be to just keep things from getting embarrassment on a national stage.

Can Dallas keep it close against C.J. Stroud and the Texans? Could Cooper Rush and crew somehow muster an upset? The Dallas Morning News’ columnists and beat writers make their predictions below.

Tim Cowlishaw

The countdown is on. Dallas has gone four quarters without a touchdown, 10 quarters without a rushing touchdown. Are the Cowboys — outscored 138-60 in this four-game losing streak — likely to get either one against the third-ranked defense in the league? Biggest problem for Dallas (there are many) is a minus-10 in the takeaway department. Not good when you’re hosting a team that picked off Jared Goff five times last week. But Houston’s offensive line will have its own serious issues with the Dallas pass rush in this low-scoring affair.

Texans, 13, Cowboys 7

Damon Marx

The Cowboys still can’t run the ball, nor stop the run. Now, they can’t pass it either. The pass rush awoke against the Eagles with the return of Micah Parsons, and that’s the Cowboys’ best path to keep this close. Perhaps they’ll get a boost from the Monday Night Football buzz. That won’t last, however, as Dallas surrenders in the third quarter once again. The Cowboys won’t get their first home win of the season this week.

Texans 26, Cowboys 13

David Moore

When this game kicks off Monday night the Cowboys will have gone 57 days since scoring their last touchdown at AT&T Stadium. Not a misprint. We’re talking 57 days. Here’s a declaration: that drought will end. The Dallas offense will find the end zone at least once. Maybe twice. Dream big.

Texans 27, Cowboys 19

Abraham Nudelstejer

The motivation of not getting embarrassed on national television could be a factor in the Cowboys putting up some resistance against the Texans on Monday Night Football. There’s no reason for Dallas to think it can snap its four-game losing streak, but there are times when pride and self-respect can balance the odds. Even if they put together an inspired performance, the Cowboys are in for a long night. C.J. Stroud will dissect the Dallas defense with his passing game, and Joe Mixon won’t be stopped when he carries the ball. The Texans will get an easy win.

Texans 30, Cowboys 10

Kevin Sherrington

Remember when football games between Dallas and Houston were fun and fueled a great intrastate rivalry? Me, neither. This should be like the rest. Best hope for the Cowboys: The pass rush that finally showed up against the Eagles reappears against a Houston offensive line that’s yielded 12 sacks in the last two weeks. Best hope for the fan base? Another loss, another rung scaled in the draft.

Texans 27, Cowboys 16

Calvin Watkins

The Texans need this victory badly. It’s a franchise going places. But the team from Houston struggles on the road. They should get their act together. Let’s see if Rico Dowdle can get 20 carries Monday night.

Texans 21, Dallas 10

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Former Dallas Cowboys coach remembers Marshawn Kneeland

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November 7, 2025

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Former Dallas Cowboys coach remembers Marshawn Kneeland

Dallas Cowboys defensive end Marshawn Kneeland tragically died at age 24 from an apparent suicide on Wednesday, two days after scoring his first NFL touchdown, prompting mourning across the league and raising awareness about mental health crises among athletes.

Posted November 6, 2025 10:40pm CST

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At Dallas Contemporary, the material is the message for Chris Wolston

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November 6, 2025

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At Dallas Contemporary, the material is the message for Chris Wolston

In the hands of Chris Wolston, even the most ordinary object — a chair, lamp or credenza — becomes something more whimsical, playful and quirky.

The artist has built a stellar reputation in the design world for his anthropomorphic rattan chairs (complete with bums and feet). Yet the array of pieces on display in his first solo museum show at Dallas Contemporary reveals there’s much more to his oeuvre.

Displayed across four catwalks, reminiscent of a fashion show or drag ball, are sculpted chairs in terra-cotta adorned with metal insects, a bronze coffee table cast from leaves found in the artist’s garden and chairs inspired by the gestural limbs of supermodels. Handwoven carpets from Morocco on the walls are interspersed with video works highlighting Wolston’s process filmed by his husband, the filmmaker David Sierra. Together, they recall a fantasy world of objects both functional and sculptural.

“I always find that through humor, there’s an interesting entry point for people — it breaks down a barrier,” says artist Chris Wolston. “And I was always drawn to furniture as a medium because it’s accessible, it’s egalitarian.”

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Wolston has been walking the tightrope between craft and art with a humorous twist since he made his first terra-cotta chairs in 2014. Drawn to the relationship between materiality and everyday life, he naturally embraced furniture as his medium.

“I started working with the (contemporary design gallery) The Future Perfect, and then we started doing these body chairs for a chair show,” he says. “I always find that through humor, there’s an interesting entry point for people — it breaks down a barrier. And I was always drawn to furniture as a medium because it’s accessible, it’s egalitarian.”

Having initially studied glassmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design, Wolston earned a Fulbright to study pre-Columbian ceramics in Colombia, prompting him to settle his studio in the city of Medellín. He found his entry point into raw ingredients by working with natural terra-cotta clay found in the mountains surrounding the city, and has since cycled through bronze, rattan, anodized aluminum and shearling.

Curated by Glenn Adamson, former director of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, Profile in Ecstasy highlights a decade-plus of work that led Wolston to discover the throughlines behind his various collections, whether they be nods to fashion and nature, Spanish modernism or subtle surrealism.

“These themes that exist in an artist’s practice emerge when a new collection emerges,” Wolston says. “It’s interesting to see how collections made at different times with totally different materials and thought processes at play resonate with one another.”

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Chris Wolston: Profile in Ecstasy is on view at Dallas Contemporary from Nov. 7 through Feb. 1, 2026.

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Car belonging to Dallas woman missing for over a year found, police say

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November 5, 2025

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Car belonging to Dallas woman missing for over a year found, police say

Updated on: November 5, 2025 / 10:56 AM CST
/ CBS Texas

The vehicle belonging to a Dallas woman who has been missing for over a year was found this week, according to police.

The Dallas Police Department said 88-year-old Myrtle Polk’s vehicle was found in the 5600 block of South Lancaster Road, near Five Mile Creek, on Tuesday. Her body was not in the vehicle.

DPD said search teams will deploy in the area to continue the search for Polk.

She was last seen in early June along Indian Creek Trail, driving her Lexus sedan. At the time, a Silver Alert was issued, given her age and medical history, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Myrtle Polk known as a pillar of her community

Polk is a devout member of her church, according to her family. When she didn’t show up for service on June 9, 2024, they said they knew something was wrong.

Also affectionately known as “Mama M” or “Aunt Myrt,” Polk is living with dementia. But her niece Tawana Watson said — as late as the day before — the family did not indicate that anything was wrong.

“She was a very good driver, she knew where she was,” Watson said last June. “I talked to her that Friday [and] she was in her right mind.”

Watson does not believe the matriarch left home on her own.

“She was such a trustworthy person, I believe that Aunt Myrtle met somebody that she trusted, she let them [into her home] and they hurt her,” she continued.

Myrtle Polk is approximately 5-foot-2 and 120 pounds, with white hair and brown eyes. Anyone with information is asked to call 911 or the Dallas Police Department at (214) 671-4268.

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