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The new role Stuart Dallas appears to be in after his retirement from football at Leeds United

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September 6, 2024

The new role Stuart Dallas appears to be in after his retirement from football at Leeds United

It is now almost five months since Leeds United legend Stuart Dallas announced his retirement from football.

Dallas had spent almost two years on the sidelines after suffering a femur fracture back in April 2022 during a 4-0 defeat to Manchester City at Elland Road.

He tried everything in his attempts to get back out on the pitch, including multiple surgeries and even a couple of returns to full team training.

However, unfortunately for Dallas, he was never able to fully recover enough to return to action and so instead opted to call time on his playing career just a couple of months before the end of his contract at Leeds.

Dallas remained a huge part of the dressing room at Leeds even when he wasn’t playing, helping Wilfried Gnonto get back on track after his transfer request, as well as Archie Gray when he spent much of the 2022/23 season injured.

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The new role Dallas looks to be in after Leeds retirement

Following the decision to hang up his boosts, Daniel Farke confirmed he wanted Dallas to still be at Leeds in some capacity this season.

At that point, it was not decided what sort of role that could be, though some sort of ambassadorial or coaching position seemed the most likely.

However, while that has remained undecided, Dallas has been doing a couple of different things within the game, including some punditry for Sky Sports.

Dallas deserves a role at Leeds

Being in the coaching setup for Northern Ireland would suggest that is the avenue in which Dallas is looking to go down post-retirement.

With that in mind, Leeds should certainly look at handing him a similar role at Elland Road, with one in the academy a good starting point.

There would not be a better role model for young players hoping to make it at Leeds to look up to than Dallas, which is a good starting point in itself.

His time under Marcelo Bielsa should also stand him in good stead given how much he is revered by other coaches and managers across football.

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Maradona’s ‘Hand of God’ ball heads to auction in Dallas

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July 3, 2026

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Maradona’s ‘Hand of God’ ball heads to auction in Dallas

The match ball from Argentina’s 1986 World Cup quarterfinal against England – better known as the ‘Hand of God’ ball, thanks to Diego Maradona’s famous goal – is set to go up for auction. It has been auctioned before, previously for $2.4m.

Maradona’s shirt from that match sold for about $9 million back in 2022. Maradona and Argentina would return to the Estadio Azteca to win the tournament soon after, their second World Cup title. England has not played there since.

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Argentina’s soccer star Diego Maradona and West German goalkeeper Harald Schumacher holding their World Cup Soccer Ball awards while posing with two young soccer players during the Soccer Golden Shoe Award ceremony held in Paris, France, on Nov. 13, 1986.

The ‘Hand of God’ is famous because Maradona punched the ball in using his left hand over the English goalkeeper, making the score 1-0.Four minutes later, Maradona struck again. The Argentinian took 11 seconds and 11 touches to pass six English defenders and score what was later voted the “Goal of the Century.” The game ended 2-1.

The goal should not have stood, but no VAR meant no replay to overturn the call.

The game referee kept the ball in Tunisia for more than three decades.

This comes ahead of England’s return to the Azteca for the 2026 FIFA World Cup Round of 16 against Mexico Sunday at 7 p.m. North Texas will likely be rocking from Sunday night right into the US Men’s National Team game against Belgium on Monday at 7 p.m. The winners of those games are headed to this year’s quarterfinals.

Mexico has never lost a World Cup game at the Azteca (7-3-0) and has only lost twice there in its history (70-17-2). England is 2-0 against Mexico in World Cup games, including on the way to their only World Cup title. That game was in England.

Maradona died at the age of 60 in November of 2020.

Argentinian soccer great Diego Maradona has died after undergoing surgery for a subdural hematoma earlier this month. He was 60 years old.

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Paige Bueckers, Azzi Fudd do the usual in Hartford, win. This time with Dallas Wings

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July 3, 2026

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Paige Bueckers, Azzi Fudd do the usual in Hartford, win. This time with Dallas Wings

HARTFORD, CT — UConn women’s basketball legends Paige Bueckers and Azzi Fudd returned to the state that made them champions.

Then the pair experienced something they were used to at PeoplesBank Arena — winning — but it took a comeback of epic proportions.

Bueckers and Fudd helped the Dallas Wings defeat the Connecticut Sun, 86-83, on Thursday, July 2, before a near sellout crowd of 14,579. The Wings rallied from a 24-point deficit to stop the Sun’s two-game win streak.

“It was (a) great crowd, it was a great environment,” Bueckers said of the fans, who cheered loudly as the Wings made their comeback. “It felt like a home game in a sense.

“It’s great to play back here in Connecticut. I love it here.”

UConn played half of its home games at the Hartford arena. Bueckers lost just one game and Fudd two over their careers here. They both wore UConn gear for their pregame tunnel fits.

The Wings outscored the Sun 51-40 in the second half. Bueckers had 11 of her team-high 25 points in the fourth quarter. She added seven rebounds and seven assists. Fudd had both her baskets in the frame and finished with four points, four rebounds and five assists.

Bueckers said the adjustments at halftime were pretty simple.

“Making shots, sometimes it’s as simple as that,” Bueckers said. “We were shooting just about 30% at the half and we felt very confident in the shots that we were getting. … Just sticking with what works.

“We got a lot of people step up, take open shots, be aggressive and get to the free-throw line more in the second half.”

Bueckers had two and-ones down the stretch that fueled the comeback.

“The first one … (Leila) Lacan jumped a pass on the inbound, so I was just trying to create something. … I just felt contact and kind of threw it up,” Bueckers said “The second one, my teammates just did a really good job of spacing the floor and just me just trying to be aggressive, hunt for a shot.”

Fittingly, Bueckers scored her first 3-pointer of the game off an assist from Fudd. Several former UConn teammates showed up to cheer on their friends. Fudd shared before the game that Jana El Alfy braided her hair before the game. Allie Ziebell, Ashlynn Shade and Gandy Malou-Mamel were also in the crowd.

“The five years we both had (at UConn), they showed up every single night,” Fudd said of the fans, including her former teammates. “It just was such an incredible experience … they’re part of the reason that it’s the basketball capital of the world.”

The basketball capital has produced many of the best players in the W. Bueckers’ popularity has continued to skyrocket since her time at UConn. In her second season in the WNBA, she was voted an All-Star starter on Thursday. Bueckers was the leader in fan balloting with 1,045,051 votes. Former Huskies Breanna Stewart and Gabby Williams were also voted starters for the All-Star Game, which will take place in Chicago on July 25.

This could be the final game for Bueckers and Fudd in Connecticut. The Sun will be relocated to Houston next season. Bueckers suggested the Wings play an exhibition game at Gampel Pavilion, in Storrs, Connecticut, in the future.

“It’s just like a family, this whole entire state supporting us … loving women’s basketball, loving everything about it,” Bueckers said. “We feel the support across the world, too.

“This will always be a second home.”

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Ross Tower hits the market as Downtown Dallas sale wave builds

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July 2, 2026

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Ross Tower hits the market as Downtown Dallas sale wave builds

Ross Tower, a 1.1 million-square-foot, 45-story tower at 500 North Akard Street, appears to be up for sale.

Matt Murphy, the director of Cushman & Wakefield’s Texas office advisory group, said in a LinkedIn post that the tower is being marketed to investors. Ross Tower has recently undergone a modernization through a $14 million capital improvement program that upgraded the building’s elevator system, improved common areas and replaced the cooling tower, according to the post.

The building is 60 percent occupied, according to Murphy, and features tenants like the Dallas Regional Chamber, CoStar, Munsch Hardt and Grant Thornton, according to the Dallas Morning News. The asking price wasn’t listed by Murphy in the LinkedIn post, and the outlet noted that the Dallas Central Appraisal District pegged the property at upwards of $99 million for tax purposes.

Recent bets on Downtown Dallas properties cite their proximity to Uptown, where the city is seeing a flourishing financial district. A key enticement for prospective buyers looking to bolster the tenant roster, according to the post, is that the in place rents are 15 percent below market.

In the post, Murphy said that the combination of lower rents for class A space, available square footage with companies exiting downtown, and the thriving Uptown Dallas area just a few blocks away, give the tower solid fundamentals for the right buyer.

The tower is currently owned by a partnership that includes Bandera Ventures of Dallas, HPI Real Estate and Second City Real Estate. The joint venture purchased the tower in 2015, and it was renovated in 2018, according to the post.

The tower was named Lincoln Plaza until 2013, and was formerly the headquarters of multinational oilfield products company Halliburton. Ross Tower is the 14th tallest building in the Dallas skyline.

As Uptown’s Y’all Street continues to grow, building owners are beginning to look at cashing in on the influx of new companies as an option. Hillwood Urban is currently exploring a sale of Victory Commons One, who just signed Scotiabank as a new tenant.

— Hunter Cooke

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