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Former Texas star DeMarvion Overshown teams with Jerry Jones' grandson for Cowboys' No. 0
Dallas Cowboys linebacker DeMarvion Overshown revealed this week how he landed the coveted No. 0 jersey, crediting a key assist from an unexpected source: team owner Jerry Jones' grandson, Paxton Anderson. Overshown, speaking to reporters at the Cowboys' facility, said he reached out to Anderson to help advocate for his jersey switch. 'I called Paxton and told him I needed his help to push it over the edge,' Overshown said, smiling. 'He made sure the right people heard about it.' Advertisement Jones' grandson, Paxton Anderson, joined the Texas Longhorns as a Division I wide receiver in 2020 after a standout high school career at Highland Park and was teammates with DeMarvion Overshown during his time in Austin. Anderson was part of the Longhorns' roster through the 2023 season and graduated in 2024. The NFL began allowing players to wear No. 0 last season, making it a popular choice among players seeking a fresh start or a unique identity. Overshown, who missed his rookie campaign with a knee injury, said the number represents a new chapter as he returns to the field. Many Dallas Cowboys fans believed that owner Jerry Jones and the team's marketing department were holding the No. 0 jersey in reserve to avoid confusion with the double-zero '00' worn by mascot Rowdy in promotional materials and appearances. However, as Patrik Walker of reports, 'that was never actually true." While Jones initially referred to No. 0 as 'Rowdy's number' and declined DeMarvion Overshown's request to wear it last season, the real reason for the delay was not to protect the mascot's branding, but rather due to other internal considerations—such as evaluating which player would be the right fit for the never-before used new number. Rowdy continues to wear '00,' a number not available to NFL players, while Overshown has now made history as the first Cowboys player to don No. 0. Overshown, a third-round pick out of Texas in 2024, is expected to compete for a significant role in the Cowboys' defense this season. He missed his entire rookie year due to a torn ACL. Overhshown previously dawned No. 13, for the Cowboys, coming out making an electric debut in week 1 last season. The former Longhorn tallied up 11 tackles, two QB hits, a tackle for loss and, a sack against the Cleveland Browns. This article originally appeared on Longhorns Wire: Texas' DeMarvion Overshown credits Jerry Jones' grandson for No. 0
USA Today
a day ago
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- USA Today
Former Texas star DeMarvion Overshown teams with Jerry Jones' grandson for Cowboys' No. 0
Former Texas star DeMarvion Overshown teams with Jerry Jones' grandson for Cowboys' No. 0 Overshown earned help from an old teammate, who happens to be the grandson of the owner of the Dallas Cowboys. #Cowboys DeMarvion Overshown on how got the news he would be getting No. 0. Overshown says he called Jerry Jones' grandson, Paxton Anderson, to help push it over the edge. (🎥: @dallascowboys) — Brandon Loree (@Brandoniswrite) May 30, 2025 Dallas Cowboys linebacker DeMarvion Overshown revealed this week how he landed the coveted No. 0 jersey, crediting a key assist from an unexpected source: team owner Jerry Jones' grandson, Paxton Anderson. Overshown, speaking to reporters at the Cowboys' facility, said he reached out to Anderson to help advocate for his jersey switch. 'I called Paxton and told him I needed his help to push it over the edge,' Overshown said, smiling. 'He made sure the right people heard about it.' Jones' grandson, Paxton Anderson, joined the Texas Longhorns as a Division I wide receiver in 2020 after a standout high school career at Highland Park and was teammates with DeMarvion Overshown during his time in Austin. Anderson was part of the Longhorns' roster through the 2023 season and graduated in 2024. The NFL began allowing players to wear No. 0 last season, making it a popular choice among players seeking a fresh start or a unique identity. Overshown, who missed his rookie campaign with a knee injury, said the number represents a new chapter as he returns to the field. Many Dallas Cowboys fans believed that owner Jerry Jones and the team's marketing department were holding the No. 0 jersey in reserve to avoid confusion with the double-zero '00' worn by mascot Rowdy in promotional materials and appearances. However, as Patrik Walker of reports, 'that was never actually true." While Jones initially referred to No. 0 as 'Rowdy's number' and declined DeMarvion Overshown's request to wear it last season, the real reason for the delay was not to protect the mascot's branding, but rather due to other internal considerations—such as evaluating which player would be the right fit for the never-before used new number. Rowdy continues to wear '00,' a number not available to NFL players, while Overshown has now made history as the first Cowboys player to don No. 0. Overshown, a third-round pick out of Texas in 2024, is expected to compete for a significant role in the Cowboys' defense this season. He missed his entire rookie year due to a torn ACL. Overhshown previously dawned No. 13, for the Cowboys, coming out making an electric debut in week 1 last season. The former Longhorn tallied up 11 tackles, two QB hits, a tackle for loss and, a sack against the Cleveland Browns.
USA Today
3 days ago
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Cowboys OTAs: Schottenheimer says he has Prescott in \
Cowboys OTAs: Schottenheimer says he has Prescott in "development phase" 10 years in Despite being a veteran starter, Dak Prescott enters 2025 with questions and tweaks under a new regime—and a coach who sees untapped potential. Brian Schottenheimer knew the spotlight would be glaring in his first year as the Dallas Cowboys' head coach. What he may not have expected? That one of his first major headlines would come from how he described his franchise quarterback. 'I think Dak is in the developmental phase,' Schottenheimer said during a recent media session. 'And that sounds crazy for a guy who's played that much, but there are things we're tweaking with Dak.' The comment, delivered matter-of-factly, may come as a bit of a surprise. After all, this is a 10th-year veteran being talked about, a three-time Pro Bowler who's led Dallas to four playoff appearances and thrown 213 career touchdowns. But context matters. Prescott is coming off a season-ending hamstring injury suffered late in 2024 and is now operating under a brand-new regime, with Schottenheimer calling the shots for the first time. Prescott's numbers last year weren't eye-popping like the 2023 season when he finished second in MVP voting. He threw for 1,978 yards with 11 touchdowns and eight interceptions in eight games before the injury sidelined him. But Schottenheimer and the Cowboys' front office didn't just sit idle this offseason; they went to work rebuilding the offense around him. Enter notable additions such as George Pickens and Tyler Booker. Pickens, acquired via trade from the Steelers, brings the kind of physicality and explosiveness the Cowboys' receiving corps has been missing. He's expected to be a helping hand to All-Pro CeeDee Lamb, giving Dallas one of the more dangerous receiving duos in the NFC. Booker, a first-round pick out of Alabama, adds youth and strength to an offensive line that struggled with consistency and injuries last season. Both players represent more than just talent upgrades; they're pillars in what Schottenheimer hopes becomes a tougher, more versatile Cowboys attack. Still, none of it works if Prescott can't lead it. That's why Schottenheimer's 'developmental' comment shouldn't be taken as a slight; it's a sign that the Cowboys are putting in the work, from top to bottom. For all of Dak's experience, for all of his leadership, there's still another level he's expected to reach. A level that could define not just his legacy but Schottenheimer's as a first-time NFL head coach. For now, the clock is ticking. With the NFC East looking as stacked as ever and Dallas coming off a disappointing 7–10 season, there's no time for slow starts or moral victories. The Prescott-Schottenheimer era has officially begun. Now it's about proving the tweaks will pay off. The Cowboys don't need Dak to reinvent himself in 2025. They just need him to evolve. Follow Cowboys Wire on Facebook to join in on the conversation with fellow fans!
NBC Sports
3 days ago
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Destiny fulfilled yet again as Oklahoma State wins 12th NCAA title
CARLSBAD, Calif. – It had been exactly 30 years since Alan Bratton rolled in the winning putt in a sudden-death playoff against a Tiger Woods-led Stanford team at the 1995 NCAA Championship in Columbus, Ohio, clinching his first team national championship in his final season at Oklahoma State. As Bratton, now the Cowboys' longtime head coach, sat in a lounge area Wednesday morning at Omni La Costa, just hours before his team was set to face Virginia in the championship match, he recalled how legendary Golfweek writer Ron Balicki had picked Oklahoma State to win three decades ago. It was a nod that worried the Cowboy faithful considering Balicki, genially known as 'Wrong Ron' for his propensity to whiff on his NCAA pick, had yet to predict the correct champion. The night before the final round, the Cowboys, three shots off the lead, returned from dinner to find a sticky note on Tripp Kuehne's hotel-room door. The message, scribbled in pen, read, BELIEVE IN DESTINY. 'We didn't know who put it there, but Tripp ended up writing it on his golf ball,' Bratton said. 'Sure enough, we win, Tripp tells the story, and Balicki writes it. Good story, right? As the years went on, I kept thinking, I bet Balicki put the note on the door.' At one championship in the early 2000s, Bratton, then a Ping rep, finally got Balicki to admit to it. 'He wrote his own story,' Bratton added with a chuckle. By Wednesday evening, Bratton's team had penned theirs by capturing the program's 12th NCAA Championship and first in seven years. When Bratton shared the tale of Balicki's note on Tuesday night after a thrilling semifinal victory over Ole Miss, sophomore Ethan Fang, one of two Cal transfers in the Cowboys' starting five, decided to write the acronym B.I.D. on his ball for his anchor match opposite Bryan Lee. It couldn't hurt, he figured, and with each putt he struck Wednesday, he caught a glimpse of inspiration. The final time Fang lined up his ball, on the 16th green with a 1-up advantage on Lee, he never got to hit it. No need to, as Eric Lee, the second arrival from Berkeley last summer, was celebrating about 300 yards away on the final green, having just been conceded birdie by Josh Duangmanee to seal a 2-up victory and the clinching point in Oklahoma State's 4-1 triumph in front of a raucous group of about 200 supporters, who, in the words of sophomore Gaven Lane, 'overpowered' the Cavalier contingent all day and out-roared their weight well into the trophy presentation. How 'bout them Cowboys! 'It's overwhelming,' Eric Lee said. 'I haven't heard a crowd that loud in a while, or ever, actually. It's a cool feeling, and it's great to be a national champion with all these guys.' Bratton's heroics in 1995 ensured that he and fellow senior Chris Tidland avoided becoming the first players to play under then coach Mike Holder for four years and not win a national title. This year's Cowboys, loaded with talent but also a youthful squad with no seniors or juniors starting in the postseason, had contributed to the longest win drought in program history before snapping their 19-tournament skid at last fall's Jackson T. Stephens Cup. That was the moment, Bratton said, when it all came together. The Cowboys carried that momentum into their spring opener in Hawaii and won that event, too. They'd end this season with six total tournament titles, a No. 2 national ranking and a pair of first-team All-Americans in Fang and sophomore Preston Stout, who a few weeks earlier had captured his second straight Big 12 medal despite battling flu-like symptoms in the final round. Stout won his first two matches, in the quarterfinals against Oklahoma and in the semis, before falling to three-time first-teamer Ben James, 3 and 2, in the third match Wednesday. That was the only point Virginia would get, though not for lack of competitiveness. Playing in their first-ever final, the 10th-ranked Cavaliers, ranked in the same spot as the Northwestern women a week earlier, quickly jumped ahead in each of the last four matches against college golf's modern-day dynasty – Oklahoma State is now tied for the third-most national titles, which have come in an NCAA-record 76 appearances, and also owns a dozen Big 12 titles; Virginia just notched its first ACC Championship win in 72 years last month. The only exception was the leadoff match, where Filip Fahlberg Johnsson found himself in a comfortable position. Bratton wanted to send his most experienced match-play guy out first, and that ended up being the Swedish freshman, who has a relationship with countryman Leif Westerberg, the former Cowboy who famously left for the British Amateur after 72 holes of that 1995 championship, leaving Oklahoma State to play off against Stanford with just four players. The uber-confident Fahlberg Johnsson, who was seemingly not afraid to exhibit a bit of gamesmanship, won the first hole against fellow first-year Maxi Puregger before closing out the Austrian, 3 and 1, and capping a 3-0 performance that included a scrappy 21st-hole victory over Ole Miss' Cameron Tankersley in a match that wrapped up in the dark. The finish was reminiscent of the Cowboys' 2019 NCAA semifinal bout with Texas at The Blessings Golf Club in Fayetteville, Arkansas, where Zach Bauchou lipped out a putt after the sun had set to end a dominant Oklahoma State squad's run at back-to-back national titles. A year before that, at the 2018 NCAA Championship, Bauchou opened his final match with a front-nine 29 to set the tone in the Cowboys' 5-0 rout of Alabama in front of thousands of home fans at Karsten Creek. Bratton occasionally breaks out his orange polo from that victory for big events, and he did the same Wednesday, though the top remained under a black jacket with the marine layer never burning off and temperatures remaining in the 50s. Another message Bratton delivered to his players on the eve of Wednesday's final was to 'channel their inner Bauchou.' His squad wasn't short on inspiration. Rickie Fowler, perhaps the most recognizable Cowboy alum, texted with Bratton all week and even shared some screenshots of a conversation he was having with cycling legend Lance Armstrong, who was glued to Tuesday's coverage (Bratton did have to inform some of his players who that was). Viktor Hovland also was watching from the clubhouse at Muirfield Village. And Kuehne, one of the greatest career amateurs of all-time, flew out Wednesday morning to potentially witness destiny fulfilled again. He wasn't disappointed. Lane trailed 2 down after seven holes before birdieing five of his final eight to post the day's most convincing result, a 4-and-3 win over Paul Chang, who spent three years on Virginia's club team before earning his spot two summers ago. Fang won four straight holes on the back nine to flip his match while Eric Lee birdied three of his final four holes. Fang, a Texas native, had strongly considered Oklahoma State during his recruiting process before his buddy Lee convinced him to join him at Cal. But a week into school, Fang's car was broken into. 'I quickly found out that I wasn't a big city guy,' said Fang, who would enter the transfer portal following Cal's NCAA exit last year at La Costa. He returned the favor, too, dragging Lee with him to Stillwater. 'We call it even now,' Lee quipped. Fang remembers Bratton's pitch last summer: 'If you want to win a national championship, you got to come to Oklahoma State.' 'And he was right,' Fang added. Stratton Nolen can attest. The current Cowboys assistant was a reserve on that 2018 Oklahoma State team that has sent five players to the PGA Tour, including Hovland and fellow Tour winners Matt Wolff and Austin Eckroat. It was Nolen who reminded Eric Lee, with Lee tied with Duangmanee on the 15th tee, to 'believe in your destiny.' About an hour later, that destiny was realized. The only difference was Balicki wasn't around to write about it. Balicki died from cancer in 2014 at age 65. When it came to covering college golf, Balicki was a pioneer. Players adored him, trusted him; Fowler made just one phone call to announce he was turning pro, to Balicki, who returned that love in spades. One summer, when told he couldn't travel to the Northeast Amateur, Balicki informed his boss he'd be taking vacation to cover it anyway. His last NCAA Championship came in 2013 – he picked undefeated Cal, which lost in the semifinals to Alabama. Bratton gives Balicki a lot of credit for where the sport is today – million-dollar facilities, private jets, six-figure NIL deals, televised tournaments on Golf Channel. He shed a rare tear talking about Balicki on Wednesday morning, and about 12 hours later, he closed his winning interview by remembering Wrong Ron. 'I've been thinking about him all week, and what a special guy,' Bratton said. 'We don't have all this without somebody telling the story of college golf, and Ron Balicki did it like nobody else.' Even long after his death, Balicki is still inspiring national champions. Relive the final round of team match play for the NCAA Men's National Championship. Brentley Romine talks with the men's golf national champion Cowboys to discuss how they got to the top of the NCAA and how Oklahoma State golfers of the past helped push them to a win.
USA Today
5 days ago
- Sport
- USA Today
Tight end hopeful has oozed potential, but currently invoking dreaded Rico Gathers comp
Tight end hopeful has oozed potential, but currently invoking dreaded Rico Gathers comp For years a man by the name of Rico Gathers captivated the Dallas Cowboys fanbase, offering up daydreams of what might be, if only this man could one day fulfill his vast potential. Gathers, a 6-foot-6, 281-pound tight end, lasted roughly three seasons in Dallas. Even though he only actually produced 45 yards in on-field production, Gathers dominated summer storylines, teasing team, analysts and fanbase alike. Recently, another highly skilled pass catcher has similarly caught an abnormal amount of media attention in Dallas. John Stephens, Jr. has been an intriguing tight end/receiver prospect who has ferociously teased fans with his impressive ceiling as a pass catcher the past two seasons. At 6-foot-5, 221-pounds, Stephens isn't an obvious fit as an inline TE, but at the same time he's an awkward size to be a WR as well. Best categorized as a big slot or a split TE, Stephens is a mismatch nightmare for opposing coverages and potentially an under-the-radar weapon for an offense hoping to be deceptive and less transparent in their pre-snap looks. At present time, Stephens' hype is near an all-time low. Back-to-back ACL tears to his left knee have ended the past two seasons prematurely. His ability to bounce back in time for training camp will dictate whether the hype train continues on for one more summer, or fades away like Gathers once did. The Cowboys' TE corps is three-deep, but far from a sure thing. Jake Ferguson and Luke Schoonmaker are all but assured roster spots in 2025 but behind them things are less secured. Brevyn Spann-Ford is a tantalizing developmental option at TE3 given his size (6-foot-7, 270-pounds) and usage (305 offensive snaps last season), but even he's going to have to sing for his supper in 2025. If Stephens can get back on the field and turn those various highlights into a more consistent product, he could work his way onto the roster in 2025. The Cowboys could keep as many as four TEs in 2025 so even if passing Spann-Ford is a longshot, making the roster is a perfectly realistic outcome. Then again, two knee injuries are tough to overcome and the Cowboys can't afford to get intoxicated by the dreams of what he might be when each day that goes by makes that seem fantasy. Ready or not, it's put up or shut up time for Stephens in Dallas. The Cowboys would love another large weapon to deploy on offense, but Stephens has to be ready to contribute because the clock has nearly struck midnight. You can follow Reid on X @ReidDHanson and be sure to follow Cowboys Wire on Facebook to join in on the conversation with fellow fans!
