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Kevin Sherrington’s A La Carte
— Fox Sports’ Jay Glazer says the Eagles were willing to give the Cowboys two firsts, a third, a fifth and “other things” for Micah Parsons, a better haul than they got from the Packers, but Jerry Jones didn’t want to trade within the division. No kidding. Weird enough watching Parsons in green and gold Sunday. Could you imagine seeing him next to Jalen Carter twice a season for the next five? Even Jerry’s not that crazy.
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— Speaking of Carter: If Dak Prescott really did bait him into that ejection, he should make it his pregame routine.
— You know what might have kept Jalen Hurts out of the end zone last week? A spy. Someone fast and strong enough to mirror him all game. Someone like the guy who chased down Jared Goff in Green Bay and swallowed him whole. The Cowboys just tipped the scales in the NFC North. Maybe the conference.
— Brian Schottenheimer claims he doesn’t believe in moral victories, but he’d have earned an actual “W” if CeeDee Lamb had only remembered the first rule of receiving, courtesy of US Sports Camps: “When the ball is thrown above your waist, you want to have your fingers pointing up and your thumbs touching.”
— Only one game in, and it looks like the Giants, who visit JerryWorld on Sunday, already have a quarterback controversy. Guess Daniel Jones, who accounted for three touchdowns Sunday in the Colts’ 33-8 romp over Miami, might not have been the problem after all.
— If the Rangers’ late surge proves to be nothing more than a tease, they’ve done worse to their fans. Summer has come and gone, and hope remains.
— Ever since I asked Bruce Bochy if he still likes coming out to the park, and he answered in the affirmative, his players have made the question moot. This is surely one of the most confounding teams ever to occupy Arlington.
— Here’s what I had in mind for Arch Manning: Drive the bus. Didn’t think Steve Sarkisian would ask him to get out and push it, too.
— In an 84-77 win over Italy, Luka Doncic scored half of Slovenia’s points to push his country to the EuroBasket quarterfinals against Germany. No matter what size, he pulls his weight and more.
— Story time: Davey Johnson, son of a World War II tank commander who died last week at 82, left his San Antonio home in 1960 to go to Texas A&M, where he would study to become a veterinarian. He also played baseball and basketball. He settled on the former after his batting average his sophomore year (.309) was almost as good as his free throw percentage (.381).
Signed by the Orioles before his junior year, he became a mainstay at second base on Earl Weaver’s championship teams, rounding out an infield that included Brooks Robinson at third, Mark Belanger at short and Boog Powell at first.
Johnson’s intellectual side showed even then. Back home in San Antonio, he earned a math degree at Trinity. He also took classes at Johns Hopkins, where he employed a computer to determine the ultimate Orioles lineup. Weaver threw it in the trash. He was not deterred. On a mound visit during a game, he once attempted to explain to a wild Dave McNally “unfavorable change deviation theory.” Translation: Throw to the middle of the plate, and maybe you’ll hit a corner.
Called arrogant and an iconoclast, he managed the Mets to a World Series title in 1986. On Johnson’s final week as manager of the Nationals, his last job in baseball, the Washington Post’s Thomas Boswell wrote that he was “one of the smartest and most stubborn, loyal and insubordinate, independent and opinionated, honest and funny, patient and multifaceted men that baseball has ever seen.”
He chose wisely over basketball.
More from Sherrington
— Cowboys trading Micah Parsons is closer to Luka Doncic disaster than Herschel Walker heist
— Sonny Dykes’ schooling of Bill Belichick in TCU-UNC an ominous sign for ‘Chapel Bill’
— Eric Dickerson, Craig James reflect on SMU’s surge to pick up where Pony Express left off
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