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Sports TUESDAY NOVEMBER 8 2016 1BFACEBOOK.COM/STARTELEGRAM TWITTER.COM/STARTELEGRAMSTAR-TELEGRAM.COM 1 SEATTLE, SHERMAN HOLD OFF RALLY TO WIN 31-25, MOVE TO 5-2-1 4B SOAR Texas Motor Speedway presi- dent Eddie Gossage should immediately call his boss, Speedway Motorsports Inc. executive chairman Bruton Smith, with a simple message: time to repave Texas Motor Speedway. Not in two or three years. Now. Fifteen years is about the lifespan for asphalt on a race- track, and Texas has unequiv- ocally reached that point.

Gos- sage and Smith both know this. Or should know this. The track was last repaved in 2001. Who cares if drivers like older asphalt? Fans like sitting in rain delays when it rained for hours. They want to watch the Dallas Cow- boys on Big Hoss TV when at the site of the largest TV for racing.

The spring NASCAR Sprint Cup race ended past midnight because of overnight rainfall. The IndyCar race scheduled for TMS needs to fix aging track for sake of fans IN MY OPINION BY DREW DAVISON DAVID KENT Empty seats were the result of a six-hour rain delay Sunday for the AAA Texas 500 at TMS. SEE DAVISON, 2B FRISCO Coachspeak insists the game never is as good, or sometimes as bad, as it looked on the field. If so, coach Jason Garrett was asked, then where in the world do the Dallas Cowboys improve on offense? They gained 423 yards. They scored 35 points, and it more only because they ended in victory formation.

They punted only twice in nine pos- sessions. They had no turn- overs. important to recognize the good stuff, and it be genuine of us as a coaching staff to go in and start ripping guys for stuff that hap- pen in the Garrett said Monday. identify the good stuff, and you try to build on it, and you identify the stuff not good, and you try to rectify it. me, plenty of stuff got to get better at.

Just watch the tape. not all good 11 guys on every play. Trust me. So you identify that stuff, and you take a non-emo- tional view of it, and you try to be as objective as you can as a staff and try to be better. Our players do a good job under- standing the approach that we take and we strive to get better each and every Yeah.

Yeah. The Cowboys scored five touchdowns with drives of 75, 69, 67, 75 and 64 yards. They went three-and-out once, punt- ing from their own 6, and they had another punt after a drive stalled at the Cleveland 37 late in the game. The Cowboys also had kneel- downs on two drives once before the half and once to end the game. know scoring.

We know moving the foot- Cowboys guard Zack Martin said Sunday. know if we knew exactly the numbers. If we can take care of the football like that and keep executing as a The Cowboys have executed like that most of the season. They have scored on 35 of 67 possessions, excluding end-of- half and end-of-game kneel- downs. think important to look at your scoring opportunities over the course of the game and what happened with Garrett said.

were you able to do with each of those to take advantage of RODGER MALLISON The offense, led by Dak Prescott (4) and Ezekiel Elliott (21), chewed up yards (423) and clock (13:01 of the final 15 minutes) on Sunday. COWBOYS Purring sound is offense BY CHAREAN WILLIAMS Cowboys at Steelers 3:25 p.m. Sunday, SEE COWBOYS, 4B I-35 Alsbury Hurry all sale prices and low interest end Nov. 30, 2016.BURLESON, TX SALE2016 ChevyCruze for 72 Mos. or MSRP $22,300 Bonus Tag $4,460 Lynn Smith Disc.

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think be coach Gary Patterson said. precau- tionary the way they treat all that stuff. They be too Replays showed Galeai mak- ing a tackle, contacting a player with his head, then getting up and coming off the field. Then, of a sudden, he was laying on the Patterson said. actually said it was tingling when he came back to the side- line.

Then he just went Galeai is a 6-foot-5, 235- pound sophomore from Euless Trinity. In limited action, he has 22 tackles, 2.5 sacks and a fum- ble recovery. After being immobilized on a TCU FOOTBALL Patterson: DE Galeai after collapsing BY CARLOS MENDEZ Oklahoma State at TCU Nov. 19, Time and TV TBA SEE TCU, 2B Which election-themed comedy show will you choose? THIS SECTION MAVERICKS CUBAN: AUTOMATED REPORTS LED TO ESPN BAN Mark Cuban told the AP on Monday that his decision to revoke the credentials of two ESPN reporters was driven partly by concern that automated game reports could replace human-generated content. 3B SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ.

Rangers left-hander Derek Holland is officially a free agent after the club declined to pick up his contract option Monday evening. The club paid a $1.5 million buyout instead of $11 million option. The top priority this off-season is starting pitching, and they be- lieve freeing up money will help land them another starter. As expected, the Rangers extended the $17.2 million qual- ifying offer to center fielder Ian Desmond. Desmond is likely to test the free agent market, seek- ing a multi-year deal.

Holland has been beset with injuries since he went 10-9 with a 3.42 ERA in 33 starts in 2013, but made only 35 starts the past three seasons. He made 22 appearances (20 starts) with a 4.95 ERA in 2016 and was left RANGERS Holland free to move on after option is declined BY STEFAN STEVENSON SEE RANGERS, 3B.