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Dallas Stars center Mike Modano and former Dallas Cowboy Michael Irvin will be part of the 2007 induction class of the Texas Sports Hall of Fame.  The two were announced as part of an eight-member class on Wednesday.  They’ll be inducted along with the likes of Spike Dykes, the former football coach at Texas Tech, and Ray Childress, the defensive standout from Texas A&M who went on to play for the Houston Oilers.  The ceremonies will take place in Waco on a date to be announced.

Terry Glenn had surgery on his knee last Thursday and he will miss the next 4-6 weeks.  That is good news to the Cowboys who feared that he might miss the rest of the season due to his bad knee.  Patrick Crayton (3 rec, 51 yards) and Sam Hurd (3 rec, 69 yards, TD) will continue to have an important role in the offense until Glenn returns from injury.

A pair of injured Cowboys made their way back to practice on Wednesday as linebacker Greg Ellis and cornerback Terence Newman participated in workouts.  Ellis has been out with an Achilles’ tendon problem.  He worked out without pads, while Newman put on the pads to practice with the scout team.  Newman is still questionable for Sunday’s game against the Miami Dolphins after being sidelined with a partially torn plantar fascia.  Ellis told reporters he plans to work out in pads today.

The Cowboys signed Remi Ayodele on Tuesday as a replacement for injured nose tackle Jason Ferguson.  The Cowboys have placed Ferguson on injured reserve with a torn bicep muscle that will keep him out of the lineup for the season.  Ayodele was cut by the Cowboys at the end of the preseason and was released by the Atlanta Falcons last week.

Late Thursday night, a member of the organization told me Glenn was indeed finished for the season, but that the Cowboys decided (a little too late) to hold off on making the announcement.

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The Cowboys are still dealing with a couple of injuries, one of which will keep wide out Terry Glenn on the sidelines until possibly the opener on September 9th. Glenn underwent knee surgery back on August 1st, and despite thinking that he would be playing in one preseason game, coach Wade Phillips will be sitting Glenn till hopefully he is ready to go opening day. “It’s not a real concern,” Phillips said about the teams number two wide out.

Another starter trying to make it back is outside linebacker Greg Ellis, who continues to try and make it back after he tore his Achillies tendon back in November. He has to date already missed two mini-camps and all of the organized team activities in the off-season. Ellis tried to practice the first day of training camp, but pain forced him to stop 30 minutes in and he has not taken the field since. He has been working out with Cowboys associate athletic trainer Brett Brown. While Glenn appears to be on the verge of making it back, Ellis’ season remains in doubt.

The injury for linebacker Greg Ellis is becoming more of a concern and is not getting any better.  The linebacker, who has been round and round with the team wanting a new deal, may have to face that facts that it might be hard to get back on the field in 2007, or ever for that matter.  Ellis tore the achllies last November, and despite a long rehab, still can’t go through an entire workout without severe amounts of pain.  “It’s a pain you can’t deal with,” he said. “It never goes away - even when I wake up in the morning, walking around, the whole deal.”

The team did another round of MRI’s, and found no other damage, and think that he will still be able to make it back on the field.   As for Ellis, he’s starting to sound like he’s not so sure.  “It’s just frustrating,” he said. “What the heck is going on? Why won’t it go away? I just keep saying maybe there’s something to the time period.”  Even though the team is talking about a return, there is also some speculation they were thinking hard about the future when they went out and drafted Anthony Spencer in the first round of this April’s draft.  He could fit the role of the next Ellis, who has been on the current Cowboys roster longer than any player.

As for wanting more cash, of course he’d like it, but he says it’s not the driving force for him to get back on the field.  “This is not about me trying to get more money,” he said. “This might be it for me. Hopefully it’s not, but that’s the reality of the situation.”  The team could place him on injured reserve, which would end his season, or put him on the PUP list, which means he could be back on the field should his injury heal.  As far as coach Wade Phillips is concerned, the team is not ready to make that decsion yet.  “Our guys say he’s day to day,” the coach said. “I am going with that.”

The Wade Phillips era officially begins tonight at Texas Stadium as the new head coach leads the Dallas Cowboys into their preseason opener against the defending Super Bowl champion Indianapolis Colts.  Phillips will not have the services of linebacker Greg Ellis, wide receiver Terry Glenn, or starting tackles Flozell Adams and Marc Columbo for tonight’s game as all are recovering from injuries.  Wide receiver Terrell Owens is expected to be available, and quarterback Tony Romo will take the field for the first time since the infamous fumbled snap at the end of last season’s playoff game in Seattle.  Tonight’s game gets underway at 7:00 p.m.

Cowboys wide receiver Terrell Owens returned to practice at the Alamodome on Tuesday after missing the previous two days with back spasms.  Owens says he was able to run at full speed thanks to chiropractic treatments.  He is expected to play in Thursday night’s preseason game against the Indianapolis Colts.  Wide receiver Terry Glenn will sit out the game as he continues to recover from arthroscopic knee surgery.  Patrick Crayton will get the start in his place.

Good news on the injury front for the Cowboys, as the team expects left tackle Flozell Adams be able to practice today. Adams has not been able to go the first seven practices as he is still recovering from left knee surgery. “We’ll bring him back slowly,” head coach Wade Phillips tells the Dallas Morning News. The team has so far been going without both starting offensive tackles, as they are also missing right tackle Marc Colombo.  Phillips has stated that Colombo’s return will take longer.  Jim Molinaro and rookie James Marten have been spliting reps with the first team.

More than eight-thousand people turned out to watch the Dallas Cowboys hold their first practice of the 2007 training camp at the Alamodome in San Antonio on Wednesday.  Veteran outside linebacker Greg Ellis became the first casualty of camp.  He left the field in the first 30 minutes of the session with pain near his previously injured Achilles’ tendon.  An MRI showed no damage.  The team worked out without pads during the opening session.  Two-a-day practices in full uniform will begin this morning with a session at 9:00 a.m. and will continue this afternoon at 3:30 p.m.

The Dallas Cowboys will officially begin training camp today at the Alamodome in San Antonio.  First practices are set to start at 2:30 p.m. this afternoon, with two-a-day practices beginning on Thursday.  Owner Jerry Jones and new head coach Wade Phillips held a “State of the Cowboys” press conference on Tuesday, with Jones saying that a “new era” is dawning for the team this year.  Both faced questions about the departure of former head coach Bill Parcells.  Phillips said he respected Parcells but reminded everyone that Parcells retired from the job, saying, “now it’s mine.”

The Cowboys have come to terms with fourth-round offensive tackle Doug Free to an undisclosed contract. The 6-foot-7, 315 pound lineman may be called upon early with some question marks still on the Cowboys offensive line. Below is the bio on Free’s senior season:

All-America Candidate
Outland Trophy Watch List
2006 Team Captain

Career: Two-time All-Mid-Am pick (2004-05). Heads into senior campaign with an active string of 36 consecutive starts (34 at LT and two at TE) and 156 knockdown blocks in 2,287 career snaps (2003-05). Serious 2007 National Football League draft material. All-America candidate with unique combination of athleticism, quick feet, and work ethic. Nicknamed by Northern Illinois teammates as “Doug Freak” for athleticism (:05.0 speed, 29-inch vertical jump, and 565-pound squat lift. Compared to former Huskie Third-Team All-America OT and Indianapolis Colts (fourth-round pick in 2001 NFL draft) starter Ryan Diem. Rated by ESPN.com analyst Bill Curry as one of three best non-skill position players in the country, along with Boston College DE Mathias Kiwanuka and Minnesota C Greg Eslinger. “Even at 6-7, 302, he (Free) can get out and lead RB Garrett Wolfe downfield on screens. Coach Joe Novak says Free could play TE in the NFL.” Anchored rock-solid Northern Illinois O-line that blocked for nation’s No. 16 major-college rushing attack (206.7 yards-per-game average) and total offense (441.1 ypg.) last season and paved the way for 1,000-yard rushers such as All-America tailbacks Michael “The Burner” Turner and Garrett Wolfe.

As the Dallas Cowboys get ready to open training camp on Wednesday, owner Jerry Jones says he plans to have a talk with Cowboys outside linebacker Greg Ellis.  Jones told the “Dallas Morning News” on Monday that he and Ellis will meet after camp gets under way.  Ellis had been upset since the Cowboys drafted Anthony Spencer as an outside linebacker prospect and had been requesting a trade or a reworking of his contract.  Jones said on Monday that there had been a miscommunication and that the two would get together to discuss issues at camp.

Bad news for Cowboys right tackle Marc Colombo, as he underwent arthroscopic knee surgery two weeks ago and sources say he will not practice when training camp opens. Colombo, is 6-foot-8, 315 pounds, re-signed with Dallas early this offseason after playing his first three seasons with the Bears. He has a history of knee troubles that threatened his career while in Chicago. Colombo started all 16 games last season for Dallas, and word is the Cowboys will play it safe with him and not push him too hard before he can go full speed in camp.

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The Cowboys like to take workout warriors late in the draft and hope they can coach them up and Brown falls into this category.  Brown is 6′1″, 205 pounds and he runs a 4.32 40 and that’s the good news.  The bad news is that he played his college ball at Cal Poly so the competition will be quite a jump for him.  In 41 games (31 starts) at Cal Poly, Brown made 111 tackles, broke up 22 passes and intercepted 10 passes (63 return yards).  If nothing else Brown should help the Cowboys on special teams.