IRVING, Texas -- Tony Romo and Dez Bryant planned to spend some time together throwing and catching during the break between offseason workouts and training camp.
Now that it's been four years since the last offseason together for the Dallas quarterback and his top receiver, logic says they're trying to make up for lost time after a lost season marked by major injuries to both.
Romo says otherwise.
"Timing and everything is going to be fine," Romo said on the final day of minicamp in mid-June. "It's just a matter of him feeling comfortable with the nuances of the game that really separate someone like Dez from others."
The 36-year-old Romo just enjoyed his first full offseason since 2012, talking confidently about being another year removed from a series of back issues -- despite missing 12 games last year with a twice-broken left collarbone that was the biggest reason the Cowboys slid from first to worst in the NFC East.
But Bryant missed all the significant offseason work for the second straight year since his 2014 All-Pro season that helped Dallas to the division title and its first playoff victory since 2009.
Last year, he was out because he wanted a long-term contract instead of the one-year deal that came with the franchise tag. This year, the Cowboys took a cautious approach with the right foot that Bryant broke in the 2015 opener, ultimately sidelining him seven games and leading to a pair of surgeries, along with career lows in catches, yards and touchdowns (see full story).
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NFL: St. Louis weighs Kroenke project
MARYLAND HEIGHTS, Mo. -- Stan Kroenke couldn't wait to get his NFL team out of St. Louis six months ago, in part because of what his team's relocation application deemed to be a "struggling economy."
But now the billionaire is an investor in a proposed large-scale development along the Missouri River in St. Louis County.
Kroenke and attorney Alan Bornstein control Howard Bend Development, one of six entities that submitted proposals to develop some or most of 1,800 acres in Maryland Heights, Missouri. Details won't be released until later, but whichever project is chosen will likely include offices, stores, restaurants and condominiums. City officials expect to announce the winning project by early 2017.
In a region where Kroenke is widely disliked, can bygones be bygones? Officials in Maryland Heights aren't ruling him out.
NFL: Valuable card collection heads to HOF
CANTON, Ohio -- A high-grade collection of over 300,000 football cards worth millions will go on display at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Ohio later this month.
The Repository newspaper reports the collection, which features the rookie cards of every enshrined member in the top grade available, was assembled by Dan Hunt and art consultant Robert Casterline.
Hunt, the president of Major League Soccer's FC Dallas, is the son of one of pro football's pioneering architects, Lamar Hunt.
Among the highlights of the collection is a card from the 1800s depicting Yale University's Henry Beecher, the first person to appear on a football card.
The cards will be on display at the Hall of Fame in Canton for six months to a year.