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End of Year Memory: Dallas Opens With Thud at Washington

"So it's a 'Hail Mary' or a kneel down and it's going to be the former,'' Al Michaels intoned as the Cowboys lined up at their own 36-yard-line against the Redskins, trailing 3-0 with four seconds left in an otherwise uneventful first half in the NFL's season's opening Sunday night game. Actually, it was neither a kneel...

O-Line 'Em Up: Who's Responsible for the Sacks, Week 12

Last year the Packers and 49ers had two of the worst pass blocking offensive lines in the NFL. So it was no surprise that both teams went out and drafted tackles in the first round of this year's draft. But if you thought that a team's pass protection problems can be solved with a first-round tackle, you'd be sorely...

NFL Two-a-Days: Week 1 Analysis

A losing team impressed Two-a-Days analyst LeCharles Bentley, but a diva and a downer of an offensive line have Bentley worried about San Francisco and Dallas. Click to watch:

Cowboys' Week 1 Goat Alex Barron Possibly Headed for Bench vs. Bears

Right tackle Alex Barron was the goat in Dallas' opening loss to Washington with his holding penalty wiping out what would have been the game-winning touchdown in the final seconds. However, Barron might not be a factor in the Cowboys' home opener Sunday against Chicago. Marc Colombo, who had his right knee scoped a month...

Wade Phillips Regrets Not Stopping Jason Garrett From Calling Pass

In his just-concluded day-after press conference, Dallas coach Wade Phillips said he wishes he'd ordered offensive coordinator Jason Garrett to call for Tony Romo to kneel on the final play of the first half of Sunday night's wild 13-7 loss at Washington. Instead, Phillips could only watch in horror as the quarterback...

Alex Barron News From the Web

05/18/12 The Seattle Seahawks sign OT Alex Barron Source: Seahawks Locker The Seahawks have signed 29-year old OT Alex Barron.
05/15/12 Sports digest: San Francisco 49ers draft pick tears... Source: The Mercury News - San Jose CA Linebacker Darius Fleming, the 49ers' fifth-round draft pick from Notre Dame, tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee during last weekend's rookie minicamp.
05/15/12 Seahawks sign former Rams 1st-rounder OT Alex Barron Source: CBSSports.com The possible bad news arrived over the weekend when Dan Pompei of the National Football Post wrote that "A decent chance exists that Seahawks ' 2011 first round pick James Carpenter will not play in 2012 because his knee was torn up so severely last season. The Seahawks have protected themselves at the right tackle position by re-signing Breno Giacomini and Paul McQuistan and adding free agent Frank Omiyale. Carpenter has had a hard time mentally with the recovery process, but had a recent spurt in which he made some good progress."
05/15/12 Seahawks Make Roster Moves Source: NFL - Seattle Seahawks In their place, Seattle agreed to terms with tackle Alex Barron, tight end Cooper Helfet, cornerback Donny Lisowski and tackle Andrew Mitchell.
05/12/12 Barron scattered in with all of Seattle's rookies Source: The Seattle Times - Seattle WA Alex Barron got down into his three-point stance at left tackle, looked to his right and saw a seventh-round draft pick that has never played on the offensive line at any level of football.

Background on Alex Barron

Alex Barron (born June 11, 1970) in San Diego, California) is an American race car driver. He began racing CART FedEx World Series Championship cars in 1998 and made his first Indy Racing League Northern Lights Series (now IndyCar Series) start in 2001.

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