{"id":120423,"date":"2025-09-04T22:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T22:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/120423\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T22:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T22:55:12","slug":"a-massive-sports-night-us-open-womens-semifinal-tilts-plus-nfl-opener-between-rivals-cowboys-and-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/120423\/","title":{"rendered":"A massive sports night: US Open women\u2019s semifinal tilts plus NFL opener between rivals Cowboys and Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dallas<\/p>\n

\n For weeks, rumors swirled of an inevitable divorce between the Jerry Jones<\/a>-owned franchise and former star Micah Parsons<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n

\n Amid contract negotiations that turned ugly, Parsons requested a trade \u2013 in a very public manner \u2013 from a team he called a \u201cdream\u201d to play for ahead of the 2021 NFL draft which saw him selected 12th overall out of Penn State.\n <\/p>\n

\n The reasons around paying Parsons what he believes is fair have always been relatively inarguable as his stats and accolades back everything up.\n <\/p>\n

\n The 26-year-old has 52 1\/2 sacks, recording at least 12 in each of his four seasons while making the Pro Bowl each year.\n <\/p>\n

\"Micah<\/p>\n

\n \u201cAfter repeated shots at myself and all the narratives, I have made a tough decision, I no longer want to play for the Dallas Cowboys,\u201d Parsons said in a post<\/a> on X on August 1.\n <\/p>\n

\n A day later, the 82-year-old Jones, adamantly played down the trade request, adding it was \u201cjust a part of negotiation.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Jones quickly changed his tone weeks later, placing the blame on Parson\u2019s agent, David Mulugheta, for the contract holdup.\n <\/p>\n

\n Despite all of this, one thing was always repeated often by Dallas \u2013 Parsons would be donning a Cowboys uniform when the team opened up the season against their division rivals and reigning Super Bowl champions, the Philadelphia Eagles, on the road on September 4.\n <\/p>\n

\n To make matters potentially more awkward, the Cowboys play host to the Packers at AT&T Stadium on \u201cSunday Night Football\u201d on September 28.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For weeks, rumors swirled of an inevitable divorce between the Jerry Jones-owned franchise and former star Micah Parsons.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-120423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}