Yes. The Cowboys know. Or at least they should know. Those first 54 seconds of Sunday’s season-opening 28-17 beating by the 49ers turned their worst nightmare about the 2014 season into reality. MORE: 49ers just fine | Week 1 debuts | ‘Best opening day ever’ Dallas’ only chance to avoid a historically bad season was to manufacture enough offense to overcome horrible defense. They needed Tony Romo to play as if he hasn’t had two back operations in just over a year....

Even without Romo, the Cowboys were able to overcome 18 penalties to outscore an Eagles offense that’s looked inept through two weeks. In Sunday’s 20-10 loss at Lincoln Financial Field, the Eagles had more turnovers at one point than total rushing yards. Philadelphia (0-2) finished with three turnovers and just 7 rushing yards. PHOTOS: NFL Week 2 action | MORE: Tony Romo out for season with injury The Eagles made a big splash in free agency, luring DeMarco Murray away from Dallas a season after he led the NFL with 1,845 rushing yards....

That’s easier said than done. According to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the team is progressing nicely with quarterback Dak Prescott’s extension but hasn’t gotten that far with wideout Amari Cooper. Per the report, the Cowboys are trying to make Prescott the highest-paid player in team history with an average annual salary of $30 million. Team owner Jerry Jones has been open that the team is doing what it can to keep Prescott on the team for the foreseeable future and said on “The Rich Eisen Show” on Monday that a contract will be cemented....

“That sucked,” Jeremy Mincey told The Dallas Morning News. MORE: Top 10 moves of the draft’s first round | Cowboys ignore RB need with first pick Hardy was convicted of domestic violence in July after he allegedly assaulted ex-girlfriend Nicole Holder. His case was dismissed in February after Holder didn’t show up in court and reached a financial settlement with the former Panthers defender. Even so, Hardy was still handed a 10-game suspension for the 2015 season....

According to a press release by Airbnb, Winnie the Pooh illustrator Kim Raymond was involved in the development of the “Bearbnb” and is hosting the stay. Much of the house took inspiration from E.H. Shepard, an illustrator who worked with the creator of the lovable character, A.A. Milne. “This house is a window into my world,” Raymond wrote in the Airbnb listing. “I have been working with a team of experts to bring Winnie the Pooh’s ‘Tree House’ as depicted in the classic A....

Not long before, some editors thought the story might win a Pulitzer. It was a copiously researched tale of how two Nicaraguan drug dealers with connections to the CIA-backed contra army moved tons of drugs into Los Angeles. But this otherwise valuable piece of journalism has largely been discredited because it promised more than it could deliver. It billboarded itself as having uncovered the spark that ignited the entire crack epidemic–and that was one reach too many....

Crawford dominated all night long showing his combination of power and speed from the very first round. Horn tried his best to lead the punching but it was Crawford who was able to land the consistent power punches that eventually exhausted the Australian and led to the Round 9 TKO win. CRAWFORD VS. HORN: Facts to know for WBO welterweight title fight Crawford came into the fight after previously holding two other division belts in lightweight and junior welterweight....

Crest 3D Whitestrips Professional Effects were one of the products we tested in our lab while searching for the best teeth whitening kits. Our tester was shocked by her results, moving from a 20 to an 8 on the tooth shade chart before even finishing the entire kit. “I was pleasantly surprised by that change,” our tester said. “I definitely got compliments on my smile.” She called the full whitening effect from the strips “a confidence booster for sure....

Anyone who thought Cobain was an easy read probably wasn’t a Nirvana fan. Next month, however, he’ll become an open book, as Riverhead Books publishes “Journals,” a collection of handwritten diary entries, letters, band memos, drawings, screeds and cries from the heart that editor Julie Grau culled from stacks of the late singer’s notebooks. (NEWSWEEK’s exclusive excerpt follows.) Riverhead is said to have paid the Cobain estate–i.e., his widow, Courtney Love, and his 10-year-old daughter, Frances–in the neighborhood of $4 million for “Journals....

In fact, sources close to the investigation tell NEWSWEEK that Thursday’s raid stems from a long-running probe by the Central Criminal Court of Iraq into financial corruption and criminal charges linked to the INC and its alleged efforts to profit illegally from Iraq’s reconstruction. Among the documents police were searching for relate to charges that INC officials profited from the introduction of a new currency. According to an official with the Coalition Provisional Authority, an INC-affiliated company was placed in charge of destroying the old currency, but “a lot of money was coming out again into circulation instead of being burned....

Percent Naming Item As Primary Focus Reducing drug abuse 31% Better economy, more jobs 17 Simplifying court rules 16 Longer prison sentences 15 More police on the street 10 Reducing the number of guns 3 Expanded use of death penalty 1 Source: Death Penalty Info. Center

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, also said that Ukraine was now steadily exacting “kinetic effects” far behind Russia’s lines in the ongoing war that began February 24. This is impacting Russia’s logistics support, as well as having “a significant psychological effect on the Russian leadership,” the official said. Newsweek was not able to independently verify the Russian jet losses and reached out to Russia’s Defense Ministry for confirmation and comment....

Refat Chubarov, a Crimean Tatar leader, made the remarks in an interview with Ukraine’s Radio NV in a video published on Thursday. It comes amid reports that Russians are fleeing Crimea to the neighboring Russian region of Krasnodar because they fear Ukraine will eventually liberate the Black Sea peninsula. He said Putin’s government will begin to collapse as Ukraine’s Armed Forces get closer to recapturing Crimea, adding that the peninsula is of exceptional importance to the Russian leader....

And it may have cost Coca-Cola $4 billion. What did Ronaldo do? It wasn’t much, but when he sat down for an interview session Monday, a day before Portugal’s 3-0 victory over Hungary, there were two bottles of Coca-Cola on display in front of him. Ronaldo elected to move the bottles and then said, “Agua,” before grabbing a bottle of water. Incredibly, that one small move sent The Coca-Cola Company’s stock into a mini-freefall....

Much of the reasoning behind Harvard’s admissions process comes from critical race theory (CRT), a theory of race that actually originated at Harvard University. CRT teaches that America is divided into privileged and oppressed racial groups. All negative aspects of modern society flow from that overly simplistic dichotomy. Under the CRT framework, “white supremacy” covers many different phenomena. Everything from blatant discrimination to the existence of English grammar to choosing not to riot are sometimes included under the term....

Already, cancel culture and applied critical race theory (CRT) are leading priorities for Republican voters and a mid-ranking issue overall—in large part because they unite conservatives while dividing the Left; on one side you have cultural liberals, those who espouse classical liberal views about free speech, due process, equal treatment before the law and elsewhere and the scientific method. On the other is a rising cohort of cultural socialists, who prioritize protecting disadvantaged groups from offense while redistributing self-esteem and power....

Croatia 6/5 to win 2nd leg Goals from Luka Modric, Nikola Kalinic, Ivan Perisic and Andrej Kramaric made sure the home side will take a three-goal advantage to Athens after a poor defensive showing from Greece. But the large lead should not be taken for granted, according to the Croatian boss. “No euphoria, we have to play in Athens as if it is 0-0,” Dalic said after the match. “These guys are all top players, they don’t need much, we just needed some talks, some change of positions, support, and to give them back joy and confidence....