Forbes announced its annual list of the world’s 50 most valuable sports teams Wednesday and, as usual, Dallas was near the top of the list; just after the usual soccer suspects and MLB’s New York Yankees. Twenty-nine other NFL teams cracked the list, too, with the Jacksonville Jaguars and Oakland Raiders not quite making the cut. Here they are, based on their overall rank, including each team’s worth: Dallas Cowboys (owned by Jones), $2....

The Cowboys hope to have veteran running back Ezekiel Elliott back in the starting lineup after he missed Week 8 because of a knee injury. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said Tuesday that Elliott is expected to play, according to Yahoo Sports’ Jori Epstein. If Elliott is active, Dallas will have a loaded backfield that could give the Packers’ struggling run defense some problems. The last time we saw the Cowboys, they beat the Bears 49-29 a couple of weeks ago at Jerry World....

As the traveling contingent of Brewers reporters and team staff let out a knowing laugh, Counsell simply said, “very little.” Counsell’s statement wasn’t very truthful. MORE: Why are homer up? All-Star players have theories Going into the nominal second half of the season, the Brewers are 50-41 and lead the NL Central by 5.5 games over the Cubs and Cardinals. If rebuilding Milwaukee reaches the playoffs this season, Counsell would have a strong case for NL Manager of the Year after guiding the team to such a surprising start through 91 games....

This week, on Tuesday, the Dow broke through the psychologically significant 9,000 mark during the session. And the Standard &Poor 500 index (which contains financially troubled Tyco International) followed in step, falling to a four-year low. “It’s all about confidence and faith in corporate profits,” says Stuart A. Schweitzer, global investment strategist for J.P. Morgan Fleming Asset Management. “What we’re seeing is individuals throwing up their hands and saying, it’s just one thing after another....

He accidentally kicked a fan’s beer, resulting in a pretty intense lager shower. Watch how it pours off his forehead. Source: LostLettermen

More than 1,000 criminals have been put to death since April 28 as part of an anti-crime campaign called Strike Hard. Trials are a bare formality, the verdict usually foreordained. Groups of convicted criminals are paraded before a ““mass sentencing rally’’ in a public place. Then they are taken to a vacant field, where they kneel in neat rows and are shot in the head. Relatives often are required to pay for the bullets....

They were there two years ago playing for the BCS championship. They arrived in New Orleans on Friday for their Sugar Bowl matchup with Oklahoma next Thursday. Alabama has enough veterans on its team to keep everyone in line and to avoid the mishaps that can occur with a trip to New Orleans. MORE: Bowl matchups | 2013 in review | Season’s top plays “Everybody knows Bournbon Street is a bad place, especially at night time,” Alabama senior and captain Kevin Norwood told AL....

Philadelphia coach Doug Pederson replaced starting quarterback Jalen Hurts in the fourth quarter of Sunday night’s game with little-used backup Nate Sudfeld, and that transition went about as well as expected. Sudfeld finished 5-of-12 for 32 yards with two turnovers, leading to accusations of tanking because Philly only trailed by three points when Sudfeld took the field. The loss guaranteed the Eagles would pick sixth at the 2021 NFL Draft, whereas a win would have dropped them down to ninth....

Cyborg took to Twitter following Rousey’s loss to Holm at UFC 193 on Saturday night to celebrate her rival’s defeat. MORE: The complete history of the Rousey-Cyborg feud | Cyborg calls Rousey and White bullies MORE: Rousey Inc. | Comparing Ronda and Danica | Rousey media circus | Is she the next Tiger Woods? Rousey was defeated by Holly Holm for the UFC women’s bantamweight championship in one of the biggest upsets in UFC history....

The Real Madrid star has found form at the right time for the Spanish giants, scoring back-to-back hat-tricks to help them to the verge of another final in the competition. Amazing Messi lookalike causes stir But when he isn’t putting the likes of Atletico Madrid and Bayern Munich to the sword, Ronaldo likes nothing more than to kick back and relax with stunning girlfriend Georgina Rodriguez. Rodriguez, a Spanish model, was snapped living it up in Ibiza alongside her beau, after being introduced to the world during this year’s FIFA Best awards....

MORE: Messi and Ronaldo become one | Chicharito in photos The Portuguese had hit his 24th hat trick for the Spanish side in their 8-2 win at Deportivo La Coruna on Saturday and followed up with yet another treble in a comprehensive 5-1 victory at home to Elche. This time, in fact, he even went one better as he ended the night with four goals. Ronaldo was penalized early on for kicking Elche’s Pedro Mosquera when attempting to clear the ball from his own area....

The Portuguese star came on in the 57th minute of the Spanish Supercopa at Camp Nou and, by the 81st minute, he had fired the European champions towards victory, earned two yellow cards and pushed the referee to leave him facing a lengthy ban. Real defeat Barca 3-1 as Ronaldo sees red Most of the action all took place in a two-minute span. First Ronaldo scored a tremendous goal, thundering a strike home to give his side a 2-1 lead in the 79th minute of the first leg of the Spanish curtain-raiser....

The Portuguese Football Federation confirmed the news in an official statement on Tuesday, which reads: Ronaldo will sit out Portugal’s Nation’s League meeting with Sweden on Wednesday night as he begins a 10-day period of self-isolation. Following the positive test, the remaining players underwent new tests on Tuesday morning, and all produced a negative result and are available to Fernando Santos for training this afternoon. The 35-year-old is also set to miss Juventus’ trip to Crotone in Serie A this weekend, as well as their Champions League group stage opener against Dynamo Kiev on October 20....

Some social media users called on Thomas to retire or suggested he should be removed from the nation’s highest court after he was the sole dissenting vote in Trump’s bid to keep certain documents from the House of Representatives’ Select Committee investigating the events of January 6, 2021. The Court ruled 8-1 to uphold a lower court decision that the former president was unable to exert executive privilege in order to shield records the Select Committee has been seeking....

In his first and only season in Toronto, Leonard played in just 60 of the Raptors’ 82 regular season games. From a fan perspective, it was hard to stomach. There’s no arguing with the results, though. Leonard credits Toronto’s strategy for one of the most impressive individual playoff performances in recent NBA history (30.5 points, 9.1 rebounds, 3.9 assists and a league-high 939 total playoff minutes). The Raptors took home the title, and teams took notice....

An unnamed man found the butchered animal at Crystal Rapids near the town of Katherine in the Northern Territory, and shared the image on Facebook, Yahoo News Australia reported. The images showed the decapitated animal lying on its back in the water. In another photo, the sliced-off tip of the reptile’s tail can be seen on the ground. The powerful animals use their tails to swim and lunge from the water to catch prey....

It gets worse. The Indonesian Supreme Court issued a surprise ruling overturning last year’s corruption conviction of Tommy Suharto, the former dictator’s youngest son. Megawati had vowed to crack down on corruption and reform the court system, but the Suharto decision leaves her well-meaning words in tatters. “This ruling goes to show how helpless she is,” says one Western diplomat in Jakarta. “Money, threats and fear still rule.”

Vengeance came swiftly. At 4:04 a.m. Somali time, the first red tracers lit up the sky of Mogadishu, silhouetting three AC-130H Spectre gunships, manned by U.S. Air Force Special Operations forces. Their mission: to pay back Gen. Mohamed Farah Aidid for his deadly attack on U.N. troops week before. Their targets were the warlord’s power props-four depots of heavy weapons and ammunition and a radio station that blared 24-hour-a-day anti-U....

“We’re going to Havana. If we have to intervene, if we have to stay, we’ll do what we have to do,” said Rivero via Instagram. “The U.S. president has done nothing, supposedly. At a minimum, we want to stand at the border of what are the Havana limits.” A number of posts on Rivero’s Instagram shows him standing in solidarity with the people of Cuba. On Monday he stated he wanted people to show up in Cuba just to “see what happens....