The stakes in Sunday night’s game between the Giants and the Cowboys are high, and clear: both teams are 8-7, but only the winner is headed to the playoffs.

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The Fifth Down: Live Analysis: Giants 7, Cowboys 0

The Giants are 5-3 this season on the road but just 3-4 at home, where they will face the Cowboys in prime-time with a playoff berth at stake.

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For Giants, Home Field Has Been a Disadvantage

The Giants snapped a four-game losing streak in the most dramatic of fashions, battling back against the Dallas Cowboys after trailing by 12 with just under six minutes remaining.

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Giants 37, Cowboys 34: Giants Ice Cowboys and Their Skid

Last Thanksgiving Day, when 31.9 million people watched the New Orleans Saints play the Dallas Cowboys, 10.75 million of them were women. Overall, 44 percent of the National Football League’s fans are women. If you follow the sport, this is no revelation. The football widow is an anachronism; girls and women populate stadiums and sports bars, and have for years. In a recent Washington Post survey of D.C. sports fans , 53 percent of this area’s women said they care about the NFL, and 25 percent said they care “a great deal.” Read full article > >

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Flag football: It’s the girls’ turn to play

If it’s possible for a team to have a roller-coaster season in only two games, the Dallas Cowboys might qualify. The low point already has been unusually low and the high point unusually high for the Cowboys and their quarterback, Tony Romo, in particular. The Cowboys kept their season from turning into another early nightmare when they rallied to win in overtime Sunday in San Francisco, where Romo returned from a fractured rib on the team’s first offensive series to engineer the triumph. Read full article > >

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With Redskins next, Cowboys’ season already filled with ups and downs

Nick Folk made a 50-yard field goal with 27 seconds left to help the Jets win their season opener against the Cowboys.

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Jets 27, Cowboys 24: Blocked Punt and Interception Lift Jets

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The New York Jets ’ latest Super Bowl-or-bust season began in stirring fashion. Wide receiver Plaxico Burress had a touchdown catch as the Jets overcame a 14-point deficit in the fourth quarter to beat the Dallas Cowboys, 27-24 , here Sunday night at MetLife Stadium. “It’s just amazing,” Jets Coach Rex Ryan said. “It just doesn’t get much better than this, especially the way we got it done.” Read full article > >

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Jets vs. Cowboys: Mark Sanchez and New York rally past Tony Romo and Dallas

Star athletes Shaquille O’Neal, Drew Brees, Dustin Pedroia and Kevin Ogletree all believe that a little wristband somehow gives them an extra boost. “I kept feeling something when I wore the bracelet. . . . I’ve been wearing the bracelet ever since,” basketball legend O’Neal says in an endorsment on the Web site of the company that makes the Power Balance bracelet, which features hologram stickers. Meanwhile, Kevin Ogletree of the Dallas Cowboys is one of 22 current and former professional athletes endorsing the Ampli5 wristband, with the special stainless-steel clasp. The company claims the piece of metal helps enhance a person’s natural “frequencies.” Read full article > >

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Unproven wristbands prove popular

The Packers aren’t the personal plaything of some rich family or profiteering corporate consortium. For me, the most significant statistic coming out of this year’s Super Bowl wasn’t the 31-25 score in the Green Bay Packers’ hard-fought victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers. Nor was it the $1.3 billion cost of the new, monstrously huge football palace built by the Dallas Cowboys, where the game was played. Rather, the number that impresses me is 111,968. read more

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Jim Hightower | The Big Score in this Year’s Super Bowl

Super Bowl XLV in Dallas is a matchup of teams that have beaten the Cowboys in — and kept them out of — previous Super Bowls.

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The Packers and the Steelers Broke the Hearts of the Cowboys

A series of power failures at New Jersey’s New Meadowlands Stadium brought Sunday night’s game between the New York Giants and the Dallas Cowboys to a temporary halt.

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Blackout temporarily halts NFL game

A day after the Dallas Cowboys’ seventh loss of the season, a demoralizing 45-7 drubbing by the Packers, Wade Phillips was fired as head coach. His assistant, Jason Garrett, will replace him.

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The Fifth Down: Cowboys Fire Wade Phillips

In a football town, the turnaround of the Texas Rangers under new owners Nolan Ryan and Chuck Greenberg has captured attention.

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Texas Tribune: For One October, Sports Focus (Sort of) Turns to Baseball

The Giants’ second-quarter outburst sent the Cowboys to their worst start since 1989, pushing Dallas’s playoff chances closer to none than slim.

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Giants 41, Cowboys 35: Giants Knock Out Romo and Hold Off Cowboys