Cowboys tame Jaguars, Oak Cliff rapper shot in Lewisville: Your Monday morning roundup

October 15,  2018 By Wayne Carter and Tommy Cummings Good morning! Here is a look at the top headlines as we start the day. 🌧️ Weather: [Cloudy, windy, and cold]( with a 100 percent chance for widespread rain, possibly heavy at times. High of 48. 🔎 Prefer the online view? It's [here](. Dallas Cowboys defensive players celebrate after linebacker Jaylon Smith (54) recovered a fumble forced by cornerback Jourdan Lewis in the third quarter of Sunday's 40-7 win over the Jacksonville Jaguars (Vernon Bryant/Staff Photographer) Cowboys Think the Cowboys are fixed? Blowout win over Jaguars could signal nothing about the future [From SportsDay columnist Tim Cowlishaw:]( If ever there were a time to believe the Cowboys are equipped to win the NFC East, it was Sunday afternoon. Maybe even Sunday night. Don't ask me how deep into the week this feeling should last, because things change quickly around here. I mean, Dallas 40, Jacksonville 7 — to say that no one had that as a pre-game prediction goes beyond putting it mildly. Against what should have been their toughest opponent this season — one that advanced to the AFC Championship Game nine months ago and still maintains one of the NFL's strongest defenses — the Cowboys broke out an all-day highlight reel. With MMA fighter Conor McGregor speaking before the game and cheering them on, the Cowboys nearly ran out of players to strut their stuff in the end zone Sunday afternoon at AT&T Stadium. Your natural response to such a one-sided victory over a formidable opponent is to ask why this hasn't happened more regularly and how it can be sustained. [These, of course, are the wrong questions.]( Keep on running: Sunday's win over the Jaguars proves [what the Cowboys need to do more of with quarterback Dak Prescott.]( "What challenge?" DeMarcus Lawrence and the rest of the Cowboys defense [clearly outplayed their highly regarded Jacksonville counterparts.]( crime Oak Cliff rapper Yella Beezy shot on Sam Rayburn Tollway in Lewisville Oak Cliff rapper Yella Beezy has been widely identified on social media as the man [who was wounded]([ in a shooting early Sunday]( on the Sam Rayburn Tollway. Officers found the wounded man about 3:30 a.m. along the State Highway 121 Bypass. He was driving on the tollway when he was fired on more than a dozen times by someone in a vehicle that pulled up next to him, police said. In September, Yella Beezy opened for Beyonce and Jay-Z when the couple made a tour stop in Arlington. Officer faces charge: A Dallas police officer [was arrested Saturday on a felony injury to a child charge](, the department said in a statement Sunday. Teen fatally shot: A [17-year-old was fatally shot at a far northeast Dallas apartment]( early Sunday, police say. POLITICS U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz hasn’t mellowed, but doesn’t pick as many big fights Ted Cruz arrived in the Senate as a man in a hurry. [Barely two years into the job, he began running for president.]( Far sooner, really. By the time he formally jumped into the race, he’d been in office barely two years — an eventful period in which he had engineered a government shutdown, rankled House leaders by meddling on their side of the Capitol, and painted most of his fellow lawmakers, in both parties, as part of a corrupt "Washington cartel." No one ever says he hasn’t figured out how to make a splash. But after falling short in his White House ambitions, he set aside some of the inflammatory rhetoric and toned down the antagonistic style. Now 47, with plenty of time to try again for the Oval Office, [he must first fend off El Paso Rep. Beto O’Rourke in the country’s costliest Senate contest](, with Democrats itching for a toehold in Texas — and the chance to batter Cruz and his ally, President Donald Trump. Rally in El Paso: A defiant Ted Cruz tells Democrats in Beto O’Rourke’s hometown of El Paso to [‘Come and take it.’]( Immigration: President Donald Trump's push to accelerate construction of the Texas-Mexico border wall [has inflamed Rio Grande Valley residents.]( EDITORS' PICKS - Scooter rider hurt: Police say a 23-year-old who is in critical condition [was riding an electric scooter the wrong way on a downtown Dallas steet](when he was struck by a vehicle early Sunday. - Birthday party turns deadly: Four were killed and another wounded in a [shooting at a toddler's first birthday party in South Texas.]( - Iconic brewer dies: Bill Coors, the [businessman who introduced beer in recyclable aluminum cans,]( died Saturday at the age of 102. - Health care costs: Baylor Scott & White Health bends the cost curve on employee health care. [Can DART do the same?]( - Setting personal finance targets: Meet the single mom [who went from $100,000 in debt to an early retirement]( nest egg. - When punk rock could lead to prison: New book, [Burning Down the Haus,]([explores rebellion]( in East Germany. Roger Staubach, the Dallas Cowboys Hall of Fame quarterback, spent his final season in 1979 taking snaps from Robert Shaw, a rookie center. Now, they're real estate associates. (Tom Fox/Staff Photographer) Finally... Roger Staubach to extend playmaking with former Cowboys pal Robert Shaw Roger Staubach [wants more playing time with Robert Shaw.]( In July, Staubach quietly retired as executive chairman of JLL Americas, and he's moving into new digs next to the third-floor offices of Shaw’s company, Columbus Realty Partners Ltd., in Preston Center. Staubach says he’ll continue to do selected projects for JLL, the Chicago-based real estate giant that bought Staubach Co. in 2008 for $640 million in a multiyear payout. But he’ll be traveling less and spending more time going to his grandkids’ events and doing deals with his buddy Shaw. Staubach, the Dallas Cowboys Hall of Fame quarterback, spent his final season in 1979 taking snaps from Shaw, a rookie center. “Robert’s fantastic,” Staubach says. “I’m a part owner of his company, Columbus. [We’ve been working together for 30 years or so. I’ll be officing with Robert. I’ve just got plenty to do.”]( 👋 That's all for this morning! For up-to-the-minute news and analysis, check out [DallasNews.com](. Share the love! If you like this newsletter, please forward this email to a friend and [check out our other newsletters here](. Do you have feedback? Send your thoughts, questions, praise and corrections to [newsletter-feedback@dallasnews.com](mailto:newsletter-feedback@dallasnews.com?subject=). 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