Charley Pride dies, Dallas County closes its worst COVID-19 week, Cowboys face Bengals: Your weekend roundup

A Wylie grad made history, scoring in Vanderbilt's game Satirday  [Morning roundup]( 12/13/2020 By Todd Davis Good morning! Here is a look at the top headlines of the weekend so far. 🌧️ Weather: Rain won't last all day, but it should make an early impact for most of us before lunchtime. The temperature won't rise past the upper 40s and freezing temperatures are in the forecast for Sunday night. 🔎 Prefer the online view? It's [here.]( Charley Pride performs during the 2018 CMA Music festival at Nissan Stadium on June 8, 2018, in Nashville. (Jason Kempin / Getty Images) CORONAVIRUS [Dallas' Charley Pride, who broke country’s color line, dies at age 86]( Charley Pride, the legendary Dallas-based singer known for his velvet baritone and for breaking the color line in country music, died Saturday of complications related to COVID-19. He was 86. From 1966 until 1987, Pride was one of the biggest stars in country music, scoring 52 Top 10 country hits, including 29 chart-toppers. More than a dozen of his songs crossed over to the pop charts, including "Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’" and "Is Anybody Goin’ to San Antone." He was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry and the Country Music Hall of Fame, won four Grammys, and sold an estimated 70 million records — more than anyone at RCA not named Elvis. [Pride fused traditional country music with pop leanings and sophisticated production styles]( making his records irresistible to radio programmers.  And: Dallas County ended the deadliest week of the pandemic with [2,111 new coronavirus cases]( and 8 more deaths.   Also: [The COVID-19 vaccine]( is expected to start arriving in states Monday morning, U.S. officials say.  ADVERTISEMENT SPORTS [History, again: Wylie grad is first woman to score in major college football]( Wylie graduate Sarah Fuller has made history again. The Vanderbilt kicker made an extra point Saturday against Tennessee to become the first woman to score in a major conference college football game. [Two weeks earlier, Fuller made her unexpected and historic debut as an SEC player](. Fuller, who was the Wylie girls soccer goalie from 2016-17, started working with the Vanderbilt football team less than three weeks ago, days after leading Vanderbilt’s soccer team to the SEC tournament championship. Then, all of the team’s kickers were quarantined due to positive COVID-19 tests and contact tracing.  Also: Texas AD Chris Del Conte says Tom Herman, under contract through 2023, will remain [the Longhorns' football coach](.   And: The Cowboys’ low-stakes trip to Cincinnati on Sunday still carries plenty of meaning and emotions for [Dallas quarterback Andy Dalton](.  (Tom Fox/ Staff Photographer) PHOTO OF THE WEEKEND Doing the wave: Baseball lifer Eddie Robinson celebrates 100 years Eddie Robinson, the oldest living former MLB player and a one-time Texas Rangers general manager, waved to friends who delivered an early 100th birthday wish Saturday in a drive-by birthday celebration outside his Fort Worth home. [Read more]( about his career and his first 100 years. ADVERTISEMENT AROUND THE SITE - Politics: [Trump backers]( returned to Washington D.C. in support of the last-ditch efforts to overturn Biden’s victory. - Faith: After an overnight blaze ravages an Anna church, [members are reminded that they will endure](. - Weather: [The best meteor shower of the year]( is expected over Dallas-Fort Worth this weekend. FINALLY... [I’m really sorry, but I hate your Christmas inflatable]( Columnist Rudolph Bush writes: At first, it was OK. It made sense. There was a Frosty here and a Santa there. Traditional? No. Recognizable? Yes. It isn’t that way anymore. The way this thing has metastasized is something we’ve got to get a handle on. We need to have a community conversation. [Here’s the trouble.]( Slapping a Santa hat on an obese T-Rex with a goofy grin doesn’t make it a Christmas decoration. Setting Santa astride an elephant doesn’t ring in the Yuletide. Why is Snoopy hanging out with the M&Ms in the same yard? Why is that dragon carrying a sack of toys? Is that a blow-up cactus with a scarf? More: [Check out all of our holiday coverage](. ADVERTISEMENT  👋 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 [the newsroom.]( STAY CONNECTED WITH US [Unsubscribe]( | [Free newsletters]( | [Dallasnews.com]( | [Subscriber login]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Contact us]( Copyright 2020 - [The Dallas Morning News, 1954 Commerce Street, Dallas, TX 75201, United States](