Inside The Star is a Dallas Cowboys sports blog run by fans, for fans, featuring daily news and analysis from Cowboys Nation about America’s Team. Year-round coverage includes schedules, games, the draft, fantasy football, and more.
We first began as CowboysNation.net in January of 2009. After a quick start, I found my experiment performing above my expectations.
Common ground between myself and the owner of ACowboyNation.com, Phillip Baggett, led to a merge of the two sites under the name Dallas Cowboys Nation on the 2nd of May, 2009.
We began with a group of about nine contributors and saw immediate success among Dallas Cowboys fans.
Before the end of 2009, and shortly after some life-changing events in both of our lives, Phillip chose to move on from sports blogging while I persisted on my own.
Dallas Cowboys Nation remained a small, but growing site until new vigor kicked in for the 2014 season, bringing about a change of identity for the blog. Wanting to distance the site from any future claims against the use of “Dallas Cowboys” in the name and logo, we re-branded the site under a fresh name.
Blue Star Times launched for the world to see on August 20, 2014.
The site saw great growth after the change, despite the problems associated with such a drastic identity change, and we picked up an incredible partner in NRG Energy for promotional giveaways on our Twitter account, @CowboysNation (also founded by me back in January of 2009).
The prospect of winning free autographed footballs and tickets to home games caused a surge of new followers on Twitter.
Cowboys Cast was started in April 2015 by Bobby Belt and under the sponsorship and marketing efforts of myself, utilizing Blue Star Times and @CowboysNation to quickly grow the show’s following.
The presentation agreement with Cowboys Cast ended in February 2016 as Bobby has gone on to become an NFL Network producer and so much more.
In May 2015, I began building the site before you, Inside The Star.
Inside The Star was a reluctant change of what I had been cultivating for over six years.
Consistency is one of my strong suits and bearing three different names in just eight months was not ideal.
However, a careful review of the situation ultimately overcame my reluctance to change the name. And instead of just changing the face again, I decided that it was time to invest in this project like never before with paid positions for writers.
Managing Editor: Bryson Treece
@CowboysNation Content Manager: Mike
Staff Writers: Shane Taylor, Richard Paolinelli, Mario Herrera
Junior Writers: Mark Heaney, Cody Warren
General Contributors: Jazz Monet
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Our Mission
Being the heart of Cowboys Nation on the most powerful social network in the world, it is our solitary mission to make the fan experience better for every Dallas Cowboys fan.
Whether on Twitter, Facebook, Google, through the website, or podcasts, we strive to give you the most complete fan experience available with quality news and analysis, year-round.