Dallas-Fort Worth news, sports, food, and context.
The Dallas Morning News audio feed moves between daily local headlines and longer newsroom conversations. Recent episodes cover Dallas County voting fights, D-FW food openings, Rangers plate discipline, Cowboys draft needs, and interviews from golf’s business world.
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The Dallas Morning News audio feed reflects the range of a metro newsroom rather than one narrow podcast format. Its shortest episodes sound like headline briefings: weather first, then the day’s major local stories. Recent news segments cover Dallas County runoff voting disputes, Alan West’s resignation as Dallas County GOP chair, credit card skimmers found across D-FW businesses, testimony tied to a catastrophic Camp Mystic flash flood, and a Fort Worth bishop’s criticism of President Donald Trump over remarks about Pope Leo. The style is direct. It favors names, agencies, numbers, and sequence over opinionated flourish. Then the feed shifts gears. Eat Drink D-FW brings a more conversational food-desk rhythm, with Julie Fisk guiding talk about buzzy restaurants, tasting menus, taco omakase, ballpark food, demolished neighborhood landmarks, candy, and foods people may only pretend to enjoy. Those episodes have room for jokes, but the reporting spine stays visible. SportsDay Rangers gets more tactical. John Blake and Evan Grant talk through West Coast road trips, bullpen issues, defensive strength, Wyatt Langford’s return, Jake Berger’s patient at-bat, and why a small pause at the plate can matter for Nathan Evaldi. SportsDay Insider broadens that sports conversation, weighing Cowboys draft trade possibilities, prospect risk, Mavericks endings, and early Rangers form. Intersections adds interview depth, including a conversation with Blake Walters at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur about Arcus Golf, Club Corp, investment pressure, recession lessons, and the demands of being a first-time CEO. Across the feed, the common thread is local specificity. The show does not flatten Dallas into generic city talk. It treats elections offices, restaurants, ballparks, suburbs, faith leaders, athletes, business figures, and court testimony as parts of the same civic map. The pacing changes by segment, but the editorial habit stays steady: state the question, name the players, add the useful detail, and move on. It is a practical listen for people who want Dallas-Fort Worth news with enough texture to understand why the story matters.
Made for: For Dallas-Fort Worth listeners who want local headlines, sports analysis, restaurant talk, and civic context in audio form. It also suits Texas sports followers who like newsroom specificity over hot-take pacing.
What sets it apart: Its range is the point: one feed can move from runoff voting and fraud enforcement to Rangers at-bats, Cowboys draft boards, taco tasting menus, and golf business interviews. The connective tissue is Dallas Morning News reporting, not personality-first chatter.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It turns Dallas-area sports, dining changes and golf business into specific conversations with practical detail and room for informed humor.
The Dallas Morning News turns local leisure into informed conversation. Texas Rangers baseball shares the feed with Dallas-Fort Worth restaurant talk, while interviews widen the frame to golf management.
One feed takes you from bullpen trouble to ballpark fajitas without changing the Dallas area code.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A Rangers road-trip episode where one Jake Berger at-bat sharpens the bullpen story.
SportsDay Rangers works best when it stays with the small choices that shape a road trip. John Blake and Evan Grant keep the focus practical: the Rangers have dropped two of three to the defending World Series champion Dodgers, moved on to Sacramento against the Athletics, and…
A lively North Texas food round-up where stylish restaurants and questionable favorites get equal time.
Eat Drink DFW makes North Texas food coverage feel quick, opinionated, and properly hungry, moving from buzzy new restaurants to the familiar argument over foods people may only pretend to like.
A calm draft-room conversation that favors fit, risk, and common sense over noise.
SportsDay Insider frames the Cowboys' draft as a practical problem rather than a mood piece. Kevin Sherrington, Evan Grant, and Joe Hoyt move through the trade-up and trade-down options, then land on the basic question of who actually fits if Dallas stays at 12.
A golf-business interview that becomes most compelling once Augusta context gives way to recession-era deal talk.
Blake Walters' Augusta visit frames a career that moves from KSL, Club Corp, and Pegasus into Arcus Golf, with the Augusta National Women's Amateur as the backdrop.
A loose, local mix of Rangers ballpark food and Dallas restaurant news.
The episode frames Rangers ballpark food as a practical choice: what is worth seeking out inside the park, and what is better saved for before or after somewhere else in Dallas-Fort Worth.
Mark DeRosa's roster logic gives Team USA's WBC setup a practical shape.
With the Rangers 20 days from opening the 2026 season in Philadelphia, SportsDay Rangers uses the World Baseball Classic to get at Team USA's roster thinking.
Ballpark bites, candy chatter, and a Knox Street block changing fast.
Eat Drink D-FW opens with Evan Grant and settles into a practical blend of Rangers talk and ballpark advice. It keeps its focus on what to try at the park and why a nicer Tex-Mex meal before or after a game can suit the plan, even if it asks a little more of the wallet.
Postgame nerves, tactical Yankees and Knicks detail.
Philadelphia sports talk with sharp elbows.
Baseball-heavy sports talk with friendly friction.
Orioles talk with numbers and nerves.
This episode of SportsDay Rangers features an interview with Team USA manager and former Ranger Mark DeRosa ahead of the World Baseball Classic.
Evan Grant joins the Dallas Morning News food team to critique the Texas Rangers' new ballpark concessions, including a $40 nacho sombrero and a teriyaki pork burger.
The Rangers finished 2026 at 80-82 after a final-week division opportunity, and Chris Young called for “reliability, dependability, and toughness.” Evan Grant cites Corey Seager going 4-for-25 and Jacob deGrom allowing eight runs in four innings during the late-season stretch.
Dallas GOP leaders seek to reverse a shift to countywide voting after chair Allen West resigns amid controversy over his unilateral decision to allow it.
The Dallas Morning News food team, hosted by Julie Fisk with Sarah Blazkowicz, Zacario Washington, and Imelda Garcia, opens with a listener-sourced update revealing Reese's has changed its recipe on some products, cutting milk chocolate amid rising cocoa prices.
Dallas Morning News hosts John Blake and Evan Grant break down the Texas Rangers' 9-8 start through 17 games, covering bullpen struggles behind Robert Garcia and Jacob Junis, Mackenzie Gore's command issues in a Tuesday loss in Oakland, and Josh Young's 0-for-16 slump against left-handed pitching.
A news update covering the discovery of 13 credit card skimmers in DFW businesses and testimony from a night watchman about a camp flood rescue.
Kevin Sherrington opens with Joe Hoyt and Evan Grant on the Cowboys' draft clock.
Fort Worth bishop criticizes Trump for attacking Pope Leo XIV over Iran war opposition and posting a blasphemous image, plus a local news segment about a radio host's move.
The show heads to Augusta, Georgia, for the Augusta National Women's Amateur.
Julie Fisk opens the show with a quick food and drink check-in.
John Blake and Evan Graham discuss the Rangers' first homestand, offensive struggles at Globe Life Field, and preview an interview with quality control coach Rod Barajas.
John Blake and Ben Grant preview the Rangers' 2026 season opener and interview former catcher Robinson Chirinos about the World Baseball Classic and his role with the Orioles.
Talmadge Boston interviews Jon Meacham about his new anthology 'American Struggle' which lets historical voices speak for themselves on democracy and dissent.
A preview of the Texas Rangers' final week of spring training and an interview with former Ranger Pete Incaviglia.