New Dallas Sports Team

Dallas to get a professional women's soccer team with creation of new league

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A new professional women’s soccer team is coming to DFW: It's part of the USL Super League, a new league set to kick off in August 2024 with eight inaugural teams, including Dallas-Fort Worth; Brooklyn; Fort Lauderdale; Tampa; Charlotte, North Carolina; Lexington, Kentucky; Spokane, Washington; and Washington, D.C.

UPDATE 5-9-2024: According to a release, the name of the new team will be Dallas Trinity FC. It will play under the main colors of sunrise maroon, prairie gold, and live oak green, colors inspired by the city skyline and the Trinity River.
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The Dallas City Council made it official with a vote on May 8 to approve Cotton Bowl Stadium as a home for a professional sports league. Their approval set the stage for league games to take place at the venue.

The plan authorized a $592,000 subsidy for the next two years with the operators of Fair Park to secure a contract with the unnamed USL Super League team to play home games at the stadium in South Dallas. It includes the option to continue for a third year.

The USL Super League will sit at the top of the USL’s youth-to-pro women’s pathway, which includes a pre-professional league called the USL W League; a talent development entity called the USL Academy; and the Super Y League, a youth competition.

It's not to be confused with the National Women's Soccer League, a separate league that was founded in 2012 and has its own set of teams in cities such as Boston, Chicago, and Houston.

Uniquely for American soccer, the USL Super League will play on the “fall-to-summer” soccer calendar traditionally followed around the world, ensuring players are able to represent both club and country and allowing clubs to actively participate in the emerging global women’s transfer market.

The Dallas team's name is still TBA: It'll be announced on Thursday, May 9 by USL Super League president Amanda Vandervort; Jim Neil, USL Super League Dallas CEO; and Charlie Neil, USL Super League Dallas president.

USL Super League Dallas-Fort Worth is led by the Neil Family, whose ventures include real estate investment banking, current and former athletes in U.S. Soccer / U.S. Deaf Soccer and professional baseball, sports tech entrepreneurship, and advertising.

“North Texas, renowned for its youth participation in the women’s game and vibrant sports culture, has for too long been awaiting a women’s professional soccer team," says a statement from the Neil Family. "We are proud to be partnering with the USL Super League and building a championship caliber team with the Dallas-Fort Worth community.”

The announcement comes on the heels of the city approving plans for a $140 million renovation of the stadium.

This is the second professional women’s sports team to choose Dallas as their home in less than a month. In April, Dallas approved an agreement for the Women's National Basketball Association's professional team Dallas Wings to relocate from their headquarters in Arlington and move to Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center Dallas Memorial Arena.

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Love the Land

Daytripper host Chet Garner highlights Texas conservation in PBS series

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Making of a Million: Daytripping with The Nature Conservancy in Texas is free to watch online.

Thanks to a new three-part PBS docuseries, you don't need to go to all of Texas' protected lands and waters to appreciate their breadth. Making of a Million: Daytripping with The Nature Conservancy in Texas follows host of The Daytripper, Chet Garner, from West Texas to the coast, discussing conservation efforts by The Nature conservancy (TNC) along the way.

"Making of a Million" refers to the 1 million acres in Texas that fall under TNC's protection. The 1 million figure is a milestone TNC is celebrating with the series, but it's not the full extent of its work; actually, according to the 2025 annual report, its total impact is 1.6 million acres.

The Daytripping project has been rolled out slowly in 2026, from YouTube previews to an official release on PBS in April to events in Texas' biggest cities that formally introduced the works.

The 26-minute video shows off striking aerial images of mountains, close ups of plants and wildlife, and even a quick feature of an archeological find. Water, of course, is a big topic in the desert, and it's a large topic across the series. Fresh water even has its own dedicated episode.

Although conservation experts are consulted throughout the series, viewers can do more than passively watch other people solve environmental problems. One story, toward the end of the West Texas episode, highlights how a rancher directed researchers to a habitat for an endangered species of fish on his property, simply because he overheard a scientist at a café claim they were extinct.

Garner recently spoke on a panel after an Austin screening with TNC director of land protection Jeff Francell, spatial analyst Jacqueline Ferrato, and director of land protection/stewardship Dan Snodgrass. They discussed the series and the broader conservation topics it connects to.

“This new series really captures the spirit of our efforts and collaborations to protect Texas lands and water,” said Snodgrass in a recap for press. “Chet’s storytelling skills spotlight our partners and projects in a unique, engaging way — we’re excited for more Texans to see why conservation matters and learn how they can get involved.”

“Daytripping with The Nature Conservancy in Texas allowed us to visit some of the most amazing places in Texas and to meet people who are making a real difference for conservation,” said Garner. “Folks will love traveling with us across wildly diverse landscapes and learning the solutions shaping the future of our state’s biggest environmental challenges.”

While the series has already aired locally on KERA-TV, Dallas-Fort Worth viewers can check listings for encore presentations and watch the series for free on the Nature Conservancy's website or on YouTube.

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