Dallas Democrat Colin Allred was defeated in Tuesday’s election by incumbent Republican Ted Cruz for Texas’ U.S. Senate seat.

Allred was a high school football star who would later go on to play for the Tennessee Titans. From there he pivoted to law school where he pursued a career as a civil rights attorney.

Colin Allred lay in excruciating pain on the artificial turf field at Cowboys Stadium, staring up at the massive retractable roof shielding him and 90,000 others from the Arlington heat.

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz and Democratic Rep. Colin Allred are making their final pitches to Texas voters at campaign stops ...

Republican incumbent Ted Cruz and Democratic challenger Colin Allred returned to the Dallas area to make their closing ...

DALLAS — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and his Democratic challenger, U.S. Rep. Colin Allred, sparred Tuesday over immigration, abortion and transgender rights in a feisty debate that is expected to be the ...

Ted Cruz attacking opponent Democratic U.S. Rep. Colin Allred. "I watch it religiously. But it really sucks watching Ted Cruz get millions of dollars worth of ads right in the middle of NFL ...

DALLAS (AP) — Republican Sen. Ted Cruz and Democratic Rep. Colin Allred met for their only debate Tuesday night, trading attacks over abortion and immigration in a closely watched race that ...

DALLAS — Ted Cruz and Democratic challenger Colin Allred squared off in a fiery U.S. Senate debate on WFAA Tuesday night. The debate comes as a new poll shows a tight race between Cruz and ...