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Hard Knocks: Star treatment for Dallas Cowboys' Carpenter?

01:17 AM CDT on Wednesday, August 27, 2008

By BARRY HORN / The Dallas Morning News
bhorn@dallasnews.com

Week 4: 9 p.m. today, HBO

Scoop: Getting star treatment – or at least as close to star treatment as anyone can get on this ensemble show – should be linebacker Bobby Carpenter. If the 2006 first-round draft choice makes any kind of impact on the show, it will be a first since he left Ohio State in his rearview mirror. And then there will be another glimpse of the continuing saga of free-agent wide receivers Danny Amendola and Todd Lowber.

And: Expect at least some discussion about Felix Jones, the first-round draft choice who has been an invisible man in the series.

No definitive word: If there will be any more in the ongoing power struggle between rookie tight end Martellus Bennett and his position coach, John Garrett. If you do catch a glimpse of No. 80, the self-proclaimed "one of the best players in the country" while at Texas A&M, see if his jersey is tucked in or hanging out.

Alternative viewing times on HBO: Thursday: 4:45 a.m., 1 p.m. and 11:15 p.m.; Friday: 11 p.m.; Saturday: 9:30 a.m. and 10 p.m.; Sunday: 8 a.m. and 10:30 p.m.; Monday: 9 a.m.

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