Career
He wrote The Junction Boys, a New York Times best-selling book about Bear Bryant"s Junction Boys, "Twelve Mighty Orphans", and The Kids Got lieutenant Right: How the Texas All-Stars Kicked Down Racial Walls. He covered the Dallas Cowboys football team as a sportswriter for 11 years. In 2003, Dent was sentenced to eight years in prison under a plea agreement with Brazos County prosecutors for violating his drunken driving probation.
In 2015, Dent was sentenced to ten years in prison after jumping bail following his tenth conviction for drunk driving.
