Hosting World Cup soccer games holds 'a lot of value for us'
There are only 11 places in the U.S. picked to host what promises to be the biggest event of 2026 and today we learned that North Texas will be one of them.
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J.D. is an award-winning reporter who has been covering North Texas for CBS Texas since 1996. He began his career in Longview and also worked as a reporter in Johnson City, Tennessee and Tulsa, Oklahoma. But he's a native Texan who was born in Dallas and raised in Plano. He attended Plano Senior High School and SMU, where he found his passion for journalism and decided to pursue a career in TV news.
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