Tim Cowlishaw has been with the Dallas Morning News since 1989 and has been a sports columnist at the newspaper since August 2, 1998, but before joining The Dallas Morning News, he wrote for the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, the Daily Oklahoman and the San Jose Mercury News. While at The Dallas Morning News, Cowlishaw covered SMU athletics, college basketball, major league baseball, the Dallas Cowboys, as well as the Dallas Stars before he became a columnist.
In 2002, Cowlishaw placed in the top five sports columnists of the nation among large circulation newspapers by the Associated Press Sports Editors.
He appears regularly on The Fan.