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How Mo 'Bust' Claiborne, who once walked out on Cowboys, found joy again in playing football

FRISCO -- Morris Claiborne earned the pair of red boxing gloves that symbolize the Cowboys' "Knockout" player, bestowed by coach Jason Garrett, after last Sunday's win at San Francisco.

It was a fitting trophy for "Mo" in more ways than one.

Not only did the cornerback deliver the game-sealing smack of a 49ers receiver on fourth down, he also made an interception in the fourth quarter, his first in over two years -- first, in fact, since he'd left the Cowboys' facility in a huff, his starting job lost, his future in question, in September 2014.

But even more than that, as the Cowboys host the Cincinnati Bengals and NFL receptions leader A.