The old saying in sports that decide their championships via a multi-game series, like Major League Baseball or NBA hoops, is that a series doesn't begin until the road team wins a game. Football, especially college football, doesn't lend itself t...

It's strange territory for me this season now, having gone two straight weeks without making money on these picks, with a 3-3 week last week. At least I had a better week than the Green Bay Packers, though, who lost Aaron Rodgers for the season wi...

It's Week 7 of the NFL season, and with most of the league having played six games, this is about as parity-ridden as the league has ever been. In the AFC alone, 14 of the 16 teams have either two, three or four wins. Only Kansas City at 5-1 and...

It's amazing to think about where we are as Houston sports fans these days, and perhaps the best way to put it in perspective is to examine where we were just before the NFL Draft. Back in April, here was the state of the union for the three bigge...

If you've never been to a controlled football scrimmage before, where teams run plays just to kind of see how they work and the stress level of who wins and who loses is fairly low, then you're not missing much. If you were at Sunday's 33-17 Texan...

After a week like last week, it's prudent to sit back and assess where the Houston Texans truly are heading into the meat of their schedule. I mean, you lose J.J. Watt and Whitney Mercilus within a few plays of each other, and you have Deshaun Wat...