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2011 Stories by Sean Pendergast

• Texans, Pats & Tebow: This Weekend's Best Bets, NFL Edition

  published Dec 30, 2011

  Witness the go-to move for a blog contributor who is technically on vacation but still likes to keep his commitment of five posts a week to his freelance employer because he loves them and loves money... More >>

• Rape, Scandal, Greed and Cockfighting -- The 2011 Sports Year In Review

  published Dec 30, 2011

  You know how, in the series 24, the way a season unfoldsr How just when you think there has been some sort of resolution to the bad guys being bottled up, right then and there a new (often worse) laye... More >>

• Football! This Weekend's Best Bets, College Bowl Special: UH, UCLA & an Aggies Loss

  published Dec 29, 2011

  In the second part of my ongoing series "Sean phones it in on the Hair Balls blog during his vacation week," here are six picks I really like for the upcoming week of huge (and not so huge) bowl games... More >>

• NFL Week 17 Viewing Guide -- What in the Blue Hell Each Game Means

  published Dec 28, 2011

  "College football has the best regular season of any sport, and the lack of a playoff is one big reason why." -- Bill Hancock, Executive Director, Bowl Cartel Championship Series That's my favorite i... More >>

• Jets Fan Pooch-Punts Giants Fan's Skull (w/ VIDEO and Zapruder-Like Analysis)

  published Dec 27, 2011

  Spending Christmas Eve in the emergency room, whether as a patient or a loved one of a patient, is no fun. Trust me, I've had to do it twice. Back in 2000, my son Sammy was only six months old and h... More >>

• Merry Christmas! This Weekend's Football Best Bets

  published Dec 23, 2011

  Before I get into this weekend's best bets, a couple paragraphs on the Texans' 19-16 loss to the Colts last night: Was that officiating crew terrible last nightr Yes. But good lord, I've never seen a... More >>

• NBA Season Win Totals and My Rockets Prediction

  published Dec 22, 2011

  Last add on my post from yesterday about Kris Kardashian Humphries re-signing with the Nets: For those of you who think I was a little too hard on Big Humph (and by my count, there were exactly none... More >>

• Kris Kardashian Humphries Re-signs with the Nets

  published Dec 21, 2011

  It's Wednesday, December 21, and from a daylight standpoint, it's the shortest day of the calendar year and equally short on newsworthy events around the sports world (unless you count former Philadel... More >>

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  Craig James for Senate! The Campaign Begins (w/ VIDEO)

  published Dec 21, 2011

  I'm not a big politics guy. I don't like to talk politics on my radio show (EVER), I don't like to talk politics in social situations (People take it too personally) and I don't spend any of my free t... More >>

• Seven People Nearly Killed by Runaway Cart at Cowboys Stadium (w/ CRAZY Video)

  published Dec 19, 2011

  There are certain buildings in sports that are seemingly jinxed. Since the Red Sox finally got off the World Series schneid a few years back, Wrigley Field immediately comes to mind as the current tit... More >>

• Chicago Bears WR Sam Hurd Has a Ring...a Drug Ring!

  published Dec 16, 2011

  I remember former Houston Texans (and now Washington Redskins) wide receiver David Anderson telling me a couple years ago about a program that the NFL offered players in which they could travel to pre... More >>

• Football! My Texans Prediction and Other Weekend Best Bets

  published Dec 16, 2011

  Every year at about this time, I wind up investing several hundred dollars in various pieces of Texans gear for my two sons (ages 13 and 12, and I'm fairly certain the only two Texan fans in their Chi... More >>

• Don't Call Scottie Pippen Bankrupt Or He'll Sue!

  published Dec 14, 2011

  It's always a little disappointing when you find out that certain urban legends aren't true. It's why I've never visited the mythbusting Web site snopes.com. Why would I want to know the truth when it... More >>

• Xavier-Cincy: College Basketball Brawl for the Ages (w/ VIDEO)

  published Dec 13, 2011

  As I watched the video of the brawl at the end of the Cincinnati-Xavier game on Saturday afternoon, a brouhaha that I learned of after being sent literally dozens of links to it on my Twitter timeline... More >>

• Texans/Bengals -- 4 Winning Plays That Never Would Have Happened in 2010

  published Dec 12, 2011

  Sunday morning, about an hour before the Texans and Bengals kicked off, I was driving to the grocery store with my girlfriend Amy to pick up some "Texans watching" supplies -- chips, sandwich parapher... More >>

• Pau Gasol Thoughts, My Texans Prediction and Other Weekend Best Bets

  published Dec 09, 2011

  On November 23, the Texans signed quarterback Kellen Clemens to take over third-string duties. On December 4, the Texans signed Jake Delhomme and two days later they cut Clemens. I never thought ther... More >>

• Jerry Rice Doesn't Really Grasp the Whole "Stock Market" Concept (w/ VIDEO)

  published Dec 08, 2011

  It seems like every retired NFL player with any small modicum of celebrity over the last decade has found his way onto television, either on the NFL Network or ESPN. The amount of money that is spent ... More >>

• Rockets Announce 2011-2012 Schedule -- 6 Things You Need to Know

  published Dec 07, 2011

  My excitement for the upcoming NBA season was moderately brimming before yesterday (due in large part to a $50 prop bet I placed a couple months ago on the season starting on or before Christmas -- CH... More >>

• Packers 16-0, Colts 0-16: A Wagering Public Service Announcement

  published Dec 06, 2011

  It's Christmas shopping season, and as someone who has had to "overbuy" presents for years now, I understand the phenomenon of those Christmas bills showing up a couple weeks after December 25, and yo... More >>

• Texans/Falcons & the NFL Weekend -- 4 Winners, 4 Losers

  published Dec 05, 2011

  This time last season, in the aftermath of a Week 13 Michael Vick-administered beatdown on a Thursday night in Philadelphia, the Texans began preparation for a Week 14 Monday night game with the Balti... More >>

• Texans/Falcons -- 5 Things to Watch

  published Dec 02, 2011

  Over the last two seasons, Texan fans have been conditioned to spend the first half of the season basking in a decent start (5-3 and 4-2 the last two years, respectively) and then spend the remainder ... More >>

• Football! Baylor-UT, NFL: This Weekend's Best Bets

  published Dec 02, 2011

  "College football is March Madness every week!" -- Bill Hancock, Executive Director of the Bowl Championship Series Ah, the battle cry of the BCS apologist. Specifically, the battle cry of the BCS ex... More >>

• Kevin Sumlin Has Been Contacted by Arizona State, No Wait, He Hasn't...

  published Dec 01, 2011

  The Internet is awesome. Only on Twitter can you get a reporter (in this case, Doug Haller of The Arizona Republic) to definitively state that University of Houston coach Kevin Sumlin has been offer... More >>

• Biggest Loser v 4.0 -- Jeff Toole (a.k.a. "UtayAg")

  published Dec 01, 2011

  As someone who both writes a periodic piece in this space and hosts a moderately listened-to radio show in several markets around the country, I get that criticism comes with the job. People will not ... More >>

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  Auburn Offensive Coordinator Gus Malzahn's Wife Is Insane (w/ VIDEO)

  published Nov 29, 2011

  Simultaneous with the push toward bowl season every year, we have the college football coaching carousel that begins spinning around Thanksgiving and doesn't stop until around the time the bowl games ... More >>