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December 28, 2000
Year of Living Dangerously
Sports palaces, city cell-phone shenanigans and subdivisions where Montrose once stood. Could any self-respecting survivalist leave the bunker behind?
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December 18, 2007
John Royal’s Top Twenty Sports Moments of 2007, Part One
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January 2, 2008
New Year's Resolutions
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March 7, 2008
Spring Training: What a Glorious Place to Be, Unless Your Name Is Carlos Lee
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April 24, 2008
The Five Biggest Choke Jobs in Houston Sports History
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September 11, 2008
Houston Sports, Hurricane Ike Update
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September 23, 2008
Top Ten Astrodome Sports Moments
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October 9, 2008
Top Five Beatdowns in Houston Sports
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June 16, 2005
Out of the Park
Second Ward slugger Aaron Trevi�o scores a scholarship and prepares to leave the barrio behind
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December 20, 2008
Top Ten Houston Sports Moments of 2008
10. I never really followed the Houston Comets, who folded several weeks ago. By the time they came on the scene I was getting pretty sick of professional basketball. So I never became invested in the team, and I can't feel any real loss behind their demise. Still, unlike the Rockets and Astros ... More >>
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December 20, 2008
Top Ten Houston Sports Moments of 2008
10. I never really followed the Houston Comets, who folded several weeks ago. By the time they came on the scene I was getting pretty sick of professional basketball. So I never became invested in the team, and I can't feel any real loss behind their demise. Still, unlike the Rockets and Astros ... More >>
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April 16, 2009
A Chat With Hannah Storm Of ESPN (And Houston)
Photo courtesy ESPNESPN has been charged for years with having an East Coast bias. ESPN's morning SportsCenter anchor Hannah Storm somewhat agrees with that charge, though she says the charge doesn't apply to her show and says that to her, "it is a non-issue." And if she does have any bias, it's pro ... More >>
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February 8, 2007
Eyes on the Prize
Everyone's All-American Joe Savery and the top-ranked Rice Owls fight for college baseball glory
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November 24, 2005
Paranoia Self Destroyer
A New Birth Brass Band set at the Volcano makes Racket long for a new and improved tinfoil hat
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July 21, 2005
Christmas in July
Six dozen of Houston's finest bands for a mere $7
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December 26, 2002
Year of the Yao Woo
The crazy times in 2002 � Kmart raids, Olympian losses, stadium mania and more �- now make sense. Houston was just mining Ming.
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December 20, 2001
The Truth Is Out There...
A rogue mascot reveals secrets of the trade
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June 17, 1999
News Hostage
A rogue mascot reveals secrets of the trade
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May 26, 2009
Rice Hosts NCAA Baseball Regional, Doesn't Get Top Seed
Photo by Daniel KramerYesterday saw the announcement of the NCAA's 64-team bracket for the College World Series, and it was a mixed bag for local fans.Good news: Seven Texas teams are in it.Bad news: Rice didn't get a top regional seeding, for the first time in three years, kind of a slap to the new ... More >>
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June 17, 2009
Rice's Joe Savery, Still On The Path To The Major Leagues
Photo by Daniel KramerA little over two years ago, we did a feature on Rice's Joe Savery, a linchpin of the school's elie baseball team, a guy who combined excellent power pitching with a terrific batting average.Savery is a complete local product, having played in Bellaire, at Lamar High and for Ri ... More >>
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August 12, 2009
The Best Sports Palaces In Houston History, Ranked For Her Pleasure
Photo courtesy wikipediaIt's been a few years since Houston's most recent orgy of building new sports arenas for down-on-their-luck franchise owners. There's a new soccer stadium trying to get itself born, but other than that we probably won't be seeing any new facilities being built for a while. ... More >>
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February 22, 2010
Coog Baseball Gets Off To Rough Start
Photo courtesy UHTeams never want to start 0-3 on the season, no matter the sport. And starting 0-3 for the season is definitely not something the Houston Cougars baseball team wanted to do, yet after being swept by Texas State in this season's opening series, that's exactly the hole the Cougars ... More >>
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March 31, 2010
Game Time: Texans Sign DeMeco Ryans, Their Dwight Shrute
When a big sports news story breaks, my tendency is to spend about eight seconds internalizing it and wondering what it means to the subject of said news and what it means to me as a fan. From second number nine forward it's time to figure out other angles the news puts into play, what other pe ... More >>
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April 5, 2010
Game Time: Prediction Monday -- Men's Hoops Finals And The Astros' 2010 Season
NCAA MEN'S HOOPS FINALS (Butler vs Duke, 8:21 PM tip-off)When I ranked the list of NCAA Finals permutations from "Most Compelling" to "Least Compelling" in this space last week, I had Butler vs Duke ranked as the most compelling. The figurative "Cinderella" (although let's not forget that Cinde ... More >>
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April 19, 2010
Coogs Use Power of Dance to Clinch Memphis Series
The Houston Cougars and Memphis Tigers were about an hour into a two hour 19 minute rain delay yesterday when Cougar infielder Jake Runte stepped out of the dugout, into the rain, and started dancing. Teammate David Murphy jumped out and slid around on the tarp, and the preteen batboys and th ... More >>
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April 20, 2010
Game Time: The Caballo Chronicles, Volume 2: A Look at MLB's 20 Biggest Contracts Ever
This is my second go round living in Houston. Prior to moving back here in the summer of 2007, the last time I was an H-town resident was between 1994 and 2001. As an Astro fan, that means I was here when the Bagwell/Biggio nucleus finally broke through in 1997 and made the playoffs, I was he ... More >>
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April 26, 2010
Rice Plunders ECU's Pirates As They Surge in C-USA
Walking from the Rice clubhouse to the Rice dugout, right past the trainer's room, you pass a dry erase board. There was a message on that board Saturday afternoon. A message reading "Plunder the Pirates. Go Owls." And if one word can be applied to describe what the Rice Owls did to C-USA foe ... More >>
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April 29, 2010
Houston Is Under Attack
Bedbugs threaten our slumber.
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May 11, 2010
Coogs Will Host C-USA Tournament, But Probably Won't Play In It
Photo courtesy UHUH's pitching continues to struggleThe University of Houston will be hosting the Conference-USA Baseball Tournament come the last week of May. But while it may be hosting the event, it's becoming ever more possible that it won't actually be playing in the tournament.Only six team ... More >>
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May 19, 2010
Rice Tops UH, But Both Teams Have Concerns For The Tournament
Photo courtesy UHRice takes the crosstown series as Coogs keep stumblingIn the ultimate scheme of things, Rice's 15-5 over Houston last night means absolutely nothing. Rice had already clinched the Silver Glove Series, again, which goes to the team that wins the season series between the two team ... More >>
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May 24, 2010
Mike Ojala, Rice Get Ready For Post-Season Play
Photo courtesy Rice baseball Mike Ojala went out in style in his last Reckling Park gameThe Rice Owls (35-20, 17-7 in conference) ended the regular season much in the same fashion as they began. At times over the final two games against UAB, the Owls pitching was un-hittable and the Rice h ... More >>
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June 7, 2010
Longhorns End Rice's Season
Damn you, BevoRice Owls pitcher Mike Ojala had been lobbying coach Wayne Graham to let him pitch a complete game for four years. That lobbying had been excessively hard this season, since Ojala wanted to get at least one in his Rice career.But with his coming off off-season Tommy John surgery, ... More >>
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June 9, 2010
Rice's Anthony Rendon: Start Sucking Even Worse, Astros, In Order To Get This Guy
Photo courtesy RiceSoon to be a rich manThe Rice Owls were coasting to a pretty easy win Sunday afternoon, leading Louisiana-Lafayette 8-1 in the bottom of the eighth inning. But the Cajuns had two men on and two out when Matt Goulas sent a rocket down the third base line. Rice third baseman Anth ... More >>
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June 18, 2010
Longhorn Network: Death Knell Of The Big 12?
There was a rumor about a tumor...Back in the 1950s, with the Dodgers relocated to Los Angeles and the Giants to San Francisco, New York City found itself with only one baseball team, the Yankees.And despite the so-called popularity of the sport, there were still only 16 major league teams. ... More >>
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June 25, 2010
Doug Glanville: A Book That's Interesting But Superficial
He was there for the Steve Bartman gameDoug Glanville wasn't the greatest player to ever play major league baseball. He lasted just nine seasons in the majors, playing for three teams, and getting only 1,100 hits. He was never exactly a household name. But unlike most of the people in the majors, ... More >>
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July 15, 2010
One Man's Entry For Five Worst Houston Sports Moments -- Where Are Yours?
A UH lowlight, an ND legendI couldn't help but notice that the bosses are soliciting suggestions for the best and worst sports moments in Houston history.So I thought I would make a few suggestions.I'll do my top 10 moments when the issue comes out with the winners, but here are my five worst mom ... More >>
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July 23, 2010
Houston Texans: Shouldn't The Most Popular Team Win Something?
Most popular team in the city?So the argument being made by Richard Justice and the Houston Chronicle is that Houston has once again become a football town. It's not really hard to argue with this, thanks to the Astros being so damn bad, and all. But that aside, the question needs to be asked, wh ... More >>
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July 29, 2010
Houston's 10 Best Sports Moments*
*And the 5 most heartbreaking...
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July 29, 2010
Houston's Top Ten Sports Moments: Another View
The bosses came out their Top 10 Greatest Houston Sports Moments today, so I thought I would share mine.1. September 25, 1986: The magic number for the Houston Astros to clinch the NL West is one game. The Astros are playing a midweek day game against the San Francisco Giants, the team that just ... More >>
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August 23, 2010
GAME TIME: Texans-Saints -- 5 Winners, 5 Losers
Oh, what the hell...go ahead and panic.I keep trying to tell myself that the results of the Texans' trip to New Orleans last week didn't really count. Texans fans everywhere (and my liver) seem to disagree. New Orleans is one of a handful of places on earth that embodies the "too much of a ... More >>
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August 31, 2010
The Five Most Overrated Houston Athletes
Nolan Ryan: Ks are nice, how about wins?In Houston, we mostly love our athletes. It takes a lot to get on our bad side.Of course, sometimes we overlove our athletes. Not only do they hold a special place in our hearts, but we insist that they were much better than they actually were.So what athle ... More >>
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December 28, 2010
One Guy's Remaining Thoughts On 2010
Thanks to Tron: Legacy for Olivia Wilde in 3DAs we head into the New Year, I thought I would look back at some of the things in 2010 for which I'm thankful, sports, and non-sports. 1. ESPN's 30 For 30. ESPN does a lot of things wrong, i.e. the Brett Favre lovefest, The Decision, Col ... More >>
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March 7, 2011
Looking Back at This Weekend's Houston College Classic
John RoyalRice's Michael Ratterree slides across the plate to score a run yesterday against BaylorThe 11th Houston College Classic was played at Minute Maid Park this weekend, and though it's only March, it's probably safe to say that the best baseball to be played in Minute Maid Park this se ... More >>
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March 24, 2011
Owls Soar Over The Cougars And Continue To Dominate Cross-Town Series
John RoyalHouston Cougar Ryan Still leaps high for an overthrown ball on a first inning Rice sacrifice buntThe Houston Cougars (11-11) grabbed the 1-0 lead from the Rice Owls (15-9) in the top of the first inning last night. The Owls scored two runs in the bottom of the first, and the game w ... More >>
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May 13, 2011
For Friday the 13th: Five of the Unluckiest Texans Ever
Investors held on too long.Beginning with LaSalle, the French explorer who survived shipwrecks and cannibal Karankawa Indian attacks only to perish at the hands of his own men near Navasota, some people in Texas have had some pretty damned hard luck. You might lay some or all of the blame at ... More >>
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May 26, 2011
Five Jobs for Fastow
Enron honcho needs work.
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June 16, 2011
For Vancouver: The Top 10 Sports Riots
twitpic/Chris WaltsNot bad, Vancouver, but you got some work to doOh, behave, Vancouver. Last night, a number of poor sports, distraught by the Canucks' loss to the Boston Bruins in game seven of the Stanley Cup Finals, went all kung fu on the British Columbia city. By past standards, Van ... More >>
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September 22, 2011
Moneyball
Field of Statistically Knowable Dreams
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November 24, 2011
Turkeys of the Year 2011
We combed through an abundance of riches this year to bring you the best of the worst
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February 3, 2012
20 Modest Fan Suggestions for Jim Crane
Hey Jim, while you're listening to fan suggestions, how about retiring J.R.'s jersey already?The word from on-high came earlier this week when the Houston Astros announced that Jim Crane had heard the voice of the fans and thus would not be changing the team's name. It's nice that Crane paid ... More >>
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