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September 8, 2011
The New Normal
The Texans start operating like a bona fide NFL team.
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September 7, 2011
College Realignment Talk Is The New NFL Lockout Talk
More a-holery from Ken StarrDuring this past summer of sports talk radio, our insatiable appetite for any topic football-related, our perennial need to talk about minutiae at all times, and the usual summer content-related radio doldrums met at a tedious midpoint -- a no man's land that left ... More >>
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September 9, 2011
Rice Seeks Win Number One Tomorrow While UH Aims for 2-0
Purdue storms into Rice Stadium tomorrow.Welcome to week two of the college football season. The Cougars go on the road to North Texas for what should be a sure win while the Owls host Purdue in an attempt for win number one. And if there's ever a week where the Owls are going to defeat a p ... More >>
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September 9, 2011
Football! This Weekend's Best Bets
Odd sare Brian Kelly won't look like this Satruday nightAs I get ready to drop some more decidedly mediocre wagering knowledge on all of you this weekend, I have one quick thought to share with you on the opening weekend of the NFL season: This time last season, these were your starting quar ... More >>
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September 16, 2011
Cougars Looking to Cage the Bulldogs
The UH coaching staff hopes the team shows up for the complete game against Louisiana Tech.The Houston Cougars don't want to start off another game like they did last week. A start where the opposition, a clearly lesser school, jumps off to a lead. A start that finds the team struggling to ... More >>
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September 19, 2011
Houston Texans Game 2 -- 4 Winners, 4 Losers (And A Jennifer Lopez Appearance)
2-0! (again)I hope everyone had a good weekend of football. I was two plays away from going 6-0 on my picks, my alma mater finally won a game and the Texans are 2-0! On the flip side, college realignment struck a blow in my home part of the country, as the Big East that I grew up with essen ... More >>
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September 23, 2011
This Weekend in College Football: The Coogs Should Get the Easy Win While The Owls Look to Lose Again
The Pink Panther would probably provide tougher competition to UH than the Georgia State Panthers willWhile the Rice Owls (1-1) struggle with the Baylor Bears this weekend, the Houston Cougars (3-0) will be struggling with themselves. It might seem that the Owls have the harder struggle, wha ... More >>
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September 26, 2011
Texans-Saints, Etc. -- 4 Winners, 4 Losers
Big winner: James CaseyThe easy fall back after Sunday's 40-33 to the New Orleans Saints is to say "Same ol' Texans," and in a way, I understand. Red zone issues, fourth quarter brain farts (23 points allowed), the untimely turnover, same ol' Texans. But I choose to look at the glass half f ... More >>
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September 27, 2011
Legislation Being Introduced to Preserve UT and A&M Rivalry Game
Could the UT/A&M rivalry be legislated into continued existence?Texas has a long-standing tradition of creating odd laws to fit nearly every circumstance. Hell, we have an official song for our state flower. But one has to wonder if State Senator Tommy Williams (R-The Woodlands) may be taking ... More >>
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September 30, 2011
Football! Weekend's Best Bets (No, Really!)
Advice even Pacino would love.I realized something in the last 48 hours. I am a big fan of the Boston Red Sox, which means by sports fan definition, I should be on suicide watch right now. I mean, "my team" just pulled off the biggest September choke in MLB history with a soul crushing ninth ... More >>
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October 3, 2011
Cougars, Owls, and Memories of Buddy Ryan
Cougar defense bringing back memories of Buddy RyanOne of the most memorable images for any Houston Oilers fan is of Buddy Ryan throwing a punch at Kevin Gilbride on the sidelines of a Sunday night football game. Ryan, the Oilers defensive coordinator, had been critical of offensive coordina ... More >>
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October 3, 2011
Houston Texans Game 4 -- 4 Winners, 4 Losers
Photos by Marco TorresMeet your new TexansIt feels like virtually every fall Monday the last two years have been spent listening to callers to my show, co-workers around the office, people around town all saying "same ol' Texans." And to be sure, it's much harder to argue that it hasn't been ... More >>
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October 6, 2011
Best/Worst College Football QB Transfers: A List Inspired by Former Texas Main Man Garrett Gilbert
Garrett Gilbert will either shine or warm the bench at a program not named TexasObviously, Garrett Gilbert is no Colt McCoy. Or Case McCoy. Or David Ash. Earlier today, the Texas Longhorns announced that Gilbert -- who filled in admirably for the injured Colt McCoy during the Longhorns' lo ... More >>
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October 10, 2011
Cougars Near Perfection While Owls Stumble to Victory
The Cougars were near perfection on Saturday night.The Rice Owls hosted the Memphis Tigers on Saturday afternoon. The Houston Cougars hosted the East Carolina Pirates on Saturday night. It was a doubleheader of football action that saw the Houston Cougars play perhaps their best all-around ... More >>
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October 13, 2011
Football! This Weekend's Best Bets
It's an SEC kinda weekTime for another round of college and NFL friendly wagers. Are my selection techniques the most textbook, orthodox methods in the world? No. I mean, if I hosted a handicapping show and gave out six games and chose those games because they gave me convenient fodder to ta ... More >>
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October 17, 2011
The Intergalactic Planetary Super Football Conference
It's got no name, this football-only alliance of Conference USA and the Mountain West Conference. It's supposedly been in the planning stages for over a year, but nobody involved has a clue to any actual details of how the thing's going to work. And once the Big East finishes acting -- mayb ... More >>
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October 20, 2011
Football! This Weekend's Best Bets -- Crushing Las Vegas
Vgeas is begging you to bet on a dogFor years, the rule in Las Vegas (because that's the only place you can wager, online wagering does not exist..cough, cough) has been that squares (wagering parlance for "Joe Q. Betting Public") bet favorites and overs a vast majority of the time. And for ... More >>
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October 21, 2011
UH Strives for Perfection as Rice Struggles to Stay Close
The Houston Cougars SID office sent the media an e-mail on Wednesday morning. An e-mail warning that Houston athletes are prohibited by NCAA rules from promoting outside media events and individual media outlets, including specific shows and stations. And this is the first time since I've b ... More >>
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October 28, 2011
Football! This Weekend's Best Bets
Tim Tebow, in the act of TebowingSo I said last weekend that we were in the midst of one of the most dominant, and in turn most predictable streaks in college football. The top ten teams each week were crushing the books to the tune of covering the number about 80 percent of their games. Two ... More >>
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November 4, 2011
Football! This Weekend's Best Bets
The Flacco Factor: Always keep it in mindIt's the first weekend of football in November. In college football, this means we get into nut-cutting time, weekends that completely weed out the real championship contenders. This weekend includes a quasi-final four in the SEC with the huge LSU- Ala ... More >>
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November 4, 2011
Did The Cougars Run Up The Score On Rice? Does It Really Matter?
Photo by Fred TraskRun it up, says CaseI've got a friend who is just starting out as a sports agent. His sport is football. It appears that there's this pre-season list of college players that is put together by scouts that can be purchased by agents. And this list provides the pre-season ... More >>
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November 9, 2011
Top 10 Vintage Things We Miss About Football
Tear-away jerseys, the XFL and concussion-causing headhunters aren't things we miss about football. We pine for these ten items. 10. Uniforms That Don't Suck This mostly applies to college football, where repeat offenders Oregon were joined by Georgia, Ohio State, Maryland and Syracuse (pi ... More >>
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November 10, 2011
Dan Shea, The Man Who Sued the Pope, Sounds Off on Joe Paterno
Penn State and the Catholic ChurchBella figura can mean many things, but at its core is presentation...how one looks, how one comports oneself, how one makes the best possible impression in all things. That such a concept is hardwired into the Italian psyche is no surprise: what else could be ... More >>
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November 11, 2011
Football! This Weekend's Best Bets: Stanford, Wisconsin & Other Bullies
Not seen at Camp Randall.Nobody likes a bully. Unless, of course, that bully can win you some money! Through the first ten weeks of the college football season, in my mind, four BCS conference college football teams have set themselves apart as "bullies" of the college football world, meanin ... More >>
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November 14, 2011
Are the Cougars Really BCS-Bowl Bound? If They Don't Mess Up, Yes
As of now, the Coogs are BCS-bowling.I spent most of Saturday afternoon working on a post explaining the possible ways the Cougars could still make a BCS bowl even with Boise State going undefeated and taking the one guaranteed BCS bowl spot that the non-automatic qualifying conferences get. ... More >>
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November 14, 2011
Texans/Bucs -- 4 Winners, 4 Losers (The "Goddammit, NOT Schaub!" Edition)
Born under a bad sign.So, I was thisclose to hitting "SEND" on a post that would have openly discussed the Texans going 13-3 and getting home-field advantage throughout the playoffs. And then this: Houston Texans quarterback Matt Schaub has a significant foot injury that will force him to mi ... More >>
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November 17, 2011
ESPN's GameDay Is Almost Good to Go at UH
Cullen Circle: The site of GameDayThe truck has arrived, there will be a 6 p.m. pep rally at Cougar Village with University of Houston football players tonight, and, beginning tomorrow morning, GameDay will officially be in the house at UH's Third Ward campus for the game between the Cougars ... More >>
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November 18, 2011
Coogs Should Beat SMU; Rice Should Top Tulane
Hey kids, College GameDay is coming to townThe season has come to this. Two weeks for the Houston Cougars to continue with perfection and reach a goal set this summer. Two weeks for the Rice Owls to gain some redemption for a season gone very wrong. The Cougars acknowledged their possible ... More >>
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November 21, 2011
Cougars and Mustangs, Orange and Sugar, BCS Comes Calling
Photo by Marco TorresThe Coogs rumbled to a win.Maybe it was the stadium packed to the gills before kickoff. Maybe it was the excitement and energy of Senior Day. Maybe it was ESPN's Lee Corso letting loose with a profanity as he picked the Cougars to defeat SMU. Maybe it was the represent ... More >>
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November 21, 2011
A Very Special BCS Edition of 4 Winners, 4 Losers
Say what, Grampa?For the first time in the history of my Texans fandom, their bye week left me with a palpable void. Sure, I love having NFL football in this city, even bad football is better than no football, so the bye week always feels a little weird. However, this season's team is a litt ... More >>
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November 23, 2011
Football! A&M-UT, LSU: This Weekend's Best Bets
We would've gotten away with it, if it wasn't for that meddling bodyguardSo yeah, about that "Bully Theory" from last week. Um, well, um....sorry? In case you missed it, I shared a theory of mine last week, and without rehashing the details it all led up to me telling all of you to take Wisc ... More >>
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November 24, 2011
Welcome To The Latest, Greatest Must Win Game For The Cougars
The Cougars are one game short of regular-season perfection. One game short of the team's best win total. Ever. One game short of the Conference USA title game. A BCS Bowl is just over the horizon. Of course, the Cougars haven't played the Tulsa Golden Hurricane. Tulsa's overall record ... More >>
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November 28, 2011
Coogs Whip Tulsa, Now One Game Away from the BCS
It's the same story that's been written six other times about the Cougars this season. Team goes on the road. Struggles in the first half. Explodes in the third quarter. Buries opposition in the fourth quarter. It's the same story, but this time it's different. This time the Cougars w ... More >>
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November 29, 2011
Auburn Offensive Coordinator Gus Malzahn's Wife Is Insane (w/ VIDEO)
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 end (or until around spring practice if your quarterback is trading signed memorabilia for tattoos). ... More >>
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December 1, 2011
Kevin Sumlin Has Been Contacted By Arizona State, No Wait He Hasn't...
Kevin Sumlin is a popular manThe 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 offered the Arizona State head coaching job, and then have literally ... More >>
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December 2, 2011
Coogs Versus Southern Miss for All the Marbles
One more win and the Coogs are BCS-bound.The distractions are there for the 12-0 Houston Cougars, the number six team in the BCS standings. Distractions like which BCS bowl game they're playing. Distractions like which team they're playing in that BCS bowl -- current projections being Michi ... More >>
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December 2, 2011
Football! Baylor-UT, NFL: This Weekend's Best Bets
Let the Tebowing continue!"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 executive director, Bill Hancock. It's what he and his minions tell ... More >>
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December 9, 2011
Watch Out Big East, Here Come the Cougars
The Cougars are going to have a new home starting in 2013.The expansion of the Big East has been a long-expected announcement, especially seeing as how several members of the conference are on the verge of departure. And one of the long-rumored names of this expansion has been the University ... More >>
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December 13, 2011
ESPN's Craig James to Run for U.S. Senate In Texas
The next senator from Texas?Great news if you're a fan of inept political campaigns, or if you just want less awful announcing on your TV. Craig James, ESPN college football analyst who was personally involved in two ugly college football scndals of varying degrees, is running to replace Kay ... More >>
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December 15, 2011
Bowling for Chumps
How insiders use the college bowl system to loot American universities.
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December 16, 2011
The Top Moments In 2011 Rice Owls Sports
John RoyalRice's Anthony Rendon became a very rich baseball player this summerIt's that time of year. The time for end-of-year lists and bests of, etc. And I'm not immune to tossing off an easy post. So, without further ado, and in no particular order, here are the Top 25 Events in Rice Ow ... More >>
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December 19, 2011
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly: The Year Just Past In Cougar Sports
John RoyalCase Keenum was the Man of the Year for the CougarsYes, it's that time of year. That time of year when I take a look back at the year just past. On Friday, I looked back at the sports year for the Rice Owls. Today, let's take a look at the top 25 events, in no particular order, f ... More >>
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December 21, 2011
Craig James for Senate! The Campaign Begins (w/ VIDEO)
He does have one very good reason to vote for him...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 time studying the issues (I spend my free ... More >>
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December 28, 2011
The Aggies' SEC 2012 Schedule Is Out, and It's a Killer
Get ready for some beatdownsWelcome to the SEC, Aggies!! With every team in the nation's toughest football conference gunning to teach the Ags a lesson, the newly released 2012 schedule shows a rough road for A&M: Alabama and Auburn on the road, for starters. The Ags will also face LSU, mea ... More >>
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December 29, 2011
Football! This Weekend's Best Bets, College Bowl Special: UH, UCLA & An Aggies Loss
Hopefully will not include "NAPA Know-How" ads.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. Have I mentioned that I'm 56-38-1 this year ... More >>
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December 30, 2011
Cougars and Lions and Cats and Aggies: Oh My, It's Time For A Little Bowl Action
There's probably nobody happier to see this college football season come to an end than the players for the Penn State Nittany Lions (9-3), unless, of course, it's the players for the Texas A&M Aggies (6-6). Then again, with the way their hopes and dreams came crashing down to the ground at ... More >>
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January 3, 2012
Cougars Dominate Penn State And Run Away With The TicketCity Bowl
The Cougar offense was more prolific yesterday than what you see on MaddenThe Houston Cougars didn't just win a football game yesterday. They didn't just win a bowl game yesterday. The Houston Cougars went out and defeated a ranked team from the almighty Big 10, and they did so in a convinc ... More >>
Culture
January 5, 2012
Proper Pronunciation and UT Fans
The Cougar offense was more prolific yesterday than what you see on MaddenThe Houston Cougars didn't just win a football game yesterday. They didn't just win a bowl game yesterday. The Houston Cougars went out and defeated a ranked team from the almighty Big 10, and they did so in a convinc ... More >>
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January 17, 2012
Houston Texans Grieving Process 1.0: At Least We're Not in Louisiana!
Ha-ha!Forty-eight hours have come and gone since Sunday, and the Texans' loss to the Baltimore Ravens is still maddening and painful. How does one process the anguish coming out of a sporting event in which your team had every chance to win the game and put themselves one step away from th ... More >>
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February 2, 2012
Deontay Greenberry: A Texans-Related Grain Of Salt For College Football National Signing Day
Deontay Greenberry: No way of tellingThere was a time not too long ago when the last-minute defection of wide receiver Deontay Greenberry from my alma mater Notre Dame to the University of Houston would have sent me into a mental funk that would have taken me a week from which to recover. Af ... More >>
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