Via the always-entertaining Bayou City History blog at the Chron we learned of a budding documentary about that quaint old abandoned building that used to be the Eighth Wonder of the World.Chip Rives, one of the producers/directors/writers of The Dome, tells Hair Balls he and his partner have done interviews with Nolan Ryan, Bum Phillips and Dan Pastorini, but also some of the non-sports people connected with the place (George HW Bush; Judge Hofheinz's daughter Dene).A preview on their websi
Photo courtesy KHOUGiff Nielsen, the sports anchor at KHOU who's been at the station 25 years, is leaving.And, ummm, there's not much to say because Nielsen might be the single most boring television personality in Houston history.Not that's a bad thing -- Nielsen capably delivered the news, conducted interviews and analyzed events -- but he did it utterly without shtick. Which, seeing how some clownishly some Houston sports achors have performed (Hellloooo, State Senator Dan Patrick!!) is proba
​John McClain had the latest of his many love letters to Bud Adams inside yesterday's Chron. The excuse for this one revolved around this being the 50th anniversary of the founding of the American Football League.Reading this article, I had several thoughts, the first being that I thought the Chron mandate that its writers suck up to sports ownership and management extended only to current owners, and at that, only to current owners not named Les Alexander. It also got me to really missing
