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Piling On

Super Bowl TV: What to Watch Before the Big Game

Longhorns Party On, Burying Their Sorrows

Stinkin' Diet

What's that smell? It's Aromatrim, the very latest alternative to sweat

Here's to Hope

Houston artists light up the Illumination Project 2004

Dreaming the Impossible Dream

The 411 on Alex DiSaggio's Wonka-style 420 Fest

In Search of the Sleuth

Edmund J. Pankau trades on his hard-boiled private-eye image to attract clients and speaking engagements. To find out more about him, we resort to some Sam Spade work of our own.

Mind Games

Meet Ron White, the Texas-born memory champ you'll never forget.

Train Wreck

How Metro and its president Frank Wilson got so far off track.

Game Time: Colts vs Texans -- 5 Winners, 5 Losers

Photo by Marco TorresThe Texans didn't need a big day from Matt Schaub​My 12-year-old daughter got braces last week. This made me feel really old. So how did I respond? Well, the same way that any self-respecting 41 year old with no money to buy a Harley Davidson but with access to a computer w ... More >>

Notre Dame License Plates: Texas Finally Does Something Right

​It's taken far too many years, but Texas has finally taken a baby step towards honoring the greatest football program in America. We note that the plate understandably doesn't have room to list all the national championships or Heisman winners on it -- something you could easily do with, say ... More >>

Aggie Orgasm: A&M a Top 10 Team, UT Barely in Top 25

Will UT end up the season the fourth-highest-ranked team in Texas?​We kid the Aggies a lot, but we guess every once in a while they deserve a big day. Such as today, when the USA Today Coaches Poll came out and found them to have a far, far better football team than those orange-loving dudes ... More >>

College Football Week 1 Recap: 10 Things

Coming up roses, again​College football is back, and probably for the first time I can remember, the feeling that the return of football brought with it more than anything else was relief. Finally, we can stop obsessing over agents, runners, tattoos, memorabilia, and Nevin Shapiro. The games ... More >>

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 >>

Houston Texans Game 4 -- 4 Winners, 4 Losers

Photos by Marco TorresMeet your new Texans​It 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 >>