Today Bo Jackson turns 50 years old. The former baseball and football star was one of the most exciting players to watch in the late '80s and early '90s. He was able to incite excite in not sports fans young and old. Dem legs, you guys. And he knew how to sell shoes. He did double-duty with t ... More >>
There ought to be a Failbook-like website for knuckleheads like Jeremy Geffs: oft-convicted criminals who continue to advertise their shenanigans on Facebook for all the world to see. With a criminal record as long and impressive as Geffs's, you'd think he'd try to keep things a little more on the ... More >>
What will the second half bring?
Today, WikiLeaks released the first few hundred of what promise to be 5 million e-mails belonging to Austin-based global security think tank Stratfor. One concerns not one but two Houston-area shit magnets, one formerly high-powered and one still very much high-powered: Halliburton and disgraced f ... More >>
Lindsay Lohan's in my next movie? Just leave the bottle.I'd done a decent job putting the fact they're rebooting the Superman franchise *again* next year out of my mind, that is until a flurry of recent Man of Steel-related news items popped up in the last week or so. "Wait," you're saying, ... More >>
So long, suckers.The 25th and final season of The Oprah Winfrey Show kicked off yesterday with a John Travolta dance number, an appearance by Paul Simon (of "and Garfunkel" fame, not the deceased U.S. Senator), and an announcement that Oprah would take the 300 studio audience members in atten ... More >>
Photo by Kelly CampbellIt's been a good year for author Steve Berry. His new release The Paris Vendetta debuted at Number 9 on The New York Times bestseller list (no little feat since the list was already filled with heavy hitters like John Grisham, Michael Crichton, Stephen King and Sue Grafton) ... More >>
A close call for a champ
World, you have waited long enough -- you are finally getting your Anna Nicole Smith opera.Britain's Royal Opera House has announced it will produce an opera based on the life of Houston's favorite stripper/golddigger/Rusty Hardin antagonist in 2011.The libretto will be written by the guy who did Je ... More >>
In honor of the New Year, I thought I would go the cliché route and give you my Ten Resolutions for 2009. 10. I'm going to continue to be as objective as I can when it comes to my coverage of Houston sports. 9. I'm going to find some way to get the Houston Press to pay for my MLB Extra Innings pa ... More >>
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