The string is unbroken. In the history of the Baseball Hall of Fame, no player has ever been elected unanimously. Not Babe Ruth. Not Nolan Ryan. Not Cal Ripken. Not Tony Gwynn. Not Rickey Henderson. The closest to achieving this elusive milestone was Tom Seaver who got 98.84 percent of the vote the year he was elected.
Rickey Henderson came within 28 votes of that mark this year. This means that he only got about 95 percent of the vote. And I don't understand the thinking here. What
The string is unbroken. In the history of the Baseball Hall of Fame, no player has ever been elected unanimously. Not Babe Ruth. Not Nolan Ryan. Not Cal Ripken. Not Tony Gwynn. Not Rickey Henderson. The closest to achieving this elusive milestone was Tom Seaver who got 98.84 percent of the vote the year he was elected.
Rickey Henderson came within 28 votes of that mark this year. This means that he only got about 95 percent of the vote. And I don't understand the thinking here. What
Is one of the myriad sports-talk radio stations in town beginning to blink in their eyeball-to-eyeball-to-eyeball-to-eyeball battle?Clear Channel, the communications giant, swung the layoff ax across the country today, and it hit notably in Houston.The biggest names: Brad Davies and Craig Roberts of the 790 KBME morning show. (On the non-sports side, Donna McCoy of Sunny 99.1 is gone; dentists' offices everywhere sob.)Replacing Davies and Roberts will be even more of the (not so enjoyable)
I think Clear Channel has John Lopez working way too many hours. I made the mistake of listening to him for a bit yesterday, and not only did he make the mistake of wishing that the Astros would trade for Toronto's Roy Halladay, he appeared to be upset that the team isn't putting forth the necessary effort to make the trade happen because, according to Lopez, this Astros team is in contention and with Halladay, the Astros become the team to beat.There are, of course, a few fallacies with Lopez'
Photo courtesy UH​The Houston Cougars came out in front of a nearly non-existent Superdome crowd on Saturday and got business done, defeating Tulane 44-16.Of course, it wasn't easy. At least for a half, as the Cougars battled a slow start and poor kicking to lead at only 9-6 after the first half. But the Case Keenum-led offense came out in the second half and put up 20 points in the third quarter and 15 points in the fourth quarter to get the victory and to improve their season record to
