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March 18, 2013
The Good News-Bad News for the Rockets as They Drive for the Playoffs
Last night was a frustrating night for the young Rockets squad. They had their worst offensive output of the season, scoring just 78 points (10 in the first quarter) and getting it handed to them in the most lopsided loss of the season against the team directly ahead of them in the playoff chase, Go ... More >>
Blogs
March 13, 2013
DeAndre Jordan's Dunk Immortalized By The Voice Of WWE Hall Of Famer Jim Ross!
In 2013, one of the biggest gauges of your brand, your legacy, your relevance is what I like to call the "Google ______" test. Put someone's name in Google and what are the first three or four items that Google self-fills in as related topics after that name. If my "Google _____" test for DeAndre J ... More >>
Blogs
March 8, 2013
What Did Dennis Rodman Do To Piss Off North Korea?
To say the United States' relationship with North Korea is less than cordial would be a bit of an understatement. A draconian cesspool of a society with nuclear weapons perpetually aimed our way, North Korea and its leadership (Kim Jong-un, yo!) represent the antithesis of everything the United Stat ... More >>
Blogs
January 28, 2013
Houston YouTube History: The Houston Rockets
For this edition of Houston YouTube History, I dived into the Houston Rockets' YouTube stamp. There are tons of random clips of games, which are pretty recent, but those are boring rips from cable TV. I wanted weird stuff that you may have forgotten about. Not that you would have forgotten their f ... More >>
Blogs
November 15, 2012
Royce White's Twitter Rant: 10 Ignorant Replies
"Is he worth it?" In the sports world, it's the answer to that one simple question that ultimately determines the length of a player's shelf life in whatever league he plays in. Extrapolated in more detail and reworded, is the combination of a player's skill set, salary, and performance worth whate ... More >>
Dining
November 1, 2012
Chef Endures Cancer, Loss of Sense of Taste
A stroke, a brain tumor and the loss of his sense of taste haven't kept Chef David Guerrero out of the kitchen.
Blogs
June 22, 2012
Rockets GM Daryl Morey Meets With The Media To Discuss The Draft (And Mention The Aborted Pau Gasol Trade A Few Times)
While the NBA Playoffs have been rolling toward their exciting conclusion in Miami and Oklahoma City, back here in Houston, the Rockets have been busy trying to figure out how they can somehow come out of the next few months of NBA player activity with a team that at least feels like a threat to mak ... More >>
Blogs
June 12, 2012
NBA Finals: Series Prediction and a Few Prop Bets
Finally, it's here! If you had allowed David Stern to sit in a room with all 16 playoff teams on the wall by conference, and allow him to pick his dream matchup for the NBA Finals, it's without a doubt the Miami-Oklahoma City matchup we're getting here. LeBron versus Durant, big market versus small ... More >>
Blogs
April 19, 2012
Tough Week: Rockets Go from Sixth Seed to Out of the Playoffs
Remember all the warm, fuzzy feelings last week when the Rockets came home from a 4-0 road trip, knocking on the door of a good seeding in the Western Conference playoffs? It appeared this scrappy, tough team was going to defy odds and make the playoffs with no stars and their entire starting backco ... More >>
Blogs
February 23, 2012
NBA Lucky Sperm Club: Javale McGee's Video Resume (Including His Moronic Goaltending Last Night)
Lucky Sperm Club. It's a term I often use for professional athletes who, if they weren't so genetically gifted, would be super-sizing french fries at the drive-through for the next 60 years. To be clear, the term is not meant for all physical freaks. Just the ones who display an IQ somewhere betwee ... More >>
Blogs
January 31, 2012
Tale of the Tape: LeBron James's Alley-Oop vs Blake Griffin's Facial (w/ VIDEO)
I wake up at about 4:15 a.m. each weekday morning to head to the studio and do my radio show on 1560 The Game (also, shameless plug, simulcast on television on Comcast 129), so many nights I go to bed before the sports world has shut it down for the evening. My tool to catch up on things when I wak ... More >>
Blogs
December 22, 2011
NBA Season Win Totals and My Rockets Prediction
Bet the over on winsLast add on my post from yesterday about Kris Kardashian Humphries re-signing with the Nets: For those of you who think I was a little too hard on Big Humph (and by my count, there were exactly none of you who felt that way), just know that according to results of a rece ... More >>
Blogs
November 3, 2011
Chef Chat, Part 2: David Guerrero of Samba Grille, On His Road to Recovery and Becoming Executive Chef
Mai PhamExecutive Chef David Guerrero in the kitchen at Samba GrilleYesterday, we talked to Samba Grille's Executive Chef David Guerrero about how he was diagnosed with brain cancer early last year. You can read about it here. Today, he tells us the rest of his story about his extraordinary r ... More >>
Blogs
June 3, 2011
NBA Finals Game 2 -- Anatomy of a Meltdown
On the "Play-by-play" Web page for Game 2 of the NBA Finals, it simply reads "Dwyane Wade makes 24-foot three point jumper (Mario Chalmers assists)," one simple play out of a few hundred plays during the course of an NBA basketball game. But if you were watching the game, you knew that Dwyane Wade' ... More >>
News
April 7, 2011
Play Ball, Baby
A new season for the Astros, and hopefully a new team.
Blogs
February 25, 2011
Houston Rockets -- Screwed City
Daniel KramerDaryl Morey needs to go big timeIt's no surprise that Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey has a Facebook page. And it's not one of those aloof "Fan" pages, either, where all you can do is click "Like." Morey has one of those "regular guy" Facebook pages where you can send him me ... More >>
Blogs
January 17, 2011
Ted Williams: Golden-Voiced Ohio Beggar Reportedly Now in Texas Rehab
Ted Willaims might be on South Padre IslandIn a sadly predictable story, it seems like for Ted Williams, the Ohio beggar with the golden voice, his Internet super-celebrity proved to be too much, too soon. Now informed speculation has it that the 53-year-old former soul radio DJ will be a te ... More >>
Blogs
November 19, 2010
Drayton McLane Officially Puts Astros On The Block (World Series Championship Not Included)
Photos by Paul KnightDrayton McLane and Astros: Looking for buyer from Texas? Eh, maybe. Buyer with lots of money? Yes, definitely. Astros owner Drayton McLane officially announced this afternoon, in very Texas-y fashion, that he's ready to sell the team. He held up his hand like a pistol and sai ... More >>
Blogs
October 25, 2010
NFL, College Football and Brett Favre's Wiener -- 5 Winners, 5 Losers
Brett Favre can't get out of the headlinesI hope everybody had a lovely Texans bye weekend (insert lame joke about "Texans giving up fewer than 300 yards passing to BYE" here), and that you're refreshed, rejuvenated and ready for the back half of the football season. I'm on vacation this week vis ... More >>
Blogs
September 1, 2010
Brian Tuohy's The Fix Is In: Nothing In Sports Is As It Seems
OTOH, maybe the fix isn't inAs hard as it might be to believe, every Super Bowl since 1996 has been fixed. No, not fixed by gamblers or players trying to throw the game. But instead fixed by the NFL. Sure it sounds a bit far-fetched, but that's the allegation made by Brian Tuohy in his book, The ... More >>
Blogs
July 16, 2010
Game Time: LeBron James -- All Right, Now It's Getting Weird (The Mav Carter Pendant Story)
A mission to recover diamonds, at Mom's houseI wanted to write about Luis Scola today, I really did. I wanted to talk about how good Daryl Morey has to feel that he was able to lock in Scola for an annual number below $10 million per year in a goofy free agent market that has seen $6 million and ... More >>
News
July 1, 2010
Book 'em, Danno
Constables go after HISD students' unreturned books
Blogs
June 29, 2010
Game Time: NBA Free Agency -- So Is Dwyane Wade Gonna Hold It For You While You Pee Too, LeBron?
A Vogue cover, but no ringNothing worth chasing in life comes easy, so to say that by pooling their collective talents together to try and chase an NBA title in Miami that LeBron James, Chris Bosh, and Dwyane Wade are taking the "easy way out" isn't entirely fair.Actually, to be fair, with a ring ... More >>
Blogs
June 18, 2010
Game Time: Kobe Bryant: One Down, One To Go (And Neither of Them Are You, LeBron)
You, Senator, are no Michael Jordan "I've got one more than Shaq." -- Kobe BryantThe accolades would seem to indicate that respect has not been an issue for Kobe Bryant -- the respect of fans, the respect of his peers, the respect of the media.In his career, Kobe Bryant has been selected to the A ... More >>
News
June 3, 2010
Don't Believe the Hype
Houston's Most Overrated Attractions
Blogs
March 25, 2010
To Keep Your Daughter Out Of Jail, What Not To Name Her Is Crystal-Clear
The other day, Hair Balls was discussing the case of Crystal Sosa with a friend.Sosa is a young prostitute. Two years ago, her dead infant was discovered stashed in the freezer of the motel where she was staying with her boyfriend. She was eventually convicted of nothing more serious than attempt ... More >>
Blogs
March 16, 2010
Game Time: Ten Historically Significant March Madness Buzzer Beaters
In my effort to help everyone prepare for March Madness, I bring you the second installment of the March Madness Preview. (Click here for yesterday's first installment -- you know the part with my picks and what not.) Today, we look at some of the most historical buzzer beaters in tournament histo ... More >>
Blogs
November 6, 2009
Game Time: The Cable Guy
For most of his tenure in Oakland, Tom Cable has been your run-of-the-mill, overmatched, "dead man walking" NFL head coach. When he was hired last season in the wake of Lane Kiffin's firing, the things that jumped out at me about Cable were:-- His only head coaching experience consisted of four ... More >>
Music
January 15, 2009
Smooth Sailing at Grooves
Disguised as a warehouse, this place is a choice upscale R&B lounge

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