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December 10, 2010
Nasty Nique EP Has The Heart Of A Champion
This year, the New Houston Collective has really become a force. In no particular order, their attendance sheet: Fat Tony, Propain, B L A C K I E, Hollywood FLOSS, Preemo, Eskabel, Hubbard, Nosaprise, hasHBrown, Thuro, H-Kane, Delo, Les, Roderick, The Niceguys, John Dew, Montana, Virgo, Dirty ... More >>
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December 16, 2010
Yao Ming -- God Dammit
Limp away, old friend"An MRI performed today on Rockets center Yao Ming revealed a stress fracture of the Medial Malleolus in his left ankle. The fracture, which is related to his previous injury of the Tarsal Navicular bone, presented itself during the course of his current rehabilitation pr ... More >>
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December 27, 2010
The 10 Biggest Houston Stories Of The Year
Tom DeLay: A conviction to go with the mugshotThere are still a couple days left for earthshaking stories to take place in 2010. But since most news is bad news, let's hope the worst is over. What were the top 10 news stories in Houston in 2010? We're so glad you asked, since we've worked up ... More >>
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December 30, 2010
2000 - 2010: A DECADE TO FORGET
How Things Went Downhill
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December 31, 2010
Top Ten Houston Sports Stories in 2010 (Alternate Title: "Here Comes The Prozac")
Brian Cushing will bring a keg and Fear of Tumors to your partyPutting together a "Top 10 Sports Moments" list is not supposed to invoke these feelings of anger and depression. But then again, I live in Houston, so try as I might to make this a list that is uplifting and inspiring, I can't. ... More >>
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January 5, 2011
Magic Johnson Takes Over Hotel Icon
This investment is a slam d-- sorry, we just can't say itThe so-hip-it-hurts Hotel Icon's foreclosure auction has a winner: Magic Johnson, the man who toyed with the Houston Rockets and every NBA team except the Boston Celtics back in the days of tight shorts. Johnson's investment company, C ... More >>
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February 16, 2011
Houston Bids on 2014 NBA All-Star Game (and 4th Annual Dwight Howard Booty Fest)
The soundtrack for the party of the yearIt took four years, but it appears that NBA All-Star weekends are finally starting to feel safe again. No longer fearful that the volatile combination of Pac Man Jones, strip clubs and firearms is a threat, the city of Houston and the Rockets submitt ... More >>
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February 24, 2011
Rockets Trade -- Hasheem Thabeet Scouting Report (It's Not Good)
Your newest Rocket is tallThe NBA trade deadline came and went today and the Rockets managed to muster up some activity. The good news is (stop me if you've heard this before) General Manager Daryl Morey appears to have gotten the best of both deals. The bad news is the Rockets are no closer ... More >>
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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 >>
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February 28, 2011
Detroit Pistons Mutiny (with Tracy McGrady video)
Practice?! We're talking about practice?!If you're keeping score at home, Tracy McGrady has left scorched earth behind every NBA franchise for whom he has played. He left Toronto for Orlando just as his career was finally beginning to blossom, eventually wore out his welcome (amidst copious ... More >>
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March 24, 2011
NCAA Sweet Sixteen Central
What the hell happened to Leslie Visser?It's generally accepted that the first two full days of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament provide the greatest two-day watching/gambling/drinking/eating experience annually, for obvious reasons: 1. Whether by illness, approved vacation, or planned s ... More >>
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March 28, 2011
Rockets Playing Well Under the Radar
Photo by Jeff BalkeFinally, the Red Rowdies have something to actually cheer about.Houston's three major sports franchises have spent the last few seasons in the equivalent of purgatory. None have been good enough to contend for a title, but none have been horrid enough to elicit the types of ... More >>
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March 31, 2011
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1560AM weaves pop culture, locker-room humor and irreverence into sports-talk radio.
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April 1, 2011
Final Four Watch Parties, Team by Team
Brittanie SheyHotel Derek, all gaudied up.Judging by traffic, alumni from the schools playing in this weekend's Final Four are already swarming town, and if you want to get some of the sweet team-pride action, we've compiled a list of the official and unofficial watch parties happening this w ... More >>
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April 8, 2011
Hey Houston, We Have a Real Live Playoff Team
John RoyalAeros head coach Mike Yeo and assistant coach Darryl Sydor oversee Thursday's practice.It's hard being a fan of Houston's professional sports teams. The Houston Astros suck. The Houston Rockets just failed to make the playoffs. Again. The Houston Texans are the Houston Texans, w ... More >>
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April 13, 2011
Space Shuttles: Ten Ways Los Angeles and New York Can Show Theirs Off, Dammit
Bi-wing airplanes...pfft. Try this on for size, Kong.This week, we learned that Houston, essentially the birthplace of the space shuttle program, will not be given one of the four remaining shuttles. Two of the four cities receiving them are both deserving and appropriate: Washington D.C. (fo ... More >>
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April 14, 2011
2010-2011 Houston Rockets Report Card
Photo by GroovehouseSad Rocket fanHello everyone! Welcome to my blog post for today, also known as "Day Four of the Jim Rome Smack-Off Recap Hostage Crisis." That's right, based on feedback on my Twitter feed and the monster hits that our rogue "Smack-Off On A Mobile" have been getting, I k ... More >>
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April 15, 2011
The NBA's Top-Selling Jerseys List (And Seven Things It Tells Us)
NBA jerseys: We CAN just all get along!!I'll admit, I don't own any sports jerseys. I'm not a jersey-wearing guy, partially because the fit and feel of an authentic professional sports shirt are not optimal, but mostly because I'm over the age of 14. Full disclosure, I don't buy many jersey ... More >>
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April 19, 2011
Is Ashley Judd Really Sorry For What She Said About Rap?
The hip-hop world is a less than sensible place - lots of times, you're even required to clarify when bad means bad and when bad means good - so once a week we're going to get with a rapper and ask them to explain things. Something you always wanted to ask a rapper? Email introducingliston@gmail.com ... More >>
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April 19, 2011
Rick Adelman And The Rockets Agree To Disagree
Rick Adelman: Subbing is an art; his boss thinks it's a scienceThe press release was entitled "Rockets Agree to Part Ways with Rick Adelman," and read like this: Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey announced today that the team and Head Coach Rick Adelman have mutually agreed to part ... More >>
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April 22, 2011
Mark Cuban Hit In The Face With Flying Projectile; Video of Five Times He Deserved It
Mark Cuban: We have the video evidenceApparently, at the end of Game 3 of the Maversicks-Blazers series on Thursday night in Portland, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban was pegged in the face with a mysterious unidentified object. While I don't condone the anonymous launching of projectiles a ... More >>
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April 29, 2011
Top 5 Contest Options for Houston Sports Teams
If you can keep from getting injured, you might walk away with some new kicks.During halftime of a recent New Orleans Hornets game, a fan participated in a common giveaway contest. He had to make a layup, a free throw, a three-pointer and a shot from halfcourt under a time limit to win a priz ... More >>
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May 13, 2011
Jeff Van Gundy Says "No Thanks" to Texas A&M
Jeff Van Gundy reacts to having to work with AAU "agents."It seems like every year, as we head into the "boring phase" of the sports calendar (best known as the point where the Texans' and Rockets' offseason intersects with the Astros' regular season), some stories inevitably pop up to keep t ... More >>
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May 17, 2011
NBA Lottery -- Where Houston Rockets Point Guards Go to Die
I see disaster in your future."So you're saying there's a chance..." -- Lloyd Christmas Yes. 1.82 percent, to be exact. Those are the odds that the ping pong balls will fall the Houston Rockets' way tonight at the annual NBA Draft Lottery and they wind up with a top three pick. After finis ... More >>
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May 26, 2011
Dallas Mavs' Promo Video: A Life & Death Battle of the Gods, Examined Second By Excruciating Second
Above is the official promo video put out by the Dallas Mavericks for their ongoing playoff run. It just may be the single most defensive and embarrassing such video ever, but hey, it's from Dallas. Let's examine this thing. Throughout, the music is so over-the-top dramatic it makes "O Fortuna" s ... More >>
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May 27, 2011
ESPN's Doris Burke's Difficult Week (w/ VIDEO)
Doris Burke and a moment of ZenOf all of the on-air personalities who put their fingerprints on a sporting event -- studio host, play by play, color analyst, sideline reporter -- I've always thought that the sideline reporter has the hardest job out of all of them. It starts with the inhe ... More >>
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May 27, 2011
Kevin McHale Is The Rockets New Head Coach
Do not read the subhedIn what would have been classified as a fairly startling upset at the beginning of the search process, the Houston Rockets have chosen former Boston Celtic great/Minnesota Timberwolves coach and general manager Kevin McHale as the next head coach of their franchise. In ... More >>
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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 >>
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June 13, 2011
We Live In A World Where Dallas Has Won An NBA Title: Five Things to Consider
Old school MavsWay, way back in the day, when we lived in Dallas -- more or less against our will -- we were Dallas Maverick fans. The Dallas Morning News' offices were a block or two from Reunion Arena, and Mark Aguirre and Roy Tarpley were there to he enjoyed. The Mavs never made it over ... More >>
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June 13, 2011
Mavericks Celebrate In South Beach Bar: The Photos, Including Dirk Nowitzki Guzzling an $80K Bottle of Champagne
worldredeye.comThe webiste worldredeye.com has a page full of pictures up of the Dallas Mavericks, the whitest NBA champs since Larry Bird's Celtics, getting down last night and early this morning at Dallas South Beach nightclub LIV. We can only assume such a hip name as LIV is an homage to ... More >>
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June 15, 2011
Comment of the Day: Why Yao Ming Didn't Meet Expectations
We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it's time we paid some damn attention to them. So we'll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day's work. Maybe two comments, even. This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involv ... More >>
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June 20, 2011
2011 NBA Draft -- A Reminder of the Rockets' Purgatory
NBA Draft: Do Rocket fans have anything to look forward to?In the second season of The Sopranos, after getting shot in the abdomen and nearly dying, Christopher has dreams while in a coma about going to a place where people die every day the same painful way they died on earth. Convinced that ... More >>
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June 23, 2011
NBA Draft Rewind -- 1986, The Worst Draft Ever
Plus the shorts suckedAs much as those who construct teams in sports would like to think that they have a formula and a blueprint that they can go execute with any team in any market and be successful, the fact of the matter is that even for the best personnel men in the best-run organization ... More >>
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June 23, 2011
2011 NBA Draft -- The Live Blog
Keep coming back for the latestThe overwhelming consensus on the 2011 NBA Draft is that it's, by and large, a pretty underwhelming group of players, and it may quite possibly be completely devoid of future All-Stars. So why am I so excited about tonight's festivities? Because of all the thin ... More >>
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June 24, 2011
2011 NBA Draft -- 4 Winners, 4 Losers
Tough night for Dick VitaleMy fingers are still recovering from the lengthy (eight printed pages!) live blog I did last night here on Hair Balls, but the day after the draft necessitates some post-draft analysis. I've now had a day to sleep on it, and without further ado, a few post-draft tho ... More >>
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July 18, 2011
Women's World Cup: Five Other Seeming "Game-Winning" Scores That Weren't
The USA's run in the Women's World Cup seemed to be finishing in grand style when Abby Wambach put in an extra-time header to give the team a 2-1 lead. It didn't last, and Japan won in overtime. Wambach's late goal joins a storied list of scores that seemingly iced a game or a series, only to be o ... More >>
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July 20, 2011
10 Observations About The Rockets 2011-12 Schedule
Clutch pulls in late for the earlier home start timesI have to admit, when I saw the headline that the NBA would be announcing its 2011-12 season schedule, I chuckled out of confusion a little bit. I mean, do you really want to remind your hardcore customers (and trust me, those who care abo ... More >>
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September 26, 2011
NBA Training Camps Canceled -- Five Things Players Can Do During This Time Off
Eat enough and NBA players could look like this!The NBA officially canceled all training camps and portions of the preseason due to the continuing lockout imposed by owners. While there have been a few rumblings over the past week or so that there might be some cause for optimism with behind ... More >>
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September 29, 2011
NBA Lockout Could End or Season Could Be Canceled This Weekend
David Stern has it.The continuing NBA lockout may be coming to a head this weekend as talks between representatives for the players and owners resume on Friday. Training camps around the league have been canceled as have some preseason games, and if talks were to break off this weekend with n ... More >>
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December 7, 2011
Rockets Announce 2011-2012 Schedule -- 6 Things You Need to Know
Kevin Martin: Not a big national-TV draw.My excitement for the upcoming NBA season was moderately brimming before yesterday (due in large part to a $50 prop bet I placed a couple months ago on the season starting on or before Christmas -- CHA-CHING!), but two things happened yesterday. First ... More >>
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December 9, 2011
Pau Gasol Thoughts, My Texans Prediction and Other Weekend Best Bets
Pau Gasol: The closest he'll get to Rocket red.On November 23, the Texans signed quarterback Kellen Clemens to take over third-string duties. On December 4, the Texans signed Jake Delhomme and two days later they cut Clemens. I never thought there would be a less satisfying era for a Houston ... More >>
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December 21, 2011
Kris ~~Kardashian~~ Humphries Re-signs with the Nets
So happy together.It's Wednesday, December 21, and from a daylight standpoint, it's the shortest day of the calendar year and equally short on newsworthy events around the sports world (unless you count former Philadelphia newspaper columnist and part-time Jabba the Hutt stand-in Bill Conlin ... More >>
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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 >>
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December 30, 2011
Rape, Scandal, Greed and Cockfighting -- The 2011 Sports Year In Review
2011: Penn State's horrible yearYou know how, in the series 24, the way a season unfolds? How just when you think there has been some sort of resolution to the bad guys being bottled up, right then and there a new (often worse) layer is introduced, and ultimately in like Hour 22 Jack Bauer wi ... More >>
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January 12, 2012
Houston Rockets 1993 vs. Houston Rockets 2012, the Hard Truth
Photo by Jeff BalkeRockets need more than Rowdies this year.It's been a tough start for the hapless Rockets. With early injury problems, a trade that didn't happen in the lockout-shortened offseason and a new unproven coach, it's no wonder the first few weeks of the season have been somewhere ... More >>
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January 25, 2012
Shhhhh, Don't Tell Anyone, but the Rockets Are Playing Really Well
Photo by groovehouseWhile everyone was cheering on the Texans and fretting about whether or not Jim Crane would go completely nuts and change the Astros to the Craniums, a funny thing was happening at Toyota Center. The Rockets were winning. They have won their last seven games and are 8-2 i ... More >>
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January 27, 2012
Looking Ahead: Rockets Hold Off on Re-Upping Lee, 2009 Rookies
Photo by Daniel KramerGM Daryl Morey makin' moves.The Houston Rockets announced this week that they would not exercise their option to extend the contracts of guard Courtney Lee and the four rookies from the 2009 draft, center Hasheem Thabeet, forward Jordan Hill, guard Johnny Flynn and guard ... More >>
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February 7, 2012
One Man's NBA All-Star Reserve Selections
NBA All-Star time already?Go ahead and chalk up the NBA All-Star Game taking place in a few weeks (Sunday, February 26, to be exact) in Orlando's Amway Center as the next "feels weird" moment of the NBA season. It feels like the season just tipped off a few weeks ago and yet here we are, abou ... More >>
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February 8, 2012
Linsanity: Little-Known Jeremy Lin Helping Knicks Hurt the Rockets
WikiepediaJeremy LinDaryl Morey's incessant shuffling of second-rate players over the past few seasons, constantly tweaking and tinkering looking for "assets," came to an almost comical head last week when a player the Rockets cut in the offseason to make room for Jonny Flynn, who they acquir ... More >>
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February 10, 2012
Houston Rockets: Their Bench Is the Hottest Team in the Western Conference
Let's hear it for the bench.In my season preview for the Houston Rockets, I cited the current portion of the season as the "make or break stretch" for the team -- a six-game road trip against a bunch of pretty-good-but-not-great teams followed by a six-game homestand against mostly good teams ... More >>
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