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October 13, 2006Miss Cleo Answers the Bell
April 2, 2007A View to the Rooms
March 20, 2007Football U., Week 2
October 13, 2006Piling On
May 2, 2007Something's Coming
July 11, 2007OU Fans Pretty Pissed
July 12, 2007Video Game Review: NCAA Football 08
July 25, 2007College Football Preview: Week Three
September 14, 2007The College Football Review, Week Ten: Rice Is Officially Better than Notre Dame
November 5, 2007John Royal’s Friends’ Top Twenty Sports Moments of 2007, Part Two
December 21, 2007SXSW: And So It Begins…
March 3, 2008NCAA Tournament: Forget Mount St. Mary’s and Coppin State; Villanova and Kentucky Need to Slug It Out
March 18, 2008Dick Vitale, Adrian Dantley, Pat Riley, Patrick Ewing and Hakeen Olajuwon Make the Hall of Fame, But What About Guy V. Lewis?
April 8, 2008You Weren't Watching That, Were You?
April 8, 2008The University of Houston Quiz, Continued...
May 29, 2008John Royal’s College Football Preview
August 29, 2008Top Ten Astrodome Sports Moments
September 23, 2008Battle Of The Junkyard Dogs
September 24, 2008BCS Bill in Congress? About Time Our Politicos Got to the Important Stuff
The nation is in peril. There's still the threat of terrorism. The military is mired in two wars. The economy is falling apart. Rich banking execs are getting bonuses for their failing businesses -- bonuses being paid by taxpayer money -- and the auto industry is on the verge of collapse. But if you ask some people, the biggest problem facing our great country is the BCS. Which is why Texas congressman Joe Barton (R -- nutjob), and fellow Texas Republican Michael McCaul (R -- nutjob) have i
December 11, 2008Houston: Cradle Of Black Coaches
College football is getting a lot of well-deserved heat for its lack of minority head coaches at its highest level, the Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division 1-A).Of the 119 coaches at FBS programs, only six are black. And that's in a sport where, safe to say, there are plenty of black players who are helping colleges reap the billions in dollars they do.Houston, though, has some opportunity to brag: fully one-third of the NCAA's black coaches have a local connection!
December 24, 2008The Chips Are Down
March 3, 1994UT's Mack Brown Visits The Troops, And Complains Endlessly
Mack Brown, along with a handful of other NCAA coaches, is making a goodwill visit to the troops in Germany, Iraq and Kuwait. (He's following in the footsteps of a coach at an actual good football school, Notre Dame's Charlie Weis, who visited the Middle East earlier this year.)Brown's to be commended for going of course, even though he's obviously trying to draft off the heat of Weis. He's also writing a diary of events on his website and -- well, does the dude always complain this much? We
June 3, 2009News Hostage
April 15, 199925 Random March Madness Facts
Photo by All your picture are belong to us It's once again time for the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, or as most refer to it, March Madness. And instead of doing an analysis and picking the winner, like I do (badly) every year, I've decided to go another way. I'm sure you've all seen those Facebook 25 random facts lists. Well, here is my 25 Random Facts list about the tournament. 1. Every player is a scholar/athlete, even though on most teams the only scholar sits at the end of the benc
March 18, 2009Why Is Everybody Getting Laid Off But Tom Penders?
You know, as the NCAA Tournament starts today, I can't help but notice that the Houston Cougars have once again failed to gain entry into the field of 65. Sure, they're playing in something called the CBI, but that's really not the same thing, is it? (Especially seeing as how the Cougars lost last night to an Oregon State team that won only 13 games this season.) Hard as it might be for many of you to remember, the Cougars were once one of the great basketball powerhouses in the country. T
March 19, 2009When Publicists Attack: The "Dirty Tourney"
Admittedly, here at the Press we receive all kinds of stupid shit, especially from publicists. But seldom have we gotten a press release with less social merit and higher scuzz factor than this one from WMG (Warner Music Group), entitled "Screw The NCAA's...Welcome To the DIRTY TOURNEY!" I know record companies are in the toilet, so I guess it's a natural progression that their publicity departments go there too. Some of the copy from this release seems to beg the question: if you
March 26, 2009For The Final Four: Five Most Inspirational Pre-Game Speeches
As the NCAA Tournament builds to a climax, one can only speculate about the kinds of speeches offered by the likes of Texas' Rick Barnes and OU's Jeff Capel before their respective matches against Duke and North Carolina. One thing seems certain, it probably wouldn't have hurt to have one of these dudes talking to the players instead.5. Ken Carter (Samuel L. Jackson) -- Coach Carter (2005) Samuel L. Jackson could do nothing but Shakespeare and Jane Austen adaptations for the rest of his life,
April 3, 2009NCAA Finals: Technically, That Was a Basketball Game
Photo by Beau B I've got a bit of a tradition. Every NCAA Men's Basketball title game, I get together with one of my best friends, Jodie. College basketball to her is like baseball is to me. So every year, more or less, since 1990, we've gotten together to watch basketball. Including last night. Though what we watched last night I don't think qualifies as basketball. I don't like Jim Nantz. I think he's a pompous, no-talent hack. But I've got to admit that I felt kind of sorry for him la
April 7, 2009NCAA Finals: Technically, That Was a Basketball Game
Photo by Beau B I've got a bit of a tradition. Every NCAA Men's Basketball title game, I get together with one of my best friends, Jodie. College basketball to her is like baseball is to me. So every year, more or less, since 1990, we've gotten together to watch basketball. Including last night. Though what we watched last night I don't think qualifies as basketball. I don't like Jim Nantz. I think he's a pompous, no-talent hack. But I've got to admit that I felt kind of sorry for him la
April 7, 2009Why Is Everybody Getting Laid Off But Tom Penders?
You know, as the NCAA Tournament starts today, I can't help but notice that the Houston Cougars have once again failed to gain entry into the field of 65. Sure, they're playing in something called the CBI, but that's really not the same thing, is it? (Especially seeing as how the Cougars lost last night to an Oregon State team that won only 13 games this season.) Hard as it might be for many of you to remember, the Cougars were once one of the great basketball powerhouses in the country. T
March 19, 200925 Random March Madness Facts
Photo by All your picture are belong to us It's once again time for the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, or as most refer to it, March Madness. And instead of doing an analysis and picking the winner, like I do (badly) every year, I've decided to go another way. I'm sure you've all seen those Facebook 25 random facts lists. Well, here is my 25 Random Facts list about the tournament. 1. Every player is a scholar/athlete, even though on most teams the only scholar sits at the end of the benc
March 18, 2009The 84th Annual East-West Shrine Game
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January 15, 2009Letters, Week of November 8
Down on the Matt, High-Water Woes, Reaching the Pentacle
November 8, 2001Cat 'n' Bird Fight
May 11, 2006Bet on Black
Glory Road relives the season when college hoops smashed the color barrier
January 12, 2006Full-Court Pressure
College Hoops 2K6 will bring out your inner Bobby Knight
January 5, 2006Goal Oriented
Rice's women's soccer team kicks it up a notch
August 25, 2005This Week's Day-by-Day Picks
March 10, 2005Love of the Game
A Valentine's weekend for college baseball fans
February 12, 2004What We Lose, And What We Gain, If Texas Secedes
Rick Perry, our governor, has taken a steep dive off the sanity cliff with his preachin'-to-the-Rush-choir talk of seceding from the United States.This may be hard to imagine, but we think Perry might not have thought the whole thing through so well. And not just because he's presented the image of a white, Southern-accented governor foaming on about "state's rights," but because there are certain things Texas would have to give up -- and put up with -- if we became an independent country.What w
April 17, 2009Rice Hosts NCAA Baseball Regional, Doesn't Get Top Seed
Photo by Daniel KramerYesterday saw the announcement of the NCAA's 64-team bracket for the College World Series, and it was a mixed bag for local fans.Good news: Seven Texas teams are in it.Bad news: Rice didn't get a top regional seeding, for the first time in three years, kind of a slap to the newly storied program.Good news despite that: Rice will still be hosting a regional, so you can get the chance to see some good-quality college baseball for relatively cheap prices.Bad news for non-tea-s
May 26, 2009UH's Choice For New Athletic Director: From USC Or Akron?
The University of Houston has supposedly narrowed its search for an Athletic Director to replace Dave Maggard down to two choices. The first choice is Brandon Martin, a former college basketball player for USC who is currently the senior associate AD for the Trojans. The second choice is Mack Rhoades, the AD at Akron.Martin is seen as the hot candidate for the school because of his ties to USC, a school with a long history of winning athletic programs. It's also a school in a large metropolitan
June 11, 2009NCAA To Recommend Sickle-Cell Testing As A Result Of Rice Football Player's Death
Dale Lloyd was a promising Rice football player who had shined at Lamar High. Three years ago, the freshman collapsed at a workout and died.His family sued the university and Rice; a settlement was announced today that could go towards seeing that the tragedy helps someone else one day.After his death Lloyd was found to have the so-called "sickle-cell trait" that affects a little less than 10 percent of the black population in the US.Under the settlement, the NCAA will now include in its medical
June 29, 2009Listen Up, People: The Top Ten Coaches In Houston History
The Chron's Jerome Solomon has another of those endless lists we writers like to do, this one asking for input on the top 10 coaches in Houston college and pro sports history. And he helpfully provides us with some candidates for the list. So I thought I would help out and provide what I consider to be the definitive list of the Top 10 coaches in Houston college and pro sports history. 1. Guy V. Lewis: One of the most underrated, under appreciated coaches in history. It's a crime that t
August 11, 2009Fightin' Joe Barton, Taking On The BCS System
Texas congressman Joe Barton has decided that there's something else besides Barack Obama's mere existence that sends him into a frothing, seething fit of anger.It's college football's bowl system.We've gotten an announcement from something called Playoff PAC, a political action committee created to address the single most pressing issue of our day: Who gets to be called the best team in the NCAA.And Joe Barton is on board!!!! Prepare for defeat, NCAA."The entire BCS system is a farce," Barto
October 19, 2009UH Hoops Still Dreaming Of Making It Back To March Madness
Photo courtesy UHGuy V. Lewis last coached the University of Houston men's basketball team in 1986. His last great team lost in the 1984 NCAA title game to the Georgetown Hoyas. He left a legacy of 27 straight winning seasons. Fourteen seasons with 20-plus wins. Fourteen NCAA tournament appearances. Five Final Fours and two championship games. That's a history that many college problems would die to have. But since 1986, the Houston Cougars have been living off of that history. An
October 30, 2009The Big 12: We Want Mediocre Bowl Games, Dammit
Apparently the Big 12 is so bad when it comes to football that the league's commissioner is begging the NCAA to declare that any team that wins six games is automatically invited to a bowl game.As if most of the bowl games weren't bad enough to begin with, just think of how bad they will be when ESPN the Ocho is televising a bowl game featuring the Aggies and the Big 10 equivalent of the Aggies. The Texas Bowl is already on the verge of becoming unmatchable with it's new push to dump enterta
November 3, 2009UH Hoops, Battling The Second-Rate Reputation Of Conference USA
Tom Penders has been tasked with returning the Houston Cougar basketball program to relevance. And that's a task at which he feels he's been successful. But he's yet to succeed with the ultimate goal of basketball relevance, and that's getting into the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament.Now, the Cougars have won basketball games in Penders' five seasons coaching the team. But they haven't won enough. And for the most part, they haven't won the right games because they've been defeating team
November 6, 2009Coogs Open The Basketball Season With A Solid, If Expected, Win
Photo courtesy UHOn Monday night, Cal State-Fullerton defeated UCLA in one of those so-called easy basketball openers that so-called major powers are supposed to easily win. Kind of like Houston's Tuesday night opener against Nicholls State was supposed to be one of the easy games for a so-called major team to win.And make no doubt about it. The Cougars were fully aware of what happened in Los Angeles on Monday night. And they weren't going to let it happen to them. Which is why, despite
November 18, 2009
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