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Super Bowl LI Officially Awarded to Houston

Houston will host its third Super Bowl in February 2017. NFL owners voted to award the event to Houston over Miami, who lost the bid when stadium plans fell through. The last Super Bowl in Houston was XXXVIII in 2004. The first, Super Bowl VII, was held at Rice Stadium in 1974. The San Francisco ba ... More >>

Revisiting Robertson Stadium's Forgotten Concert History

After years of dreaming, planning and even a little begging, the University of Houston broke ground on a new on-campus football stadium this month. It's a pretty darn exciting development for the Cougars that marks the beginning of a new era of UH athletics: The program will play its first season in ... More >>

Houston Now & Then

Mashing the city's past and present.

New Baylor Stadium: Now Texas Can Actually Have a Good College Football Venue

On Friday, Baylor regents gave a thumbs-up to the construction of a new $250-million stadium that will post up on the Waco campus and alongside the Brazos River. If Waco City Council green lights the $35 million tax increment financing zone funds that would be needed, then the 45,000-seat venue coul ... More >>

The 10 Oddest Super Bowl Halftime Performers

The Super Bowl seems to be running out of stadium-sized performers who can attract eyeballs (the Black-Eyed Peas?), and this year they're hoping that faded scandalist Madonna will do the trick. It's not like they haven't been desperate before. In the early days of the event, producers regularly tu ... More >>

The Top Moments In 2011 Rice Owls Sports

John RoyalRice's Anthony Rendon became a very rich baseball player this summer​It's that time of year. The time for end-of-year lists and bests of, etc. And I'm not immune to tossing off an easy post. So, without further ado, and in no particular order, here are the Top 25 Events in Rice Ow ... More >>

Coogs Should Beat SMU; Rice Should Top Tulane

Hey kids, College GameDay is coming to town​The season has come to this. Two weeks for the Houston Cougars to continue with perfection and reach a goal set this summer. Two weeks for the Rice Owls to gain some redemption for a season gone very wrong. The Cougars acknowledged their possible ... More >>

Rice Plans Major Upgrade To Football Facilities

The south end zone faciltiy will be demolished and rebuilt​Rice is like every other football program not in the top tier these days -- they're making sure they can keep up with other schools in order to be attractive to poaching conferences and not be left out in the cold. So today they annou ... More >>

Rice Seeks Win Number One Tomorrow While UH Aims for 2-0

Purdue storms into Rice Stadium tomorrow.​Welcome to week two of the college football season. The Cougars go on the road to North Texas for what should be a sure win while the Owls host Purdue in an attempt for win number one. And if there's ever a week where the Owls are going to defeat a p ... More >>

Rice Scrimmage Recap: The Owls Out to Kick The Longhorns' @%#

Steve JansenDavid Bailiff addresses his team following Saturday's scrimmage. ​"What are you dreaming about? What are you dreaming about? You should be dreaming about whuppin' Texas' ass." That's Rice head football coach David Bailiff, who is gathered in front of his entire team at midfield of ... More >>

Health Department Roundup

"That ice machine is looking pristine, bro."​You know what Jesus was doing around Easter? Getting crucified and coming back from the dead to hang out in the Middle East instead of in paradise with his dad, for some reason. You can learn about the first part of this in Mel Gibson's The Passion ... More >>

On-Campus Houston Concerts Now Ancient History

​ For lots more posters from Hofheinz, see below and our slideshow. Essentially, universities in Houston don't have rock concerts anymore. In fact, pretty much all across America, institutions of higher learning are focusing less on bringing in live entertainment for students and more on bui ... More >>

36 Years Ago Today, Rice Stadium: They Don't Make Super Bowls Like That Anymore

A tweet from Rice University reminds us that today is the 36th anniversary of Super Bowl VIII, played at Rice Stadium. That's right -- Super Bowl madness in the middle of that cushy neighborhood. Hard to believe. But check out the first two minutes or so of the above video to get a taste of what t ... More >>

Anthony Rendon Rescues The Year For Rice: 25 Items From The Owls' Sports Year

Tommy Lavergne, Rice University Anthony Rendon at bat​Continuing with my personal review on the sports year just past, here are my thoughts on the Rice Owls of 2010. 1. I got to watch Anthony Rendon play third base on a regular basis. He can hit, and he's a good fielder. If the Astros didn ... More >>

Rice Owls Hope To Go Out In A Blaze Of Glory

Rice's season prepares to set with the sun​This is not the season the Rice Owls intended to have. The plan was to have a winning season. The plan was to go a bowl game. The plan was to be competitive. The plan wasn't to come into the last game of the season with a 3-8 record. The plan wasn ... More >>

Rice Owls: Beware The Plundering Pirates

Rice is playing the Pirates of East Carolina, not the Pirates of the Caribbean​The Rice Owls are hosting the East Carolina Pirates this weekend, and if the Owls had any bounty left, then the Pirates would be plundering it. But this season being this season, the Owls have already had their tr ... More >>

Cougars Want To Get Physical, Physical

The Cougars aim to get physical against Rice​Here's the thing about that Houston Cougars loss to Mississippi State last week. The defense was often in the right place, at the right time, to be able to make the play.They just didn't make the plays. They whiffed on tackles. They got blocked at ... More >>

Rice-Baylor: Lightning Dulls Owls' Thunder

Photo by John Royal A nearly empty Rice Stadium as the rain descended​The Rice Owl fans must have sniffed something in the air. There can really be no other explanation.The score was only 7-3, Baylor over Rice, when the football game was delayed due to lightning in the area. It wasn't raini ... More >>

Rice Faces Northwestern In Battle Of The Brainiacs

The Rice of the north meets the Northwestern of the south​The Rice Owls (1-1) open the Rice Stadium portion of their home schedule on Saturday night when they host the Big 10's Northwestern Wildcats (2-0). But despite last week's 32-31 come from behind win over North Texas, the Owls know that they ... More >>

Rice Coach David Bailiff: Optimism On South Main

Bowl expectations for the Owls​It's hard to know what to expect from the Rice Owls football team. In days gone by, it would have been pretty simple. Just expect them to lose.But things have slowly started to change over at Rice Stadium. The Owls have actually been to two bowl games in the past fou ... More >>

A Super Bowl In Rice Village

We're only days away from what's become known as America's biggest secular holiday -- the Super Bowl.This year's match-up is underwhelming, to say the least: the Pittsburgh Steelers should beat the Arizona Cardinals easily enough.But the atmosphere surrounding The Game has long become bigger than Th ... More >>

Damn the Torpedoes, Live Nation is Full Steam Ahead

Start saving those nickels and dimes, kids, because the biggest tour of 2009 (so far) is headed for Houston. At a press conference in House of Blues' Foundation Room this morning, Live Nation President Bob Roux and Toyota Center General Manager Doug Hall announced Elton John and Billy Joel will br ... More >>

Battle for the Bayou Bucket

It’s the socially inept Rice Owls vs. the intellectual slackers the UH Cougars

NFL Review, Week Two: Another Call for the Texans to Play in the Dome

Time for the Astrodome to Step Up?

The College Football Review, With a Little More Ashley Judd

What About the Camera Crew, People?

The Wayback Machine: 15, 10 and Five Years Ago in Houston Music

Last Night: Roger Waters at the Woodlands Pavilion

Web Extra: Aggies Behaving Badly

Todd Graham, or the Tale of the Douchebag

The College Football Preview, Week 13: Nick Saban Is a Turkey

College Football Preview: Week Three

Don't Forget the Coogs, the Owls, the Tigers and the Panthers

The Shepherd Stroll

A Nice Bowl o' Rice

A Nice Bowl o' Rice

Power Plays

The women of the Houston Energy light up the field

Pats and Cats Bring It Back

The biggest of them all returns to Houston

Best Sports Talk Show

Sports Rap

Best Place to See a College Game

Rice Stadium

Long Shot Against Longhorns

Rice squares off against UT for first time this century

Big Time

Tamarie goes to Hollywood

First and Ten (Months to Go)

Block party kicks off Super Bowl countdown

The Strait Dope

Gettin' jiggy with George Strait at his country music festival

Press Picks

The Lame and the Great

Lists you've been waiting all year for, in no particular order

Live Shots

I'm a Believer...

Pink Floyd spectacular storms through wind, rain and Tyerades

Pink Pigs and Scarred Psyches

One man's triumphant journey through Pink Floyd obsession