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October 7, 2009
Coogs Try To Shake Off UTEP As They Take On The SEC
Photo courtesy UHMany words were said by Houston Cougar head coach Kevin Sumlin and his players at yesterday's media luncheon. But of those many words, none captured the spirit of Saturday's loss to UTEP better than those of cornerback Brandon Brinkley: "I felt embarrassed."Quarterback Case Ke ... More >>
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October 19, 2009
Coogs Doing Their Part; The Fans Better Do Theirs
Photo courtesy UHThe 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 ... More >>
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October 21, 2009
Cougars Better Not Be Looking Past SMU, Sumlin Says
Photo courtesy UH"We've got our work cut out for us," Houston Cougars head coach Kevin Sumlin said yesterday about the team's game with the SMU Mustangs this weekend. And though that's pretty much coaching cliché number one, Sumlin is hinting at the actual truth this time out.The Mustangs, ... More >>
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October 26, 2009
Coogs Grind Out A Relatively Unimpressive Win
Photo courtesy UH"I still don't think we've played our best football yet," Houston Cougars head coach Kevin Sumlin said Saturday night. "To be 6-1,and as a coach, to think that you haven't played your best football yet is pretty encouraging."Sumlin's statements came not long after Houston's 38-1 ... More >>
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October 28, 2009
Coogs Hope To Keep Grabbing Those Turnovers
Photo courtesy UH"As a team, I still don't think we've played our best game," Houston Cougars head coach Kevin Sumlin stated at yesterday's media luncheon. "It's still out there for us. I think we can be better."The Cougars are 6-1 on the season, and if the team's best game is still out there wai ... More >>
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November 4, 2009
Coogs Take On Tulsa, Where The Hurricanes Are Golden
Photo courtesy UHBefore this football season began, it was thought that the Tulsa Golden Hurricane would be the toughest competition to the Houston Cougars for the C-USA West championship. But as both teams head into game number nine this weekend, it's beginning to look like those fears might ha ... More >>
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November 5, 2009
Our Next Mayor, The Cougars Victory and Sex for Tickets
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November 9, 2009
Cardiac Coogs Test The Hearts Of Their Faithful
Photo courtesy UHIt was just last month that Matt Hogan was the third-string kicker and back-up punter for the Houston Cougars. But after his 51-yard field goal soared through the goal posts as the clock reached 00:00 on Saturday night, it's very doubtful that Hogan will have to worry about winn ... More >>
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November 16, 2009
The Cougars Run Into Upset City, Again
Photo courtesy UHIt's easy to blame the Houston Cougar defense for Saturday's 37-32 loss to the University of Central Florida Knights. After all, the Knights scored 37 points, gained 393 yards, and controlled the ball for almost 40 minutes of of the game.If the defense makes some plays, th ... More >>
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November 25, 2009
UH Football And Basketball Have Big Weekends On Tap
One season is ending. One season is just beginning. But for the Houston Cougars, it's a big Thanksgiving weekend either way with the football team playing for the C-USA West title, and the basketball team up in Alaska playing against Big 12 power Oklahoma in the Great Alaska Shootout on Thurs ... More >>
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December 4, 2009
Coogs' Shot At A C-USA Title On The Line In Front Of A National Audience, Hostile Crowd
Photo courtesy UHTomorrow is the day the Cougars have pointed toward since they won the Armed Forces Bowl back on New Year's Eve 2008. Tomorrow is the Conference USA Title Game, and all this season, the Cougar coaches and players have talked of playing in this game and winning the conference.And ... More >>
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March 18, 2010
UH, Rice Football Schedules Offer Some Intrigue, But Will They Attract Fans?
Lost amidst the hoopla of the upcoming NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament was the release on Tuesday of the football schedules of the Houston Cougars and the Rice Owls. And knowing Cougar fans the way I do, I'm sure they're already starting to form their excuses for failing to sell out the stadiu ... More >>
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June 10, 2010
UH's Achilles Heel: No One Goes To The Games
cutlineI was sitting next to one of my fellow reporters at a UH football game last fall. I think the opponent was SMU, though it might have been Southern Miss. The Coogs were highly ranked, and they were getting lots of national attention. Yet Robertson Stadium was nowhere close to being sold ... More >>
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June 11, 2010
USC Trojans: They're Different From 1980s SMU How, Exactly?
Snoop & Pete: BFFsThe Southern Methodist University football team was hit with NCAA sanctions on February 26, 1987 because of a slush-fund created to pay players. Seeing as how the Mustangs were a repeat offender -- they were already on probation for recruiting violations -- the NCAA le ... More >>
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September 10, 2010
UH Looking For Lots Of Crowd Noise For Tonight's ESPN Game
Bring the noise to Robertson Stadium for ESPNStrange as it may seem, if things had gone a bit differently in the college career of Drew Bledsoe, Kevin Sumlin might not have ended up in Houston. But strange as it may seem, that's the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.Sumlin's first ... More >>
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September 27, 2010
Rice-Baylor: Lightning Dulls Owls' Thunder
Photo by John Royal A nearly empty Rice Stadium as the rain descendedThe 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 >>
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September 30, 2010
Rice Owls Battle The Little Things
neilfein If only the football team was this fearsomeI've got a confession to make. I've got this thing for mediocre mid-`90s alt-rock, specifically, Bush. I mention this because whenever I attend a Rice press conference, or do the interview thing after the games, the one thing I hear over ... More >>
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October 4, 2010
Rice Owls Blind Sided By The Mustangs
Not Even Sandra Bullock Could Have Saved The Owls This TimeBefore the season began, the Rice Owls were confident that they would get the six wins needed to qualify for a bowl game. Five games into the season, with the Owls record at 1-4, the question isn't so much whether the Owls will get ... More >>
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October 7, 2010
The Rice Owls Go Mining For A Victory
The Owls hope to mine UTEP for a winIf you ask the Rice Owls, they'll tell you that they're doing just about everything right. That they're one or two plays from turning around the season. They'll tell you about the improvement they're seeing in this year's team when compared to last year's ... More >>
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October 13, 2010
Owls Focusing, Dammit, On The Cougars
The Owls are working on their focus this weekThis post about Saturday's football game between the Rice Owls and the Houston Cougars is brought to you by the word "focus," as in the Rice Owls need to focus on making their plays. And as in the word "focus" is the current term of choice for th ... More >>
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October 18, 2010
Pink Power Propels Rice Over Houston
Perhaps it had something to do with Rice's pink logoSaturday was a tale of two halves. The Rice Owls dominated the first, playing easily their best half of football this year. The Houston Cougars came out and took over most of the second half. But for the Cougars, winning the second half wa ... More >>
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October 22, 2010
Cougars Seeking To Fill A Void Against SMU
Heading into tomorrow's game with the 4-3 SMU Mustangs, it needs to be pointed out that the 3-3 Houston Cougars have some issues that need to be addressed. Real issues like the leadership void on the field since Case Keenum's season-ending injury. And a defense that has problem making tackles ... More >>
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October 25, 2010
Cougars Battle SMU And The Weather, Get The Win
Cougars battled SMU and the weatherThe Houston Cougars stopped the SMU Mustangs on their first drive. The Cougars then took the ball and scored a touchdown to go up 7-0 with about half of the first quarter left to play.Then came the thunder and lightning to join the rain and, just like that ... More >>
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October 29, 2010
Coogs: And The Running Game Shall Save Them
Photo by Stephen Pinchback, UH Athletics CommunicationsBryce Beall needs to deliverEverybody knows how the Houston Cougar offense works. Pass on first down. Pass on second down. Pass on third down. Keep passing until you score or you have to punt. Yes, that's how the Cougars spread offense works, ... More >>
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November 5, 2010
Cougars Duel The Knights Tonight
www.axismag.com The Cougars need to watch their focus when playing UCFThe University of Central Florida Knights are, perhaps, the best team in Conference USA. They definitely have the best defense, and their offense is one of those bone-crushing, time-consuming rush-oriented games that dra ... More >>
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December 2, 2010
NFL & College Football -- Weekend's Best Bets
When it comes to college football, I'm not a staunch traditionalist. I believe the season is more compelling when the longtime powers are strong (Translation: Texas, Florida, Michigan, Notre Dame, and Miami all being mediocre is, to me, a bad thing.), and yet I picked Boise State before the season ... More >>
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July 28, 2011
Case Keenum: Preseason C-USA Offensive Player of the Year
C-USA coaches think he doesCase Keenum's big comeback attempt, which we chronicled as spring practice began in April, is apparently destined for success if the coaches of COnference USA are right. They chose the UH quarterback as pre-season Offensive Player of the Year as part of the media d ... More >>
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July 28, 2011
Top 5 Best Big 12 Football Games of 2011 (With Predictions)
Boomer Sooner, Boomer Sooner, Boomer Sooner, etc., etc., etc.Football-wise, the Big 12 (aka. Oklahoma and the nine others) is barely hanging on, now that Nebraska is in the Big Ten and Colorado bolted to the Pac-12. The 2011 season, which is just over a month away, marks the first time that ... More >>
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August 3, 2011
Top 5 Best C-USA Football Games of 2011 (With Predictions)
Case Keenum's comeback attempt starts September 3. Last week, Hair Balls broke down some of the best (as well as the worst) games of the 2011 football season involving Big 12 teams. Now, Conference USA, which just wrapped up its media days in Memphis, gets a similar treatment. Houston, tha ... More >>
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August 12, 2011
Rocks Off's Musical 2011 Texas Football Preview
buckaroosfunnypictures.comHook 'em Horns...You wouldn't know it from walking around outdoors, but fall is just around the corner, and in Texas that means two things: We no longer have to consume our body weight in water for shows at the Pavilion, and it's almost time for college football. An ... More >>
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September 5, 2011
Cougars Dominate First Half Against UCLA, Set Table For Perfect Season
The UCLA cheerleaders probably weren't too happy after Saturday's gameThe Houston Cougars did their best impersonation of the Houston Texans on Saturday. They dominated the first half, playing a fantastic two quarters that masterfully mixed their passing and running games. Case Keenum showe ... More >>
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September 26, 2011
The Scrubs Get Major Playing Time As Coogs Glide To Easy Victory
J.D., Turk, and the gang didn't get to play, but the rest of the Cougars bench got plenty of playing timeAs the Cougars trotted off of the field after the first half on Saturday night, the question wasn't whether the Cougars would be in need of another second half comeback. That wasn't the q ... More >>
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October 6, 2011
Best/Worst College Football QB Transfers: A List Inspired by Former Texas Main Man Garrett Gilbert
Garrett Gilbert will either shine or warm the bench at a program not named TexasObviously, Garrett Gilbert is no Colt McCoy. Or Case McCoy. Or David Ash. Earlier today, the Texas Longhorns announced that Gilbert -- who filled in admirably for the injured Colt McCoy during the Longhorns' lo ... More >>
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October 17, 2011
The Intergalactic Planetary Super Football Conference
It's got no name, this football-only alliance of Conference USA and the Mountain West Conference. It's supposedly been in the planning stages for over a year, but nobody involved has a clue to any actual details of how the thing's going to work. And once the Big East finishes acting -- mayb ... More >>
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October 28, 2011
Oh Yeah, And The Cougars Win Back The Bayou Bucket
Photo by Aaron SprecherJust another record-breaking night for the Cougars.Check out our slideshow of last night's rainy Bayou Bucket game. Houston's Tyron Carrier took the opening kickoff 100-yards for the touchdown to quickly put the Cougars up 7-0. Then the rain hit and the Rice Owls came ... More >>
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November 14, 2011
Are the Cougars Really BCS-Bowl Bound? If They Don't Mess Up, Yes
As of now, the Coogs are BCS-bowling.I spent most of Saturday afternoon working on a post explaining the possible ways the Cougars could still make a BCS bowl even with Boise State going undefeated and taking the one guaranteed BCS bowl spot that the non-automatic qualifying conferences get. ... More >>
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November 15, 2011
5 Things You Shouldn't Do When ESPN's GameDay Visits UH
This stopped being funny 200-plus episodes ago. It's a big deal that ESPN's traveling college-football preview show GameDay is posting up at the University of Houston's Cullen Circle in advance of the Cougars' game against the SMU Mustangs. (Who saw this coming, especially after quarterback C ... More >>
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November 17, 2011
ESPN's GameDay Is Almost Good to Go at UH
Cullen Circle: The site of GameDayThe truck has arrived, there will be a 6 p.m. pep rally at Cougar Village with University of Houston football players tonight, and, beginning tomorrow morning, GameDay will officially be in the house at UH's Third Ward campus for the game between the Cougars ... More >>
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November 18, 2011
Coogs Should Beat SMU; Rice Should Top Tulane
Hey kids, College GameDay is coming to townThe 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 >>
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November 21, 2011
Cougars and Mustangs, Orange and Sugar, BCS Comes Calling
Photo by Marco TorresThe Coogs rumbled to a win.Maybe it was the stadium packed to the gills before kickoff. Maybe it was the excitement and energy of Senior Day. Maybe it was ESPN's Lee Corso letting loose with a profanity as he picked the Cougars to defeat SMU. Maybe it was the represent ... More >>
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November 24, 2011
Welcome To The Latest, Greatest Must Win Game For The Cougars
The Cougars are one game short of regular-season perfection. One game short of the team's best win total. Ever. One game short of the Conference USA title game. A BCS Bowl is just over the horizon. Of course, the Cougars haven't played the Tulsa Golden Hurricane. Tulsa's overall record ... More >>
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November 28, 2011
Coogs Whip Tulsa, Now One Game Away from the BCS
It's the same story that's been written six other times about the Cougars this season. Team goes on the road. Struggles in the first half. Explodes in the third quarter. Buries opposition in the fourth quarter. It's the same story, but this time it's different. This time the Cougars w ... More >>
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December 2, 2011
Coogs Versus Southern Miss for All the Marbles
One more win and the Coogs are BCS-bound.The distractions are there for the 12-0 Houston Cougars, the number six team in the BCS standings. Distractions like which BCS bowl game they're playing. Distractions like which team they're playing in that BCS bowl -- current projections being Michi ... More >>
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December 9, 2011
Watch Out Big East, Here Come the Cougars
The Cougars are going to have a new home starting in 2013.The expansion of the Big East has been a long-expected announcement, especially seeing as how several members of the conference are on the verge of departure. And one of the long-rumored names of this expansion has been the University ... More >>
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December 16, 2011
The Top Moments In 2011 Rice Owls Sports
John RoyalRice's Anthony Rendon became a very rich baseball player this summerIt'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 >>
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December 19, 2011
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly: The Year Just Past In Cougar Sports
John RoyalCase Keenum was the Man of the Year for the CougarsYes, it's that time of year. That time of year when I take a look back at the year just past. On Friday, I looked back at the sports year for the Rice Owls. Today, let's take a look at the top 25 events, in no particular order, f ... More >>
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December 21, 2011
Craig James for Senate! The Campaign Begins (w/ VIDEO)
He does have one very good reason to vote for him...I'm not a big politics guy. I don't like to talk politics on my radio show (EVER), I don't like to talk politics in social situations (People take it too personally), and I don't spend any of my free time studying the issues (I spend my free ... More >>

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