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(Updated) Jesus FTW: God-Lovin' Kountze Cheerleaders Trounce Heathens in Court Battle

Updated with statements from Governor Rick Perry and the Freedom From Religion Foundation. In a high-profile battle based on small-town football, the cheerleaders in the little East Texas burg of Kuntze have won a court battle to praise Jesus during football games. The Kountze case drew national a ... More >>

Pope Francis Who?

Five who might have inspired the name.

Porn Proves Texas Is Not Southern: We Prefer "Teen," They Prefer "Ebony"

The question of whether Texas is part of the South or the Southwest has long been debated. Now we can answer that question, thanks to porn. (Is there anything porn can't do?) PornMD, porn-searching website that apparently tries to wrap itself in the aura of the health industry, has put together ra ... More >>

A&M's Bumpy Start To The SEC Era: La. Tech Game Postponed

So the Aggies have turned tail and decided they can't face the mighty Louisiana Tech (looking it up....looking it up...BULLDOGS!) in the first game of the school's SEC Era. And yeah, we know La Tech is not part of the SEC, but it is in SEC Country and it is the first game A&M was scheduled to play ... More >>

The School That Holds The Record For First-Day License-Plate Sales In Texas Is...Ole Miss?

MyPlates.com, the private company that offers Texans vanity plates of all types, sells a lot of school plates. Plates for th eUniversity of South Carolina just went on sale (and no, you can't get COCKLUVR even if you're a rabid Gamecock fan). They've been doing it for a while now, and have compile ... More >>

Legislation Being Introduced to Preserve UT and A&M Rivalry Game

Could the UT/A&M rivalry be legislated into continued existence?​Texas has a long-standing tradition of creating odd laws to fit nearly every circumstance. Hell, we have an official song for our state flower. But one has to wonder if State Senator Tommy Williams (R-The Woodlands) may be taking ... More >>

Texas A&M and SEC Make It Official

​Finally putting an end to unrelenting speculation, rumor and hand-wringing from colleges, media and sports radio, the Southeastern Conference formally accepted Texas A&M University into its conference Sunday, ending A&M's tenure in the Big 12 and leaving the future of that conference very muc ... More >>

Looking Back at This Weekend's Houston College Classic

John RoyalRice's Michael Ratterree slides across the plate to score a run yesterday against Baylor​The 11th Houston College Classic was played at Minute Maid Park this weekend, and though it's only March, it's probably safe to say that the best baseball to be played in Minute Maid Park this se ... More >>

College Baseball: Rice Sweeps the Trojans While UH Struggles Against the Rebs

John RoyalRice's Michael Ratterree tags out USC's Matt Foat trying to advance on a sac fly​In the first weekend of the college baseball season, it was the Houston Cougars pulling off the home sweep of UT-Arlington while the Rice Owls were losing two of three to visiting Stanford. The competit ... More >>

High School Recruitnik -- The Silent Predator

You fail, social media stalkers of high school athletes​Well, today is the day. The day where entitled 17-year-old kids everywhere say hello to the free world by putting five hats of various universities in front of them, faking that they will grab one (completely offending that school which ... More >>

Four Loko No Mo'

Drink faces Texas ban.

Four Loko Soon Banned In Texas?

Four Loko: Someone has to cover it​It's funny how certain things become your beat. Some guys get latched onto animal rights, some find their niche working for homeless people, while other find themselves covering a can of liquid death, in my case, Four Loko. I was the one who drank three can ... More >>

Cougars Go The Wile E. Coyote Route

Nope, Wile's not the new UH quarterback​Watching the Houston Cougars lose 47-24 to the Mississippi State Bulldogs on Saturday night was a bit like watching a Wile E. Coyote cartoon. Things got off to a great start as the Cougars got the kick and drove 64 yards in eight plays behind the pinpo ... More >>

Five Other Ways HISD Can Pay Students And Parents

Possibly where this concept originated​The Houston school district, desperate to get grades and test scores up, is offering cold, hard cash to fifth graders who do their math homework. A kid who masters a bunch of "concepts" can rack up $440 from HISD.That can buy a whole lot of....books extolling ... More >>

Game Time: Vince Young -- All He Does Is Win, Strip-Club Fistfight Edition

VY in happier times​Okay, I give up. The topic of college football conference realignment has dominated the airwaves/Twitter/blog chatter the past two weeks, all the while the NBA Finals and now the 2010 World Cup whirring judiciously in the background.College football has taken a couple run ... More >>

Coogs Lost Their Shooting Touch This Weekend

The bench did not show up for the Houston Cougars Saturday afternoon. Their three-point shooting ability took the afternoon off. Kelvin Lewis and Adam Brown struggled from the field the entire day. And Aubrey Coleman had a flash back to the days of Phi Slama Jama where making a free throw was cause ... More >>

Tough Stretch For UH Begins This Weekend

Photo courtesy UH​The Cougar basketball team is taking on the Mississippi State Bulldogs tomorrow afternoon, and it's this game, probably more than any other non-conference game, that head coach Tom Penders has been pointing his guys toward. This is the game he discussed the most in off-season cha ... More >>

Let's Make This Rick Perry-Bobby Jindal Bet Interesting, For Chrissake

The Texas Longhorns are playing the LSU Tigers in the College World Series, and that can mean only one thing: an entirely dull press release announcing some stupid bet between the governors of the respective states.And voila!! Rick Perry's putting up Texas barbecue, Bobby Jindal is putting up seafoo ... More >>

Longhorns Sue For BCS Title; Coach Brown: "We're Texas, Damn It"

Austin -- Following last night's Florida Gators victory over the Oklahoma Sooners in the BCS Title Game, the Texas Longhorns football team held a press conference outside of the main entrance to Darrell K. Royal - Texas Memorial Stadium. Head Coach Mack Brown, reading from a prepared statement, st ... More >>

Longhorns Sue For BCS Title; Coach Brown: "We're Texas, Damn It"

Austin -- Following last night's Florida Gators victory over the Oklahoma Sooners in the BCS Title Game, the Texas Longhorns football team held a press conference outside of the main entrance to Darrell K. Royal - Texas Memorial Stadium. Head Coach Mack Brown, reading from a prepared statement, st ... More >>

College Bowl Game Preview: Picks by A Real Expert, Part Two

The college football bowl season is here, and it's become such a confusing mess of odd-sounding games played in smallish towns with mediocre teams that you need an expert to figure it out. And nothing says "expert" more than a teen-aged kid, whether the subject is football, driving, or how inutterab ... More >>

College Bowl Game Preview: Picks by A Real Expert, Part Two

The college football bowl season is here, and it's become such a confusing mess of odd-sounding games played in smallish towns with mediocre teams that you need an expert to figure it out. And nothing says "expert" more than a teen-aged kid, whether the subject is football, driving, or how inutterab ... More >>

H-Town Holiday Shootout

Put down your Rockets red for a while and enjoy some college b-ballers

College Football Review: Tulsa Beats Rice in Douchebag Bowl

The John Royal College Football Top 25, Week Five

College Football Review: Plenty of Upsetting (in a Good Way) Results

The John Royal College Football Top 25, Week Four

The John Royal College Football Top 25, Week Three

College Football Preview, Tea Leoni Edition

Tim Tebow Is So Not the Greatest

John Royal’s Friends’ Top Twenty Sports Moments of 2007, Part Two

The College Football Review, Week Ten: Rice Is Officially Better than Notre Dame

The College Football Preview, Week Ten: Reality TV Bites

The College Football Preview, Week Nine: What Do Pushing Daisies, The Office and Chuck Have to Do with Football? Good Question.

The College Football Preview, Week Eight: More Babes. And More Babes.

The College Football Preview, Week Seven: Babes. Lots and Lots of Babes.

Texas Tech Is Dirty. We Can Prove It. We Just Can't Tell You How.

Football U: Pigskin for Turkeys

Football U: Pigskin for Turkeys

Football U: The Battle of the Top 2

Football U: The Battle of the Top 2

Football U: Garden State Variety

Football U: Garden State Variety

Football U., Week 2

Football U., Week 2

Such a Pig

Bet on Black

Glory Road relives the season when college hoops smashed the color barrier

Goal Oriented

Rice's women's soccer team kicks it up a notch

Playbill

War Games

Crimson Tide dives deep, but ends up dead in the water