Subject: Sports Stars

• John Royal's MLB Predictions

  March 28, 2007

• Buff Dudes

  April 11, 2007

• Which Texas Team Will Take Home the Title?

  April 20, 2007

• Where Do We Go from Here?

  May 7, 2007

• Bonds Not So Bad

  May 16, 2007

• Teach Our Children Well

  June 22, 2007

• Big Baseball Weekend. Real Big.

  August 6, 2007

• The Media and Barry Bonds

  August 8, 2007

• Barry Bonds Indicted on Charges of Perjury and Obstruction of Justice

  November 15, 2007

• Steroids in Baseball: Ken Caminiti, Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte, Jason Grimsley, Gregg Zaun, Ron Villone, Chris Donnels, Miguel Tejada and Stephen Randolph

  December 13, 2007

• 20 Questions for Clemens

  January 3, 2008

• Clemens Press Conference Primer

  January 7, 2008

• Random Thoughts from a Stupendous Sunday of Sports

  January 14, 2008

• Giants Win. You’re Welcome.

  February 3, 2008

• Cock Fight: Pedro Martinez and Juan Marichal Throw a Couple of Chickens into the Ring

  February 8, 2008

• Steroids and Roger Clemens: Long Road Ahead

  February 11, 2008

• Steroids, Baseball and Roger Clemens: Rocket and Brian McNamee Appear Before Congress Today

  February 13, 2008

• Steroids and Roger Clemens: Justice Department to Investigate Rocket

  February 27, 2008

• Spring Training: Roger Clemens, Bill Murray and Bill James

  March 4, 2008

• Play Ball: John Royal’s MLB Predictions

  March 31, 2008

• Get Lit: Vindicated: Big Names, Big Liars, and the Battle to Save Baseball, by Jose Canseco

  April 27, 2008

• Get Lit: Always By My Side: A Father’s Grace and a Sports Journey Unlike Any Other, by Jim Nantz

  May 3, 2008

• An Open Letter to Fans of Miguel Tejada

  May 20, 2008

• We Now Present... Steroids, The Musical

  June 4, 2008

• Lakers-Celtics: Not with a Bang, Barely with a Whimper

  June 18, 2008

• John Royal’s NFL Season Picks

  September 4, 2008

• Strike Three, They're Out

  April 1, 1999

• Ten Other Instances of "Sloppy Seconds"

  Sean Avery of the NHL's Dallas Stars was suspended for an indefinite period by the NHL on Tuesday for comments he made in Calgary on Tuesday. Speaking to reporters, he made a comment about several players dating his "sloppy seconds." And I know most of you in Houston would rather talk high school football than hockey, so you probably wouldn't know that Avery's "sloppy seconds" include Kim Bauer and Stacy's Mom, who's got it going on. And that got me to thinking. Lots of athletes date beautiful

  December 4, 2008

• Ten Other Excuses Charles Barkley Could've Told the Phoenix Cop

  For those of you who missed the news in all of the New Year's reveling, former Houston Rockets power forward, current TNT basketball analyst, and renowned gambling addict Charles Barkley was arrested outside of Phoenix early on New Year's Eve and cited for DUI. The Chuckster was pulled over because he failed to stop at a stop sign, and that was when the officer noticed the strong smell of alcohol emitting from Sir Charles. Barkley confessed to drinking, and offered one of the all-time classic

  January 5, 2009

• Barry Bonds Might Not Go to Jail

  As far as I'm concerned, the big news is that Barry Bonds might be getting off. Yep, that's right. Barry Bonds might not be going to jail. For those who don't know all of the details, but do know that Bonds is going on trial in March, know this. He's not going on trial for using steroids. He's going on trial for perjury, for supposedly lying to a Federal grand jury about whether he ever used steroids. Bonds stated that he never used steroids. The Feds, having possession of his records, k

  January 16, 2009

• A-Rod's Steroid Bust: How It Really Went Down

  Alex Rodriguez did an Andy Pettitte yesterday and admitted to taking steroids. Though he wasn't facing any legal jeopardy, it's probably for the best that he did this as Jason Giambi, Gary Sheffield and Andy Pettitte were all able to easily go on with their careers after their admissions whereas we all know about what Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens have dealt with as a result of their continued denials. Rodriguez was exposed by Selena Roberts of Sports Illustrated as a steroid user on Saturday

  February 10, 2009

• Dish

  March 19, 1998

• Top 10 Moments in the History of Minute Maid Park

  Photo by Bukowsky18 The Houston Astros are asking for our suggestions for the top moments in the history of Enron Field Minute Maid Park as part of the stadium's tenth season. You know me. I love to give my opinions about the Astros. So here are my Top 10 Moments in the History of Enron Field Minute Maid Park. 10. October 4, 2001: In the top of the ninth inning of a San Francisco Giants blow-out win, Astros manager finally allows one of his pitchers to pitch to Barry Bonds. The result i

  February 26, 2009

• Richard Justice, Jeff Bagwell, Jose Canseco & Steroids

  Richard Justice is up on his high-horse again, this time in defense of himself, his colleagues, and Jeff Bagwell. The subject, surprisingly, is steroids. And Justice is pissed that there are people out there who happen to believe that he might have known what was going on during the late-`80s, `90s and early-`00s, and that he instead chose to cover it up."We looked the other way while players injected themselves, got big and made the game more popular than it had ever been before," he writes. "T

  June 3, 2009

• Top 10 Moments in the History of Minute Maid Park

  Photo by Bukowsky18 The Houston Astros are asking for our suggestions for the top moments in the history of Enron Field Minute Maid Park as part of the stadium's tenth season. You know me. I love to give my opinions about the Astros. So here are my Top 10 Moments in the History of Enron Field Minute Maid Park. 10. October 4, 2001: In the top of the ninth inning of a San Francisco Giants blow-out win, Astros manager finally allows one of his pitchers to pitch to Barry Bonds. The result i

  February 26, 2009

• A-Rod's Steroid Bust: How It Really Went Down

  Alex Rodriguez did an Andy Pettitte yesterday and admitted to taking steroids. Though he wasn't facing any legal jeopardy, it's probably for the best that he did this as Jason Giambi, Gary Sheffield and Andy Pettitte were all able to easily go on with their careers after their admissions whereas we all know about what Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens have dealt with as a result of their continued denials. Rodriguez was exposed by Selena Roberts of Sports Illustrated as a steroid user on Saturday

  February 10, 2009

• Barry Bonds Might Not Go to Jail

  As far as I'm concerned, the big news is that Barry Bonds might be getting off. Yep, that's right. Barry Bonds might not be going to jail. For those who don't know all of the details, but do know that Bonds is going on trial in March, know this. He's not going on trial for using steroids. He's going on trial for perjury, for supposedly lying to a Federal grand jury about whether he ever used steroids. Bonds stated that he never used steroids. The Feds, having possession of his records, k

  January 16, 2009

• Baller's Ball

  Where to party this All-Star Weekend

  February 16, 2006

• And Now, Some Hoops

  All-Star Weekend culminates with an actual game

  February 16, 2006

• Ball Busters

  The battle over Bonds's record-setting homer looks quaint four seasons later

  June 9, 2005

• The New Roger Clemens Books: He's A Steroid-Using A-Hole, and The Chron's Wimpy

  Roger Clemens is no longer the only former professional baseball player under investigation for lying to Congress. With the Tuesday revelation that Sammy Sosa was one of the 104 MLB players to test positive for PED use in 2003 (along with Alex Rodriguez) comes the word that a congressional committee is looking into whether Sosa lied to Congress when he testified in 2005 that he had never used a PED. And this brings about a good time to check in on Clemens, about who there has been relatively lit

  June 18, 2009

• Oh, The Lakers Will Learn All About Ron Artest

  On the way to his fourth championship, Kobe Bryant was guarded by Mickael Pietrus, Hedo Turkoglu, Courtney Lee, Dahntay Jones, Carmelo Anthony, Shane Battier, and all of the Jazz players whose names Jerry Sloan could remember. None of them had the combination of speed, size, and advanced weaponry needed to stop the league's best scorer. Based on these confrontations, there is no reason to believe that anybody would ever have figured out how to stop Kobe. As soon as Dwight Howard shanked those tw

  July 7, 2009

• The Onion, Under New Chinese Management, Analyzes Yao Ming

   Ever since the shocking news came that The Onion had sold itself to a Chinese company that also sells fish by-products, we've been waiting for it. The Yao Ming story.Today it came. The entire world population confirmed Friday that Houston Rockets center Yao Ming is the greatest athlete in the history of sports and a glowing symbol of what hardworking citizens may become if they remain loyal to their government.Yao Ming officially averages 84 points per basketball game and has a shooting pe

  July 23, 2009

• Five Reasons Why Michael Vick Should Play For The Houston Texans

  ​Michael Vick, the country's most famous dog-fighter, has gotten out of prison and is now a Philadephia Eagle.This is sad for a couple of reasons -- one, we would have liked to have seen how Eagle fans treated Vick when he came in with another team, and two, he's not a Texan.Michael Vick a Texan? Surely Bob McNair would never even contemplate such a thing. But it actually makes sense for many reasons. Here are the top five:5. We already have the rodeo. Let's see -- take some animals who wo

  August 18, 2009

• 25 Reasons You Can't Talk Enough About Brett Favre Tonight

  ​It's always nice when the local pro sports squad gets national TV attention. Tonight, for instance, the Houston Texans are taking on the Minnesota Vikings on ESPN's Monday Night Football. Sure, the game doesn't really count for anything, but it's nice to get a little attention.So I've done a little checking, and have discovered the 25 major topics that ESPN will discuss during tonight's game.1. Brett Favre.2. Brett Favre.3. Is there a schism in the Vikings locker room as the result of Fa

  August 31, 2009

• Experts Ask The Pressing Question Tonight: Are You Ready For Some Football?

  ​The NFL season opens tonight. We've already given you our astute and accurate take on the Houston Texans. (9-7, if you must know.) But what about the rest of the league? Do you actually want to sit through all the games, or learn what will happen in the next few grafs?We thought so.So here is how the season will shake out.AFC South -- Peyton Manning learns what life is like on the downside of your career. It involves many sacks, or throwing the ball to the stands in order to avoid a sack. It

  September 10, 2009

• The Mid-Week Match-Up: Serena Williams Vs. Marsellus Wallace

  In life, everything can be distilled down to chart form. It's a truism born of the PowerPoint age.Each week we will examine some pressing event or trend via the easy-to-follow form of putting a chart together that explains things. Today's subject: Serena Williams.Houston's Serena Williams made nationwide headlines - and not in the usual "good" way - with an over-the-top rant at a small, unprepossessing line judge at the U.S Open. It wasn't a lengthy monologue, but the best threats are succinct,

  September 16, 2009

• Game Time: Woke Up This Morning, Got Myself LeBron

  ​Those of you who listen to my show know that I am fond of placing the "occasional" friendly wager. While handicapping the day-to-day and week-to-week ebb and flow of a football, basketball, or (if you're really sick) baseball season can be enjoyable and, at times, lucrative (especially when betting against the bottom ten QB's in the NFL has turned into an ATM), where I have had the most success the last few years has been placing futures wagers on the over/under for total wins in a season. An

  October 27, 2009

• Game Time: The Lost Speech Of Yankee GM Brian Cashman

  ​So the Yankees are World Champions. Yippee. Between watching Kobe tear out the Rockets' collective heart last night, and then having to flip over to Fox to watch Alex Rodriguez' post-game celebration (rehearsed in the mirror no fewer than 100 times, no doubt), November 4, 2009, will live in infamy as one of the darkest sports days of the year.I will admit that I did watch most of the Yankees' post-game celebration, if for no other reason than post-game celebrations are a virtual smorgasbord

  November 5, 2009

• Game Time: The Dysfunctional Macs

  ​I'm sure if all of you have heard, but Tracy McGrady has set a target date to return from microfracture surgery, and that date is November 18. What he's going to do once he comes back or whether he's even ready to come back are secondary issues, because chances are if you heard this news when it broke, then you actually found out about this before the following people:-- Tracy's doctors-- Rockets GM Daryl Morey-- Rockets coach Rick Adelman-- Pretty much anyone employed by the RocketsProving

  November 11, 2009