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Dennis Miller Gets Another TV Show? Really?

God’s Team, Jobu, Matt Holliday and Drayton McLane

Hey Playboy, Forget Erin Andrews and Shana Hiatt. Suzy Kolber Is the Sexiest Sportscaster.

Playboy, Erin Andrews and a Humble Request to See Jake Gyllenhaal Hit On His Sister

John Royal’s NFL Picks, Week 13: Rushing More Than Ricky Williams

Erin Andrews Nude in Playboy? Sorry, Not Anytime Soon.

A Day in the Life of Cable Sports Programming

Super Bowl TV: What to Watch Before the Big Game

Victoria Silvstedt's Husband Makes the Show

Longing for Sports Sunday

Craig Ackerman Has to Be an Improvement over Gene Peterson and Jim Foley

Neil Hohlfeld, RIP

Some NBC Commentators to be Monitoring Olympics from Afar

Please Don’t Take My SportsCenter

Has Sarah Palin Cracked the Glass Ceiling for Other Former Sportscasters?

Over the Weekend: Mixed Media at MFAH, Houston Texans and MTV Video Music Awards

College Football Preview, Zooey Deschanel Edition

Best Happy Hour

The Tavern

Texas Tailgating: Monday Night Football

This is it -- the Big Night of Tailgating in Houston. Monday Night Football is in town and our top tailgating teams will be putting on a show. Even if you don't have tickets to the game, it's worth taking the train to the Reliant Parking Lot just to take a look at the tailgating action. Here are ... More >>

Texas Tailgating: Monday Night Football

This is it -- the Big Night of Tailgating in Houston. Monday Night Football is in town and our top tailgating teams will be putting on a show. Even if you don't have tickets to the game, it's worth taking the train to the Reliant Parking Lot just to take a look at the tailgating action. Here are ... More >>

Forget Erin Andrews, Rachel Nichols, Lisa Salter, Stacey Dales, Sage Steele and Krista Voda. We're Pulling for Carrie Milbank and Suzy Kolber.

It's that time of year again. Time for Playboy.com's Sexiest Sportscaster of the Year contest. And yes, Erin Andrews is once again nominated, and no, there's nothing to indicate that Ms. Andrews will pose in her birthday suit should she win. This is the third such contest from Playboy.com, and i ... More >>

Vote Carrie Milbank for Playboy's Sexiest Sportscaster

Last week I wrote a post about the latest edition of Playboy.com's Sexiest Sportscaster contest. And I was a bit disappointed at some of the choices. And though I have some Erin Andrews burnout, I could understand the desire of many of my fellow males (and probably quite a few females too) to see ... More >>

Playboy's Finalists for Sexiest Sportscaster: Erin Andrews, Bonnie Bernstein, Charissa Thompson, Lauren Shehadi and Molly Sullivan

Playboy.com has named its five finalists for this year's Sexiest Sportscaster. And despite my best efforts, neither Carrie Milbank nor Suzy Kolber got the necessary number of write-in votes to qualify. The finalists are Erin Andrews, of course, Bonnie Bernstein, Charissa Thompson, Lauren Shehadi, ... More >>

Playboy's Finalists for Sexiest Sportscaster: Erin Andrews, Bonnie Bernstein, Charissa Thompson, Lauren Shehadi and Molly Sullivan

Playboy.com has named its five finalists for this year's Sexiest Sportscaster. And despite my best efforts, neither Carrie Milbank nor Suzy Kolber got the necessary number of write-in votes to qualify. The finalists are Erin Andrews, of course, Bonnie Bernstein, Charissa Thompson, Lauren Shehadi, ... More >>

Vote Carrie Milbank for Playboy's Sexiest Sportscaster

Last week I wrote a post about the latest edition of Playboy.com's Sexiest Sportscaster contest. And I was a bit disappointed at some of the choices. And though I have some Erin Andrews burnout, I could understand the desire of many of my fellow males (and probably quite a few females too) to see ... More >>

B L A C K I E

Type-concerned MC proves to be quite the pacemaker

Don't Let Him Go!

Type-concerned MC proves to be quite the pacemaker

Making the Call

Broadcasting high school games, ESPN-style

Technical Difficulties

Slick, expensive and clueless, Fox Sports Grill is a sports bar that can't deliver a hamburger

Best Play-by-Play Announcer

Bill Brown

Best Color Commentator

Jim Deshaies

St. Miguel Tejada, Patron Saint Of Lying

Photo by Aaron M. Sprecher​Apparently Fox Sports Houston did a documentary on Miguel Tejada which aired this weekend. I didn't see it, but listening to Bill Brown and Jim Deshaies talk about Tejada and the documentary during the games with the New York Mets, I couldn't help but reach the concl ... More >>

Openings and Closings

The bell tolled for several area restaurants over the past week, including some big-name establishments that have been in Houston for quite a long time. Fox Sports Grill was at the top of that list, with a significant presence and killer location in the Galleria. There has been no immediate indicat ... More >>

Five Houston Monday Night Football Highlights

The Texans go nationwide tonight with a Monday Night Football match-up against the Tennessee Titans. MNF isn't what it used to be since moving to ESPN, but it's still a big deal.Houston, of course, has had some memorable moments on Monday night. Mostly involving the Oilers -- who are now the Titans ... More >>

Your New Year's Weekend Sports-Viewing Guide

​So you stayed up a bit late last night doing the whole celebrating the New Year thing. Now your head's aching, the room's spinning, and you just want to flop on the couch and watch some sports. But you don't want to have to think about what sports to watch. That's where I come in. Here's a little ... More >>

Game Time: ESPN, For The Sake Of High Comedy, Do Whatever It Takes To Keep Chris Berman

In the end, all we want from any medium of entertainment is to be moved emotionally in one direction or another. Whether that emotion is joy, anger, or sadness, as long as it's removing us from the boredom of our everyday lives in some way, then it is serving a purpose.The late Jim Valvano put it ... More >>

Game Time: Sure I'll Grade The Texans' Draft, Just As Soon As I'm Done Tweeting With Peter King

Tweet this: The Texans are stone junkies for tight ends.​I admit I'm a total mark for Twitter. I'm not one of those people who has to tweet every little thing that happens throughout the day (unless there is some semblance of comedic value, and then I become to Twitter what Travis Henry becomes to ... More >>

Five Things In Sports More Annoying Than Those Vuvuzelas

Photo by pempempie​Folks, it's time to shut up about those stupid African trumpets already: The constant drone of cheap and tuneless plastic horns is killing the atmosphere at the World Cup. Where are loud choruses of "Oooohhhs" from enthralled crowds when a shot scorches just wide of the go ... More >>

Dear Renu Khator: Use KTRU To Spread UH Sports

KTRU could be a UH sports resource​Dear Dr. Khator:Now that some time has passed, I thought I would offer up my congratulations on the University of Houston's purchase of KTRU from Rice. I know that you have probably been hearing from some angry people, but seeing as how the station didn't even ge ... More >>

Fox & Dish Network Settle; Rockets & Astros To Form Their Own Network

Changes coming to your TV set​Two breaking items late on this Friday: Fox and the Dish Network have settled the fight that has seen Dish subscribers missing out on the Rockets (not a big loss, as it turns out) and possibly the NFL.The two entertainment giants somehow came to an understanding on ho ... More >>

The Longhorn Network -- The $300 Million Mystery

Pimp My Bevo, coming soon to your TV​"We want to define what it means to be 'the' public university. The challenge is to create new sources of revenue to support our mission." -- University of Texas President Bill Powers Done and done. Earlier today, the University of Texas and ESPN announc ... More >>

KGOW'S KAPOW KAPOW

1560AM weaves pop culture, locker-room humor and irreverence into sports-talk radio.

ESPN's Doris Burke's Difficult Week (w/ VIDEO)

Doris Burke and a moment of Zen​Of all of the on-air personalities who put their fingerprints on a sporting event -- studio host, play by play, color analyst, sideline reporter -- I've always thought that the sideline reporter has the hardest job out of all of them. It starts with the inhe ... More >>

All 12 UH Football Games On Air Or Online This Year

A, ummmm, wide variety of viewing methods​If you've got a TV screen or a computer, you can watch every second of UH Cougar football this coming season, the school announced today. The catch is you have to have CBS's college-sports channel and CSS in your cable/dish/whatever package. But if yo ... More >>

Sports-Talk 1560 Loses Another Veteran: Lance Zierlein Calls It Quits at The Game

Photo by Jeff BalkeZierlein (left) with his now former co-host John Granato.​In what feels like the dismantling of KGOW 1560 The Game, long-time morning show co-host Lance Zierlein announced via his Houston Chronicle blog that he would be turning in his microphone and leaving the station eff ... More >>

Houston Texan Winston to Host Online Monday Night Football Show

Could Eric Winston's new online MNF simulcast be MST3K for sports fans?​Houston Texans offensive tackle Eric Winston is a funny and insightful guy who is a regular on local and national sports talk shows as well as a very good follow on Twitter. Tonight, he launches a Monday Night Football com ... More >>

Glen Rice Allegedly Slept with Sarah Palin (w/ VIDEO)

Sarah Palin in her Michigan-fan days.​Okay, I'll admit that might have been the most duplicitous headline of a post ever, not because Sarah Palin and Glen Rice didn't sleep together (They apparently did, back in the late '80's. More on that in a minute) but because the "w/ VIDEO" would seem to ... More >>

River Oaks Chamber Orchestra: Messiah for Kids

Sarah Palin in her Michigan-fan days.​Okay, I'll admit that might have been the most duplicitous headline of a post ever, not because Sarah Palin and Glen Rice didn't sleep together (They apparently did, back in the late '80's. More on that in a minute) but because the "w/ VIDEO" would seem to ... More >>

6 College Football Coaching Changes: From Shadiest to Slimiest

UH's departed skipper makes the cut​From status-seeking coaches to wheeling-and-dealing athletic directors, the post-season shake-up of college football head coaches has been a bit curious. The top (lowest?) six moves are ranked here on a scale of shady to slimy ("mildly shady" being a 1 whi ... More >>

Bill Belichick in Super Bowl XLVI: "Make Him Go To Manningham" (w/ Sound FX VIDEO)

The play worked as designed, on both sides​I got home from my show this afternoon and, having just finished up talking about sports for five hours, I did what I normally do -- turn on one of the sports channels on television. Luckily (or perhaps not so luckily, if I had any designs on being p ... More >>