Subject: Texas Bowl (Game)

• We Kinda Liked "Burrito Bowl"

  August 10, 2006

• A Day in the Life

  September 7, 2007

• The College Football Review, Week 13: Why You Gotta Be Hatin' on the Coogs?

  November 26, 2007

• The College Football Preview, Week 14: All These Bowls Are Making Us Groggy

  November 30, 2007

• What to Watch: Football, Hockey, Football and Football

  December 28, 2007

• Texas Bowl Says Goodbye Big East, Hello Big 12

  June 20, 2008

• Rejoice, Football Fans: Notre Dame May Be Coming To Houston

  The eyes of millions of Houstonians were glued to ESPN last night, to see if there was a chance they would be uniquely blessed.Sure, hundreds of thousands were just Rutgers fans, but.....okay, maybe a dozen were Rutgers fans. And maybe only a dozen more were watching the game, especially after the Scarlet Knights (that's Rutgers, btw) went up 49-0 at the half.But Rutgers' win may mean a Very Big Thing: Notre Dame is coming to Houston to play a football game.We'll give all you UT fans a chance

  December 5, 2008

• Rejoice, Football Fans: Notre Dame May Be Coming To The Texas Bowl

  The eyes of millions of Houstonians were glued to ESPN last night, to see if there was a chance they would be uniquely blessed.Sure, hundreds of thousands were just Rutgers fans, but.....okay, maybe a dozen were Rutgers fans. And maybe only a dozen more were watching the game, especially after the Scarlet Knights (that's Rutgers, btw) went up 49-0 at the half.But Rutgers' win may mean a Very Big Thing: Notre Dame is coming to Houston to play a football game.We'll give all you UT fans a chance

  December 5, 2008

• Bowling for UT, TCU, UH and Rice

  I'm sure the Longhorns and their fans are still pissed they didn't win the Big 12 and aren't playing for the national title. But screw Longhorns fans. I think I can speak for many college football fans who are pissed the Horns are playing in the Fiesta Bowl against Ohio State. Ohio effing State. The Horns went 11-1 on the season and clearly earned a BCS Bowl berth. Sure, Ohio State went 10-2, but the team struggled the entire season, and couldn't even win the Big 11 10. Yet somehow the

  December 8, 2008

• Tragedy Strikes; Notre Dame Somehow Chooses Honolulu Over Houston

  The commenters have had a lot of fun dismissing the euphoria that we felt at the idea that the storied and awesome Notre Dame football team might actually come to Houston for the first time in 35 years, to play in the Texas Bowl.Some people think a 6-6 ND team is not very good; what they fail to realize is that the Irish were 3-9 the previous season, so the improvement has been immense. Percentage-wise, at least.It's all a moot point anyway, since the Irish -- given the choice after Arizona beat

  December 8, 2008

• At Least Someone Wants To Come To The Texas Bowl

  Okay, so Notre Dame somehow preferred the Hawaii Bowl to the Texas Bowl. Some people just prefer Honolulu to Houston, we guess.But ND's replacement, Western Michigan University, is pleased as punch to be coming here.That can happen when you live in Kalamazoo (Motto: No, We Are An Actual City).The announcement story in the Kalamazoo Gazette showed just how thrilled everyone is.Mainly because...ummm....it's easier to get to than Shreveport, WMU's other option, and it won't be snowing here.

  December 9, 2008

• Big-Time Spending At The Texas Bowl Gets Rutgers In Trouble

  Who says the Texas Bowl doesn't bring in big amounts of revenue to Houston?Maybe this year's game won't -- after all, it's between hometown team Rice (no hotel rooms needed) and relatively unknown Western Michigan (not many hotel rooms needed).But the 2006 game was a bonanza, if you believe state auditors in New Jersey.They notified Rutgers University today that a full-scale audit of the school's football program will be conducted.Among the things that triggered concern: How much money Rutgers s

  December 15, 2008

• Top Ten Houston Sports Moments of 2008

  10. I never really followed the Houston Comets, who folded several weeks ago. By the time they came on the scene I was getting pretty sick of professional basketball. So I never became invested in the team, and I can't feel any real loss behind their demise. Still, unlike the Rockets and Astros and Texans, they did win a world championship within the past decade. 9. The Houston Astros were one of the worst teams in professional baseball for most of the first half of the season. But they

  December 20, 2008

• If They Think That's A Big High-School Stadium....

  The Texas Bowl fever is building!! Kinda.This year's match-up between Rice and Western Michigan University isn't exactly setting too many people's hearts on fire, although it should turn out to be an entertaining game.Previous Texas Bowls have had bigger names, though, so this one is flying under the radar a bit.Not in Kalamazoo, though. That's home for WMU, and the Kalamazoo Gazette is all over the team's first trip to a relatively big-time bowl.What's been one big surprise for the Broncos? Wha

  December 29, 2008

• Longhorns Can't Brag About Buckeye Victory

  I want to thank The Ohio State Buckeyes. Sure, they lost to the Texas Longhorns, but because the Longhorns needed a bad spot by the referees to help get the victory, I'm pretty damn sure that the country has been saved from listening to Longhorn fans bitch about not playing for the BCS Title. Because, Longhorn fan, if your team is dependent on bad officiating to beat The Ohio State Buckeyes - a team that had to play without its best player for most of the second half because of an injury - the

  January 6, 2009

• Longhorns Can't Brag About Buckeye Victory

  I want to thank The Ohio State Buckeyes. Sure, they lost to the Texas Longhorns, but because the Longhorns needed a bad spot by the referees to help get the victory, I'm pretty damn sure that the country has been saved from listening to Longhorn fans bitch about not playing for the BCS Title. Because, Longhorn fan, if your team is dependent on bad officiating to beat The Ohio State Buckeyes - a team that had to play without its best player for most of the second half because of an injury - the

  January 6, 2009

• Top Ten Houston Sports Moments of 2008

  10. I never really followed the Houston Comets, who folded several weeks ago. By the time they came on the scene I was getting pretty sick of professional basketball. So I never became invested in the team, and I can't feel any real loss behind their demise. Still, unlike the Rockets and Astros and Texans, they did win a world championship within the past decade. 9. The Houston Astros were one of the worst teams in professional baseball for most of the first half of the season. But they

  December 20, 2008

• Texas Bowl

  TCU vs. UH

  December 27, 2007

• Helping Hands

  Rod Paige is still milking the Bush connection

  January 4, 2007

• The Texas Bowl Grows Up, Bit By Bit

  Well, Houstonians, our bowl game has grown up. That's right, the Texas Bowl is going big time and this year will be joining ESPN's Capital One Bowl Week lineup. The game will be played on New Year's Eve this year, and kick-off will be at 2:30 pm.Did I mention the game is on ESPN this year?That means that most of the nation might actually be able to see the game, seeing as for the past three years the game has been shown on the NFL Network. Of course, I'm not sure what a television audience wil

  July 23, 2009