Photo by Paul KnightName: Lee GravesAge: 37Hometown: Calgary, AlbertaEvent: Steer WrestlingI got into rodeo because I was raised around horses my whole life. I got involved with some neighbors who roped and stuff, and that's about it. I was playing a lot of hockey at the time, and I was probably like 12 when I really started rodeoing, getting ready for high school. If I didn't rodeo, I would train horses for a living or ranch. I'm on the road all year round. Last year I tore up my knee real bad,
You know what the Houston Fire Department racism mess needed? Some more stirring of the pot.Luckily, we have city councilwoman Jolanda Jones, who is a Sheila Jackson Lee in training when it comes to publicity, and Jeff Caynon, head of one of the local firefighters' unions, who also knows how to get the spotlight.Caynon is black, and a fierce supporter of firefighters who have been accused of various racial and sexist incidents. He tends to be in camera range whenever (see update at e
Legendary Houston lawyer John O'quinn and an unidentified man were killed this morning when their SUV slammed into a tree off Allen Parkway. Police have not said who was driving.
O'Quinn, 68, won huge settlements in mass-tort cases dealing with deadly breast implants and Big Tobacco. Recently, he represented Anna Nicole Smith's mother, where in a February 2007 hearing he managed to nab headlines not for the circus-act duel over what would become of Smith's corpse, but by
