Subject: WNBA Western Conference

• Back Out of Action

  June 1, 2007

• Comets Move to Reliant Arena

  December 14, 2007

• Big Shot: Tunnel Mole Watches Sheryl Swoopes Get Needled

  December 23, 2007

• Bald-Faced Guys: Hilton Koch and Sam Malone

  December 26, 2007

• Open Wide : The Comets Play Their First Home Game of the Season

  May 27, 2008

• Top Five Failed Houston Sports Franchises

  August 21, 2008

• Seven Things We'll Miss About The Houston Comets

  Shocking news this morning -- the Houston Comets are no more.First reactions were predictable. "The Houston Comets were still around? Do tell." But then reality began to sink in.The Comets won the first four WNBA championships at a time when no Houston team was winning anything. They brought joy to the dozens of hard-core fans who avidly followed them.Seven things we'll miss about the Comets:1. Their steady progression down the attendance scale. First they tried to sell out the Compaq Center; th

  December 2, 2008

• Seven Things We'll Miss About The Houston Comets

  Shocking news this morning -- the Houston Comets are no more.First reactions were predictable. "The Houston Comets were still around? Do tell." But then reality began to sink in.The Comets won the first four WNBA championships at a time when no Houston team was winning anything. They brought joy to the dozens of hard-core fans who avidly followed them.Seven things we'll miss about the Comets:1. Their steady progression down the attendance scale. First they tried to sell out the Compaq Center; th

  December 2, 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

• Press Picks

  July 24, 1997

• Press Picks

  August 7, 1997

• Night & Day

  May 28, 1998

• Night & Day

  June 25, 1998

• Night & Day

  July 9, 1998

• Night & Day

  August 6, 1998

• Night & Day

  September 17, 1998

• Night & Day

  November 19, 1998

• Literacy Advance of Houston to Honor Hannah Storm

  Every now and then I like to step away from the snark and write about something good that's going on. Today is one of those days. On May 1, 2009, Literacy Advance of Houston will be honoring ESPN SportsCenter anchor Hannah Storm as its Champion of Literacy as part of the organization's Champion of Literacy Series. Storm, who has authored two books, will be celebrated at an event at Minute Maid Park which will start at 7:05 p.m. For ticket info, go to the group's website, www.literacyadvan

  March 25, 2009

• News Hostage

  September 16, 1999

• Dead or Alive

  July 13, 2000

• Pigskin Parade

  September 14, 2000

• Best Houston Comet

  September 21, 2000

• Literacy Advance of Houston to Honor Hannah Storm

  Every now and then I like to step away from the snark and write about something good that's going on. Today is one of those days. On May 1, 2009, Literacy Advance of Houston will be honoring ESPN SportsCenter anchor Hannah Storm as its Champion of Literacy as part of the organization's Champion of Literacy Series. Storm, who has authored two books, will be celebrated at an event at Minute Maid Park which will start at 7:05 p.m. For ticket info, go to the group's website, www.literacyadvan

  March 25, 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

• Amazingly, the Comets Couldn't Survive

  Who's Got Next?

  December 11, 2008

• Who Stole the Roll?

  August 28, 2008

• Houston Comets vs. Minnesota Lynx

  Tina Thompson and company play their first home game of the season

  May 22, 2008

• American Gladiators, Religion, HAR Elections

  January 10, 2008

• 2007 Music Year in Review

  December 13, 2007

• Houston Comets vs. L.A. Sparks

  Bring it, beeyotch!

  August 2, 2007

• Come Out with Sheryl

  April 27, 2006

• Yeah, We've Seen Her

  May 25, 2006

• Against the Odds

  No betting shows on one sports-talk station

  September 1, 2005

• Streaking Comets

  Our WNBA squad preps for a playoff run

  August 18, 2005

• Birthday Surprise

  Preservationists get help in the oddest way

  July 21, 2005

• Swoopes: Hardwoods Homie

  A Comets star helps redefine Houston basketball

  May 5, 2005

• Curses Again

  God, Drayton and dogged Astros fans awake from another World Serious dream

  October 28, 2004

• Best Comet

  September 23, 2004

• Best Public Bathroom

  September 23, 2004

• SEAL the Deal

  Getting in shape is like going to war

  August 14, 2003

• The Fonde-mentals

  Wanna be a baller?

  March 6, 2003

• Best Comet

  Sheryl Swoopes

  September 26, 2002

• Edifice Complex

  Another new sports facility, another round of hype

  August 29, 2002

• Lay of the Land

  Houston headed toward hard times: sports flops, floods and transit duds. If only city fathers could find a proven leader, an energy executive with a KEN-do attitude.

  January 3, 2002

• Winning Ways in a Losing League

  The future remains uncertain for the champion Houston Energy

  December 27, 2001

• Janeth Arcain

  Houston Comets guard

  September 20, 2001

• Best Houston Comet

  Tina Thompson

  September 20, 2001

• Breakin' Up the Bands

  May 25, 2000

• The WNBA's Houston Comets Live On -- In The Courtroom

  When the Houston Comets professional women's basketball team crashed and burned out of existence at the end of last year, many of the players moved on to ball another day. As for the coaches, they claim they got screwed.After a series of ownership problems towards the end of 2008, the WNBA took control of the Comets. According to a lawsuit recently filed by former assistant coach Ryan Weisenberg in Harris County District Court, that's when the lies began.Weisenberg claims that WNBA President Don

  May 27, 2009

• Pop Rocks: Give Elizabeth Lambert A Break

  ​Arguably more obnoxious than the actual on-field behavior of New Mexico soccer player Elizabeth Lambert -- immortalized for her rampage in a match against BYU -- has been the reaction to it.I'm not talking about the infantile sexual commentary accompanying the various clips posted online. They're unpleasant, but pretty much par for the course when it comes to YouTube. And anyway you can hear more of the same on "legitimate" outlets like The Late Show with David Letterman, which added a sexy v

  November 12, 2009