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Astros Win AL West on Final Day of the Season: Four Thoughts

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NFL Week 4: Texans 30, Steelers 6 — Four Winners, Four Losers

By Sean Pendergast
Oct 1, 2023

Six hundred forty four days. Coming into Sunday, that's how long it had been since Houston Texan fans had been able to experience any semblance of joy leaving NRG Stadium, because that was the last time that the Houston Texans won a home football game. Like so much surrounding and...
NFL Week 4: Steelers vs Texans — Four Things To Watch For

By Sean Pendergast
Sep 29, 2023

It's amazing how quickly things can ebb and flow in the National Football League. Less than two weeks ago, the Houston Texans, who came into the season generating as much excitement as they have since the early Deshaun Watson Era, had one again sucked the life out of their fan...
Four Thoughts on J.J. Watt's Texans Ring of Honor Induction This Weekend

By Sean Pendergast
Sep 28, 2023

Since arriving in 2011 as the eleventh pick overall in that spring's NFL Draft, I think it's safe to say that the city of Houston has seen no bigger sports in the football realm than J.J. Watt. honestly, it's really not even close, and I would say the only athlete...
Opinion — Hogan vs. Andre: The Greatest Lie Wrestling Ever Told [UPDATED]

By Jef Rouner
Sep 27, 2023

For my money, the best album of 2023 is Everyone is Dead Except Us by Wolfie’s Just Fine. No one mixes pop culture nostalgia and nihilistic pathos like Jon Lajoie, especially on the second single, “Hulk Hogan.” The song and the video (directed by Lajoie and Justin Slade McClain) explore...
C.J. Stroud is the Better Quarterback in Majority of Remaining Texans Games

By Sean Pendergast
Sep 27, 2023

During the drudgery of the last three seasons of Houston Texans football, the one thing you could always count on them to do was defeat the Jacksonville Jaguars. Outside of a home loss late in the season in 2022, the Texans have defeated the Jaguars every time the two teams...
Andre Johnson Among Six Former Houston Texans on 2024 Pro Football Hall of Fame Ballot

By Sean Pendergast
Sep 26, 2023

It's become an annual ritual that does bring some level of excitement, yet it's one that I hope we don't have to perform anymore come next fall. Of course, I am talking about the Third Annual "What are Andre Johnson's Chances of Making the Pro Football Hall of Fame?" discussion...
Home is Where the Dis-Astros Are - Four Things That Have Gone Wrong

By Jeff Balke
Sep 25, 2023

The Houston Astros completed one of the worst stretches of baseball in a good six or seven seasons over the weekend, getting swept by the bottom-dwelling Kansas City Royals. They are 2-10 in their last 12 games with seven of those losses coming against the two worst team in the...
NFL Week 3: Texans 37, Jaguars 17 — Four Winners, Four Losers

By Sean Pendergast
Sep 24, 2023

This is how you know the Houston Texans got their head coaching hire right. Last week, in their 31-20 loss to the Indianapolis Colts, there was a lot left to be desired in every phase for the Houston Texans. The rushing offense, everything on defense, and yes, coaching. The Colts'...
NFL Week 3: Texans vs Jaguars — Four Things to Watch For

By Sean Pendergast
Sep 22, 2023

It's not all that long ago, April of 2022 to be exact, that the Houston Texans' opponent this coming Sunday, their AFC South rival Jacksonville Jaguars, were picking first overall in the NFL Draft. Now, here we are, 17 months later, and the Jaguars are the prohibitive favorite to win...
Astros Barely Holding on to Division Lead After Walk Off Win Against Orioles

By Jeff Balke
Sep 21, 2023

It has been a wretched couple of weeks for the home town baseball team. After absolutely dismantling the Rangers in Arlington and taking two against the Padres at Minute Maid, something has gone monumentally wrong. In the nine games since, they are 3-6 and barely holding onto first place in...
Houston Texans Fab Five: The Five Best Texans So Far This Season

By Sean Pendergast
Sep 21, 2023

The Houston Texans are 0-2 to start the season, and unfortunately, with two losses by a double digit margin, the team looks, in many ways, like the last two versions of the Texans, in 2021 and 2022. The big difference, of course, is their rookie quarterback, C.J. Stroud, is getting...
Houston, Rejoice — Deshaun Watson is a Broken Football Player

By Sean Pendergast
Sep 20, 2023

Right now, despite the Houston Texans' 0-2 record, the city generally feels pretty good about rookie quarterback C.J. Stroud. In his first two NFL starts, he's been able to move the football competently, and he looked improved from one start to the next. Additionally, off the field, he gets glowing...
NFL Week 2: Colts 31, Texans 20 — How to Lose a Game in Ten Plays

By Sean Pendergast
Sep 19, 2023

Let's make one thing very clear at the outset fo this post. Of all the various weekly or annual gimmicks that I use to draw your eyeballs to my content, the one I enjoy doing the least is "How to Lose a Game in The Plays," because it's mere presence...
NFL Week 2, Colts 31, Texans 20: Four Winners, Four Losers

By Sean Pendergast
Sep 18, 2023

If you're wondering how long it takes for a honeymoon period between a fan base and a franchise icon hired to rebuild their football team lasts, in Houston in 2023, the answer is 229 days. DeMeco Ryans, beloved former player and still beloved (but struggling) head coach, was hired to...
NFL Week 2: Colts vs Texans — Four Things To Watch For

By Sean Pendergast
Sep 15, 2023

As a fan of the Houston Texans, I have a confession to make. Given the head coaches the Texans employed in 2021 and 2022, David Culley and Lovie Smith, respectively, I never allowed myself to dream anything big for this team. It was probably a defense mechanism as much as...
Former Texans DC Among NFL Head Coaches Most Likely To Be Fired First

By Sean Pendergast
Sep 14, 2023

We are just one week into the NFL season, but this we know — it is never too early to bet on the employment of others. More accurately, it is never too early to bet on the termination of the employment of other. To that end, the good folks at...
Struggle for Consistency: Who Are the Real Houston Astros?

By Jeff Balke
Sep 13, 2023

The Astros are one of baseball's conundrums. From the outside, the stats look good. They are near the top of the sport in the big numbers like runs scored, batting average, OPS and ERA. But, they remain a team that is just barely over .500 at home and has struggled,...
Three Reasons Aaron Rodgers' Season Ending Injury Matters to the Houston Texans

By Sean Pendergast
Sep 13, 2023

Without question, the biggest story of the NFL offseason was Aaron Rodgers, after 18 seasons in Green Bay, taking his talents to New York City to try to do the seemingly impossible — turn the New York Jets into a Super Bowl contender. The theater was so compelling that HBO...
Winning Time is Packed With Story Lines But Can Be Powerful

By Jamil David
Sep 13, 2023

Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty is a lot. Chronicling the rise of the most famous team and brand in basketball, it dramatizes the behind-the-scenes stories of the 1980s Lakers. It's a sports movie, it's a family drama, it's a workplace comedy and drama. It has to mythologize...
College Football AP Top 25: Biggest Surprises, Early Season Surprises

By Sean Pendergast
Sep 12, 2023

The old guard among college football bigwigs and administrators have spent the better part of the last two years, wringing their hands, telling us how the game is committing business suicide. With the explosive growth in NIL money (stands for "Name, Image, Likeness," in other words, endorsement money) for players,...