If there is one thing that you can count on during Bill O'Brien's tenure as Houston Texans head coach, it is that his team typically bounces back from subpar performances with, not just solid performances, but actual wins. Entering Thursday night'...

For an NFL head coach, there are probably a half dozen or so things that outsiders like us (and by "outsider", I mean "people who haven't spent time in an NFL locker room as a player nor a coach") can judge his performance by on a week in, week ou...

I want to begin this week's Best Bets column — coming to you two days early, because the Texans play on a Thursday night, by the way — by saluting a great American (I'm assuming he's American, he may be from Zimbabwe, for all I know) that Action N...

The College Football Playoff system was ostensibly created to crown a deserving national champion in the sport of collegiate football. However, from a business perspective, the four team playoff, in an ecosystem with FIVE power conferences, was cr...

In his five-plus seasons as head coach of the Houston Texans, this is the closest we'd come to believing that Bill O'Brien had constructed and was overseeing a potential contender. Not during any of the 9-7 seasons, and not even during last season...

Ten weeks in, dozens of bets, and now here we sit at .500. I'm not happy about this, because in the gambling world, thanks to the devil's creation known as the "vig," we don't make any money unless we are at roughly 53 percent or greater in pickin...