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  NFL Week 12 — This Weekend's Best Bets

  November 20 at 4 a.m.

  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 Network's Darren...

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  Astros Deserve What They Get for Pitch Stealing Nonsense

  November 19 at 4 a.m.

  For nearly three years, you haven't been able to even breathe the word Astros in Houston without people lighting up. Wear a jersey to the grocery store and get high fives or chants of "Go Astros." The first team to give the city a championship since the '90s and one...

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  Survivor: College Football Playoff Ranking Preview, Version 3.0

  November 19 at 4 a.m.

  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 created to generate conversation, television ratings, wild conjecture, and American currency. In 2019,...

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  Rockets Defeat Portland 132-108 To Continue Winning Streak

  November 18 at 11:17 p.m.

  The Rockets are on an eight game winning streak with their 132-108 win over Portland Monday night at Toyota Center. Russell Westbrook had a triple double, his third for the season, while Harden scored a whopping 36 points. (Photos by Eric Sauseda)

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  NFL Week 11 Debacle: Ravens 41, Texans 7 — Four Winners, Four Losers

  November 18 at 4 a.m.

  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's nine game winning streak, did we feel...

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  Astros Bregman Comes in Second in MVP Vote

  November 15 at 9:53 a.m.

  In 2018, Alex Bregman came in fifth in balloting for the American League MVP Award. Coming back in 2019, he expanded on that resume with the best season of his career. And despite a tremendous late-season run, he fell short in the 2019 AL MVP race, coming in second to...