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  Despite Quiet Offseason, Astros are Oddsmakers' Choice to Lead MLB in 2019

  January 16 at 6 a.m.

  With all deference to my colleague, Sean Pendergast, and his infinitely greater knowledge of the science and art of gambling, I do know one thing: Vegas is right more often than not. The house almost always wins after all. And according to recent reports, Las Vegas is betting on the...

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  My Three Point Plan To Improve Bill O'Brien's Popularity

  January 16 at 5 a.m.

  With the benefit of hindsight and a couple weeks removal from the disappointing ouster at the hands of the Indianapolis Colts in NRG Stadium, I think it's now safe to say that the Texans' 2018 season was one of the stranger referendums on a division-winning coach that I've ever experienced...

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  Ranking the Four Possible Matchups For Super Bowl LIII

  January 15 at 5:30 a.m.

  For the first three months of the 2018 NFL regular season, we all talked about how "top heavy" the league was, with three teams clearly distinguishing themselves as the best and most dangerous — the Kansas City Chiefs, Los Angeles Rams, and New Orleans Saints, in some order, with the...

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  Short-Handed Rockets Add Capela to the Injury List

  January 15 at 5 a.m.

  The Rockets recently completed what was arguably the toughest stretch of the season. In those ten games that concluded with a loss to Milwaukee last week, they were 8-2. All of that was done without Chris Paul, who remains sidelined for at least a couple more weeks with a hamstring...

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  NFL Playoffs, Divisional Round — 4 Winners, 4 Losers

  January 14 at 5 a.m.

  I think it's safe to say that the Cowboys and the Colts are the two teams that Houston Texan fans hate the most. If they're not THE top two, then they are two of the top four or five, at worst. So, in my four decades of watching NFL football,...

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  NFL Playoffs: Divisional Round — This Weekend's Best Bets

  January 11 at 7:18 a.m.

  There's an old episode of Seinfeld — actually, now that I think about it, having closed up the "new episode shop" in 1998, ALL episodes of Seinfeld are old episodes — where Kramer is participating in a charity walk benefitting AIDS research. The night before, he is up all night smoking cigars,...