Sports
So I'm watching the Fort Worth Bowl, which this year matches my former employer, the University of Houston (Go Coogs!), against the University of Kansas. ESPN has sent their D team to provide commentary — before tonight, I had never heard of either person in the broadcast booth. Midway
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Seen on SE Belmont Street: A truck painted in green and gold, covered with Oregon Ducks logos. What kind of truck? A tow truck. Clever Beavers fans. Clever, clever Beavers fans.
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UCLA 47, California 40 Penn State 17, Ohio State 10 Utah State 24, San Jose State 17 (!!!) Bleah…
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When you have a playoff series between a team that has made the playoffs 14 years in a row, but won the World Series only once, and a team that has made the playoffs five times in the last decade but advanced past the first round only once…the question
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The Cardinals professional football franchise has been owned by the Bidwill family for 72 years. In that time, the Cardinals have won one championship (1947).
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Went to my first Portland Beavers game tonight, at PGE Park. What a great place to spend a beautiful summer evening! I'll have to fit a few more games in before the season ends. The game got off to a fast start, with Salt Lake scoring three runs
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Two thoughts about tonight's game at Minute Maid Park: The score was 1-0 after eight innings. In 25 years of watching baseball, I have never seen a 1-0 game that was so much of an ass-kicking. The bottom of the fifth inning was the worst
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So my hometown San Francisco Giants just finished a four-game series here at Minute Maid Field. On Thursday, they won. On Friday, they won. On Saturday, they lost, but at least it was to Roger Clemens. On Sunday, they suffered an old-fashioned Texas horse-whipping. Guess which game
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Maybe I just haven't been following baseball much lately, and there is an obvious answer to this question, but: Why not move the Houston Astros from the NL Central to the AL West? Three advantages: One, it would even up all of the divisions at five teams; two,
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I was able to fit the Rockets-Lakers game in before the Super Bowl started Sunday. Glad I took the risk: It was a nail-biter, and when will I be able to get Lakers tickets again? I went with Camille and Austin Livingston—Camille is a co-worker and
Life
Spent a leisurely afternoon at the University of Houston main campus, with stops at the Blaffer Gallery for the Ant Farm exhibit and Hofheinz Pavilion for a Cougars men's basketball game. The exhibit had fewer items than I had expected to find (the Ant Farm warehouse burned in
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After work tonight, I headed down to Rice to catch one of the last games that San Jose State, my dad's alma mater, will play in Houston. (Rice and San Jose State will no longer be in the same athletic conference after this year.) The Spartan women'