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As ice cold as it has been in Houston the last couple days, the Rockets recent stretch may be even colder. Monday night they dropped their sixth straight in Washington to the Wizards. They have lost by an average of 16 points including the 12-point los…
Read MoreBy Monday night, Houston will dip into some record territory, literally. Brutally cold Arctic air will flow into the re gion and drop temperatures not seen in 30 years. Now is the time to prepare. Friday and Saturday Today and tomorrow, it will be drea…
Read MoreHouston is about to experience the kind of cold weather we rarely see. A significant dose of Arctic air will filter into the region by Monday dropping temperatures well below freezing and offering a real chance of freezing precipitation. Here’s when an…
Read MoreAs long as this last year has felt, it’s almost time for spring training again. Pitchers and catchers report in a week after what has been the most tranquil offseasons of the three major sports teams in Houston. While George Springer was lost to free a…
Read MoreHouston has had a relatively mild winter thus far. Not too cold and generally not too warm either. We didn’t have a winter wonderland over the holidays, but it didn’t feel like Miami Beach either. As those of us who have been around Houston a bit under…
Read MoreThe Houston Chronicle still gets “letters to the editor” it would seem, although we assume these are more frequently of the electronic variety than the ones that come in an envelope. And they print these on weekends when the only people reading them ar…
Read MoreIt seemed inevitable even if fans didn’t want to believe it. With the complete bungling of the franchise by owner Cal McNair apparently at the hands of the preacher-turned-football-guy Jack Easterby, the announcement on Thursday that franchise quarterb…
Read MoreThat collective sigh of relief you heard around Houston wasn’t just from those happy to usher in a new President, it was also because the sports gods decided to bestow upon a beleaguered city a small ray of sunlight in an otherwise dark and depressing …
Read MoreGeorge Springer is no longer an Astro. In a week-plus that has found Houston sports fans reeling from a trade of James Harden and warnings that Texans QB Deshaun Watson may be close to signaling he wants out of Houston as well, one of its favorite sons…
Read MoreIn the ’90s, when the Rockets were winning back-to-back championships, I was a huge Robert Horry fan. He had loads of talent and we were roughly the same age. There was something cool about being in the same generation as one of the players on your fav…
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