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Five Teams Hoping Nick Caserio Waits Until 2022 To Trade Deshaun Watson

Sean Pendergast — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 09:00:00 +0000

There is really no precedent for, and nothing normal about, the Houston Texans' current relationship with their star quarterback, Deshaun Watson. At least for the time being, he is still their star quarterback. The presence of 22 plaintiffs suing Watso...

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Judgment Week: Preview of the Most Important Houston Sports Week All Year

Sean Pendergast — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Anybody following Houston sports over the last year or so knows that it's been one of the more tumultuous periods in the sports history of your fair city. Despite the Houston Astros' best efforts to keep afloat the golden age of sports that it appeared...

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Deshaun Watson Officially Reports To Texans Training Camp

Sean Pendergast — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 09:00:00 +0000

As I've been saying for weeks, both on the radio and in this space, barring some sort of action from NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell or the Houston Police Department, Deshaun Watson was going to be faced with a decision come this week — either hold out ...

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How College Football Realignment Rumors Would Affect Texas Schools

Sean Pendergast — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 09:00:00 +0000

We are approximately ten years to the month removed from the last time that collegiate sports faced an earthshaking round of realignment. Once the summer of 2011 was over, Texas A&M had committed to leaving the Big XII for the SEC, Colorado and Uta...

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Deshaun Watson Spotted Taking Pictures With Fans in New York City

Sean Pendergast — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 20:31:00 +0000

When the Houston Texans cancelled their mandatory minicamp back in the middle of June, we were deprived of the first calendar event since Deshaun Watson's trade demands and legal troubles became public whereby Watson would be contractually required to ...

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2021 Heisman Odds Have a Ton of Local Houston Intrigue

Sean Pendergast — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 09:00:00 +0000

With each passing month in 2021, it's somewhat refreshing to take a moment and be thankful that we aren't in that same month from the previous calendar year, because chances are whatever activities or sports you are currently preparing to enjoy were so...

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Deshaun Watson’s Social Media Activity Indicates He’ll Play in 2021

Sean Pendergast — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 09:00:00 +0000

We are approaching a crucial moment of truth in the Deshaun Watson saga next week, with the Houston Texans (and every other team in the league) welcoming their players back into the building for training camp. By the letter of the law in his contract, ...

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Four Thoughts on the Astros’ Reported Interest in Max Scherzer

Sean Pendergast — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 09:00:00 +0000

The latest odds to make the postseason for each of the 30 Major League Baseball teams came out on Monday, and right now, the Houston Astros are the third most likely team to participate in extensive October baseball, trailing only the Chicago White Sox...

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When Does Davis Mills Take Over as Texans’ QB?

Sean Pendergast — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 09:00:00 +0000

In the NFL, the most intriguing topics surrounding any of the 32 teams typically revolves around the quarterback position. The Houston Texans certainly fall in line with that trend in 2021, largely for the wrong reasons. Deshaun Watson is one of the mo...

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Which Houston Sports GM Job Is the Best One?

Sean Pendergast — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 09:00:00 +0000

When it comes to the jobs of these three general managers in town — Nick Caserio of the Houston Texans, James Click of the Houston Astros, and Rafael Stone of the Houston Rockets — each of the roles comes with different benefits and challenges. Caserio...

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Which Awful Houston Trade Has Aged The Worst?

Sean Pendergast — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 09:00:00 +0000

When it comes to player movement over the last year, we've endured quite a bit of it in Houston. Of all the means by which players have moved in and out of the city over the last year, it's clearly the trades made by two of the three major organization...

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Rating How Much We Miss Departed Houston Sports Figures

Sean Pendergast — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 09:00:00 +0000

I remember when I was a kid, probably nine or ten years old at the time, and I first learned what it felt like to have your favorite player leave your favorite team. The team was the Boston Red Sox, and the player was future Hall of Fame catcher Carlto...

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Seven Reasons For Optimism Around Correa Signing An Extension With Astros

Sean Pendergast — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 09:00:00 +0000

The question for Carlos Correa the last few seasons has never centered around his ability to be great, to be a Hall of Fame caliber shortstop. We've known that ability exists. We saw it when he won the 2015 Rookie of the Year award, we saw it when he m...

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How Many Houston Astros Will Be All Stars?

Sean Pendergast — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 09:30:00 +0000

Coming into the season, perhaps the two most pressing questions for the Houston Astros centered around the two players who've been the centerpieces of the offensive uprising in 2021. First, Astro fans wanted to know "Was Jose Altuve's abysmal 2020 an a...

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Final Voting Starts Today To Send Astros to MLB All Star Game

Sean Pendergast — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 10:00:00 +0000

This past Thursday, one phase of voting for Major League Baseball's All Star Game ended, and starting at 11 a.m. today, a second phase begins. If the results of the first phase are any indication, it would appear that fans around MLB are not really in ...

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NBA Draft Historical Second Overall Picks — Four Winners, Four Losers

Sean Pendergast — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 09:00:00 +0000

For longtime Houston Rocket fans, the next month or so is going to be somewhat unfamiliar territory. For new Houston Rocket fans, those who've jumped on board in the last seven or eight years, the next month will be COMPLETELY foreign territory, for th...

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Mattress Mack Places Two Gigantic Seven Figure Bets on Astros To Win World Series

Sean Pendergast — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 09:00:00 +0000

If a book were ever to be written about the history of business and commerce in the city of Houston, there would need to be multiple chapters dedicated to the life and career of Gallery Furniture owner Jim "Mattress Mack" McIngvale. With his iconic com...

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Las Vegas Raider Carl Nassib Becomes First Openly Gay NFL Player

Sean Pendergast — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 13:57:00 +0000

Earlier this week on Monday, Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib announced on Instagram that he is gay. This made Nassib the first openly gay ACTIVE NFL player, and while that is certainly momentous news, perhaps equally momentous and encouragi...

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Houston Astros Remain In Hunt at Every Position For MLB All Star Game

Sean Pendergast — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 09:00:00 +0000

If there was one thing evident from this past weekend's Houston Astros' sweep of the Chicago White Sox, aside from the fact that the Astros are clearly among the best teams in the sport right now, it's that some fans and media of opposing teams are sti...

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Deshaun Watson Breaks Instagram Silence With Workout Video

Sean Pendergast — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 09:30:00 +0000

For any of us following the Deshaun Watson legal saga, the silence from both sides has been somewhat excruciating over the last month and a half. Texan fans want resolution so the team can trade Watson. The teams that would theoretically line up to tra...

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