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Congratulations, Houston, on becoming America’s mightiest bastion of stupid sports deals
Houston deserves this crown....
Sunday Night Football: Naked in the rain
The optics of this NFL season have already been weird and an indictment of the decision to have a season at all. Whether it’s empty stands or, even worse, quarter-filled ones, something has been off about watching football all season. It’s a constant reminder just of where everything is, and how it ...
Houston Texans baffle NFL again with firing of PR star Amy Palcic
The Houston Texans have been a mess the past few years, but recently the bandages have been ripped off: There is no hiding the ugliness anymore....
If Westbrook and Harden want out of Houston, there's one place they should go
There is turmoil in Houston....
Jeff Luhnow sues Astros, claiming they dumped cheating blame on him
In another continuing theme of the week, it’s raging assholes filing dumbass lawsuits! You thought you’d had your fill, but too bad, dingus. Because here comes former Astros GM Jeff Luhnow!...
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As U.S. sees worst COVID-19 day yet, NFL stung for second straight day with Texans, Bears and Eagles cases [UPDATED]
For the second straight day, COVID-19 has infiltrated an NFL team facility. Today, it’s the Houston Texans. ...
Week 8 Powerless Rankings: Poor Trevor Lawrence
Another Sunday of NFL football has concluded....
For A.J. Hinch, looks like crime does pay as Tigers' gig looms
While White Sox fans, and the actual White Sox for a good portion of the time, have always considered the Cubs their main rival, the way baseball works is that your real enemy resides in the division. That’s who you compete with for playoff spots after all. So while the Sox were having their owner e...
Daryl Morey got a new job, but he still hasn’t addressed his Hong Kong tweet
Daryl Morey is Teflon....
Ex-Astros GM Jeff Luhnow assures you: I did all the good stuff, but none of the cheating
Jeff Luhnow, the disgraced, suspended, and fired general manager of the Astros, has finally spoken publicly, giving a 37-minute interview to Houston NBC affiliate KPRC. And the man who ran the team responsible for baseball’s biggest scandal in a century would like the world to know that it wasn’t hi...
The villainy doesn’t end with the Astros
There was a visceral joy in watching the Rays, on their fourth attempt, finally put the Astros to the sword last night. ...
The Astros finally lost but these cheaters never got what they deserved
Aledmys Díaz didn’t deserve to be the guy who made the last out for the Astros....
An Astros dynasty would be the perfect end to this dumpster of a season
In Greek mythology, before the gods of Olympus, there were the Titans, a group of siblings who came to power by overthrowing their dad, Uranus, and chopping off his dick. The Titan Cronus, who took the throne from his castrated father, was then himself defeated and imprisoned by his own son, Zeus....
We’re only in the 2nd but it’s already the Manuel Margot game
We all dream of having a game named after us. Flipper Anderson has one. Reggie Jackson has one. Jack Morris got the ultimate prize, a Game 7 he’s known for. If you’re a true immortal, like LeBron or Michael, you get a whole flatbed of ’em. The list goes on....
Your totally not late at all LCS preview
Things aren’t supposed to start on Sunday. That’s why the phrase “Even God rests on Sundays” is around. It’s a deflation period. So yeah, I wasn’t totally on top of it with the ALCS starting yesterday. But it was a Sunday. They’re meant for long walks or brunch (which you make yourself these days an...
Kevin Cash continues to win by knowing how to lose
The Astros-Rays matchup for the right to head to Texas (boy, that makes it sound like a pyrrhic victory) has a lot of angles to it. It’s the league’s best contact team in the Astros vs. one of the worst in the Rays. It’s a bullpen full of darkness-bringers in Tampa versus one made up of guys who sou...
Sunday Scaries: The Week 5 bets you should avoid
Welcome to another installment of the Sunday Scaries where NFL Sundays are becoming, fittingly, scarier....
The Texans need to hire a Black head coach, and his name is Eric Bieniemy
The first points of the 2020 NFL season were scored by the Houston Texans when David Johnson scored a 19-yard touchdown on the ground....
Bill O’Brien was trash at everything, and it was time for him to go
Bill O’Brien is finally out as head coach and general manager of the Houston Texans....