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Late Rob Gray Heroics Lead Houston To First NCAA Tournament Win Since Phi Slamma Jamma<em></em>
On the back of another monster performance from do-everything senior guard Rob Gray, Houston downed a tough San Diego State squad on Thursday evening, notching their first NCAA tournament victory since 1984....
For Kelvin Sampson And North Carolina's Native Americans, The Fight Never Ends<em></em>
Kelvin Sampson has been in the basketball business for some time, and if you pay attention to the game his name will ring some bells. Maybe you remember him coaching Washington State, or Oklahoma, or Indiana; maybe you saw him looming over a huddle as a NBA assistant. Given that he’s got the Univers...
Video Emerges Of Former Astros Prospect Beating His Girlfriend After 2016 Practice
Former Houston Astros prospect Danry Vasquez has been released by his current Atlantic League club after video of a domestic violence incident became public this week. The video shows the player hitting his girlfriend multiple times after a practice with the Corpus Christi Hooks, the Astros’ Double-...
Jose Altuve's Day At The White House Looked Pretty Awkward
The Houston Astros visited the White House today to be honored for their 2017 World Series win, which puts reasonable-minded players in a bit of a pickle. The traditional post-championship White House visit is a potentially once-in-a-lifetime honor. Having to tolerate Donald Trump in the flesh and b...
Texans Deny Report That They Won't Sign Free Agents Who Protested During National Anthem
The Texans are refuting a Houston Chronicle report from this weekend that said the team wasn’t interested in signing free agents who’d protested during the national anthem: ...
Celtics-Rockets Was One Totally Bitchin' Basketball Game
If you missed last night’s Celtics-Rockets game—if, say, you were watching outdoor hockey or a heavyweight title fight—you missed an outrageously fun and fast and fiercely competitive game. You wouldn’t necessarily expect a game where James Harden and Kyrie Irving combined to shoot 12-of-35 from the...
James Harden Breaks Wesley Johnson's Ankles, Soul, Spirit
Wesley Johnson’s poor ankles went the way of all flesh tonight, sadly before their time. James Harden—who provided half of the Rockets’ scoring in a 34-point first quarter—was responsible:...
Steve Kerr Accidentally Sent A Tweet Criticizing The NBA Because He Was Foiled By Technology
Last night, Warriors coach Steve Kerr replied to an NBA tweet that featured a video of James Harden hitting a three-pointer (and appearing to travel, though the egregious gather move is technically legal). He deleted his take within seconds, but that was far too late....
James Harden Could Not Be Stopped Tonight
There are several ways to express that James Harden’s performance tonight was historic—a personal high score, a franchise high score, the first 60-point triple-double in NBA history—but there’s maybe nothing that’s quite so impressive as just looking at the stat line itself:...
Clint Capela, High On Victory, Utters One Sentence Too Many
The Rockets are very good. They’ve got an insane wealth of shooting; they’ve got a deep supply of versatile wings; they’ve got more than enough off-the-bounce shot-creating; they’ve got strong, useful pick-and-roll bigs; they’ve got two of the, oh, six or seven best players in the entire Western Con...
James Harden Gobbled Up Steph Curry, And It Was Wonderful
The Rockets prevailed over the Warriors Saturday night in a game that featured Houston pulling out to a big early lead, the Warriors surging back in the third quarter, and then an odd and awkward cold finish by the visitors that allowed James Harden to pull some late game magic and bring home the vi...
Report: Rockets "Shocked And Disappointed" The Clippers Weren't Punished For Making Them Mad
The Rockets’ Trevor Ariza and Gerald Green each got two-game suspensions handed down on Wednesday for their roles in the now almost-mythic “secret passageway” confrontation in which they allegedly tried to storm the Clippers’ locker room after a loss. The team, however, is reportedly “shocked and di...
Trevor Ariza And Gerald Green Are The Fall Guys For The Rockets' Locker Room Raid<em></em>
Per Adrian Wojnarowski, Houston’s Trevor Ariza and Gerald Green will be the only players getting discipline from the NBA after the Rockets’ reported invasion-by-secret-passage of the Clippers’ locker room following their loss in L.A. on Monday night. Chris Paul and James Harden, despite reportedly b...
Chris Paul And The Rockets Were Never Going To Fight Anyone
Now that the Houston Rockets have Chris Paul leading their offense, they’ve become a much more formidable team. They’ve also taken on the personality of their new superstar, which is to say, despite cementing themselves as the most credible Western Conference threat the Warriors have seen in years (...
The Rockets Hilariously Tried To Storm The Clippers' Locker Room
Beef! We’ve got beef! Major NBA beef. Sound the beef siren!...
Mike D'Antoni To Blake Griffin: "Fuck You"
Things got chippy at the end of the Clippers’ win over the Rockets on Monday, and at the center of it all was Blake Griffin. The L.A. big man eventually got ejected for a little tie-up with Trevor Ariza, but before that, he got some hate from Rockets coach Mike D’Antoni....
The Gerrit Cole Deal Sure Looks Odd For Pittsburgh
The Pirates have been playing with the burners of the hot stove for weeks now over the possibility of a Gerrit Cole trade, and now that it’s finally happened, they have surprisingly little to show for it....
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Texas A&M Sports Reporter Goes Missing Over The Weekend, Found Unharmed Underneath Overpass [Update]
Houston police said Courtney Roland, a reporter who covers Texas A&M football for Rivals.com, was found unharmed underneath an overpass in the Galleria area this morning after she was reported missing Saturday....
Gerald Green Had Himself A Hell Of A Week
Gerald Green, a 31-year-old swingman who carved out a decent career for himself by being a guy who does big sick dunks and hits threes at a decent clip, was released by the Milwaukee Bucks on the opening day of the season. Last Thursday, he signed a non-guaranteed deal with the Rockets, who were loo...
Holy Shit, The Celtics Came Back From Down 26
Earlier tonight, in a quick blog about James Harden’s layup off the shot clock, I wrote the following:...