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Fan Spices Up Ballgame By Snorting Mysterious Substance 

The Houston Astros beat the Kansas City Royals today, 4-2, taking a one-game lead in their ALDS series. Naturally, fans at the game wanted to celebrate. And one fan had a little extra help in her celebration....

Stop Making Ryan Mallett's Grandmothers Cry

Ryan Mallett sounds like he’s just about the grumpiest Ryan in the world right now. He got pulled from the Texans’ 27-20 loss to Indianapolis and barfing zombie Matt Hasselbeck on Thursday, then visibly sulked up and down the sideline for the rest of the game as Brian Hoyer put in a much better perf...

Fighting Fans At Texans Game Tumble Down Stairs [Update]

A video taken in the upper deck at Thursday night’s Colts-Texans game shows two fans fighting before both of them fall down the stairs....

Look! Jadeveon Clowney Did Something Cool!

The play above isn’t the most awe-inspiring piece of defensive line play you’ll ever see, but given how quiet the start of former No. 1 overall pick Jadeveon Clowney’s career has been, you’ll have to forgive any Texans fans who want to make a big deal out of it this morning....

Matt Hasselbeck Went From Puking And Pooping To Beating The Texans

What Matt Hasselbeck did was undeniably impressive: overcoming oldness and a “bacterial infection” that hospitalized him earlier this week to lead the Colts to a 27-20 win over the Texans, Indy’s second straight win over a divisional opponent without the services of Andrew Luck. But the Colts appear...

Jaelen Strong’s First NFL Reception A Hail Mary Touchdown

What better way to get your first career catch than on a 42-yard Hail Mary touchdown with no time left on the clock?...

Astros Three-Hit The Yankees To Advance To ALDS

With the Astros unable to clinch a spot in the AL’s Wild Card game until the final day of the season, they didn’t have the luxury of setting up their rotation for the playoffs. Staff ace Dallas Keuchel, who is a leading candidate to win the AL Cy Young, had to pitch on Friday, but still Astros manag...

Root For The Astros In The Playoffs

It’s no longer the baseball preseason. Time to get your ass fired up for the regular fall season of America’s Pastime. Read all our playoff team previews here. Today, you’re getting to know … THE HOUSTON ASTROS....

José Altuve Leaves Game After Injured In Collision

Look away, Astros fans....

Lance Berkman Cites Random Men In Women's Bathrooms As Reason To Keep Discriminating

On Nov. 3, the city of Houston will vote on Proposition 1, an ordinance which would protect Houston residents from discrimination in work, public spaces, or housing. Retired MLBer Lance Berkman is against it because he doesn’t want men in women’s bathrooms. That’s not a joke. Watch the ad, paid for ...

Entire Umpiring Crew Forgets What The Count Is

Home plate umpire Ted Barrett lost track of the count on Astros outfielder Preston Tucker as he faced Angels pitcher Nick Tropeano in the second inning of today’s game. Tucker had a full count, but after Tropeano threw ball four, nothing happened. Houston manager A.J. Hinch had to challenge the play...

The Texans Will Finally Ditch Their Death-Trap Grass

Houston’s NRG Stadium has turf unlike anywhere else in the NFL: it is natural grass, that, when not in use, is sliced up into 8’x 8’ trays and taken out of the dome to get some sunlight. It has been by all accounts the NFL’s worst playing surface, with the lawyer of one former players suing over a c...

Texans Coach Refuses To Reveal Which Bad Quarterback He Will Start

Houston Texans head coach Bill O’Brien has to decide whether he will start Brian Hoyer or Ryan Mallett at quarterback this Sunday. Both played okay in Week 1, but neither are good enough to make the decision one that really matters. Choosing between Mallett and Hoyer is like deciding whether to star...

James Harden's Drunk As Hell And Yelling About Adidas

Rockets shooting guard James Harden was spotted leaving a Manhattan club early this morning, clearly overjoyed as he sang a line from Travis Scott’s “Antidote.” The guy taking video for TMZ asked Harden, who signed a 13-year contract with Adidas in August, if the shoe company was still mad at him fo...

Houston, How Do You Feel About Beating Louisville On Their Home Field? 

True Beauty Is Vince Wilfork In Nothing But Overalls

Vince Wilfork is great and I love him, which means I don’t even care that this moment from last night’s episode of Hard Knocks was probably cooked up by some HBO producer. Just look at this man!...

Brian Cushing Barfed So Much On <i>Hard Knocks</i>

This week’s episode of Hard Knocks captured linebacker Brian Cushing barfing during practice. He barfed four times in one sitting....

Yankees Yell At Carlos Gomez For His Lack Of Prof--[DEAFENING FART NOISE]

The thing that sucks about being Carlos Gomez—a guy who’s earned a reputation as a “hot head,” or whatever it is grumpy baseball men are calling people—is that every little thing he does is going to be taken as a slight....

Texans Lineman Explains Why He Drank His Own Pee, Is Pretty Cool

Jim Mudd, a producer for a local Houston sports radio show, recently took a trip to Texans training camp seeking an answer to a burning question: Did Texans center Ben Jones once drink his own pee?...