Category Archives: Other sports

Your football team is 0-3, and you’re on the road for a tough game. The good news is that you’ve won the last two times you’ve played there, you’ve got some injured players coming back, and you’re staying at the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Rice renews its rivalry with the Texas Longhorns tonight in the first game of a six-year series, to be played at Reliant Stadium. The Chron’s Mickey Herskowitz reminisces about the 1994 Rice win over UT, in a game that was … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Should have known that Eric McErlain would be the place to go to get all the links you need on the story of the WUSA folding. See here and here, and then check out Women’s Hoops (start there and scroll … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It’s bad enough to read that the women’s professional soccer league WUSA is folding as a result of cash shortages, but this just rubs salt into it: “This is a sad day for women’s soccer and women’s sports,” U.S. international … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The San Antonio Spurs have hired three-time NBA champion Mario Elie as an assistant coach for the 2003-04 season. “I’m the happiest man in the world right now,” Elie said. “When I retired two years ago, I let everyone know … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Abar Rouse, the assistant basketball coach at Baylor who taped a conversation with disgraced former head coach Dave Bliss in which Bliss discussed labelling slain player Patrick Dennehy as a drug dealer in order to cover up Bliss’ illegal payments … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Hey, what do you know? A couple of oligopolists are conspiring to restrain the market in NFL fandom. You already knew this, but Houston isn’t big enough for the Texans and Cowboys to co-exist, either on the football field or, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

In all the excitement yesterday, I failed to post about the death of former TCU football coach Jim Wacker, who succumbed to cancer at the age of 66. He was a breath of fresh air in the old Southwest Conference … Continue reading → Continue reading →

On the day that the tape recording which revealed his desire to tar murdered player Patrick Dennehy as a drug dealer became public, disgraced former Baylor basketball coach Dave Bliss visited a player’s home in an attempt to enlist him … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I didn’t think it was possible for the story of murdered Baylor basketball player Patrick Dennehy to get any sleazier, but I was wrong. WACO — Baylor University president Robert Sloan and chairman of the Board of Regents Drayton McLane … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Dan Cook, the San Antonio sportswriter and broadcaster who coined the phrase “The opera ain’t over till the fat lady sings”, has written his last column after 51 years in the business. [L]ooking back, it was my great privilege and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Gotta hate it when that happens: The University of Florida, whose school mascot is the alligator, sent out 19,000 copies of its football media guide before anyone figured out that the animal on the guide’s cover is a crocodile. Oops! … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Western Athletic Conference, home of your 2003 National Champion Rice Owls Baseball Team, is thinking about expanding to 12 teams. Speaking at the WAC preseason football media gathering, [WAC Commissioner Karl] Benson said the league’s athletic directors expressed interest … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Texas Monthly has an article on Rice University President Malcolm Gillis (requires free registration) in which he shares his thoughts on the state of college athletics and how a school like Rice fits in. A few excerpts to whet your … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Sue Bird of the Seattle Storm, one of the fresh, marketable faces of the WNBA, has a bet with a radio DJ in her town that involves…I’ll let Steve Kelley of the Seattle Times describe it: Sue Bird has agreed … Continue reading → Continue reading →

What were they thinking? Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh will soon be calling some signals for ESPN’s weekly football preview “Sunday NFL Countdown.” Starting in September, Limbaugh, 52, will join the show’s line-up as the “voice of the fan,” delivering … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Legendary sportswriter and broadcaster Dan Cook, who celebrated his 50th anniversary at the San Antonio Express News last August, has announced his retirement after 57 years in the business. They don’t make ’em like Cook any more. Enjoy the retirement, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Am I the only person who doesn’t hate the Houston Rockets’ new logo? Kevin, Jack, and Larry all heap scorn on it. I’m not saying it’s a thing of beauty, just that it’s an improvement over the cartoon character rocket-ship-with-teeth … Continue reading → Continue reading →

King Kaufman looks into the future following the ACC’s raid of Miami and Virginia Tech from the Big East and sees big changes ahead: At some point, the most athletically powerful schools are going to realize that the NCAA, with … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Houston was one of four cities that won a bid to hold the NCAA Men’s Basketball Final Four in an upcoming year: Houston will host the 2011 NCAA Final Four at Reliant Stadium, the NCAA announced this afternoon. College basketball’s … Continue reading → Continue reading →

If you’ve been following the ACC/Big East brouhaha (ably covered by Eric McErlain), the one thing that you can hang your hat on is that if and when the ACC raids the Big East for one or more teams, the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Who knew Yogi Berra was a hockey fan? Thanks to Matt for sending this to me. By the way, in case you’re curious, that guy who promised to marry his longtime girlfriend if the Mighty Ducks won the Stanley Cup … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Houston Rockets will announce tomorrow the official hiring of former Knicks coach Jeff Van Gundy. The Knicks will apparently receive a second round draft pick as compensation. I like this move. I thought Van Gundy was underrated in New … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The news that former New York Knicks star Dave DeBusschere died of a heart attack at the age of 62 makes me really sad. I grew up a Knicks fan, and got to see him play a couple of times … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It looks like the University of Virginia pep band, also known as “The Award-Winning Virginia Fighting Cavalier Indoor/Outdoor Precision(?) Marching PEP Band & Chowder Society Revue, Unlimited!!!!”, may have finally met its match in the form of rich alumni who’ve … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The WNBA has postponed its draft as the league and the players’ union attempt to hammer out a labor agreement, with the league threatening to cancel the 2003 season if no such agreement is reached by Friday. Say what you … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I see that ol’ Hootie Johnson might have a trump card to play in his ongoing battle with Martha Burk: Though Augusta National has yet to meet the demands of Burk, who is the chair of the National Council of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Houston Rockets head coach Rudy Tomjanovich has been diagnosed with superficial bladder cancer, according to the team. The good news is that from reading the story, it sounds eminently treatable and shouldn’t even keep him off the Rockets’ bench for … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a university president resign over an athletic controversy (though $deity knows a whole bunch of them, including every one that’s hired Jim Harrick since he was fired at UCLA, ought to), but it … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Eric McErlain points me to this piece by Eugene Volokh about how to reform college athletics. It’s a pretty radical idea, suggesting that for most college athletes, the education they’re there to get is in athletics, so why not acknowledge … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Now that’s just sweet: College hoops coaches across the country wore bow ties yesterday to honor the man who’s coached more games than anyone else: Jim Phelan remembers the last time Mount St. Mary’s went looking for a new basketball … Continue reading → Continue reading →

You know, for all of the crabbing by some conservatives about Martha Burk and her quest to get the Augusta National Golf Club to admit women, I think I’d rather be on her side of the issue than a Ku … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Steve Smith has a followup post to his obituary of crooked Michigan booster Ed Martin, which I had commented on here. Where we disagree, I believe, is on the notion of whether there should be a statute of limitations on … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Steve Smith of OffWing Opinion recently wrote of the passing of Michigan booster Ed Martin, whose payola to the Wolverine men’s basketball teams of the late 80s have recently come to light: Although I don’t condone lying to a court … Continue reading → Continue reading →