Category Archives: Other sports

Is two-time WNBA MVP Cynthia Cooper about to come out of retirement? Houston Comets owner Les Alexander thinks so: “These are heady times for the Houston Rockets and Comets,” Alexander said to those in attendance at the annual Tux & … Continue reading → Continue reading →

A national figure makes a racially insensitive remark. The mainstream media doesn’t pick up the story for several days. Meanwhile, a lone website operator who operates anonymously beats the drum until the rest of the world is forced to take … Continue reading → Continue reading →

What is it with coaches named Nolan Richardson? Nolan Richardson III resigned as men’s basketball coach at Tennessee State University on Wednesday night, two weeks after he was indefinitely suspended for bringing a gun into the school’s arena. Richardson, 38, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Want to win a bar bet some day? Ask someone to identify the following people: Earl Lloyd, Woody Strode and Kenny Washington, and Willie O’Ree. Give up? They are, respectively, the first black players in the NBA, NFL, and NHL. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The University of Virginia has offered an official apology to West Virginia for jokes that the UVa pep band made at the Continental Tire Bowl. This incident has sparked some discussion on the Rice MOB mailing list. We’ve been in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Continental Tire Bowl, one of those bowl games you’ve never heard of (in this case, because it’s new this year), has produced some controversy. Seems the governor of West Virginia has his panties in a bunch because the UVa … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Just finished reading this NYT magazine story about the realities of bigtime college football today. It’s pretty gnarly. Read the whole thing, but be prepared to feel the need for a shower afterwards. This bit here is the reason why … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Eric McErlain expands on a suggestion by Instapundit for what to do with the World Trade Center site. Instapundit had jokingly suggested a baseball stadium; McErlain seriously suggests a football stadium. I like this idea. The Jets have never really … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This, from Jonathan Feigen’s NBA notebook, is exactly what’s wrong with salary caps, in a nutshell: Though he has not played this season and likely will never play again, the Raptors are shopping Hakeem Olajuwon. There does not seem to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Congratulations to Mount Union for their impressive win over my Trinity Tigers in the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl. The Purple Raiders won their third straight national championship and sixth in seven years with a dominating 48-7 victory. Senior running back … Continue reading → Continue reading →

You’ve been hearing all along how streaming video on the Internet is going to be the Next Big Thing. Well, Rice University sure hopes so – they just signed a deal to have their basketball and baseball games broadcast in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Less than 24 hours to the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl, the championship game of Division III football. My alma mater, the Trinity Tigers, have the Herculean task of defeating the Mount Union Purple Raiders, by far the best college football … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Trinity University has suspended All-America quarterback Roy Hampton for the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl that will determine the Division III football champion. “He is no longer with the team in any way,” Trinity Athletics Director Bob King said. “We have … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Justin Slotman has been your one-stop-shopping center for all things WNBA lately. Unfortunately, as he notes here, it’s been mostly bad. Two franchises have folded and will either find new homes or have their players dispersed throughout the league. The … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It just gets weirder: An assistant coach was also busted along with star quarterback Roy Hampton. Offensive backs coach Mike Burton “was charged with interfering with the duties of a public servant” stemming from Hampton’s arrest. He was released on … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Argh. My Trinity Tigers clinch a spot in the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl and the next thing I know their star quarterback is arrested for public intoxication while out celebrating on the Riverwalk. Help, I’m trapped in an After School … Continue reading → Continue reading →

My alma mater Trinity University will play in the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl for the Division III football championship after beating St. John’s of Minnesota in the semifinals game. Trinity has been in the Div III playoffs for the last … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Bobby Joe Hill, star guard of the 1966 Texas Western (now UTEP) team that beat Kentucky in the NCAA men’s basketball championships, has died at the age of 59. Hill’s team made history by starting five black players in te … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Roone Arledge, one of the great innovators in sports television, has died at the age of 71 from cancer. Arledge gave us instant replay, slow motion, personal profiles of athletes (don’t thank him too much for that when you watch … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Having watched my recommended daily allowance of football over the T-Day weekend, I’ve seen approximately 1,539 promos for the ESPN movie The Junction Boys, about how Legendary Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant took a buncha Aggie boys out to Junction, TX … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I missed it earlier this week, but November 20 was the 20th anniversary of The Play, California’s amazing game-winning kick return against Stanford that culminated with a trombone player getting flattened in the end zone. Kevin Moen, the player who … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Charles Barkley is a man of his word, and Kenny Smith managed to keep his dignity intact. Best damn pregame show ever, with the added bonus that I got to mute Jesse Ventura. The silliest part of the whole thing … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Get ready, America – Charles Barkley is paying off his bet to kiss Kenny Smith’s ass tonight, though apparently it will be on the new TNT talk show Listen Up! instead of the TNT NBA pregame show as originally indicated. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Before the Rockets-Lakers game on Sunday, Charles Barkley announced that if Yao Ming were to score as many as 19 points in any game this year, he’d kiss Kenny Smith’s ass on national TV. Well, it’s time to pay up, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Hakeem Olajuwon got a stylish goodbye from the Rockets last night. The team presented him with the two championship banners that have hung in the Compaq Center since 1995, among other things. Something that has gotten overlooked in all of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Houston Rockets will honor Hakeem Olajuwon by retiring his number tonight. There’ll be a lot of emotion at the Compaq Center tonight. Happy trails, Hakeem. Continue reading →

Still trying to take my mind off politics… It was nice to see that Clark Gillies, the mostly unheralded linemate of Mike Bossy and Bryan Trottier for the New York Islanders get inducted into the Hall of Fame. The Islanders … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Texans, schmexans. Houston already has a championship football team. And their owner plays cornerback. Take that, Jerry Jones! Robin Howington awakes on a Saturday, makes a pot of coffee, turns on the VCR and studies a game film for the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Ken Goldstein was the first to call my attention to a little tempest at the World Bridge Federation’s Open Championships in Montreal this August. One of the gold medal winners, an Iceland-born American named Hjordis Eythorsdottir was denied her silver … Continue reading → Continue reading →

According to Sports Illustrated, the University of Texas is the best overall college for sports. I don’t actually care about that. What I do care about is that they listed Rice at #45, which just happens to be one spot … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Johnny Unitas, voted the best player of the NFL’s first 50 seasons, has died at the age of 69. Unintas, first to accumulate 40,000 passing yards, still holds the NFL record for throwing touchdown passes in 47 consecutive games. Continue reading →

On the way in to work this morning I heard a radio ad saying that David Carr bobblehead dolls are now available at McDonald’s for $4.99. They didn’t say if you had to buy a Happy Meal in order to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Well, the Texans won their debut NFL game yesterday, which can only mean one thing: The Chronicle has gone into hype overdrive, with a complete special section on our new beloved hometown heroes, surely the greatest thing this town has … Continue reading → Continue reading →

WNBA referee Bill Stokes has been discharged from the hospital ten days after suffering a heart attack during the Comets-Starzz playoff game. “I feel absolutely wonderful,” Stokes, 56, said in the lobby of Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital, where he underwent … Continue reading → Continue reading →