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Cover Story: Houston's Ancient Baseball History Comes Alive

Hair Balls

Daniel KramerSuiting up for the Houston Babies Vintage Base Ball Club. For most local sports fans, baseball history begins with the Astrodome. Mention the old exploding scoreboard, beer-hawkers and th »

Houston Texans Cheerleader Auditions

YardbarkerHouston Texans

This is the one we’ve been waiting for!  You know how we love Houston.  More than 950 women (and one man) showed up for Texans cheerleader tryouts at Reliant Park back in mid April.  This large group would eventually be cut down to 100 with final selec... »

Astros History: Darryl Kile's Fabulous '97 Campaign

The Crawfish Boxes

I've always had a fondness for one Darryl Kile, even if he was the first big pitcher I can remember to leave via free agency after having a huge season. That was back in 1997, when Kile anchored the rotation for the first division winner since 1986, ma... »

Bonus celebrity first pitch: another Astros alum drops by Minute Maid Park next week.

Alyson's Footnotes

Exactly 10 years ago, rumblings of a possible Major League Baseball players strike were prevalent in every city, as fans braced themselves for what looked to be an inevitable shutdown. The disputed topics centered around the predictable (money), the ho... »

Astros History: Jimmy Wynn's 1969 Season

Crawfish Boxes

For game 15 on the season we'll be looking at The Toy Cannon's '69 season. 1969 was a good year for Jimmy Wynn, he had quite possibly his best year offensively. He lead the league in walks, finished second in on base percentage (.436), third in runs sc... »

Chron scrutinizes bogus Dome demolition numbers; Bureaucrats start to back away from same

Bloghouston

Experts say Astrodome demolition price tag seems high - Mike Morris, Houston Chronicle Willie Loston, executive director of the Sports Corp., said the estimated cost of [Astrodome] demolition is lower than that produced by a similar study two year... »

Texans 2012 regular season schedule released

YardbarkerHouston Texans

The Texans will play a franchise-record five games on national television in 2012, including on Thanksgiving Day for the first time in team history. The NFL released team schedules Tuesday evening and the Texans will be prominently featured, with two S... »

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Texans will play on Thanksgiving, twice on Monday Night Football in 2012 season

KTRK-TV Sports News

The defending AFC South division champion Houston Texans released their 2012 regular season schedule For the first time in franchise histroy, the Texans will play on Thanksgiving Day, facing the Lions in Detroit. The defending AFC South division champi... »

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