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Art Briles moves from Houston to Baylor
Art Briles resigned last week as head coach of the University of Houston football program and accepted the same position at Baylor University and the change generated the usual knashing of teeth some sectors of the UH community that typically...
2007 Weekly local football review
(Sue Ogrocki/AP photo; previous weekly reviews here) Texans 24 Raiders 17 The banged-up Texans (4-5) gamely beat a dreadful Raiders (2-6) team in front of a few close friends and relatives in a nearly-empty Oakland Coliseum. Although the Raiders...
2007 Weekly local football review
(AP photo by Mark J. Terrill/prior weekly reviews are here) Chargers 35 Texans 10 No change from last week's analysis in regard to the Texans (3-5), including continued fawning local mainstream media treatment of Coach Kubiak (well, perhaps a little...
Anthony Alridge does it all
In several of my weekly local football reports over the past two seasons, I have been regularly touting the feats of Houston Cougar running back, Anthony Alridge. Alridge is the most exciting UH running back since the consensus All-American Chuck...
2007 Weekly local football review
(AP Photo/Phil Coale)(previous weekly reviews here) Jaguars 37 Texans 17 The conventional mainstream media wisdom coming into the Texans' (3-3) game this weekend at Jacksonville (4-1) was that the Texans' lagging rushing attack would be revived by the return of...
2006 Weekly local football review
Houston Cougars 34 Southern Miss 20 The Cougars (10-3, 8-1) won their first Conference USA football championship in ten years with a Friday night win over Southern Miss (8-5, 7-3) before a raucous crowd of 32,000 at Robertson Stadium...
2006 Weekly local football review
Texas Aggies 12 Texas Longhorns 7 In the signature moment of Dennis Franchione's mostly rocky tenure at A&M, the Aggies (9-3, 5-3) rode a magnificent defensive performance and an already legendary 16-play, almost 9 minute, 88-yard fourth quarter TD drive...
2006 Weekly local football review
Texans 13 Jaguars 10 If I didn't know better, I'd think that the Texans (3-6) have the Jaguars' (5-4) number. In a game that stands for the proposition that you don't have to play great offensively to win when the...
2006 Weekly local football review
Giants 14 Texans 10 In a game that set offense back to the days prior to development of the T formation, the Giants (6-2) hung on to beat the Texans (2-6) as neither team could muster 300 yards total offense....
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