My morning commute was ruined by a quote that came from Texas head football coach Mack Brown. Sure, I don't think anyone has ever held Brown in high regard as a great thinker or scholar, but this is something he needs to get straight.He mentioned in an interview that pe ...

56-106. Worst record in baseball. Seven games worse than the Minnesota Twins.Their records by thirds? 20-34, 15-39, 21-33.So, they played "better" over the final 54 games. Yippee, that's a real run toward excitement.What do we have to look forward to? Rebuilding under a ...

35-73.Like I posted before, I like to divide the season into thirds, a beginning, a middle and an end.The end can't come soon enough.After posting a 20-34 record through the first 54 games, the Astros have gotten worse. Dramatically worse. 15-39 over the middle third of ...

The Major League Baseball season has a beginning, a middle and an end. Take 162 games, divide them by three, you've got 54 games per section.So, with 54 games in the books for the Astros, we can look at the season so far and take stock in what we've seen.Record: 20 ...

A learned baseball man once told me ... In the major leagues, there's 40 nights where it's just not your night.The other team's pitcher is going to be on. Your starting pitcher is NOT going to be on.They're going to have three hitters who are hot and seei ...

This NFL labor situation is going to drag out as seemingly every legal tactic and strategy is explored and played out. Bottom line is this ... the NFL owners have lost. They torpedoed any chance they had when they took the calculated step of negotiating lockout insurance wit ...

This is not going to be a rant or a complaint about how the news business has changed and eliminated the opportunity for great sportswriting in today's 24/7, be the FIRST to "post it/Twitter it/announce it" news cycle.I just recalled an old baseball story that I'd ...

Twice a year, I read one of the finest pieces of literature ever produced ... "The Green Fields of the Mind" by A. Bartlett Giamatti, former commissioner of baseball.I read it on opening day, and I read it on the day when my Houston Astros are eliminated from further content ...