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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Coming up this Saturday, March 13th, is the 38th Annual Buffalo Bayou Regatta taking place along a 15 mile stretch of Houstons Buffalo Bayou. This fun event is the largest canoe and kayak race in the entire state of Texas! The race begins at 9 a.m. at 7700 San Filipe and Voss and ends up [...]
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Sunday, February 28, 2010
Congratulations to Houstons Chad Hedrick who will end his Olympic career with a total of FIVE medals! Chad will match the record of Eric Heiden, who won five gold medals at the 1980 Winter Olympics, for the most medals won by any U.S. men’s speedskater. Awesome!
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Saturday, February 13, 2010
Best of luck to Olympic Speed Skater Chad Hedrick from Houston, Texas! Competing in the 5000m, 1000m, 1500m, and Men’s Team Pursuit – We wish him light speed!
Visit Chad’s official site to check out all the up to the minute news, his personal blog, and tons of pictures from Vancouver here.
You can also become a [...]
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Friday, January 22, 2010
Kind of like a whirling-dervish style hockey game, The Houston Roller Derby is a rowdy, raucous sport that is just as much fun, if not more, to watch. League matches take place about once a month at the Kicks Indoor Soccer & Gym facility at 611 Shepherd Drive.
At Kicks you can check out the finest [...]
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Saturday, January 16, 2010
Looking forward to this new fishing TV series called Pirates of the Flats which is going to air on ESPN2 this month (looks like on Sunday mornings). The show stars Tom Brokaw, Michael Keaton, Thomas McGuane, Yvon Chouinard, Lefty Kreh, and Val Atkinson as they fish for bonefish in the Bahamas.
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Have some time off? Looking for something to do with the kids? I highly recommend going skating at The Ice at Discovery Green. Open everyday now through Martin Luther King Day, you can skate among the downtown skyline on what is normally the model boat basin. The 22 degree water used for the rink [...]
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Friday, November 6, 2009
Kelly Hamilton recently forwarded this YouTube clip to me of outspoken Texas Tech Coach Mike Leach. Coach Leach is very candid in answering a freshman’s questions about taking a girl out on a first date.
I think I’ll just let Coach Leach speak for himself:
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Friday, October 23, 2009
Beginning back in the 1930’s, The Texas Prison Rodeo was started up as a diversion and entertainment for employees and inmates of the Huntsville Unit of the Texas Dept. of Corrections. Every Sunday in October crowds would pack the prison arena to see the inmates ride bulls and wild horses, try to milk wild [...]
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
There is no denying the unmistakable burnt orange that belongs to the University of Texas…but did you ever wonder where this unique color originated?
Legend has it that revered Coach Darrell Royal chose the colors because they helped his players conceal the football when they ran the triple option. Another version of the story is that [...]
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Saturday, September 26, 2009
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