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...raised on the Houston Astros, who sported ridiculous rainbow jerseys, and the Oilers, outfitted in powder blue. With the exception of the Rockets’ back-to-back championships, which occurred relatively late in my sports education, my hometown was mired in consistent mediocrity...
...show how serious the lapse of oversight has been. One NASA contract worker billed the Hubble Space Telescope Program for $27,000 of collect phone calls from prison inmates, according to The New York Times. In another shocking case, three students who worked at the Johnson Space Center in Houston stole a safe full of moon rocks. They were caught when they later tried to unload the illicit geology on the miniscule market for authentic lunar objects...
Well, at least I didn’t have to suffer through the acrobatics of Warren Moon and Kevin Bass the whole time I lived in Houston. The Rockets won it all twice, and the Dream Shake became a national phenomenon. The Astros separated themselves from the rest of the Central in the late ’90s, and the Killer B’s became regular playoff contenders (who inevitably choked in the first round, but that’s not the point). The heinous Bud Adams left town with the Oilers in tow, and we have a brand...
...with Houston pro sports stuck in the middle of the standings, or closer to the bottom, I know little more than any casual fan would about teams that once held players that I called the men in my life. They aren’t competitors, and I find myself bypassing ESPN.com in the mornings in favor of “real news” on CNN.com...
...trying to trace my sinking to the depths of fair-weatherdom, I’m certainly disgusted by the money games that plague professional sports. It’s a standard complaint, yes, but I think it’s legit in the Houston case. We don’t throw around money to lure in big names with the lone exception of the failed Randy Johnson experiment. After the Enron debacle, the only good thing I can say about Minute Maid Park is its awesome nickname of the JuiceBox...