After another frenzied summer of free agency, the NHL regular season gets under way tonight.
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Texans coach Gary Kubiak always starts in the same place. His team. His fault. On this, he never wavers.
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Texas Southern University and Prairie View AM University, like other historically black universities around the country, are becoming more diverse.
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For a few minutes, Rockets coach Rick Adelman let the concern show. He had talked about the challenge of replacing Yao Ming at center, about relying on a group of forwards, none with particularly good size, and a slender Australian center in his first season in the NBA.
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Signs of autumn on the Texas coast were in the air and a few inches deep atop the parking lot at the boat ramp earlier this week.
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A shakedown scheme or a simple case of bribery? That’s the central issue facing a jury that began deliberations Wednesday in a federal case involving a Houston plaintiff lawyer accused of paying kickbacks to two insurance company employees in order to settle hundreds of silicosis cases.
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Joselito Rivera Boado, 34, also will vacate his northwest Houston house and forfeit his house to the county to satisfy $213,458 in medical and boarding costs for the animals that were seized.
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There may be bigger games between better teams around the NFL this weekend than Texans-Oakland Raiders, but there will be no more compelling individual battles than Andre Johnson vs. Nnamdi Asomugha.
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The Rockets scrimmage Wednesday came to an abrupt end when Aaron Brooks went down hard late in the workout.
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Shane Battier will be out for at least a week after a slight muscle pull suffered late in Tuesday’s practice
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