How’s Yao, Brown Cow?

NOT WELL!!!!! (To answer that dipthong-rific headline.) The national headlines started rolling in yesterday afternoon about Yao Ming and his failing foot. Rockets could lose Yao for season or more [Yahoo!] Playing the Guessing Game: Yao Ming’s foot injury has left Rockets lots of questions [ESPN] Yao could miss entire season with foot injury [Chron] [...]

June 30th Houston Sports FaF Smear

She ran away to Texas to keep away the excess. No matter what, everybody’s always in it for the money.  I don’t want to hear your points that differ.  They matter not.  In my world anything that happens without my first-hand knowledge doesn’t exist.  How does the saying go?  Ignorance is bliss? We don’t write [...]

Dale Lloyd: Adopting an Owl’s Cause

There are occasions on which you have to eliminate the bluster from the posts about your inter-city rival.  Obviously, this is one such instance.  The case of Dale Lloyd is relatively well known.  Since Fourth and Fifty didn’t exist three years ago (the interwebs was a much lonelier place back then) allow me to offer [...]

Stretching a Dime by Building a New Stadium

The economy is in the crapper, in case you didn’t know. People are getting laid off left and right, and consumers are cutting back on discretionary purchases. A big part of this is sporting events. Most large universities are going to be immune to the shrinking economy. Big fans will find a way to get [...]

June 29 Houston Sports FaF Smear (USA Pwn World)

The one where we’re almost better than every country at everything that counts… It was almost the most significant US soccer victory in the history of history. It wasn’t to be, but the nailbiting 3-2 loss to Brazil signifies that we have caught up to the world in the only sport we were not great [...]

June 28th Houston Sports FaF Smear (and One-Upping)

Jealousy will destroy us, or so she used to say.  You’d kill for half the things we do including yesterday. The above sultry lady is none other than Brooklyn Decker, wife of Andy Roddick.  She’s gonna need some help getting all that sand off of her copper skin.  Are you up to the task?  Andy [...]

June 27th Houston FAF Smear (and Wimbledon)

Into the sea, tentacles got me by the neck and they’re pulling me down There are some people playing tennis in England this weekend. Apparently it’s exciting, but I haven’t watched Wimbledon since I was about 10. I guess that didn’t really count because I also used to watch shows like Doug, Ren and Stimpy, [...]

June 26th Houston Sports FaF Smear (and Face Stomping)

Behind every desire is one waiting to be liberated when the first one’s sated. As a Rockets fan last night’s draft wasn’t very exciting.  There was the hope of a fan-base that a trade would be made for Ricky Rubio or Hasheem Thabeet, but those potential moves were dashed from the outset.  Instead we wrote [...]

FaF NBA Draft Blog Especial

That’s pronounced es-PECH-al. Welcome one and all to Fourth and Fifty’s NBA Diary Especialo! You like my impeccable spanish? We’re tailoring our product to a diverse demographic. The caption is yet another Snoop Dogg ’90s reference. I can’t help myself. What we’re doing tonight is a live draft post. We’ll add content and update after [...]

Rockets, Please Trade Up for Thabeet

So is there any chance the Rockets can find a legitimate back up for Yao Ming, now that Deke is out of the game?  I’m thinking someone at least 7 feet tall.  Maybe a young player.  A guy that could potentially start at center should the “Great Wall” find himself injured again next year (knock [...]