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Ching(a) tu Madre
It wasn’t only the Houston Cougars that were up to last-minute heroics this past weekend. The Houston Dynamo, obviously feeling the positive vibes on the field at Robertson had a little late game magic of their own. Brian Ching, in the 96th minute scored on a tremendous volley to send the Dynamee into the western conference championship game against the LA Bekhams Galaxy.
You can view the highlights of the game here (and skip ahead to the 3:00 mark for the goal, though you’ll miss out on all the splendor of listening to Spanish language announcing).
For those of you making the roadie, the Western Conference Championship is at 8PM on this coming Friday. For those of you hunkering down in the confines of your own home to watch the game (uh huh, yeah right) that’s a very late 10PM start time. Surely all of you will be putting off your plans for a night out on Washington Avenue to take part as history is made…
Let’s not wait five days to make history. Let’s right here with your Houston sports updates:
UNIVERSITY of HOUSTON – Holy. Shit. HOLY SHIT!!! (still not over it)
ROCKETS – The ketchup and mustard jerseys proved to be quite the inspiration for the Rox as they put the big hurt on the OK City Thunder on Friday night. Your top scorers were Brooks (21), Landry (21) and Budinger (16) in the eleven point whooping of the Thunder. I watched the game up at the West Alabama Ice House drinking as many St. Arnold’s Lawnmowers as possible before they finally kicked us out at midnight which is the beginning of a night of debauchery that isn’t rivaled by any other in recent memory… I headed up to Anvil solo to see that there was to be seen. Shane Battier, Luis Scola and David Andersen happened to be standing there getting drinks. I was drinking at the same bar as people who are moderately famous! We had the same bartender! It was crazy!! Nothing like this has ever happened before EVER. One of them almost looked in my general direction. *sigh* The rest of my night is a story for the history books and it ends a little something like “falling asleep at a speakeasy until 5AM.” But, we’ll tell that story another day…
Yao Ming has also been hanging out in Houston lately signing autographs for the kiddos… but that’s way less important than practically being best friends with Battier, Scola and Andersen. So, we’ll just skip it.
ASTROS – LaTroy Hawkins, Miguel Tejada and Jose Valverde have all filed for free agency. Ed Wade definitely has his work cut out for himself this offseason. I honestly don’t even know why I bother looking for Astros news anymore… moving on.
RON ARTEST – I have an idea… Telling the media that you wanted to “grab [Trevor Ariza's] throat because he hit me in with an elbow,” is probably not the best way to endear yourself to league/team officials. That kind of stuff will probably get a personal assistant hired by the team to make sure you keep out of trouble… which is exactly what the LA Lakers did. Your move, David Stern.
TEXANS – KRIS BROWN!!! You’re fired. Matt Hogan will be forgoing his final 3.5 years of eligibility at the University of Houston and will be kicking 60 yarders for the Texans from now on. Brown’s 42-yard attempt went wide left as the Texans missed out on an oppurtinity to take the Indianapolis Colts to overtime. Matt Hogan > Kris Brown. Who really thought that the Texans would win four games in a row? Well, besides me… Thanks for letting me down, Brown (how, now, cow).
- Septimus Rex
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Soooooo………..
UCF is destroyed by UT and we win by 1 point over Tulsa. Now we have to play at UCF…..
This sounds familiar….
Oh yeah… UTEP was destroyed by UT, and we won by 1 point over Tech…. Then we went to El Paso
As a Texas grad who watched – honestly – every second of the UT-UCF game, here are a few thoughts:
– UCF’s secondary is wretched. The Horns’ passing game is really good, but the Knights made us look like … well, like UH’s passing game. I would be shocked if Keenum doesn’t go off for 600.
– Their D-line, on the other hand, is really pretty good. They joined a long and not especially illustrious line of teams shutting down our running game, but they do have some legit talent there.
– I have no idea how their offense will do, and I’ve given up trying to figure out what UH is going to do on D (outside of suck). They started out pretty well against us in the run game, but they still ended up with right around just 150 yards total.
– Not that it really would have mattered, but they sat a couple of guys against us, leading O’Leary to have some amusing tussles with their local media. I’m guessing those players will be back this week.
– Which leads me to my next point: I think they’re basically seeing the game with you as their bowl game. They’ll throw everything they can at you. They gave us a real tough game at Bright Networks Stadium a couple of years ago.
Even with the UTEP debacle in mind, I would think the Coogs should win handily. That 11 a.m. start is worrisome, but in watching UH this year, I haven’t noticed a tendency to start slowly – unlike another team I could name. Something around 54-38 seems to be on order.
HEY UT GRAD!!!!!
No one is allowed to talk about our defense sucking except for us!!!!
(They really are bad though, mainly due to youth and injuries, but still)
WORD!
…and if anyone is reading this: Our defense is pretty horrible.
But on the other hand, our QB is running circles around every other QB in the nation…including Colt ‘Can I throw this ball?’ McCoy.
Vegas was scarey good with their Tulsa/UofH spreadcall last week…
What say them this weekend?
I thought the line opened at -7
Line opened at Coogs +1.5, I think.
http://www2.vegas.com/gaming/sportsline_ncaaf.html
-5.5 now