It's supposed to be a sports blog. But be warned, anything's fair game.
I didn’t come up with the nickname, Lance Berkman did (on a local sports radio show about a year ago.) Stephanie Stradley of AOL FanHouse recently wrote a particularly damning piece about the Houston Chronicle’s sports writers and their irresponsible reporting following the Texans’ selection of defensive end Mario Williams in the 2006 NFL Draft. […]
How did a team that was widely believed to have championship aspirations end up in this abyss of middling mediocrity at a 12-12 record and, as it stands, 9th place in the Western Conference and out of the playoff picture? Quoth Yao about a week ago after a brutal loss to the lowly 76ers, “I feel like I’ve been traded to another team.” The team has certainly been through a whirlwind of change in the past 8 months, getting a new coach and essentially adding five or six new players to the potential rotation. In the midst of all the change and the struggles of learning a new offensive system under Rick Adelman, this team has lost its identity.
