Seeing the Houston professional athletes support each other is always great to see. What would be even better, though, is if the Texans could manage replicate the Astros’ winning mentality and killer instinct.
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By now, it’s obvious second baseman Jose Altuve was born for October. His walk-off two-run home run with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning delivered the ALCS-clinching Game 6 win, 6-4, over the New York Yankees on Saturday night at Minute Maid Park.
As my early-morning flight ambled its way across the mountainous West and into Los Angeles this week, I was reminded of a saying I’ve heard quite often: “You can never really go back.”
Baseball is a funny game sometimes.
Holiday-themed runs are hugely popular, and Halloween runs combine fun, near-perfect running conditions, and post-race candy at races old and new throughout the area.
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The Astros are going with their best option available to start Game 4 of the ALCS, right here and right now. The attitude of not looking too far ahead and focusing on winning the next game in front of them is the correct way to go.
My NFL picks continue to do well. Through six weeks, I have been above .500, which is great. Because usually by now when I did this in college, I would have gone one week already where my picks went below .500.
Just remember, once you can own up to your mistakes, you’ll be able to keep moving forward.
Unless and until the venerable old tournament returns to a pre-Masters spot on the PGA Tour schedule, do not expect marquee players to play in our backyard.
The Astros can now easily survive dropping Game 1, after coming back to take Game 2 for the home split. Just last year, the Astros won Game 1 of the ALCS in Boston, and, unfortunately, we all know how that turned out here in Houston.
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It’s difficult to remember a time when Astros’ batters last looked this lame and lifeless. Give credit to the Yankees pitchers and defense; they went out and achieved what seemed like the impossible — they completely shut down the Astros’ ballyhooed offense.
Galveston’s Sofia Grasso and Anthony Catanzaro won the third annual Christina Grillo Sullivan Foundation Mixed Doubles Tennis Tournament.
The World Surf League’s championship tour has hit the homestretch as the best competitive surfers in the world battle it out in the final three events of the season.
In all, the Rays sent nine different pitchers to the mound, seven of which were highly effective. It’s an approach that can be successful, but it still doesn’t beat a good, old-fashioned ace pitching at the top of his game, as the Astros proved in closing out the ALDS.
The Toughest 10K Galveston takes on the Galveston Causeway, traveling from Teichman Road to Tiki Island and crossing the bridge in both directions. The bridge reaches a height of 72 feet above sea level, and is more than 8,200 feet long.
Texas and Oklahoma will duke it out in the Red River Showdown. The winner will get to take home the Golden Hat.
If you’re from the Galveston county area, or a Galveston native (B.O.I.), you’re familiar with the name Moody.
There is much golf going on, and there is much golf-related information of interest. But first, there are socks. Yes, the kind we wear on our feet.
The Astros’ cause was not helped by their starting pitcher Zack Grienke, who was awful (3.2 innings, five hits, six earned runs, three home runs), or their bullpen (a combined 4.1 innings, seven hits, three earned runs, one home run).
Going forward, the offense’s consistency (or lack thereof) appears to be the key to the team’s successes (or failures) this season.
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