Even with the rain delay, sluggish start, bad penalties, inconvenient turnovers and overtime, it wasn’t enough to stop the Houston Cougars (6-1, 4-0 American) as they found a way to survive against the East Carolina Pirates (3-4, 1-2 American) 31-24 in overtime Saturday at TDECU Stadium.

Words do in fact matter, and Jon Gruden’s words hurt Carl Nassib and others.

The Houston Texans have a good shot to win their second game of the year. I hope to replicate my Week 5 success with my Week 6 picks.

The NHL’s opening night was Tuesday with the rest of the NHL teams playing their first games sometime between Wednesday and Saturday. The NHL season will have plenty of headlines including the debut of the Seattle Kraken.

Of course, OU is going to beat Texas. The real question is, how badly will the Sooners demolish the Longhorns?

Depleted with injuries and an inexperienced rookie QB behind center, the Houston Texans will have their hands full in trying to keep up with the Buffalo Bills.

Yordan Alvarez and the Houston Astros clinched home-field advantage against the Chicago White Sox in the American League Division Series next week after cruising past the Oakland Athletics 10-4 on Saturday evening at Minute Maid Park.

As I hope my picks do better in Week 3, the Houston Texans made the right call in not playing quarterback Deshaun Watson on Thursday night.

Thanks to the defense and halftime adjustments for the offense in the second half, the Houston Cougars (3-1, 1-0 AAC) win their conference opener against the Navy Midshipmen (0-3, 0-1) 28-20 in a tight contest Saturday night at TDECU Stadium.

My NFL Week 1 picks finished 9-7, but I want to do better for Week 2.

The Houston Cougars (2-1) got the job done and easily overwhelmed the Grambling State Tigers (1-2) 45-0 on Friday night at TDECU Stadium, but it came at a cost with QB Clayton Tune going down with a hamstring injury.

The Big 12 Conference will add Houston, BYU, Cincinnati and UCF in the near future. These new four teams will help chart the Big 12 to a new era.

Sports columnist Keenan Betz’s NFL predictions return, and he hopes to do better in 2021 than in 2020.

The Houston Astros are close to the No. 1 seed, but they haven’t clinched the AL West just yet either. With a little patience, both could be possible.

Novak Djokovic will try to complete his first calendar Grand Slam. Leylah Fernandez and Emma Raducanu made it to the finals match in the women’s singles bracket.

The U.S. Open almost went through Friday without having a single major upset, but the Grand Slam finally came through with three major upsets. Saturday had one more major upset.

In a tale of two halves, the Texas Tech Red Raiders earned their victory against the Houston Cougars on Saturday evening at NRG Stadium in a 38-21 victory.

Novak Djokovic and Ashleigh Barty are easily the men’s and women’s singles U.S. Open favorites. The final Grand Slam is theirs to lose.