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July 24, 2008

It's summertime, summertime, sum, sum, summertime and here are a few watermelon facts followed by some watermelon haikus. • Watermelon consists of 92% water and 8% sugar. • Americans eat over 17 lbs of watermelon each year, Houstonist eats double that! • The first recorded watermelon harvest occurred nearly 5,000 years ago in Egypt. • Watermelon's official name is Citrullus Lanatus of the botanical family Curcurbitaceae. It is cousins to cucumbers, pumpkins and squash.......

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April 21, 2007

The Rockets are back in the playoffs and the fun starts tonight. It's hard to believe that it's been ten years since the Rockets have won a playoff series. Tonight they start their first round run against the Utah Jazz and to this day I still don't know why that team hasn't changed its name. Utah is just not synonymous with Jazz. Tonight is the first game in a best of seven series that......

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