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"I'm scared of heights."

Like the scene at the end of any "raised it from a baby" animal movie, the time came for the Astros to put Pudge Rodriguez back where he belongs: in a Texas Rangers uniform. With the Rangers leading the AL Wild Card race, and the Astros floundering, plus the Rangers' loss of catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia to the disabled list with an excess of letters, the stars were aligned for a trade sending Pudge back to the city where he made his name.

Let's face it: the Astros' late season mojo isn't probably isn't going to come through. The team has been flirting with .500 like a nervous guy at last call, and will probably watch either the Cards or Cubs go home with their date to the playoffs. But that doesn't mean that you should stop watching and wait for football season to start. Fortunately for the long-term future of the team, several talented minor league pitchers are ready for a shot at the big leagues. So read on, so that when your friends are just as confused as Milo Hamilton about who's pitching this week, you'll be in the know.

Yahoo! Sports is reporting that there's a strong possibility that Yao Ming could be out for the year and maybe even longer.

Astros first baseman Lance Berkman belted his13th home run of the season today in the second inning against Kansas City Royals pitcher Brian Bannister to give him 1,001 career RBI.

After a brutal 0-2-2 start, the Houston Dynamo (7-2-3) won their fourth consecutive game and have run their unbeaten to streak to nine as they beat Chivas USA (8-3-3) 1-0 at Robertson Stadium on Wednesday night.

The Major League Baseball draft is easily the most anticlimactic of all the major sport drafts. The players drafted will take years to develop into major league talent, if they ever make the big club in the first place. You're not going to go out an buy the jersey of your team's draft pick the next day. However, for a club like the Astros, who are in the process of restocking their minor league system, the draft is the first step toward rebuilding a young, healthy team.

San Francisco Giants pitcher Randy Johnson added one more milestone to his future Hall of Fame career by becoming the 24th member of the elite 300 win club.

:: Hoot Hoot! Rice Owls battle it out with KSU ::

Houston Dynamo players Stuart Holden and Danny Cruz will be meeting and greeting with fans today at the Adidas Sports Performance store at the Galleria Sunday afternoon from 1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m.

We just ran across this synergistic video that features Houston Dynamo midfielder Stuart Holden and Rockets point guard Kyle Lowry goofing off on the basketball court for an Adidas shoot. Holden shows Lowry a kick basket combo, as Lowry jokes about lowering the net for Holden.

That playoff run was swell and everything, but if you think that that Rockets are going to stand pat and take another bronze medal next year (and the year after...), then you don't know the manic machinations of GM Daryl Morey. Since Morey can't say anything about his shopping list, let's put on our amateur executive hat and see what pieces the Rockets can add this season and beyond.

Former Houston Rockets star Robert Horry presented Alief Elsik High a $1,000 check last week as part of the NBA's "Got Milk" Get Fit by the Finals Challenge.

Every time the Lakers, the national media, and even Houstonians like yours truly count the Rockets out, they find a way to change all our minds. After a forty-point drubbing in LA in game 5, the Rockets faced elimination last night at Toyota Center. In true Clutch City fashion, they hitched their wagon to Luis Scola and Aaron Brooks for a scrappy, emphatic win, sending the series back to Los Angeles.

Undermanned. Undersized. Under dog.

Houston Rockets center Yao Ming was named to the All-NBA Second Team yesterday.

As we've all seen, the Rockets v. Lakers series has had its ups and downs. One thing's for sure, though: It's good basketball, which is all the more reason to head over to Discovery Green tomorrow night (that's Thursday, 5/14) to cheer the Rockets on. The game will be shown on Disco Green's big inflatable screen right in front of the Anheuser-Busch stage; tipoff is at 8:30 p.m., but if you want to show up earlier, you can spend some quality time with The Hollisters (performing as part of the park's Thursdays Rock concert series). Seriously: Texas rock, sweet potato fries from the Lake House and basketball on a giant inflatable TV — what's not to love?

After staying mum for months because of pending litigation surrounding allegations that he used performance enhancing drugs during his Major League Baseball career, Roger Clemens got back to trying to set the record straight Tuesday with an appearance on ESPN Radio's Mike and Mike in the Morning. We told you about it. Clemens read it. And, he responded.

Roger Clemens broke his months-long silence this morning on ESPN Radio's Mike & Mike in the Morning national broadcast to reiterate his innocence as a new book about him hits the stores.

There's nothing like spending an afternoon with the Rockets Power Dancers. And with that note, Houstonist was at the Toyota Center on Sunday as die-hard fans came out to send the Houston team off to Hollywood as they prepare to face Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers in the Western Conference Semi-Finals.

Tampa Bay Rays outfielder and Jefferson Davis High alumnus Carl Crawford tied a MLB modern-day record by stealing six bases on Sunday.

Well, that took long enough. After failing to make it out of the first round of the playoffs since the waning years of Hakeem and Clyde's careers, after surviving the career of the woefully mis-nicknamed Stevie Franchise, after watching Tracy McGrady go back to the OR more often than House, M.D., the Rockets are in the second round of the Western Conference playoffs.

From 1982-84, the high flying act of Phi Slama Jama which starred future hall of famers Hakeem Olajuwon and Clyde Drexler, helped lead UH to a 31-3 record and three Final Four appearances.

The Texans had a distinct game plan going into this weekend's NFL Draft: improve the defense. Despite the best efforts of Mario Williams, DeMeco Ryans, and Dunta Robinson, the team had one of the worst defenses in the AFC last year, and GM Rick Smith set out to rectify that deficiency.

Dave Maggard, who helped steer the University of Houston from a WAC also-ran to Conference USA juggernaut (well, except for basketball. Thanks, Memphis!), announced today that he will retire, after seven years as athletic director.

On Saturday, the Houston Dynamo (0-2-2) were hoping to exact revenge from last year's upset playoff loss to the New York Red Bull (0-2-2), but the Houston team struggled to score and they still remain winless on the year.

Houston, today is the greatest day known to man. It's Opening Day!

In a world of compromise, some men don't. So vote for your 2008-09 Houston Rockets Power Dancers as the cream of the crop of the NBA.

Opening Day is Monday, and the Astros are almost done whittling down their roster as Spring Training winds down. Following the loss of Aaron Boone to season-ending heart surgery, the 'stros acquired Reds infielder Jeff Keppinger to fill out the right-handed side of their third base platoon (with Geoff Blum). The Geoff-Jeff show isn't going to replace the stellar production that the team got from Ty Wigginton last year, but it won't be a black hole in the lineup, either.