From the Astros to the Dynamo, here's how Houston’s professional sports teams got their names
Houston has long had a rich history in the realm of professional sports, but how did all these teams — from the Astros to the ...
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Famous sports stars who died in 2024: Beckenbauer, OJ, West, Mays, Kiptum
The official NBA logo, designed in 1969 ... slugger Willie Mays hits a home run over the left field fence at the Astrodome in Houston on April 24, 1966 [Bettmann Archive via Getty Images] ...
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New Orleans Is Using the Super Bowl as a Springboard to Meetings Success
The Super Bowl LIX host city New Orleans is a destination tailor-made for the spotlight, adding its signature brand of ...
When we broke ground on the Astrodome, we didn't bring shovels. We brought guns.
The history of the Astrodome in Houston, Texas, starts with the groundbreaking, during which leaders shot guns into the ...
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The Oilers legacy is Houston’s, not something for the Titans to use as a joke
Adams shopped the Oilers, rather than trying to work with the city of Houston on incremental improvements to the Astrodome, and eventually Nashville agreed to pony up the money for the stadium ...
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Could the May ballot include a Spurs arena tax? Here's what we know.
what funding will the county need for the Frost Bank Center to survive for the next 20 years so that the Eastside doesn't have an Astrodome sitting as a dead carcass on an economically vibrant ...
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40 years ago, WWE first came to Texas. But Texas didn't want it.
Specifically, it hosted perhaps the greatest single pro wrestling supercard, WWF WrestleMania X7, at the Astrodome in April 2001. In that show’s main event, Stone Cold Steve Austin—a native ...
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Selena’s Killer Files for Parole 30 Years After Tejano Singer’s Death
In 1995, Yolanda Saldívar gunned down the singer after it was discovered she'd been embezzling money from her boutiques. By Kevin Dolak The notorious fan who worked her way into pop star Selena ...
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Spurs poll voters’ support for tax dollars for new arena, push for May election
Gervin-Hawkins wants to prevent the county arena from facing the same fate as Houston’s Astrodome, a behemoth that was once home to the Astros, Oilers and Rockets, but has remained vacant for ...