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The Houston Astros showed their appreciation for Round Rock Express manager Jackie Moore, calling the 50-year veteran up to the major leagues to serve as bench coach for the rest of the 2007 season. The 68-year-old Moore has been in professional baseball for half a century, starting as a catcher and outfielder in the Detroit Tigers and Boston Red Sox organizations. He played one season in the majors, spending the majority of the 1965......

Battling for the coveted Silver Boot, two of the current worst teams in baseball—The Texas Rangers and The Houston Astros—will engage in the latest of their six game match-up tonight. While both teams hover well below .500, savor what you can by cheering on 20-year veteran second baseman Craig Biggio as he approaches the 3,000 Hit Club. The game begins at 7:35pm on Fox Sports Net.......

It seems, where Pettitte goes, Clemens goes. Roger won't be around to save the Astros-he'll be busy saving the Yankees this season. Guess we can't blame Global Warming for the gradual decline in Irish Pubs. In the middle of a transition and confused about which bathroom to use? The Bathroom Liberation Front has created safe2pee.org for you...because these situations can be embarassing. Mexico City was certainly the place to be this weekend. If this......

The Rocket's 2006 debut with the Astros yesterday ended in a 4-2 loss against the Minnesota Twins with Francisco Liriano stealing Clemens' Thunder. Nudist resorts are seeing an increase in popularity. We imagine that laser-hair-removal is really popular at some of these places. And naked karaoke? Need we say more? Saddam Hussein went on a hunger strike. The martyr ended it after missing one meal. A man in Idaho was offended that his local......

Poor New Orleans Zephyrs. The team probably hoped to play a solid game tonight, then head out for some victory beers afterwards. Then the pitching rotation is announced, and oh, snap! The Round Rock Express will utilize the services of seven-time Cy Young winner Roger Clemens to obliterate their opponents tonight at the Dell Diamond. The traditional Friday night fireworks at the Diamond should be a fitting cap to a rare night with a......

We recently discovered that the Texadelphia at 619 Congress Ave. has closed its doors. After serving up cheese steaks to downtown workers for 18 months or so (the days all run together for us these, um, days), the purveyors of the grease-bombs apparently couldn't make the rent (pure speculation on our part). Now where are we going to go during our lunch hour to soak up last night's Guinness and watch the Astros' day games?......

We have been told by our top-secret baseball sources that Roger Clemens will be returning to the Houston Astros this year. The date has not been set and the announcement has not yet been made official, but you can take it to the bank. If we're wrong, drinks on us. Clemens will bring much needed support to a young starting rotation and hopefully buoy the spirits of best firend Andy Pettitte, who is off to......

Remind us to make plans to spend next summer in Cabo! The recent legalization of drugs in Mexico is expected to increase tourism, especially by college students. Aside from the economic benefits of increased tourism, perhaps legalization could crack down (no pun intended) on the violence associated with drug trafficking. Women in Cyprus created the world's longest Bra Chain in an effort to increase breast cancer awareness. The Stars are out! Some teams in......

"Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack..." The sports gods are smiling on us today. As we wrap up March Madness tonight with the men's basketball championship, we also celebrate the unofficial national holiday known as Opening Day for Major League Baseball. We Seamheads are in wide-eyed excitement in anticipation of six months of the best sport in the world. Lo siento, futbol. And we are even more excited than usual, as our beloved......

Yes, Roger Clemens helped raise fan interest and was a big part of the greatest season in team history (at least until he ran out of gas and was a non-factor late in the season). And for that he should be thanked, but Roger Clemens and his unscrupulous, egomaniacal agent, Randy Hendricks, are up to their old tricks, namely: holding the Houston Astros over a barrel with regard to next season. At baseball’s winter......

-Dubya nominates his top economic adviser, Ben Bernanke, as the next chairman of the Federal Reserve Board -Wilma, after tearing up Florida's eastern coast, heads towards the Atlantic. The damage is estimated in the billions. -Bush is holding back records of Miers' recommendations and activities from her days as his White House lawyer -Janet Reno: rock impresario -Mutiny at the New York Times! -The White Sox hold a 2-0 lead over the Astros, which......

: : FRIDAY : : [art] Coy Poage and William K. Stidham Art Exhibit benefiting the National Ovarian Cancer Coalition of Austin, 7pm-10pm @ Barocca Studios - $15 donation [music] Mae Shi @ Elysium [film] New Films! @ Your Local Theaters [music] Andy Rourke of The Smiths @ The Parish [music] Loxsly, 8pm @ Red Fez [music] AM Syndicate with Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Cue and Dear Nora, 8pm @ Beerland [books] Douglas......

Best. Night. Ever. The Astros are going to the World Series! Read it again. Let it soak in. It’s true. Last night may have been the greatest night in Houston sports history, and since we don’t have a pro sports team here, we adopt them as our own. Yes, there was 1994-1995 and Hakeem. But after suffering so much for so long, the sweet sabor of victory never tasted better. We kept a running......

Austinist extends our best wishes to Texas legend Roger Clemens today, his 43rd birthday. Clemens is defying age and science once again in another performance worthy of the Cy Young Award. Clemens, a seven-time winner of the award, is putting up mind boggling numbers, as he and the other Astros' starters have propelled the team to the top of the Wild Card pack. Wrap your minds around these numbers: * In 22 starts, Clemens......

The excellent sports columnist for the Houston Chronicle, Richard Justice, wrote a great piece today that shines a light on what is right with Longhorn baseball and what is wrong with Houston Astros baseball. The column details how the Astros had a chance two years ago to sign now national champion Drew Stubbs from Atlanta, Texas. Stubbs and his father asked for a specific contract, and not an unreasonable one at that, from any......

The Houston Astros fought back from the middle of the pack last summer to finish with their best August-September run in franchise history and make a run deep into the National League playoffs, inspiring the Bayou City during the dog days of summer. Roger Clemens, after years of grandstanding and hemming and hawing about wanting to be closer to family, had finally come home and, on his way to his seventh Cy Young Award,......

If you're a Houston Astros fan, you're probably wallowing in depression right now over the team's miserable season thus far. But up to the north, just beyond the reaches of I-35, there waits a small glimmer of hope. Well, he's actually a rather large glimmer of hope when you get down to it. That's right, Houston's All-Star outfielder Lance Berkman , who has been sidelined all season with a knee injury, will make a rehab......