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HOUSTON (AP) — Houston's Yordan Alvarez might be the top left-handed hitter in Major League Baseball. Teammate Framber Valdez ranks among the best left-handed pitchers, too. Other than that, those guys are all right. Literally — neither player consid...

HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Texans are expected to hire current assistant Lovie Smith as their head coach, a person familiar with the process told The Associated Press. The person spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity Monday because the t...

HOUSTON (AP) — Quarterback Skylar Thompson will return from an ankle injury to start for Kansas State in the Texas Bowl on Tuesday night, but LSU interim coach Brad Davis won't say who will fill that role for the Tigers. "We've got a group of guys wh...

HOUSTON (AP) — Chris Paul scored 28 points and Danilo Gallinari added 25 as the Oklahoma City Thunder rallied from a 15-point fourth-quarter deficit to beat cold-shooting James Harden and the Houston Rockets 112-107 on Monday. Paul scored 27 of h...

HOUSTON (AP) — At a time when many college stars skip bowl games, Oklahoma State's Chuba Hubbard bucked the trend. He'll be there Friday when the Cowboys meet Texas A&M in the Texas Bowl. "I felt like he would play all along," Oklahoma State coach M...

HOUSTON (AP) — Miracle Washington-Tribble didn't see much hope for her future. At 16 and already a single mother to a baby boy, she wasn't going to school, had been in numerous fights and lacked ambition to turn her life around. Then in August she w...

WELCH, Texas (AP) — Murissa Horton set her feet, steeled herself and was knocked to the court taking a charge from a barrel-chested teenage boy who outweighed her by more than 100 pounds. The 5-foot-6 high school senior bounced back up, dusted h...

HOUSTON (AP) — The NFL and the players' union announced a series of changes Friday to the way potential concussions are handled during games following an ugly incident in which Texans quarterback Tom Savage was allowed to return to the field after a...

HOUSTON (AP) — Houston Texans owner Bob McNair has released a second apology and is attempting to explain his comments, a day after a report revealed that he said "we can't have the inmates running the prison" during a meeting of NFL owners about p...

HOUSTON (AP) — Baseball returned to Houston on Saturday with the Astros giving the flood-ravaged city a few hours of entertainment at the end of a terrible and trying week. The Astros beat the New York Mets 12-8 in a doubleheader opener, the first p...

HOUSTON (AP) — Texas A&M's Myles Garrett is expected by many to be the top overall pick in the 2017 draft. Unlike other probable high draft picks who are skipping their bowl games after dealing with injuries this season, the defensive end will p...