The 1836 name game: wait and ... wait

First the management of Houston's soccer team asks us to vote on the team's name, then it announces the name, then the name might be changed, possibly — and now we won't know for sure until later this week, the Chronicle reports.

"Any announcement regarding the matter has been pushed back until later this week," team president Oliver Luck said late Monday.

The team and league had said last week that an announcement on the matter would be made no later than today.

There hasn't yet been any official announcement that Houston 1836 will change its name. Though the Chron has steadfastly maintained that a name change is coming, it admits that there's still no hard evidence to support that — today's article reports "the team is getting ready to ditch 1836 after some in the Hispanic, corporate and political communities decried it as offensive to Mexican-Americans," then goes on to admit that "neither 1836 nor the league have confirmed the change." We're guessing they know something we don't. If the name is changed, it's not clear what the new name will be: Lone Star or Lonestars, Mustangs and Apollos finished near the top in the online team-naming poll earlier this winter.