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Remember back in May, when news broke about the possibility of building a new stadium for the Houston Dynamo downtown? Back then, everyone said negotiations between the city and the Dynamo would wrap in in -mid-July — but now that we're actually in the middle of July, that's changed. The new target for an announcement, the Chronicle reports, is September — but that doesn't mean talks are breaking down, apparently. "We believe we've made some...

The Chronicle has a few more details today about the proposed Houston Dynamo stadium downtown — but not many. What we know: It would be an open-air stadium seating somewhere around 22,000 people, and it would likely be built on Minute Maid Park's parking lot C, the six-square-block lot on the other side of Highway 59 from the baseball stadium. Anschutz Entertainment Group, which owns the Dynamo, would pay most of the construction costs, and the stadium would open for the 2010 season.

On the news that Houston 1836, Houston's new MLS franchise, may be changing its name soon: So far, Houstonist isn't convinced. KHOU reported yesterday that the team's name will be changing under pressure from local Mexican-Americans — though 1836 represents the year Houston was founded, it was also the year Texas defeated Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna and won its independence from Mexico. Apparently, that so offends some Hispanics that they feel like they...

Add some local Latinos to the list of people weighing in on Houston 1836, the name chosen for Houston's new soccer team — seems they're a little unhappy about being reminded of the Texas Revolution and the violence and discrimination against Mexicans that followed it, the NY Times reports today.

It's official — Houston has a new major-league sports team. Major League Soccer announced Thursday that the San Jose Earthquakes will be relocating to the Bayou City immediately, less than four months before the beginning of the 2006 MLS season. Anschutz Entertainment Group, which owns the team, said Houston's ethnic diversity, size and sports mania made it the right choice for the move. There are still a lot of details to work out, like...