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Tonight’s Texas Bowl is going to be a throwback to the days of the Southwest Conference with an exciting match-up between the University of Houston and Texas Christian University. From a football point of view, it’s a classic match-up of high powered offense (Houston) against a formidable defensive squad (TCU).

The Houston Bowl held in January has been mired in financial problems and was gasping for air until Lone Star Entertainment, a company owned by the Houston Texans, decided to step in and try to rescue the game. Lone Star and Harris County Houston Sports Authority president Billy Burge took their plans to Southern California yesterday to try to persuade the NCAA to keep the Houston Bowl alive. While Houston has hosted smaller bowls like...

A few weeks after we had news thtat the Houston Bowl was sorta directionless, the Chronicle's Big 12 blog is reporting that nothing's really changed, and the game might take a year off or become one of the Big 12's bowls. Nothing has been revealed, but what we're hearing involves the Big 12 taking over the 6-year-old bowl game. The game would be No. 8 in the pecking order and would have to reduce its...

So maybe Houston just wasn't meant to host a college bowl game. First we had the Bluebonnet Bowl, which lasted from 1959 to 1987 and eventually withered because of dropping ticket sales and the lack of a corporate sponsor. Fast-forward about 20 years, and Houston's latest foray into the college postseason — the Houston Bowl — may be about to meet the same fate.

Though a suspect is already in custody, police are still puzzling over the murder of Kasey Davis, a Texas Christian football player who was shot to death at a Conroe apartment complex early Tuesday morning. Davis had just parked his Suburban at the Forest Creek Apartments on Montgomery Park about 12:30 a.m. Tuesday when a man got out of a nearby car and shot Davis through his driver's-side window, then returned to his car and...

What if you held a bowl game and nobody came? The situation leading into Friday's Fort Worth Bowl isn't as bad as that, but tickets aren't selling like hotcakes at the University of Houston or the University of Kansas. According to reports, UH has sold about 4,000 tickets out of its allotment of 10,000, while Kansas has sold about 6,000. That isn't really an accurate picture of who's going to be at the game, though,...