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So Houstonist noted a couple of weeks ago that Houston is still in the market for a summer Olympics, and now we hear that the U.S. Olympic Committee is in town today to see if we're ready to host the 2016 Games. Mayor Bill White and the nine other officials who will meet with the committee today seem to think Houston has a chance, but the USOC is trying to figure out whether it should pursue a bid for the 2016 Olympics at all.

So Houstonist doesn't know much about committing a crime, but we do know this: If you're running from the police, you don't want to end up in an ex-police chief's back yard. That's just what happened to a burglary suspect in southwest Houston this afternoon — and yeah, we bet he feels like an idiot.

You might have heard about the GoogleCenter of the universe, which Wired reported on Wednesday — that's the spot you find if you zoom as close as you can on the default Google map. Turns out it's a field near Coffeyville, Kansas. Naturally, the -ists jumped on the bandwagon by finding the GoogleCenters of their hometowns: Gothamist did it first, and then Bostonist, Chicagoist, DCist and Seattlest followed suit. So Houstonist is a little...

So Houstonist isn't alone in being less than thrilled with Houston 1836, the name of our new soccer team: Laurence Simon (of This Blog is Full of Crap fame) has launched 1836 is Full of Crap, where he's soliciting 1,836 alternatives to the name. Oliver Luck claims that the name "1836" won fair and square in an online poll to determine the name of the MLS franchise moving to Houston. However, I, among many other...

For some reason, stories about people who accidentally call phone-sex lines are always funny. So Houstonist was delighted to find another one: This time, a Conroe woman got an earful when she thought she was calling the Better Business Bureau.

Joel Osteen's life must be pretty tough. Not only does he have to run the nation's largest church, keep up with the demands of a rigorous television and personal appearance schedule, maintain his preternaturally well-groomed image and rake in tons of money, but he also has to find time here and there to try to bring us all closer to God. So Houstonist is sure Pastor Joel wasn't too happy when his wife acted like...