A Sad Day for Houston Sports

I cannot believe it. The Comets, Houston's WNBA franchise, are being disbanded. Their wikipedia page has already been updated...geez, people, the body isn't even cold yet. ;)

This is just a shock to me. I was in the Compaq Center for their championship games...even drove from Austin to support my hometown team (and you're lucky I didn't say The Summit instead of Compaq Center because I saw my first concert there back in the early '80s). When my daughter was old enough, I wanted to show her yet another reason why she can be anything she wants to be.

This does not bode well for women's sports in general...let alone the perpetuation of the problems with Houston sports teams. What the hell is wrong with this place?

Kinky Likes Roller Derby!

Everybody else is blogging about it, albeit for many different reasons, but I might as well give a shout-out to Kinky Friedman for giving a shout-out to roller derby. Just in case you don't want to read the article, here's the clip:

"I don't like basketball and I don't like women's basketball," he grumbles into his cellphone. "If it was roller derby, it would be different."

Kinky's referring to a promo he was asked to tape for the Houston Comets 10th anniversary. Now I must say that I totally respect the Comets, and I was even at their first three WNBA Championship games (good stuff!). In fact, I played against Sheryl Swoopes when I was in college. So I don't agree with him there. I do wonder what it would take to get him to do a promo for roller derby, though. Hell, forget the promo! Show up at a bout, such as the Stars Across Texas event that TXRG is hosting in September.