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Buccaneers rookie wide receiver Arrelious Benn beats Texans cornerback Jacques Reeves for a 21-yard touchdown reception Thursday at Reliant Stadium.

You are preparing for your draft this weekend and scrambling to research, but you're no fantasy neophyte! You know football, but you've also been slaving over a team project for work where the "team" goes out for "working" lunches and gets so trashed you are the only one coherent enough to keep the train on the tracks.

The last of the original Houston Texans is being released. The team has cut kicker Kris Brown, the only player remaining from the inaugural 2002 season.

The last of the original Houston Texans is being released. The team has cut kicker Kris Brown , the only player remaining from the inaugural 2002 season.

Twelve minutes later, he ended the speech with a bold statement that will have Texans fans thanking him if it becomes reality.

According to police, at least two people were hurt in a major accident in Bellaire.

Texans quarterback John David Booty, who completed 17 of 37 passes for 209 yards and two touchdowns, led the Texans up and down the field.

Rudy Carpenter threw two touchdown passes to Arrelious Benn, Corey Lynch returned one of his two interceptions 91 yards for another score and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat the Houston Texans 24-17 on Thursday night.

Rudy Carpenter threw two touchdown passes to Arrelious Benn, Corey Lynch returned one of his two interceptions 91 yards for another score and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat the Houston Texans 24-17 on Thursday night.

One of the biggest developments involving the Buccaneers on Thursday night occurred before the opening kickoff at Reliant Stadium.

It was a Sunday afternoon when Natalie Bianchi-Gionta got the bad news. "I went outside to go work in the yard, and my husband comes out at around 1:05 ... and he looks like he wants to throw up," she says.

There are fewer running backs carrying full loads around the NFL, which means the profile of the top receivers has risen during fantasy drafts.

This isn't fool's gold. Statesman columnist Cedric Golden gives you the real deal with daily sports nuggets, cooked up blog style.

The Texans feel better about their running game because Arian Foster averaged six yards a carry in preseason.

Matt Schaub and Andre Johnson have turned the Houston offense into a juggarnaut and the Texans into a contender.

It's the story of London Crawford, the former Davidson High School and University of Arkansas wide receiver who was released from the NFL's Houston Texans this week and wound up back in the arms of the man and woman who gave up their jobs to help make his career possible.

Jacoby Jones is often an overlooked receiving option, playing second fiddle to Andre Johnson.

Playoffs? Are you kidding me? Playoffs!? a At their core, the Houston Texans are a business, just like any other business, and they have customers -- you, the season ticket holders.

If you haven't been able to tell by the depleted charcoal supplies and life-size bikini-model cutouts by the Miller Lite at your neighborhood grocery store , it's almost football season.

Houston coach Gary Kubiak worried that he'd be cut before the 1983 regular season when he was a rookie quarterback for the Denver Broncos.