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Also Announce Five Additional Non-Roster Invites To Spring Training

HOUSTON, TX - The Astros have signed free agent outfielder Justin Ruggiano to a minor league contract, which includes an invitation to Spring Training, General Manager Jeff Luhnow announced Monday.

Ruggiano, 29, has spent parts of three seasons in the Major Leagues, all with the Tampa Bay Rays. He split the 2011 season between Tampa Bay and Triple A Durham. In 46 games for the Rays, Ruggiano hit .248 (26x105) with four home runs and 13 RBI, while posting a .391 (9x23) clip with runners in scoring position. In 43 games at Durham, he hit .304 (51x168) with seven home runs and 34 RBI with a .518 slugging pct.

Published 02/07/2012 - 6:13 a.m. CST

Head Coach Tony Levine To Open Spring Practice To Fans

HOUSTON, TX - Head Coach Tony Levine and the Houston Football program announced its 2012 spring football practice schedule on Monday, culminating with a unique Friday night Spring Game on April 13 (7 p.m.) at Robertson Stadium. In addition, Levine also announced that each UH spring practice is open to the public.

Practice times and locations are being finalized and that information will be released at a later date.

Excitement around the UH program continues to build as Levine opened his tenure as head coach with a dominating 30-14 victory over nationally-ranked Penn State in the 2012 TicketCity Bowl in Dallas.

TEXANS ANNOUNCE 2012 TICKET PRICES

Published 02/06/2012 - 10:54 a.m. CST

HOUSTON – The Houston Texans announced their ticket prices for the 2012 season on Friday. The Texans’ average general ticket price in 2012 will be $78.66 per ticket, which is up 8.5 percent from $72.47 in 2011.

The price change is the first in two years for the Texans after rates remained flat from 2010-11. It is anticipated that the Texans will once again be in the bottom half of the NFL in ticket prices. Houston’s average ticket price in 2011 ranked eighth among the 12 teams in this season’s playoffs.

Texans season ticket holders received the first opportunity to purchase playoff tickets last season and accounted for more than 97 percent of the tickets sold to the general public for the Texans’ Wild Card Playoff game against Cincinnati on January 7.

UTEP ESCAPES WITH 45-41 WIN AT RICE

Published 02/06/2012 - 6:56 a.m. CST

Host Tulsa on Feb. 12 at 2 p.m.

HOUSTON, TX - UTEP broke a 37-37 tie with a late 6-0 run to pull away from Rice and escape with a tough 45-41 Conference USA women's basketball road victory Sunday inside Tudor Fieldhouse.

The Owls (11-12, 5-5) were down six (37-31), but a basket by Amenemope McKinney, a three-pointer from Brianna Hypolite, and a free throw from Nakachi Maduka tied the contest at 37 (4:49). UTEP's Gloria Brown then scored the next three baskets down low to push the Miners ahead 43-37. Brown would finish with a game-high 16 points off the bench.

SLOW START DOOMS COUGARS AT TULSA

Published 02/06/2012 - 6:55 a.m. CST

Three Cougars score in double figures

TULSA, OK - The University of Houston women's basketball team couldn't overcome a slow start at Tulsa on Sunday afternoon, falling to the Golden Hurricane by a score of 67-53 at Reynolds Center.

Sunday's contest was a tale of two halves for the Cougars, scoring only 12 points and shooting 19 percent (5-of-26) from the field in the opening half before posting 41 points and shooting at a 43 percent (15-of-35) clip in the final 20 minutes.

The Cougars trailed 16-0 before scoring their first point at the free-throw line at the 11:16 mark, while connecting on their first field goal with 10:24 remaining in the first half.

Published 02/05/2012 - 8:22 a.m. CST

At some point today these two will play a football game.

When you think football you think Seinfeld, Madonna, Matt Lauer and Obama….right?

INDIANAPOLIS, IN – It’s Super Bowl Sunday and undoubtedly you can find something related to the Big Game just about anywhere you look today. It will warrant mention in churches across the USA. The television industry is in a frenzy for the big game and to pull you in. Over 111 million people watched last when….when….you know those two teams played and that one became the champs.

Super markets will be packed this morning with greedy grub grabbing suburbanites getting everything that one simply must have for a proper Super Bowl party. The big time pre-game show kicks off at 10 am on NBC today, and everyone who works for NBC will get into the act, even the early morning TODAY Show, because when you think football you think the TODAY Show.

UH FALLS AT TULANE, 75-54

Published 02/05/2012 - 7:05 a.m. CST

Redshirt freshman guard Joseph Young leads team with 17 points; TaShawn Thomas adds 11 points, 8 rebounds

NEW ORLEANS - Tulane jumped out to a 19-5 lead in the first eight minutes and never looked back on the way to a 75-54 win against the University of Houston men's basketball team Saturday evening inside Fogelman Arena.

The Green Wave used hot shooting from the field early, hitting 58.6 percent (17-of-29) from the field in the first half to take a 42-30 lead. Tulane cooled off only slightly in the second half and drained 50 percent (30-of-60) in the game.

RICE FALLS AT ECU, 82-68

Published 02/05/2012 - 7:03 a.m. CST

Owls outrebounded by 10 boards; held to two, second-chance points

GREENVILLE, N.C. - Rice was held in check on the boards, scoring just two second-chance points and East Carolina utilized a second-half surge to beat the Owls 82-68 Saturday in Minges Coliseum.

While the Owls were held to just two points following off five offensive rebounds on the night, ECU scored 14 second-chance points, none bigger than a Paris Campbell three-pointer with 3:25 to play that put the Pirates up by nine, 73-64.

Rice had cut an earlier East Carolina nine-point lead down to five after ECU head coach Jeff Lebo was called for a technical foul.

Published 02/04/2012 - 3:52 p.m. CST

CYFAIR ISD - The Langham Creek High School baseball team has been ranked No. 5 in the state in the 2012 Class 5A Pre-Season Poll released by the Texas High School Baseball Coaches Association (THSBCA) on Jan. 26.

Head coach Armando Sedeño’s Lobos are ranked behind only Corpus Christi Carroll, Spring Branch Memorial, The Woodlands and Southlake Carroll.

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