Houston Dynamo Start Pre-Season Training... 1st Scrimmage Match This Weekend

Our beloved Houston Dynamo kicked off their pre-season training on Monday. The weather has been a bit of bad luck to the players but I understand that everyone is anxious to get the season underway. All the rumors about stadium locations have kept debate spirited around town and kept the Dynamo on folk's mind. The Dynamo, led by coach Dominic Kinnear, forwards Brian Ching & Louis Angel Landin, and All-Star goalkeeper Pat Onstad, are once again predicted to be a top club in Major League Soccer (MLS).

Here is the link for the Dynamo's pre-season schedule. Most, if not all, pre-season events are open to the public and free of charge.

http://web.mlsnet.com/t200/schedule/2010/preseason.jsp

Houston Dynamo Soccer Considering New Site

Midway Companies has proposed a SW Houston site just south of The Galleria for a mixed-use development to contain a stadium for the Houston Dynamo. There will be retail, residential, transit, and a stadium all encompassed in the new development.

This story from the Houston Chronicle (www.chron.com)lays out this alternative plan that would see the Dynamo locate outside of the originally planned downtown area. Views are mixed on the subject but soccer fans around Houston are simply looking for any resolution.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/soc/6837680.html

The Guy Expo Comes to Houston, TX This Weekend

This from The Guy Expo Website http://www.theguyexpo.com/

You can’t beat it! Beer, power tools and no line forming outside the Ladies Room. You got your geeky gadgets, choice home theater equipment and hobby stuff lined up right there along with As-Seen-On-TV stuff. Serious high-end gear, test products and stuff you can’t ever find is everywhere you look, just waiting to join the stuff already in the free shwag bag. If you weren’t such a guy, you could start your Christmas shopping early.

Is your Fortress of Solitude ready for a make over? Studies show that 62% of all guy lairs, man caves and finished basements are not able to reach their full potential without some major ampage and overt 3D statements of home team allegiance. The Guy Expo is the place for your home within the home. There are only two good reasons to leave the lair. One of them is grilling. Check out the grills, smokers, utensils, paraphernalia and a ton of tailgating gear.

Who’s ready to hoist one? Sample 6 beers for 5 bucks at The Guy Expo’s very own Beer-a-thon, where you can vote for your favorite. Then move on into the Novemberfest Beer Garden for full-size beers and a bevy of big screen TVs for your game viewing pleasure. Yes, it’s all about you. Grab a fresh cold one & visit the Tricked-Out Garage. You’ll want to move in!

The Houston stop on The Guy Expo tour will be showcasing local St. Arnold beer. Over there you’ll see a gaggle of beers go head-to-head in the Beer-a-Thon competition. Sample and vote for The Guy Expo Beer of the Year. Then step on into the "NovemberFest" Beer Garden where you can do more than just sample. While you’re there, check out The 50-Yard Line Viewing Area to catch your favorite games and a yard of beer to quench your thirst.

Don’t miss the live music, the celebrity appearances, cheerleaders and more cheerleaders from all your favorite local teams, and all the goofy contests that make us proud to be men. Like Beer Can Stacking, now that takes skill. Motor on into The Guy Expo and get hit with a mile-long midway of stuff to see and do: presentations, exhibits, clinics, demos, laser rifle range, cars, tailgating, music, recreation, pro sports teams, and your chance to win free beer and wings for a year!

All of this takes place at the George R. Brown Center this weekend (Nov. 6-8) in downtown Houston.

Two Houston Hispanic Community Leaders Win National Awards

Rice University professor Richard Tapia has received the annual Hispanic Heritage Award for Math and Science at a ceremony in the nation’s capital.
Tapia, an engineering professor and director of Rice’s Center for Excellence and Equity in Education, was honored Sept. 29 at a star-studded ceremony on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

He was cited for his international reputation for research in the computational and mathematical sciences and is a national leader in education and outreach.
Born in Los Angeles to parents who emigrated from Mexico as teenagers to seek educational opportunities, Tapia was the first in his family to attend college. He was the first native-born Hispanic elected to the National Academy of Engineering and in 2005, he earned Rice’s highest academic title, University Professor, becoming only the sixth person to earn the rank at Rice.
Ten-time world champion boxer Oscar de la Hoya, whose Los Angeles-based Golden Boy Promotions company owns 25 percent of the Houston Dynamo soccer team, received the Achievement in Sports Award, and was recognized for his accomplishments in the ring and his impact on the Hispanic community.
“I feel truly privileged to be receiving this award,” said de la Hoya. “To be recognized along with such influential members of the Hispanic community is a great honor.”
The Hispanic Heritage Awards were created by the White House in 1988.