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Houston billionaire Tillman Fertitta has reached agreement to purchase the Houston Rockets from Leslie Alexander. The $2.2 billion sale price to break the NBA record sale of $2 billion from when the Clippers were sold to Steve Ballmer, according to the person familiar with the terms of the deal. "I am truly honored to have been chosen as the next owner of the Houston Rockets," Fertitta said in a statement. "This is a life-long dream come true." "Leslie Alexander has been one of the best owners in all of sports, and I thank him immensely for this opportunity. He has...

 A change.org petition to make Aug. 26 “Mattress Mack Day” in Houston already has more than 100,000 signatures. “It's time, Houston it's time, that Mattress Mack deserves his own Houston's day/ key to the city,” William Philips posted on the petition. “During Hurricane Harvey he turned the key to his locations and opened them up as Shelters. This man is a Houston icon that deserves to be remembered forever. Signing this petition will help us get what he deserves August 26 is to be declared as Mattress Mack Day in Houston.” After reaching its goal of 150,000 signatures the petition will...

The world needs to follow Houston’s lead and come together, not only to overcome the storm, but to overcome the oppressive divide we are seeing in our nation.   It’s surreal watching all the national reporters posted up on a bridge on I-45, a few minutes from my old house, getting footage as the entire highway and surrounding business that I once drove on daily and shopped at, are completely underwater. We Houstonians don’t tend to get too worked up over storms or hurricanes, we’ve been through them many times before. After a disaster of a hurricane evacuation during Rita...

A Texas mom died Tuesday while saving her infant daughter during Hurricane Harvey flooding in Beaumont, Texas, according to authorities. Beaumont Police said the woman, who was not identified, was spotted by authorities floating in a canal with the small child in Beaumont, which is almost two hours from Houston. "The child was holding on to her mother," the statement said. "The first responders got to the mother and child just before they went under a trestle." According to authorities, the woman and her infant daughter were driving on a service road when they got stuck in high water. The mother...

George Strait made an interesting announcement on Twitter today: Apparently, he is working on relief efforts with the country music community at large. He didn’t elaborate on what exactly those efforts entailed, but we might smell a benefit concert brewing.  We are working on putting together relief efforts with the whole country music community. – GS — George Strait (@GeorgeStrait) August 29, 2017     Strait is originally from the Lone Star State and lives there. He owns a home in Rockport, where Hurricane Harvey first made landfall over the weekend. He also mentioned that the hurricane personally affected some of his family...