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Matthew Kitchen

Matthew Kitchen

Editorial Director at Chron.com

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Astros magic number: Houston's bats come alive against Angels

Seven Astros had multi-hit games Saturday night, including star right fielder Kyle Tucker, who's gone 8-9 across the last two games.
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Arch Manning's first Texas start won't be on TV. Here's how to watch.

Longhorns fans expecting to catch Saturday's game from the comfort of their couches may be in for a rude surprise. Grab your credit card and follow along here.
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C.J. Stroud goes crazy on sidelines of Texans' first preseason game

Despite donning street clothes during Thursday's relatively meaningless game, Stroud couldn't contain his passion and excitement for his young teammates.
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Live: Houston airports, ports, health systems hit by worldwide outages

Texas A&M cancels classes UPDATE: 11:22 a.m. CT Texas A&M University-College Station posted on X that all classes scheduled for Friday, July 19, would be canceled, citing “vendor IT outages.” However, all university campuses remain open, and operations are running regularly. “This outage was caused by a faulty update to the application and causes Windows computers to enter a reboot loop. This was not caused by a cyberattack, but rather a technical issue with the vendor,” university officials sai…
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Texas judge rules Jerry Jones must take paternity test

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was ordered by a Texas judge earlier this month to take a paternity test, upholding a 2022 decision in a legal dispute brought by Alexandra Davis, which Jones’ lawyers had contested. The 27-year-old woman alleges that the NFL magnate and oil-and-gas billionaire is her biological father and that she’s the product of a relationship her mother had with Jones sometime in the mid-1990s. According to Davis, Jones agreed to financially support her so long as he never ha…
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Missing Texas girl Audrii Cunningham found dead in Trinity River - ...

UPDATE: Feb. 20 Audrii Cunningham, the 11-year-old girl who went missing six days ago while on her way to school in Livingston, Texas was found dead Tuesday afternoon, Polk County Sheriff Byron Lyons announced Tuesday afternoon. Search crews located her body in an area around US-59 and the Trinity River Bridge near her home in Livingston, Texas. The sheriff said the Trinity River Authority slowed down the outflow from the reservoir to lower the water levels in the river so search teams could lo…
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Steve Sarkisian earns new $10M contract, plus huge bonuses - Chron

After leading the Texas Longhorns to their first ever College Football Playoff this past season, head coach Steve Sarkisian was bound to get that bag. Just in time, too, as Texas is set to join the SEC and its vaunted slate of opponents including Georgia, Alabama and LSU next year. Sarkisian’s new salary, which reportedly starts at $10.3 million in 2024 and scales up by $100,000 each season until 2030, is nearly double the $5.8 million he was originally expected to make. His extension is set to…
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Why Mattress Mack won't be throwing out Saturday's first pitch

Houston icon and persistent furniture salesman Jim ‘Mattress Mack’ McIngvale was originally scheduled to throw out the first pitch of Saturday afternoon’s playoff matchup between his beloved Astros and the Minnesota Twins at Minute Maid Park. However, McIngvale claims those plans were abruptly upended when one of his national competitors forced the Astros to cancel his appearance. In a video posted Saturday to X, formerly known as Twitter, McIngvale starts out by saying how excited he was when…
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$8 million estate is the closest thing to a private island in Houston

The 13,000 square-foot “architectural masterpiece” designed by Houston visionary Robert Dame was inspired by the great estates of Europe.
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Former Astros ace Justin Verlander to start season on injured list

The Mets right hander was scheduled to start in Miami on Saturday night before suffering...
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A behind-the-scenes look at how Houston's Final Four court was built

The NCAA tournament’s games require pristine floors, and prepping them for tip-off is a...
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Altuve to undergo surgery on fractured thumb, no timeline on return

Houston’s second baseman took a fastball to the hand Saturday night while playing in the...
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Altuve hit in wrist by fastball, knocked out of WBC quarterfinals

Update: Jose Altuve to undergo surgery on fractured right thumb Houston Astros star Jose Altuve was knocked out of the World Baseball Classic quarterfinals Saturday night after he was hit in the hand by an inside fastball from USA reliever Daniel Bard in the fifth inning. Altuve, who’s suiting up for his home country of Venezuela during this month’s international event, didn’t return to the game. According to a report from USA Today’s Bob Nightengale, Altuve could miss eight to 10 weeks with a b…
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Buc-ee's continues nationwide takeover with Virginia store

It seems everyone is finally discovering what Texans have known all along.
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This robot says what we’re all thinking about Astros season

The machines seem very confident in Houston’s aims to repeat as World Series champions...
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'Dilbert' dropped by Houston Chronicle after racist rant

The strip’s creator Scott Adams called Black Americans a “hate group” in a video posted...
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Alex Bregman and wife Reagan post first photos of newborn baby boy

The couple announced Knox Samuel’s arrival on Instagram Tuesday with a photo of him...
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Texas Taco Cabana is overrun with rats in viral TikTok

The video shot at a San Antonio Taco Cabana this week proved just how horrifying—not...
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Surveillance footage shows Uvalde police didn't attempt to open cla...

Despite doors at Robb Elementary locking automatically, the gunman was able to enter...
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Great Scott! Rare ‘Back to the Future’ VHS sells for $75,000 at Tex...

A digital copy of “Back to the Future” will set you back about $15 on iTunes. Real BTTF nerds might spring for the complete trilogy in its limited edition steelbook form, now $70 on Amazon. But if you really, really want to prove your bonafides, you need to own it on VHS, for which the market has likely ballooned now that a copy was sold by Texas’ Heritage Auctions for $75,000. Granted, the one sold last week is far from a normal VHS. First, it’s sealed in its original Shrinkwrap, including the…
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'Life is short': Ken Paxton faces backlash for suggesting Uvalde ma...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton made another in a string of tone deaf media appearances in the wake of the Uvalde, Texas school shooting, this time telling conservative radio host Pastor Trey Graham that while it’s difficult for him to offer comfort to the parents of the 19 students killed at Robb Elementary School on May 24, he believes “God always has a plan.” During the interview, which actually happened on May 29 but was unearthed by Salon this week, Paxton spoke for about 20 minutes with…