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Strange but true: Muhammad Ali celebrates in Houston with heavyweight champ-sized birthday cake

Strange but true: Muhammad Ali celebrates in Houston with heavyweight champ-sized birthday cake

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Strange but true: Muhammad Ali celebrates in Houston with heavyweight champ-sized birthday cake

Strange but True Houston Sports

Strange but true: Muhammad Ali celebrates in Houston with heavyweight champ-sized birthday cake

To celebrate the champ turning 25, officials from the Astrodome presented him with a 578-pound cake.
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Strange but True: Houston Dynamo fires coach after just 244 days on the job

When Paulo Nagamura was hired in January, Dynamo GM Pat Onstad raved about the 38-year-old who had coached Kansas City’s minor league club.
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Strange but True: Houston Dynamo fires coach after just 244 days on the job

When Paulo Nagamura was hired in January, Dynamo GM Pat Onstad raved about the 38-year-old who had coached Kansas City’s minor league club.
Strange but True Houston Sports

Strange but true: Houston Oilers hold training camp in Hawaii

It was a weird 1961 season for the Oilers. They had preseason camp in Hawaii, fired their head coach after 5 games and then won 10 straight for another AFL title.
Strange but True Houston Sports

Strange but true: Houston Oilers hold training camp in Hawaii

It was a weird 1961 season for the Oilers. They had preseason camp in Hawaii, fired their head coach after 5 games and then won 10 straight for another AFL title.
Strange but True Houston Sports

Strange but True: Muhammad Ali vs. Wilt Chamberlain in the Astrodome?

It’s ‘the greatest’ versus ‘the biggest.’ So why didn’t it happen?
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Strange but True: Muhammad Ali vs. Wilt Chamberlain in the Astrodome?

Here's the Strange but True Houston Sports Story about how Muhammad Ali almost fought Wilt Chamberlain in the Astrodome.
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Strange but true: UT lineman gets draft advice...from space!

Tommy Nobis was drafted by Atlanta in the NFL and Houston in the AFL. A Houston astronaut sent a message for Nobis from space!
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Strange but true: Lineman Tommy Nobis gets support from space!

University of Texas linebacker Tommy Nobis was drafted by Atlanta in the NFL and Houston in the AFL. Houston astronaut Frank Borman tried to recruit him to Houston!
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Strange but true: Oilers GM arrested at wedding reception

Ladd Herzeg reportedly pushes an elderly man and then slugs the brother of the bride in the mouth because the wedding band was playing past the team's curfew.
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Strange but true: Meet the baker behind Willie Mays’ 569 pound cake

The gigantic cake in the shape of Willie’s uniform number 24 weighed 569 pounds