The White Sox last won the World Series in 2005 when they played the Houston Astros and swept them in four games.

Their lone victory made them the first Texas MLB team to win a World Series game, the Houston Astros having been swept in their 2005 World Series appearance.

Atlanta swept Houston in the best-of-five series.

Houston left for Texas in December 1832 and was immediately swept up in the politics of what was still a territory of the Mexican state of Coahuila.

The Houston Rockets swept Orlando 4 – 0 in the Finals to take the crown.

However, in the playoffs the Timberwolves made a quick exit as they were swept by the Houston Rockets in 3 straight games.

Los Angeles defeated Houston in the first round of the playoffs, but were swept by San Antonio in the next round with game 4 being the last game ever played at the Great Western Forum.

Grant helped the Magic reach the 1995 NBA Finals, where they were swept in four games by the more experienced Houston Rockets.

The Patriots lost to the Washington Redskins 20-17 in Week Four but swept the rest of the NFC East and the entire AFC South ; the Patriots shut out Dallas in bitter cold and edged the Giants in the rain while hammering Philly following the infamously erroneous " They hate their coach " quote from Tom Jackson ; the Patriots also edged the Titans, Houston in overtime, and former division rival Indianapolis in shootouts while routing Jacksonville ( which like Carolina had entered the NFL in 1995 ) in the regular season, and then edged the Titans and hammered the Colts in the playoffs.

By his third season, he led the league in scoring and led the Magic to the NBA Finals, where they were swept by the Houston Rockets, with O ' Neal out-played by the more experienced Olajuwon.

The Braves swept the Houston Astros in three games in the 1997 National League Division Series before losing to the eventual world champion Florida Marlins in the 1997 National League Championship Series.

The Lakers sweep of the Nets was the first sweep in the Finals since Houston swept Orlando in the 1995 Finals.

They beat the Phoenix Roadrunners and the Minnesota Fighting Saints to reach the finals, where they were swept in four games by the Gordie Howe-led Houston Aeros.

After defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers, 3 games to 1, in the National League Division Series, and the Houston Astros, 4 games to 3, in the NLCS, they went to the World Series for the first time since 1987, where they played the Boston Red Sox, but were swept.

Houston advanced to the NBA Playoffs but was swept in two opening-round games by the Atlanta Hawks.

* Chicago White Sox swept ( 4-0 ) the Houston Astros to win the 2005 World Series.

He earned a no-decision in Game 2 and his first career save in Game 3 of the 2005 World Series, which the Sox swept from the Houston Astros, winning their first world championship since 1917.

At the University of Houston, she joined the League of Mexican-American students, which was part of the fight for Chicano studies, bilingual-bicultural education, affirmative action, and U. S. withdrawal from Vietnam that swept the Southwest in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

This loss dropped the Dodgers three games behind the Astros and cost them the chance to win the National League West division outright when they swept Houston in the final three games of the year.

This time, Houston would beat The St. Louis Cardinals in the National League Championship Series in six games and win the pennant only to be swept by the Chicago White Sox in the World Series.

During their time in the IHL, the team made it to three Turner Cup finals, being swept by the Utah Grizzlies in 1996, losing in game seven to the Houston Aeros in 1999 and defeating the Chicago Wolves in five games in 2001.

Los Angeles defeated Houston 3-1 in the first round of the playoffs, but were swept by San Antonio in the next round with game 4 being the last game ever played at the Great Western Forum.

Upon his return to the astronaut corps in Houston, he played a key role in training Apollo crews to be geologic observers when they were in lunar orbit and competent geologic field workers when they were on the lunar surface.

** USA Cycling canceled the BMC Software Tour of Houston scheduled for September 16, which was a key event in that year's Pro Cycling Tour, involving elite domestic and international cyclists.

By this time, he was both an antisemite-influenced by Houston Stewart Chamberlain's book The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century ( one of the key proto-Nazi books of racial theory )-and an anti-bolshevik ( as a result of his family's exile ).

Houston became a key figure in the history of Texas and was elected as the first and third President of the Republic of Texas, U. S. Senator for Texas after it joined the United States, and finally as a governor of the state.

TMX Group is headquartered in Toronto and operates offices across Canada ( Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver ), in key U. S. markets ( New York, Houston, Boston and Chicago ) as well as in London, Beijing and Sydney.

His brother Gasper played a key role in the early years and went on to found Houston Records in 1958.

Houston Chronicle writer Amy Blancolll said her performance, " a bare-bones accomplishment of no small heft ," was the movie's key.

Wolyniec was again a key figure scoring the third goal in a 3-0 rout of Houston in Robertson Stadium.

He made four starts in relief of an injured Collins, going 3-1, and leading the Panthers to several key victories including dominant performances at the Houston Oilers ( where he threw for 3 TDs and no INTs ), and a 23-7 win over the perennial NFC West powerhouse San Francisco 49ers, which at the time was called " perhaps the best game of his career.

He was a key contributor in the Bills comeback win against the Houston Oilers, which occurred after the Bills trailed 35-3 early in the third quarter in a playoff game after the 1992 season.

This established his first experience in working with black politicians and he later became a key player in similar mayoral campaigns of blacks, including Dennis Archer in Detroit, Michael R. White in Cleveland, Anthony A. Williams in Washington, D. C., Lee P. Brown in Houston, and John F. Street in Philadelphia.

He was a key player for the expansion Houston Texans, being their placekicker for the entirety of the team's existence until 2010.

Aimco ’ s key markets include Los Angeles, Seattle, Philadelphia, South Florida, Atlanta, Chicago, Suburban New York / New Jersey, San Jose, Orange County, California, Jacksonville, Manhattan, Houston, Denver, Dallas-Fort Worth, East Bay, Tampa, San Diego, Phoenix, Orlando, Washington / Northern Virginia / Maryland, San Francisco Boston And Virginia.

Much as DeFrancis's use of fighter-bombers and heavy bombers proves key to providing Dowling the edge over the Confederates in west Texas, now the recreated US state of Houston.

As events unfolded, the new league never got off the drawing board ; it was doomed once three of its key cities gained Major League franchises in 1961 – 1962 ( New York and Houston got expansion National League franchises, while the American League Washington Senators moved to Minneapolis-St. Paul ).

* Set a Vikings ’ record with 610 combined net yards in a 3-game span in 2004 ( at Houston, at New Orleans, vs. Tennessee ), topping the old mark of 573 set by Chuck Foreman in 1976.

Previously, because of a players ' strike in 1981, a split-season format forced a divisional playoff series, in which the Montreal Expos won the Eastern Division series over the Philadelphia Phillies three games to two while the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Houston Astros three games to two in the Western Division.

Though the Astros were poised to close out the series in Game Five in Houston, Brad Lidge gave up a monstrous two-out three-run home run to Albert Pujols, forcing the series to a sixth game in St. Louis, where the Astros clinched a World Series appearance.

Despite their regular season success, the Spurs were unable to win any NBA championships, losing in the Western Conference playoffs to the Houston Rockets in the first round of the 1981 and the Los Angeles Lakers in in 4 games 1982 and in 6 games in the 1983 Western Finals despite getting both wins at the Forum in the 1983 series.

Game 5 of the series was highlighted by the famous Dream Shake move by Hakeem Olajuwon in Game 5 at the Alamodome the Spurs lost 111 – 90 in front of 35, 000 fans and lost the series in Houston in Game 6.

Houston won the series when Ralph Sampson hit a 20-foot jumper as time expired in game five at The Forum.

The second movie was the most successful of the series, bringing in 8. 1 million viewers in the U. S. It scored an 86-date concert tour, and was on the top 10 tours of 2006 ; the tour broke a record at the Houston Rodeo that was set by Elvis Presley in 1973.

In a hard fought series, the Mercury fell 2 games to 1 to the defending champion Houston Comets.

* Reuben Houston " Rube " Burrow, The most wanted outlaw of the late 1880s, he committed a series of train robberies along with his younger brother James Buchanan " Jim " Burrow.

In 2005, Brown signed a deal with Bravo to overlook the direction of the reality series, Being Bobby Brown, but it was said that he had to convince producers that his then-wife Whitney Houston would appear on the show.

Five Red Herrings was adapted for television in 1975 as part of a series starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter and Glyn Houston as Bunter.

* October 31 – George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic begin " The P-Funk / Rubber Band Earth Tour " in Houston, a national live series highlighting one of the biggest and revolutionary stage shows in the history of the music industry ( the rock group Kiss would be the other group to do a similar act ), relying on elaborate costumes, special lighting and effects, and extremely large props including " the Mothership ", which would arrive and land on stage, all of what this band is generally known for.

Ebsen's last regular television series was Matt Houston on ABC, starring Lee Horsley.

They played a competitive Western Conference Finals but fell to the defending champion Houston Comets, 2 games to 1, in the three-game series.

Evan Levine of the Houston Chronicle commented " With its backdrop of dark streets, nighttime adventures and run-down buildings, all seen from a child's point of view, the series combines a street-smart attitude with a dark comic edge.

** Houston Comets defeat the New York Liberty in one game playoff series.

On March 28, 2012, the IndyCar series announced that Grand Prix of Houston will return in 2013 to the temporary circuit in Reliant Park.

As of 2012, she is starring as Julia Houston, a leading role in the NBC musical drama series Smash.

Riley returned to the NBA Finals in 1994, but his Knicks lost in seven games to the Houston Rockets after being up 3 – 2 in the series, and it denied New York City the distinction of both NBA and NHL titles in the same year.

This led to Temple moving to the United States, where he was offered the film Earth Girls Are Easy, as well as a series of music videos for such artists as Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson, Eric B & Rakim, Neil Young and Tom Petty.

In possibly his finest moment as an Astro, Kent hit a three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth in Game 5 of the 2004 National League Championship Series to put Houston ahead of the St. Louis Cardinals 3-2 in the series.