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For my opinions and decisions on the week 9 NFL match-ups, I tap into a completely different [...]</description><enclosure url="http://www.shockwave-sound.com/sound-effects/scream%20sounds/cri-d-effroi-scream.wav" length="22826" type="audio/x-wav" /><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://torotimes.com/2009/11/05/torodamus-week-9-predictions-pontifications/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/">0</slash:comments></item><item><title>Brian Cushing wins his 2nd AFC Player of the Week, Rap Album Soon to Follow?</title><link>http://torotimes.com/2009/11/04/brian-cushing-wins-his-2nd-afc-player-of-the-week-rap-album-soon-to-follow/</link><category>Breaking News</category><category>NFL</category><category>News</category><category>Texans</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">johnwessling</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:21:45 PST</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://torotimes.com/?p=338</guid><description>For his 10 tackles, 1 sack and 1 pick against the Bills last Sunday, Texans rookie LB Brian Cushing gets a shiny new trophy for his parents&amp;#8217; house&amp;#8230;or maybe it&amp;#8217;s a platinum chain&amp;#8230;or a coupon for one free neck tattoo&amp;#8230;who knows what kind of prizes NFL players get?
Congrats Cush! You&amp;#8217;ve earned it the hard way, [...]</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://torotimes.com/2009/11/04/brian-cushing-wins-his-2nd-afc-player-of-the-week-rap-album-soon-to-follow/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/">0</slash:comments></item><item><title>Ten Tips for Jumping on The Houston Texans Bandwagon</title><link>http://torotimes.com/2009/11/03/ten-tips-for-jumping-on-the-houston-texans-bandwagon/</link><category>Fantasy</category><category>Fanzone/Tailgating</category><category>NFL</category><category>Off Topic/Other</category><category>Texans</category><category>cowboy hat mafia</category><category>david carr sucks</category><category>fantasy football failure</category><category>Gary Kubiak</category><category>jeff zgonina is tough</category><category>personalized NFL jerseys</category><category>shaolin schaub</category><category>Texans Bandwagon</category><category>Texans Winning Streak</category><category>toro</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">johnwessling</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:17:24 PST</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://torotimes.com/?p=304</guid><description>Smell that? That&amp;#8217;s victory. The Houston Texans are sneakily becoming the hottest team in the NFL, so now it&amp;#8217;s time for you to get off the fence and fully commit yourself as a die-hard, true-blue, double-barrel, bona-fide FANATIC.
The Texans bandwagon is quite roomy, with drink service and free nachos&amp;#8230;let me show you how to fit [...]</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://torotimes.com/2009/11/03/ten-tips-for-jumping-on-the-houston-texans-bandwagon/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/">0</slash:comments></item><item><title>Texans Throttle Buffalo, Lose TE Daniels for Season</title><link>http://torotimes.com/2009/11/01/texans-throttle-buffalo-lose-te-daniels-for-season/</link><category>Breaking News</category><category>Gameday</category><category>Injuries</category><category>NFL</category><category>News</category><category>Texans</category><category>Video</category><category>3 game winning streak</category><category>brain cushing twitter</category><category>knee injury</category><category>owen daniels out for season</category><category>ryan moats superstar</category><category>steve slaton benched</category><category>texans beat bills</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">johnwessling</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:37:03 PST</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://torotimes.com/?p=291</guid><description>The Houston Texans beat Buffalo 31-10 on the back of Ryan &amp;#8220;Game Over&amp;#8221; Moats who ran strong for 3 TD&amp;#8217;s in the 4th quarter.
Louisiana Tech&amp;#8217;s own Ryan Moats ended his career best day with 126 yards rushing on 23 carries and the 3 money-balls. You just heard two sounds&amp;#8230;one was Steve Slaton&amp;#8217;s ass hitting the [...]</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://torotimes.com/2009/11/01/texans-throttle-buffalo-lose-te-daniels-for-season/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/">0</slash:comments></item><item><title>Andre Johnson is Tougher Than You.</title><link>http://torotimes.com/2009/10/30/andre-johnson-is-tougher-than-you/</link><category>Injuries</category><category>NFL</category><category>News</category><category>Texans</category><category>andre johnson lung contusion</category><category>brian cushing foot</category><category>fat gamers</category><category>jeff spicoli</category><category>NFL injury report</category><category>terminator face</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">johnwessling</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:02:12 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://torotimes.com/?p=276</guid><description>I don&amp;#8217;t think he should be tested for performance enhancing drugs, I think he should be tested for machinery and adamantium parts!

After the Texans victory over the 49ers in week 7, Andre Johnson went to the hospital with what was first described as a chest contusion and was later updated to be a LUNG contusion.
Long [...]</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://torotimes.com/2009/10/30/andre-johnson-is-tougher-than-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/">0</slash:comments></item><item><title>Two Wins in a Row? We’re Going Streaking!!</title><link>http://torotimes.com/2009/10/29/two-wins-in-a-row-were-going-streaking/</link><category>NFL</category><category>Texans</category><category>breaking the curse</category><category>fans</category><category>houston texans winning streak</category><category>NFL wild card</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">johnwessling</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:31:35 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://torotimes.com/?p=260</guid><description>Rejoice Texans fans! Rejoice for we have been liberated from the curse of lose/win/lose/win! Now is the time to make our move to the middle of the AFC Wild Card discussion!
By hanging on to win against the 49ers last Sunday, The Texans snapped the cycle of mediocrity, stepping boldly from the balanced grasp of two [...]</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://torotimes.com/2009/10/29/two-wins-in-a-row-were-going-streaking/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/">1</slash:comments></item><item><title>Steve McNair laid to rest</title><link>http://torotimes.com/2009/07/13/steve-mcnair-laid-to-rest/</link><category>Texans</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">andy</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:37:04 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://torotimes.com/?p=201</guid><description>Steve McNair was laid to rest Saturday as almost 5,000 turned out for the former NFL star&amp;#8217;s funeral in his home town of Hattiesburg, Mississippi.  Among the NFL players present to pay their final respects were Ray Lewis, Brett Favre, Vince Young and many others.
Police have determined that McNair was shot, most likely while [...]</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://torotimes.com/2009/07/13/steve-mcnair-laid-to-rest/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/">0</slash:comments></item><item><title>Gun that killed McNair purchased Thursday by second victim</title><link>http://torotimes.com/2009/07/07/gun-that-killed-mcnair-purchased-thursday-by-second-victim-poilice-say/</link><category>Texans</category><category>mcnair kazemi murder titans nfl</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">andy</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:18:29 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://torotimes.com/2009/07/07/gun-that-killed-mcnair-purchased-thursday-by-second-victim-poilice-say/</guid><description>More developments on the Steve McNair homicide investigation:
Police have determined that the pistol found at the scene had been purchased two days prior by Sahel Kazemi.
Police have been reluctant to rule on Kazemi&amp;#8217;s death because they are still seeking a motive.
The case is still open but in light of the current developments I think it&amp;#8217;s [...]</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://torotimes.com/2009/07/07/gun-that-killed-mcnair-purchased-thursday-by-second-victim-poilice-say/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/">1</slash:comments></item><item><title>More details surrounding Steve McNair’s death revealed by police.</title><link>http://torotimes.com/2009/07/06/more-details-surrounding-steve-mcnairs-death-revealed-by-police/</link><category>Breaking News</category><category>NFL</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">andy</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:30:22 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://torotimes.com/?p=180</guid><description>Police have officially ruled Steve McNair&amp;#8217;s death as a homicide.  They have also publicly identified the other deceased at the crime scene as Saleh Kazemi, a woman whom McNair had apparently been dating for several months.  The police have yet to rule the cause of death for the second victim.  They have [...]</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://torotimes.com/2009/07/06/more-details-surrounding-steve-mcnairs-death-revealed-by-police/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/">1</slash:comments></item><item><title>Steve McNair fatally shot</title><link>http://torotimes.com/2009/07/04/steve-mcnair-fatally-shot/</link><category>Breaking News</category><category>NFL</category><category>Texans</category><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">andy</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:29:28 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://torotimes.com/?p=170</guid><description>Former Houston Oiler/Tennesee Titan and Baltimore Raven quarterback Steve McNair was found dead in his Nashville home on Saturday along with another woman who has yet to be identified.  Details surrounding his death are still unclear.
McNair was universally regarded as one of toughest players in the league throughout his distinguished career.  He was [...]</description><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://torotimes.com/2009/07/04/steve-mcnair-fatally-shot/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/">0</slash:comments></item></channel></rss>
