Are you ready for some (more) football, Houston? The Texans take the field tonight, and we’re already hyped for college football kickoff here in just a little over a week! Start getting ready for gridiron action to return to Houston right here, plus find out below how you can score a lifetime pass to working in style no matter which game you’re traveling to!

Enter today for your chance to win a lifetime membership to Switchyards, the world’s first neighborhood work club. This unique club give you the chance to make connections and focus on the day’s work in a beautifully designed space on the East End. With the ability to pop into Switchyards around the country, you can follow your favorite team without ever worrying about spotty hotel Wi-Fi or broken-down desks again!

PLAY BALL

• It’s the second week in a row of Texans Thursday night football as Houston faces Fernando Mendoza and the Raiders in preseason action tonight!

• If you’re looking for a different kind of football tonight, catch the Houston Cougars soccer home opener against Northwestern State.

• Saddle up for a huge weekend of Space Cowboys baseball as Sugar Land squares off with the OKC Comets for Harry Potter Night, Books at the Ballpark and Augtoberfest this week!

• Take your pup to the ballpark this weekend when the Astros battle the Athletics during back-to-back dog days on Saturday and Sunday.

• Meet Jose Altuve, Yordan Alvarez, Jeremy Pena, Drew Brees and even more sports legends during the Dallas Card Show’s first trip to H-Town this weekend at the George R. Brown Convention Center!

UPDATED HOUSTON SPORTS CARD SHOP GUIDE

With the first NFL licensed 2026 football cards rolling out tomorrow, we’ve updated our guide to sports card shops around H-Town to help you find the best spot to grab some packs. With new destinations for finding grails and ripping packs opening up in recent months, our updated guide will help you find the best places around the city for expanding your collection. Let’s get ripping, Houston!

THIS WEEK

LOCALS ONLY

• Houston Sports Highlight of the Week: Texans fans will want to snag the September issue of Sports Illustrated after the team’s incredible defense became the starring cover athletes for the magazine’s football preview! Check out the cover here, plus read SI’s feature on Will Anderson Jr. and the rest of this ferocious Houston defensive unit here.

• College Sports Report: The highly anticipated Associated Press Preseason College Football Poll went live earlier this week. Houston came in as the #23-ranked team in the country, the program’s highest ranking since 2016. Take a look at the full AP Poll here to see which teams Houston will be leaping past once the season kicks off!

• The Sports Story You Need to See: While Astros fans know the AL MVP race is virtually settled with Yordan Alvarez still very much in the hunt for a Triple Crown, the NL MVP race between Shohei Ohtani and Pete Crow-Armstrong has been the talk of the ballpark lately. Ohtani was dominant on the mound during 14 starts before a knee injury took him out of the rotation, with his prolific hitting prowess still on display to boot. Meanwhile, PCA has posted the first back-to-back 30 home run and 30 stolen base seasons in Cubs history, alongside the kind of defensive performance in center field that would even make the Houston Texans proud. See a breakdown of where this hotly debated MVP race stands with this ESPN article.

• What We’re Watching: NFL preseason action rolls on tonight after week 1 gave us plenty to talk about between emerging rookie QBs, camp standouts making waves and our first look at the newest trends sweeping the league. Discover 10 things to watch during this week’s preseason action, plus how to catch all of the games, inside this NFL.com story.

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