COULD THE X GAMES BE COMING TO HOUSTON? 
Even if the Astrodome’s still around and Houston’s bid to host the 2016 Super Bowl falls through, an important international competition might still be staged here: “ESPN said in January [that] Houston was one of 13 contenders it was considering as a host” for the 2014-2016 X Games, reports the Houston Business Journal’s Bayan Raji. The Lee and Joe Jamail Skatepark on Sabine St. (shown here) is at the center of the Harris County-Houston Sports Authority bid to put on the tricksters’ event that’s been in L.A. the past 9 years, writes Raji, along with Reliant Stadium and the Dynamo’s BBVA Compass Stadium. Whether the skatepark going up in Greenspoint, billed in January as the largest in the U.S., also figures in the bid Raji doesn’t say; ESPN will announce which of the 13 cities are finalists this spring. [Houston Business Journal; previously on Swamplot] Photo: David Fross
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This is exciting news, ESPN imo is fairly irrelevant anymore. They’re more the Yankees and Redsox network during baseball season, and Farve watch during football, but I enjoy tuning in for the xgames, and I would absolutely buy tickets.
Chron seems on board http://www.chron.com/opinion/editorials/article/Houston-s-equipped-to-host-Summer-X-Games-4283422.php
I miss the ESPN 8, The Ocho.
like I said earlier, x-sports would be perfect in the ‘dome year-round. Annual x-games could certainly put that idea into play.
would be cool but i imagine there’s more benefits to their vendors and advertisers to keep it in california. a lot more money is inolved with these sports in CA than TX and only reason to come here would be because it’s cheap.