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Getting to Know Bo Porter

Updated: Friday, September 28 2012, 09:46 PM CDT
New Houston Astros manager Bo Porter played college football at Iowa. He started at defensive back for the Hawkeyes in the 1992 Rose Bowl. Now Porter gets to tackle the job of rebuilding the Astros, a team that has lost 100 games in back to back seasons.

The Astros gig is Porter's first managerial job in the Major Leagues, but he's no stranger to the game or to Houston. The Washington Nationals third base coach makes his home in the Bayou City and his wife is a Houston native. Porter even started a select baseball program in Houston several years ago.

Matt Stuart, a former pitcher at Southwestern University in Georgetown played for Bo Porter from 2003 to 2005 with the Texas Hawkeyes. Stuart says even back then, he could tell Bo knows baseball and was destined for big things.

"You could definitely tell that he was moving on to bigger and better things pretty quickly," Stuart told KEYE TV sports. "Everything was very structured."

Porter's fiery demeanor is one of his staples.

"Baseball is a long game with a long season, so its easy to go through the lulls of it," said Stuart. "[Bo] wont let happen, he's going to be energetic every time. It's not a fake energy either, and that's really obvious."

Getting to Know Bo Porter


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Scores & Schedules

May 17, 2013 10:02 GMT

NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION PLAYOFFS

CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS - BEST OF SEVEN

Thursday's Scores

New York 85, Indiana 75 -- Indiana leads series 3-2

San Antonio 94, Golden State 82 -- San Antonio wins series 4-2

Friday's Games

No Games Scheduled

NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE - STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS

CONFRENCE SEMIFINALS - BEST OF SEVEN

Thursday's Scores

Boston 3, N.Y. Rangers 2, OT -- Boston leads series 1-0

Los Angeles 4, San Jose 3 -- Los Angeles leads series 2-0

Friday, May 17

Ottawa at Pittsburgh, 7:30 p.m. -- Pittsburgh leads series 1-0

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

AMERICAN LEAGUE

Thursday's Scores

Seattle 3, N.Y. Yankees 2

Boston 4, Tampa Bay 3

Texas 10, Detroit 4

Chicago White Sox 5, L.A. Angels 4

Friday's Games

Houston (Lyle's 1-1) at Pittsburgh (J.Gomez 2-0), 7:05 p.m.

Seattle (Maurer 2-5) at Cleveland (U.Jimenez 3-2), 7:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Hellickson 1-2) at Baltimore (Hammel 5-1), 7:05 p.m.

Toronto (Buehrle 1-2) at N.Y. Yankees (Kuroda 5-2), 7:05 p.m.

Detroit (Porcello 1-2) at Texas (Tepesch 3-3), 8:05 p.m.

Boston (Buchholz 6-0) at Minnesota (Worley 1-4), 8:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Sale 4-2) at L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 3-2), 10:05 p.m.

Kansas City (Shields 2-3) at Oakland (Parker 2-5), 10:05 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Thursday's Scores

N.Y. Mets 5, St. Louis 2

Pittsburgh 7, Milwaukee 1

Cincinnati 5, Miami 3, 10 innings

San Francisco 8, Colorado 6

Washington 6, San Diego 2

Friday's Games

N.Y. Mets (Harvey 4-0) at Chicago Cubs (E.Jackson 1-5), 2:20 p.m.

Cincinnati (Cingrani 2-0) at Philadelphia (Lee 4-2), 7:05 p.m.

Houston (Lyles 1-1) at Pittsburgh (J.Gomez 2-0), 7:05 p.m.

Arizona (Cahill 2-4) at Miami (Slowey 1-3), 7:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Ryu 4-2) at Atlanta (Maholm 4-4), 7:30 p.m.

Milwaukee (W.Peralta 3-3) at St. Louis (J.Garcia 4-2), 8:15 p.m.

San Francisco (Bumgarner 4-1) at Colorado (J.De La Rosa 4-3), 8:40 p.m.

Washington (G.Gonzalez 3-2) at San Diego (B.Smith 0-0), 10:10 p.m.

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