Just as expectations escalate and tempers flare at the midpoint of the NBA season with the clock ticking toward baseball’s spring training, words and emotions fly thick and fast in Houston’s latest spectator sport: chatting, speculating and grousing about the carriage developments, or not, of Comcast SportsNet Houston. Officials with the CSN Houston partners – the Rockets, Astros and NBC Sports Group – and the highest-profile carriage holdout – DirecTV – late last week issued their most pointed statements on the matter – ironically, at the same time a new round of conspiracy theories muddied the waters of a complicated, hot-button issue. The bottom line remains as it has been [...]