Question: In what state were the headquarters of Herman's west coast competitor located?
Context: Herman's World of Sporting Goods was a sporting goods retailer in the United States.  It was founded by Herman Steinlauf in 1916 as a music store.  At one time, there was a gentleman's agreement with west coast competitor Oshman's Sporting Goods, that the Herman's chain would stay east of the Mississippi, while Oshman's would be dominant on the west coast.  Later on, Herman's did expand west with the acquisition of Salt Lake City-based Sunset Sports Centers, although this was short-lived.  The company entered bankruptcy in 1993, first closing the stores out of the New York metropolitan area, then the New York City stores.  Herman's could not compete with the warehouse size stores of Dick's Sporting Goods and Sports Authority, as most locations were in malls or strip malls. The West Coast Railway Line runs from Padang Besar railway station close to the Malaysia–Thailand border in Perlis (where it connects with the State Railway of Thailand) to Woodlands Train Checkpoint in Singapore.  It is called the West Coast railway line because it serves the West Coast states of Peninsular Malaysia. West Coast Group Representation Constituency (; Malay: "Kawasan Undi Perwakilan Berkumpulan West Coast" ; Tamil: வெஸ்ட் கோஸ்ட் குழுத்தொகுதி ) is a four-member Group Representation Constituency located in the western area of Singapore.  The GRC is divided into four divisions and is a constituency held by the People's Action Party.  The four divisions are Ayer Rajah, West Coast, Boon Lay, and Telok Blangah.  West Coast GRC covers the areas of Ayer Rajah, Dover, Pasir Panjang, the south-western area, West Coast, Jurong, Jurong Island, Sentosa, Telok Blangah, Tuas and much of Singapore's southern & western territorial waters of the country. The 2011–12 San Francisco Dons men's basketball team represented the University of San Francisco in the 2011–12 college basketball season.  This was head coach Rex Walters fourth season at San Francisco.  The Dons played their home games at the War Memorial Gymnasium and are members of the West Coast Conference.  They finished the season 20–14, 8–8 in West Coast play to finish in fifth place.  They lost in the semifinals of the West Coast Basketball Tournament to Saint Mary's.  They were invited to the 2012 College Basketball Invitational where they lost in the first round to Washington State. Oshman's Sporting Goods Inc. was a sporting goods retailer in the United States.  Their headquarters were in East End, Houston, Texas.  It operated traditional sporting goods stores and Oshman's Supersports USA megastores. United States Pacific Command (USPACOM) is a unified combatant command of the United States Armed Forces responsible for the Indo-Asia-Pacific region.  It is the oldest and largest of the unified combatant commands.  Its commander, the senior U.S. military officer in the Pacific, is responsible for military operations in an area which encompasses more than 100 e6sqmi , or roughly 52 percent of the Earth’s surface, stretching from the waters off the west coast of the United States to the west coast of India, and from the Arctic to the Antarctic.  The Commander reports to the President of the United States through the Secretary of Defense and is supported by Service component and subordinate unified commands, including U.S. Army Pacific, U.S. Pacific Fleet, U.S. Pacific Air Forces, U.S. Marine Forces Pacific, U.S. Forces Japan, U.S. Forces Korea, Special Operations Command Korea, and Special Operations Command Pacific.  USPACOM also has three direct reporting units (DRUs), including Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, U.S. Pacific Command Joint Intelligence Operations Center, Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance; and a Standing Joint Task Force, Joint Interagency Task Force West.  The USPACOM headquarters building, the Nimitz-MacArthur Pacific Command Center, is located on Camp H.M. Smith, Hawaii. The 2014–15 Gonzaga Bulldogs men's basketball team represented Gonzaga University in the 2014–15 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.  The team was led by head coach Mark Few, who was in his 16th season as head coach.  The team played its home games at McCarthey Athletic Center, which has a capacity of 6,000.  The Bulldogs (also informally referred to as the Zags) were playing in their 35th season as a member of the West Coast Conference.  The Zags were predicted to finish atop of the conference by the West Coast Conference Preseason Poll.  The Zags finished in first place in the West Coast Conference Standings for the 18th time with a 17-1 conference record after BYU defeated the Zags in the regular season finale, snapping the nation's longest active home winning streak of 41 games, as well as Gonzaga's school record 22-game winning streak.  The Bulldogs then went on to beat BYU in the West Coast Conference Tournament, and claimed their 14th WCC tournament title, along with punching their 18th ticket to the NCAA Tournament.  Gonzaga entered the 2015 NCAA Tournament as a #2 seed in the South region, and dismantled #15 seed North Dakota State, #7 seed Iowa, and #11 seed UCLA, to gain its second trip to the Elite Eight, as well as Mark Few's first as head coach.  The Zags then fell to #1 seed (and eventual national champion) Duke, and finished the season with a 35–3 record, which were the most wins in school history. Lake Kaniere is located on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island.  It lies 30 kilometres southeast of Hokitika, and drains into the Tasman Sea via the Kaniere and Hokitika rivers.  At 22 km2 , it is second only to Lake Brunner in size among the West Coast's lakes.  Mount Graham is on the west coast of the lake. Ryan Neates (born 21 June 1991) is an Australian rules footballer currently listed with the Claremont Football Club in the West Australian Football League (WAFL), having previously played with the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL).  From Perth, Western Australia, Neates represented his state at the 2009 National Under-18 Championships, and debuted for Claremont at the senior level the following season, before being drafted with the fifth pick in the 2010 AFL Pre-season Draft.  For a period the shortest player on an AFL list, Neates played his first and only senior game for West Coast in round seven of the 2012 season, having missed the entire 2011 season due to injury.  He was delisted by West Coast at the end of the 2012 season, but continues to play WAFL matches for Claremont. Chuck Flores (January 5, 1935 - November 24, 2016) was an American jazz drummer.  One of the relatively small number of musicians associated with West Coast jazz who were actually from the West Coast, Flores was born Charles Walter Flores in Orange, California, and grew up in Santa Ana.  He was best known for the work he did with saxophonist Bud Shank in the 1950s, and for his two-year stint with Woody Herman, from 1954 to 1955, but also performed with such musicians as Carmen McRae, Art Pepper, Maynard Ferguson, Al Cohn, and Shelly Manne, who had been his drum teacher.  Manne and others considered Flores an underrated drummer.
Answer: Texas