Author: Chris Baldwin

Instead of champagne showers and another golden era celebration, the Houston Astros’ season ends with quiet bro hugs. Teammates try to hug as many other teammates as possible, knowing too well that this is the last time some of them will ever sha…

Framber Valdez is as optimistic as any of the 35,000-plus fans up on their feet in the ninth inning, with Minute Maid Park rocking and the Houston Astros threatening to turn another inexperienced reliever into an October pumpkin. “I thought we we…

Many sports fans tend to lose faith quicker than the most fickle serial dater. It’s part of being a fan in some ways, with every bad game looming as a grand disaster, a sense of complete doom and gloom never far away. Scroll through the Universit…

Cedric Lath isn’t thinking about playing time or where he fits in on a star-studded University of Houston basketball team when a woman far from home undergoing cancer treatment wraps him up in a tight hug. LJ Cryer certainly isn’t mulling o…

Jason Heyward goes after the flying baseball like he’s a rookie trying to prove himself, not a 15-year Major League Baseball veteran who’s already seen and won it all. He’ll use every bit of his 6-foot-5 frame to jump up and snare the…

Ronel Blanco bounces his baby daughter on his lap as his toddler daughter buzzes around his legs. Just across the table from Blanco, Yusei Kikuchi wrestles with his squirming 5-year-old son Leo who’s trying to break free from his arms. On this af…

Willie Fritz nearly went full Kelvin Sampson NCAA Tournament victory dance after his first win at the University of Houston. He jumped, broke into song and even did a flying leap, mosh pit style, into his celebrating players. The 64-year-old Fritz pump…

Nico Collins swears he saw a full moon. Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams spent a lot of time looking up at the Houston night sky through the open roof of NRG Stadium too. But Williams probably noticed more stars while getting laid flat by DeMec…

The first time Jamal Morris walked into the Boost Pilates studio, he didn’t know what to expect. The University of Houston’s 6-foot-2, 225-pound linebacker is used to being in control of most physical situations. But in pilates, Morris foun…

Kelvin Sampson and the University of Houston basketball program just continue to win. Big. Isiah Harwell, the eighth ranked high school player in the country, committed to Sampson’s UH program on Thursday afternoon, giving the Cougars a major rec…