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Jamal Shead could be racking up stats, collecting double doubles as easy as could be like college basketball’s headline-grabbing November supernovas. If such things really mattered to him. Instead, college basketball’s most unselfish star i…
Read MoreWith a bright sun shining down on TDECU Stadium, ceremonial red shovels in the ground (or at least in a long tray of fresh dirt) and a crowd of enthusiastic University of Houston football backers milling about, it’s a day for believers. And Tilma…
Read MoreRamon Walker Jr. goes into the Fertitta Center stands, still bringing the energy. He’ll hug his mom Sharanda and wrap his former roommate Ja’Vier Francis’ uncle, Troy Randle, in an embrace too. Families of players in Kelvin Sampson…
Read MoreThe strain is evident on Renu Khator’s face. It is halftime of what will turn into a 32-point win for Kelvin Sampson’s powerhouse basketball program on what once beckoned with the promise of being a potential super Saturday for Khator’…
Read MoreLoss hits people in different ways, sometimes comes back when you expect it, sometimes rushes back in when you don’t see it coming. Real loss. Nothing that happens on a basketball court or any other playing field remotely qualifies. Real loss is …
Read MoreKaren Sampson is clear when asked if she and her husband, University of Houston basketball coach Kelvin Sampson, decided to go to college at UNC Pembroke (then known as Pembroke State) together. “I wasn’t going where he was going,” Ka…
Read MoreIt is almost a throwaway line from Dusty Baker in his goodbye to Houston, but it carries plenty of meaning. And brings all the confidence of a 100 MPH fastball behind it. “I see Yordan (Alvarez) and (Jose) Altuve,” Baker says when asked abo…
Read MoreMauricio Dubon won’t leave the Houston Astros clubhouse at Minute Maid Park until he has a signed Michael Brantley jersey in his possession. Dubon knows this might be the last time he ever shares a clubhouse with Brantley, all the Astros do. Just…
Read MoreHOUSTON — One can argue — with plenty of conviction — that these flawed 2023 Houston Astros never make it to Game 7 of the American League Championship Series without Dusty Baker’s steadying, calming hands on the wheel. And maybe that’s wha…
Read MoreHOUSTON — The only ones who’ve embraced being the villain quicker than Adolis Garcia are legendary NBA sharpshooter (and Spike Lee tormenter) Reggie Miller and perhaps Hans Gruber, the German mastermind in the original Die Hard movie. The Texas R…
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