Author: Chris Baldwin

Yordan Alvarez sends his helmet flying first, practically spiking it with joy, and then everything is flying. Hats. Water bottles. Gatorade coolers. Thousands of those orange Astros rally towels in the stands. People into Alvarez’s arms. Giddy te…

While the Seattle Mariners pulled off their epic comeback in Toronto, turning the Blue Jays’ rocking indoor stadium into a mausoleum, Houston Astros third baseman Alex Bregman fed his 2-month-old son. Bregman followed the happenings in the game a…

Dusty Baker and Martin Maldonado embrace in the clubhouse, the 73-year-old baseball manager still chasing his first world championship pulling the catcher with orange hair into the hug. Ageless ace Justin Verlander sips an adult beverage at his locker….

Lance McCullers Jr. enters the Houston Astros interview room offering an apology for the reporters who expected to talk to him in the clubhouse like usual. “Sorry guys, it’s past my daughter’s bedtime,” McCullers notes with a pu…

As the boos come down, Dana Holgorsen turns towards the crowd and throws up his arms. The University of Houston football coach may very well think he’s defending his players. If Holgorsen realized the boos were almost all for him, he may have rea…

Two minutes into the first official practice of fall and Kelvin Sampson is already teaching. The University of Houston’s 66-year-old coach is on the floor, in middle of all his players, demonstrating in a most hands-on way. Sampson helps guide Ja…

After one second is put back on the clock, after Rice quarterback TJ McMahon’s 39th pass of the evening is knocked away in the end zone by University of Houston nickleback Jayce Rogers, after Dana Holgorsen’s team somehow gives a near disas…

Even while watching the Monday Night Football game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Minnesota Vikings, Chris Pezman found his mind shifting to what he could take from the Eagles’ stadium experience. The University of Houston’s athletic d…

Leave it to Justin Verlander, the 39-year-old sure Hall of Famer who’s seen so much and accomplished even more in baseball, to put the Houston Astros winning another division title in its proper freaking perspective. These Astros make winning loo…

Emanuel Sharp admits he sometimes feels like a ghost. Forgotten and unseen. The other member of the University of Houston basketball program’s ballyhooed freshmen class, an infusion of talent that helps make the Cougars a near consensus Top 3 pre…