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Creed and Cohen Fuller already have Mike Trout bats, personally handed to them by the best player of his generation, and now they’re each getting an Alex Bregman bat. With a beaming Bregman delivering them and then inviting the kids to follow him…
Read MoreHaving played Superman, showing the Angels that the Houston Astros may be a slayable beast after all, Shohei Ohtani retreats to the players lounge to grab a bite to eat. Ohtani’s prized right arm is covered in an ice wrap so thick that it could q…
Read MoreIf you’re wondering if Yordan Alvarez can roll out of bed and hit home runs, you now have your answer. Even if it’s a sick bed. Coming off six days of sick leave, the man who brings the power to this Houston Astros lineup hit two of them in…
Read MoreSitting side by side by side on three plush recliners in Jim McIngvale’s furniture store, Tramon Mark, Marcus Sasser and Jamal Shead look very much at home. This very well could be the best backcourt in college basketball next season. Maybe even …
Read MoreShowmanship, creativity and pure no-way athletic hops are what great dunks are made of. University of Houston high flyer Taze Moore brought them all to the NCAA’s often under-the-radar slam dunk contest. He showed NBA dunkers how it should be don…
Read MoreWith tears still in his eyes, Taze Moore sought out Jamal Shead in the University of Houston locker room to deliver a pointed message and try to pass it forward. “You know how this feels,” Moore told Shead in the long moments after UH’…
Read MoreSAN ANTONIO — Taze Moore cannot stop crying so he heads right to where mom is waiting in the stands. Kenya Sutherland wraps her 6-foot-5, high-flying son, in a hug that somehow seems to engulf him, even though he towers over her. There is still mounds …
Read MoreSAN ANTONIO — Karen Sampson knows that sometimes she has to let Kelvin Sampson go into his cave. This is when the University of Houston basketball coach, Karen’s husband of 42 years, retreats into himself and figures out how to do things. Like ho…
Read MoreSAN ANTONIO — When it is over, when the team that keeps defying the limits others place on it has taken every last bit of fight out of a No. 1 seed, Kelvin Sampson marches over to a large section of red clad, now hoarse University of Houston fans. Samp…
Read MoreSAN ANTONIO — Kelvin Sampson would write his thoughts down on a small yellow legal pad, detailing everything he’d learned that day. He’d do it every night after practice in his hotel room, turning his NCAA forced college basketball exile in…
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