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DALLAS — The SMU student section comes pouring out of the stands, past one of the basket supports and right onto the court. A number of folding chairs fall victim to the joy. But no one minds. Moments earlier, former President George W. Bush leaves his…
Read MoreLovie Smith commanded the room, even sitting in the high chair, small table setup that would fit right into an Applebee’s. The Houston Texans’ new coach — their last minute shift after a bungling “process” that would have embarr…
Read MoreAs the trash talking and the little extra shoves intensified, Fabian White Jr. understood what the Tulane players had in mind. They thought they could get in the minds of White and his University of Houston teammates. “Teams are just trying to ge…
Read MoreThe game’s long over, the stands are empty and a shirtless Taze Moore is back out on the Fertitta Center court, shooting jumper after jumper after jumper. Moore’s white shirt already got completely soaked through with thick perspiration. It…
Read MoreAUSTIN — Jonathan Coon stops in mid sentence, his eyes fixating on something across the room. The serial entrepreneur who made himself into a very wealthy man sees something that needs to be corrected. A wayward marker. “I’m going to straig…
Read MoreMinor league baseball is known for embracing the silly. Wacky team names are part of its DNA. Often the more out there the better. The newly rebranded Sugar Land Space Cowboys went a different way. And for that, the manager of the Houston Astros’…
Read MoreEven as Kyler Edwards struggled to find his shot at times, the University of Houston coaching staff never worried. Not after Edwards opened his UH tenure with a 3 for 14 night against Hofstra. Not after he went 0 for 7 from three in a romp over Alcorn …
Read MoreJoe Dooley’s seen a lot of basketball. He recruited many star players to Kansas and was one of the lead assistants on the Jayhawks team that won the national championship in 2008. This hard-nosed Jersey guy is not wowed by much in the game he lov…
Read MoreTaze Moore’s body is a road map of everything he’s been through. What he likes to call his Million Dollar Leg — the one that took five surgeries and more screws than you’ll find in a Home Depot to be put back together again. The tatto…
Read MoreEven Scrooge didn’t have as stressful a Christmas Eve as the University of Houston basketball team. Marcus Sasser, UH’s most important player, revealed that he had a foot fracture and was headed for season ending surgery. Having already los…
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