Building "Bridges" Across the Bayou City!
College basketball’s national championship trophy is in the building, a shining symbol of what is no longer a farfetched fantasy for Kelvin Sampson’s University of Houston basketball program. It glitters on the concourse level of the Fertit…
Read MoreTrading Deshaun Watson would instantly become the worst Houston sports loss ever. It would make the Oilers squandering that 35-3 lead to the Buffalo Bills in the playoffs look like a minor setback. It would turn The Stockton Shot, those flailing swings…
Read MoreBen Simmons clearly was available. A 24-year-old burgeoning superstar who could have made all the Houston Rockets’ leftover pieces better — and served as the foundation of a new championship push the next half dozen years at least — dangled there…
Read MoreMarcus Sasser will tell you he’s not the best shooter in his own family. He first offers that his uncle Jeryl Sasser, who won Western Athletic Player of the Year honors at SMU in 1999 and played a few seasons in the NBA for the Orlando Magic, is …
Read MoreThe 11th ranked team in the country is wobbling like an old school toy train teetering on the edge of a track. Its limited but surprisingly loud home crowd is wavering. And another American Athletic Conference underdog is smelling an upset. Then, Justi…
Read MoreIt’s impossible to (reasonably) argue that the greater freedom college athletes now enjoy is anything but a good thing. But it sure does not make building a program any easier. Kelvin Sampson and the University of Houston are getting a stark remi…
Read MoreThe most surprising burst of speed in Texas A&M’s surge past North Carolina in the Orange Bowl came from a 55-year-old coach. Jimbo Fisher outrunning the Gatorade bath turned out to be the great upset of the night. But that is not the only th…
Read MoreJustin Gorham is as annoying as an 8 am class, a video game player who beats you with secret cheat codes, an endless cable carriage dispute and Justin Bieber to the University of Houston’s college basketball opponents. Gorham gets under the skin …
Read MoreDuke coach Mike Krzyzewski made a point of sending his players home for Christmas, citing worries over their mental health. Michigan State coach Tom Izzo purposefully scheduled a game for Christmas Day for the exact same reason. University of Houston c…
Read MoreTexas A&M University’s football program is not the only entity robbed by the college football selection committee’s decision to exclude one of the three best teams in the country from the playoffs. College football fans — and the game i…
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