Author: Chris Baldwin

As word of Kobe Bryant’s death in a helicopter crash spread through the University of Houston’s Fertitta Center Sunday afternoon, those in attendance had no idea that the tragedy would soon hit much closer to this campus. When word came out…

The news hit like a brick on an otherwise largely quiet sports Sunday. Kobe Bryant is dead at age 41, killed in a fiery helicopter crash over Calabasas, California that left no survivors. Even more tragically, TMZ reports that Bryant’s 13-year-ol…

With 64 seconds left in a tie game, with UConn coach Danny Hurley threatening to set new records for sideline histronics on the other side, Kelvin Sampson draws up a play for his team. The Fertitta Center is roaring — it’s not Zion loud, but it&#…

Rudy Tomjanovich should be in the Basketball Hall of Fame — and his omission will diminish that shrine in Springfield, Massachusetts until he is rightfully inducted. But maybe the best coach in Houston Rockets history is just too humble for the super s…

Editor’s note: With the Houston Astros embroiled in an electronic sign stealing scandal that’s cost three managers and one general manager their jobs, PaperCity’s Chris Baldwin revisits the day he spent on the Las Vegas strip with Pet…

The investigation’s findings are beyond damaging, the additional fallout almost unfathomable. Jeff Luhnow and A.J. Hinch, the architects of Houston’s first major sport championship team since the 1995 Rockets, are gone in one fell swoop, fi…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — After it’s over, after the most star-crossed franchise in Houston sports turns a 24-0 lead into a 51-31 loss, Deshaun Watson is giving an impassioned defense of his coach. And DeAndre Hopkins is trying to breathe without feelin…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Bill O’Brien is getting more grief than the power plant workers at Chernobyl, but the cause of this Houston Texans meltdown is being completely misdiagnosed. It’s not the much maligned fake punt that saw Justin Reid stuff…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — With sidewalks and streets covered in snow — real, sticking snow not Texas snow — and temperatures rising to 19 degrees by 10 pm Saturday night (from a balmy 14 in the afternoon),  this is a city that went through a legit winter stor…