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The New York Yankees are still great at making noise, even all these years after George Steinbrenner. And if you listen to sports TV and Twitter, the Yankees won the day before Major League baseball’s trade deadline by landing Frankie Montas, the…
Read MoreThe music’s loud and the shouts are louder in the visitors clubhouse at Minute Maid Park. The Seattle Mariners are enjoying the rarest of things — a comeback win against the Houston Astros, the team that torments them the way the New York Times S…
Read MoreIt’s easy to think of Justin Verlander like a shark — the nearly ageless Greenland kind of shark to be specific. Especially if you’re trying to get a hit off him. Or worse yet, score more than one run. But this pitching predator, one who ba…
Read MoreMost Major League veterans will feign that things like the trade deadline do not bother them. The standard responses center around not thinking about it. Or baseball moves not being part of their department. But Jose Urquidy does not play those kinds o…
Read MoreIt was just another Houston Rockets game in a sea of largely forgettable Rockets games in a season of first step rebuilding, But University of Houston quarterback Clayton Tune was there, sitting in the front row, surrounded by a small group of his team…
Read MoreWearing shades that could make even Tom Cruise jealous, Mylik Wilson looks as smooth and relaxed as could be. Wilson may be the new guy, the Texas Tech transfer that some University of Houston basketball fans don’t seem quite what to make of, but…
Read MoreJarace Walker does not hesitate when I ask him about the type of players he models his game after. The five star forward — the highest-rated recruit of the already beyond successful Kelvin Sampson era of University of Houston basketball — clearly think…
Read MoreKelvin Sampson’s father was a coach too, but John “Ned” Sampson took on much more than diagraming out of bounds plays. He battled against the hatred of the Ku Klux Klan, helped drive a group of the white hooded cowards out of Pembroke…
Read MoreLance McCullers Sr. never talked much about his own Major League Baseball career with his son. McCullers Sr. didn’t want to put any pressure on his kid, and he’s not much for bragging anyway. At least when it comes to himself. But this prou…
Read MoreThe Chicago White Sox challenge Yordan Alvarez because everyone thinks they can challenge Yordan Alvarez. When he’s in the field. The perception that Alvarez is nothing but a home run hitter lingers in some uninformed sectors of baseball. But Alv…
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