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FORT WORTH — Almost as soon as Kelvin Sampson enters the interview room in the back hallways of Dickies Arena, the University of Houston coach offers a quick direction to the two players walking in with him. “You guys had better put your masks on…
Read MoreFORT WORTH — Jamal Shead is not really a 3-pointer shooter. In a sport where it seems like everyone wants to be Steph Curry or Trae Young these days, Shead’s game can be refreshingly old school, built around throwback floaters in the lane. He too…
Read MoreMy husband and I have been playing golf for some 20 years and while we are merely passable golfers, we love the sport. So we figured that the Pixar Putt pop-up miniature golf game — which opens at Discovery Green this Friday, December 17 — would be a c…
Read MoreThere are no hangover cures for something like this. Kelvin Sampson’s University of Houston basketball team arrive back on campus at 3:30 am Sunday morning. Battered, beaten (at least officially), completely physically spent and totally emotional…
Read MoreTUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Sitting in a small conference room in the bowels of Coleman Coliseum — a bunch of tall leather chairs wedged under a wood table — Kelvin Sampson waits for his Zoom call with reporters back in Houston to begin. “Sometimes you&#…
Read MoreEven before the shot misses, Tramon Mark is heading to the rim He’s been running all 94 feet for it since the fast break started — and he easily slips right in-between two Alcorn State players who never see him as anything but a blur. Mark has a …
Read MoreAlmost as soon as the clock hits 00:00 in Cincinnati, certainly before all the fans who storm the field clear out, Dana Holgorsen and his University of Houston coaching staff are already turning to recruiting. By the time, an 11-2 Houston team is on th…
Read MoreIt is 14 minutes till midnight when we connect on phone, one of the best times to reach Tilman Fertitta, the Houston billionaire business and sports tycoon whose mind is always thinking of the next deal and definitely does not shut off at 10 pm. One of…
Read MoreThis is not the ACC/Big Ten Challenge — or anything close to it. It is not a game where the University of Houston’s basketball team has the slightest chance of being seriously challenged. The eyes of the college basketball world are definitely no…
Read MoreThe University of Houston administration could have listened to the noise — and there is always noise swirling around the well paid coaches of big time college athletics. It could have decided that Dana Holgorsen’s 7-13 record in his first 20 gam…
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