Sporting Life

I‘d heard about TruFusion opening in Dallas. I even wrote a preview about it, describing its five studios under one roof and 65 different class style offerings. But I had yet to try the Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez lauded mega fitness studio…

It seems like a largely inconsequential play in a game long since decided. Quentin Grimes beats a Tulane player to a basketball clanging off the rim, grabs the offensive rebound and puts it back in to give his University of Houston team a 19-point lead…

Patrick Mahomes has nothing on Jennifer Lopez and Shakira when it comes to wizardry. The Latin power women somehow work kids in cages singing “Let’s Get Loud” into a Super Bowl halftime show and slip it past the radar of the corporate…

Jerry Jones shows his heart more and more these days. The Dallas Cowboys owner came to Houston to honor his deceased friend, Bob McNair, recently at the city’s sports awards and he couldn’t have been more magnanimous. And who can forget the…

Dusty Baker rides into town as a 70-year-old on a one-year, prove-it deal to take on one of biggest messes in baseball history. . . and yet, somehow he convinces you he is good with that. The magic of Dusty may indeed be real. Baker says all the right …

DeJon Jarreau can see his teammate hurting, struggling with his grief in the middle of the game. So Jarreau wraps freshman point guard Marcus Sasser up in a hug as the University of Houston’s basketball team goes into a timeout huddle. Jarreau wi…

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…