Sporting Life

Nate Hinton did not make any of the AAC’s preseason all-conference teams. He is on nobody’s national watch list. Just like he was not ranked in the Top 100 in high school until the very final rankings. It tends to take people a while to not…

Bill Parcells won a Super Bowl in his fourth season as an NFL head coach. Jimmy Johnson pulled off the same feat in his fourth season, too. It took Bill Belichick seven seasons, and a second head coaching job, to win his first. Bill O’Brien&#8217…

Oklahoma State basketball coach Mike Boynton is sure the University of Houston is an NCAA Tournament team. But the Cougars better start showing the urgency to prove it. A 61-55 home loss to an Oklahoma State team arguably playing without its best playe…

Sitting in a big armchair on a bright stage, in a hotel ballroom packed with well-dressed people, many who paid to hear him, Jim Crane knows the questions are coming. On this night, raising crucial funds for MD Anderson Cancer Center, the Houston Astro…

Kareem Jackson’s young hype man is on it. “Why is no one talking to JackBoy?” Denver Broncos free safety Justin Simmons asks, calling over to a small group of reporters in the visitors locker room at NRG Stadium. When Simmons is told …

“Dagger!” Dagger!” The shout’s routine at University of Houston basketball practices, a demand that anyone who grabs an offensive rebound must pass the ball out to an open perimeter shooter. It is a mantra that Mike D’Anto…

If wasn’t for the model good looks and the crowd parting for him like it’s seen Leonardo DiCaprio (which it sort of has), Tom Brady could almost be mistaken for just another harried East Coast commuter. He walks into the cramped visitors pr…