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Well, it's not what University of Houston basketball fans wanted, but it's the best they're going to get so they'll take it.

Texas A & M came back from a 3-0 fourth inning deficit to defeat UH 5-3 in the final game of the Houston College Classic at Minute Maid Park Sunday night.

The final spot on Houstonist's Mt. Rushmore of Sports goes to a legend. An icon. A sports hero. None other than Hakeem Olajuwon.

In 1979, Carl Lewis came to the University of Houston via New Jersey after being recruited by track and field coach Tom Tellez. From there, the two would pair up for the rest of Lewis' career which would go down as arguably the greatest ever in Olympic history.

It's been a long drought since UH's last bowl win; 28 years to be exact but now the Houston team can get that monkey off their back as they enjoyed a 34-28 win over Air Force Wednesday afternoon at the Armed Forces Bowl in Ft. Worth, TX.

C-USA has named their top players for the year and UH and Rice represented the Bayou City well by placing four players on the team.

Houston, here we go again. It's UH v. Air Force for the second time this year except it will be played in Ft. Worth instead of Dallas.

On Saturday, the Houston Cougars (5-4, 4-1 CUSA) routed the Tulane Green Wave (2-7, 1-4 CUSA) 42-14 at Robertson Stadium.

Houstonist was in attendance on Thursday night as the Houston Cougars overcame a 17-point halftime deficit to stun the Alabama-Birmingham Blazers with 42 unanswered second half points to win 45-20 in front of a national tv audience.

Robert McKiver exploded for 52 points last night as the Houston Cougars (21-6, 10-3) ripped apart Southern Mississippi (15-12, 7-6) for a much need 95-67 win.

Most Memphis Tigers fans consider tonight's game against Houston just another bump in the road to a perfect season, but to Houston head coach Tom Penders, tonight's match-up against No. 1 Memphis could be the key to unlocking their ticket to the NCAA Tournament with an upset win.

After speculating about unearthing former head coach Jack Pardee, the University of Houston Cougars decided today to go with Oklahoma University assistant coach Kevin Sumlin as their replacement for the departed Art Briles. At OU, Sumlin rose to the rank of "co-offensive coordinator, passing game coordinator, and wide receivers coach", which has to be the damn longest job title in the world, short of Elizabeth II. He's been a journeyman, having coached at five other...

Houston vs. Dallas. Does anything else need to be said? Robertson Stadium, which is located on the campus of the University of Houston, will be hosting two different versions of this great Texas rivalry. Tonight, the 2006 MLS Champion Houston Dynamo will take on FC Dallas in the second game of this home-and-home Western Conference semi-final playoff game. In the first game, which FC Dallas hosted, the Hoops took game 1 of this aggregate-scoring...

A couple of University of Houston stories for your Friday, so listen up Coogs. First, back on August 13th, Cougar offensive lineman Jarrod Butler collapsed while lifting weights in an on-campus weight room. It was later determined that he had suffered a heart attack as a result of an electrical abnormality in his heart. After spending the past two weeks under observation and treatment at The Methodist Hospital, Butler is being released today to return...

The University of Houston Cougars Softball team won its first Conference USA title Saturday afternoon, surviving a heated pitching duel. Tournament MVP Angel Shamblin tossed a 2-hit shutout give the Cougars the Conference title in a narrow 1-0 victory over East Carolina. The Cougars scored what would turn out to be the only run of the game in the 1st inning, capitalizing on a pair of fielding errors. We notice that for some reason...

University of Houston basketball legend Guy V. Lewis was voted into the newly created National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. Lewis, who will be inducted in November in Kansas City, Missouri, will be part of the second ever induction class that also includes ten other inductees and featuring UCLA all-time great Kareem Abul-Jabbar. . When it came to college basketball, Lewis' ideas were always Texas big. He was the first person to put a...

• Most of us weren't surprised that the No. 2 Texas Longhorns beat the Colorado Buffaloes in the Big 12 Championship game at Reliant Stadium on Saturday. What was a surprise was the score: 70-3. The decisive victory gives the 'Horns their first Big 12 title since 1996 and gives them a chance to earn their first undisputed national championship since 1969. But at this point, the 'Horns might want to think less about flashing...