Houston Cougars

OK, so UCF is joining the Big East, thus C-USA, which also lost SMU and Houston, needs members and would like a presence in Florida, so FAU and FIU are likely targets, right? Well, not so fast. It appears......

Talking baseball while hoping the Bulls can avoid leaking talent in the off-season. The White Sox have a new rallying cry, and it’s silly. Hey, we’re 17-21, look at us now! That was the talk coming out of the clubhouse and the broadcast...

ATLANTA — Michigan will have three or four thank-you notes to hand out should it win Monday night's national championship game against Louisville at the Georgia Dome. It can start with Penn State, which beat the Wolverines by 14 points in State...

Why is everybody making this so difficult? Why is everybody making this so complicated and convoluted? Why is everybody trying to come up with different equations and formulas about how the league formerly known as the Big East should divvy up the...

SATURDAY'S HIGHLIGHTS ++++++++++++++++++++ || MLB exh. || Texas vs. Cubs || MLB4 || || Kansas City@Cubs || WGN-A4 || || Houston@Washington || MASN6 || || M. bask. || Conf. USA, Final: Teams TBA || 13, 911:30 a.m. || || Am. East, Fin.: Albany@Vermont...

What's in a name? For the schools of the Catholic 7 — Georgetown, St. John's, Villanova, Seton Hall, Providence, Marquette and DePaul — it's everything. With no maiden name to fall back on, the Catholic 7 members were forced to do the next...

Seven straight road games representing the roughest part of Chicago State's Great Westward Ho of a schedule had taken the Cougars' men's basketball team from Oregon to Texas to Ohio to Las Vegas and, finally, New Jersey. On the bumpy flight home after a...

The Southeastern Conference needs to go on a diet. Forget the cabbage. Put away the watermelon. Leave the grapefruit for the health nuts. What the SEC needs to avoid is the cupcakes. Not the sugary sweet ones that you find next to the deli at the...

All we ever hear is cynicism and criticism about the precarious state of UCF's new conference. We hear about how it is disintegrating right before our very eyes. We hear about all the defections and desertions. We hear how the new Big East UCF is...

If conference realignment has taught us anything, it's this. Believe nothing you hear, half of what you read and even after the news conference, hold your breath. More change is coming. So when Big East commissioner Mike Aresco, the featured speaker...

As in all divorces, this one has been messy. The football and basketball-only members of the Big East Conference have been at odds for quite some time and no amount of counseling was going to bring these two parties back together again. It was...

Just when you thought it was safe to break out the sunscreen, shag bag and patio furniture. Just as you finalized plans to vacation at the beach, ballpark or fishing hole. Along comes conference realignment chatter. Again. So much for a relaxing spring...