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Towering skyscrapers might seem small in comparison to the larger-than-life history that sits just beneath them on the edge of downtown Houston. In fact, in those shadows sits the city's oldest ...

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HOUSTON — Baseball’s hottest team is over .500 for the first time all season, led by the sort of month that can make the Houston Astros a legitimate playoff contender. The Astros went 17-8 in June, ...

Editor’s note: The Athletic is marking 2025 by naming an MLB All-Quarter Century Team, selected by Jayson Stark. Some of our beat writers are picking All-Quarter Century Teams for the teams they cover ...

On Tuesday, May 26, Houston baseball hired Will Davis as the ninth head coach in Cougar baseball history. The move was to replace former head coach Todd Whitting, who was released after being with the ...

Over the weekend, Houston Cougars baseball completed a four-game sweep of the Puerto Rico Challenge in Ponce & Caguas. After upsetting No. 21 Wake Forest to begin their 2026 campaign, the Cougars ...

Fifteen-year-old Andrew Rodriguez was making a throw from the outfield before a tournament with the Wildcatters, a Houston-based travel baseball team, last fall when the ligament in his elbow detached ...

My Astros friends haven’t expressed much interest in a clash of the Titans World Series involving the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees, which begins tonight. So what better time to look at ...