Hakeem Olajuwon had spent his entire life playing basketball with shoes that didn't quite fit. Back in Nigeria, where he grew up, finding a sneaker that could fit a person his size was next to ...

Hakeem Olajuwon will throw out the first pitch and take pictures with fans before Friday night's Sugar Land Space Cowboys game at Constellation Field. The former University of Houston and Rockets star ...

J’Wan Roberts has been at Houston for six seasons and played in 149 wins for the Cougars. Win one more time in his final game Monday night against Florida, and the Cougars will be first-time national ...

Those Cougar teams, affectionately called Phi Slama Jama, featured NBA Hall of Fame players Clyde Drexler and Hakeem Olajuwon.

"We have a set where it's a stack or gate... We thought if we get Emanuel to shot fake and get downhill... he probably should ...

Phi Slama Jama, a nickname coined by Houston Post sports reporter Thomas Bonk in 1983, was the University of Houston men’s basketball teams from 1981 to 1984, who never won a title but made ...

Houston head coach Kelvin Sampson, in grey, poses for a photo alongside University of Houston alum and broadcasting legend ...

Florida hung tough despite a host of issues in the first half of Monday night’s NCAA Tournament championship game against ...

Forty-one years later, UH re-lived the same pain as Florida celebrated its first national title since winning back-to-back in 2006-07.

Houston clinched a trip to the national championship in its Final Four game against Duke. The Cougars won 70-67 in the final ...

A relatively mundane men’s NCAA Tournament was playing to script late Saturday night at the Alamodome, another boring double-digit Duke win to digest, leaving us with faint hopes of Florida phenom ...