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Jerome Solomon

Jerome Solomon

Sports Columnist at Houston Chronicle

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Solomon: Astros best not wait too long to get on the ball - Houston Chronicle

Astros manager Joe Espada was adamant and direct when asked if he were concerned about players turning on each other as the losses continue to pile up, with the latest delivered by the Braves in a three-game sweep at Minute Maid Park. “Not in this clubhouse,” he said Wednesday. The rookie manager has done a good job of not letting frustration over his team’s play show in his media sessions. The marathon-not-a-sprint cliché is legitimate in MLB. And the Astros have built such a winning culture th…
8 months ago
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With women's basketball at apex, Harley Redin bears remembering - H...

Women’s college basketball has never been more exciting than it is now. Sold-out arenas, record television ratings, Q Scores for superstars that dwarf those of any men’s players in the NCAA. This is their time. And oh, what a time it is. There was another time when the women’s game wasn’t so celebrated. That doesn’t mean it wasn’t popular. One of the most heralded teams in women’s college history was the Flying Queens of Wayland Baptist, a small school in West Texas that helped put the sport on…
9 months ago
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Houston Texans: Acquiring Stefon Diggs lastest in big moves - Houst...

Bad habits are hard to break. Does that work for good habits too? The Texans are on such a roll of successive smart, winning decisions — the types of moves of which championships are made — that I’m going to run this column through a plagiarism checker to ensure I don’t repeat previous compliments. Who saw this coming? Wednesday, the Texans finalized a trade with the Buffalo Bills for wide receiver Stefon Diggs, a four-time Pro Bowler who finished seventh in the NFL with 107 catches to lead the…
9 months ago
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March Madness: UH escapes with an epic win in OT over Texas A&M - H...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Madness of March landed full force on the University of Houston on Sunday night. All of the tension, all of the joy and, after one of the most dramatic shots in the school’s NCAA Tournament history, it appeared, all of the pain. I swear I saw the Ghost of Collapses Past eating a barbecue sandwich at FedExForum. But a gut-wrenching, buzzer-beating 3-pointer by Texas A&M’s Andersson Garcia simply sent the game into overtime. The Cougars were stunned, but they didn’t fall to th…
9 months ago
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Jack Easterby, a controversial figure with Texans, working at Texas...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Former Texas front office executive Jack Easterby is working with the Texas A&M men’s basketball program, though school officials say it is in an unofficial capacity. Easterby is credentialed here at the NCAA South regional as part of Texas A&M’s traveling party. A&M coach Buzz Williams said Easterby was “just visiting.” “I’ve known Coach Jack for long before he was with the Texans, long before I was at Texas A&M,” Williams said. “Over a decade. He’s just here at the game.” TEX…
9 months ago
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UH basketball: No. 1 Cougars stay focused to beat Longwood - Housto...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Karen Sampson was nervous. Of course she was, because she always is. She is the coach’s wife, her son is an assistant coach and her daughter is the director of basketball operations. The University of Houston Cougars are as much Karen’s Sampson’s team, as Kelvin’s, Kellen’s and Lauren’s. The Sampson operation wouldn’t function the same without her. Coach Karen has seen too much basketball not to be anxious before every game. “Have you seen the upsets already?” she asked before t…
9 months ago
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RodeoHouston: Leon Coffee retires, marking the end of an era - Hous...

Sunday marked the end of an era at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, as Leon Coffee stepped into the barrel for the last time. The legendary bullfighter and barrel man, who has been entertaining crowds for more than 30 years, will still make appearances at the annual event but will not be working from the barrel that made him famous. A few years ago, Chronicle photographer Brett Coomer and I followed Coffee around as he prepped for his performance. A former rodeo competitor, Coffee started w…
9 months ago
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Houston Texans: How team improved in free agency - Houston Chronicle

The Major League Baseball season is right around the corner, the NBA’s best season is about to start, March Madness is upon us, and it feels like half the city is at the rodeo every night. So, what is everyone talking about? The NFL. Yeah, I know, the Texans’ first game isn’t for another six months, but NFL free agency hit this week and as always it was the biggest story in sports. To some, the comings and goings of hundreds of players is as exciting as the games. As is the case for the billion…
9 months ago
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Houston Texans: First day of NFL free agency is no time to panic - ...

The crazy NFL free agency season is upon us with the legal tampering period having started Monday afternoon. Names and numbers, teams and totals are flying by on social media so fast that it is impossible to keep up. Don’t let the hysteria drive you to madness. Devin Singletary, who led the Texans in rushing yards last season, is going to sign with the New York Giants. Oh my, what are the Texans going to do? Relax. They’ll figure it out. Even if the Texans don’t sign Saquon Barkley (they won’t,…
10 months ago
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UH knows how to bide its time, then get you in the end - Houston Ch...

ORLANDO, Fla. — There wasn’t a raucous celebration on the court. The University of Houston Cougars were too cool for that. They saved it for the locker room, where they chanted, danced, and dumped a cooler on head coach Kelvin Sampson. That’s what champions do. The Cougars are champions, again, having clinched at least a share of the Big 12 Conference title with a 67-59 win over Central Florida on Wednesday night. The Knights put up a good fight in trying to take down the No. 1-ranked team in th…
10 months ago
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Small-town guy Trey Cabbage dreaming big with Astros this spring - ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — History books will mark 2023 as a notable year for Blaine, Tenn., which is located in Grainger County, about a half hour northeast of Knoxville. Last spring, 227 years after the town was founded, the Tennessee Department of Transportation gifted Blaine with its first stoplight. Then what do you know, it opened its first Taco Bell, with a ribbon-cutting celebration that included 25-cent tacos. A few months later, all of Blaine was locked in on an Astros game as favored son…
10 months ago
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Think high schools aren't recruiting athletes? Think again - Housto...

North Shore High School offensive coordinator Andrew Cameron was forced to resign after a blatant recruiting effort that ultimately resulted in sanctions against him and head coach Willie Gaston. Cameron, who was given a three-year suspension by the University Interscholastic League Executive Committee on Wednesday, admitted to reaching out to at least two players from other high schools in the area via direct messages on the social media platform X. He was trying to talk them into leaving their…
10 months ago
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Court storming OK by Kelvin Sampson, especially when UH wins - Hous...

In 1994, Kelvin Sampson was a hot, up-and-coming young coach at Washington State, an underdog program in the Pac-10. In the regular-season finale, his Cougars hosted California, which featured Pac-10 player of the year and future Hall of Famer Jason Kidd, as well as Lamond Murray, who would score 38 points that night to break his school’s all-time scoring mark. A win for the Golden Bears meant their first conference championship in 34 years. Washington State, which had not been to the NCAA Tourn…
10 months ago
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Houston Texans can overtake Dallas Cowboys in eyes of Texas - Houst...

When the Texans came into the NFL, Sports Illustrated described what was supposed to be a great NFL rivalry as the “War for Texas.” Well, the war has never really materialized. There have been a few skirmishes at best. In fact, those little fights ruined arguably the best tailgate scene in the NFL when 20,000 people without game tickets showed up to tailgate before the 2010 Texans-Cowboys game at NRG Stadium. Can the Texans ever be Texas’ team? The short answer is yes. Not as many mamas are let…
10 months ago
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Donny Ott's Summer Creek squad reaches goal of state tournament - H...

After a brief moment of pause when the buzzer sounded, like a team-wide breath of fresh air, the Lady Bulldogs of Summer Creek ran around the court at the Campbell Center celebrating their latest victory as if it were their first. It wasn’t, of course. There have been 34 others. But this one meant more than the rest. The joyous shouts — screams, actually — were in celebration. The grind of a high school basketball season had finally paid off with the accomplishment of a stated preseason goal: A…
10 months ago
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College recruiting: NIL game more fun for athletes than coaches - H...

The days of under-the-table dealings with runners and bag men handing untold sums of money to college athletes and recruits are long gone. Now, name, image, and likeness (NIL) payments are made by collectives with no shame, as it should be, and basically no rules, which is a serious problem. It is worse than the Wild West, because even the notoriously heavy-handed NCAA has chosen not to be the sheriff. Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castiglione told the Daily Oklahoman that the lack of structure…
10 months ago
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NBA All-Star Game: League suffers from All-Star performance - Houst...

I tried to stay away from marching in the NBA All-Star Game disparagement parade, but the players simply wouldn’t let me. The beautiful sport, featuring the most graceful athletes, was shamed by the display Sunday. Unlike much of the feigned distress on social media, NBA All-Star Game outrage is real. So real that every year it resurfaces with renewed vigor. The mess we saw Sunday — well, some of us — was as bad as it has been. ROCKETS AT THE BREAK: Get with the program. This can’t be fixed. I d…
10 months ago
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Solomon: Texans rookie C.J. Stroud was great but he's not Patrick M...

C.J. Stroud is the best rookie quarterback most of us have ever seen. DeMeco Ryans is one of the best first-year coaches in NFL history. The Texans winning 11 games this past season after winning 11 games in the three previous years combined is a remarkable accomplishment. Texans fans should be wearing shades 24-7 because the future is so bright. Unfortunately, the future runs through Kansas City, which beat San Francisco in the Super Bowl on Sunday. Patrick Mahomes is ridiculous. This isn’t a p…
11 months ago
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Solomon: Hall of Fame fits Texans icon Andre Johnson in many ways -...

From the day he stepped off the plane in Houston 21 years ago as a first-round draft pick of the Texans, Andre Johnson was destined for greatness. He delivered on the field and off — catching touchdowns, leading teammates, donating time and money to kids in the area — in becoming one of the city’s most beloved athletes. His being honored as the first player who spent the bulk of his career as a Texan to be voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame is fitting. There is no better example of what th…
11 months ago
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Houston Astros: Jim Crane on team's payroll, World Series goals - H...

Jim Crane finds the pocket-watching humorous. But even amid doling out a big contract to Josh Hader and an even bigger one to Jose Altuve, he recognizes it comes with the territory. When you own an entity like the Houston Astros, a beloved baseball franchise that in the past decade has been transformed from an also-ran into a dynasty, you know fans are going to care about every aspect of the operation. My guess is Crane would rather y’all just come to games, purchase all the Astros gear you can…
11 months ago
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Houston Texans: NFL offers no guarantees of future success - Housto...

It was a masterful speech. The tone, the inflection, the pace. No football coach has ever done it better. “One year ago, we knocked on the door,” Oail Andrew “Bum” Phillips Jr. said to the huge crowd gathered in the Astrodome. Silence. “This year, we beat on the door.” Loud applause … 11 seconds of anticipation … waiting for the Houston Oilers’ head coach to bring it home. “Next year, we’re gonna kick the son of a bitch in!” The resounding roar could be heard across the street at Astroworld, all…
11 months ago