It may be mid June and by any definition, the dog days of summer, but the boys are still back to talk everything current in the world of Houston Cougar sports, including the following topics:

• Reacting to UH's newest head coach: Chrissy Schoonmaker, previously of George Washington. What we like (the pitching track record & not being Kristin Vesely) and still are unsure about with this hiring process (lots)
• Previewing Cougar track & field's entrants at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field championship
• A quick look at a group of new assistant coaching hires from the baseball, soccer, and tennis programs
• At the end the boys treat themselves to a little general sports talk during this lighter month of college sports

The boys are back (echoing) the boys are back, and on this pawd where the month turns to June on the calendar, there are still Cougar sports topics to kick around and the regular co-hosts talked the following topics:

• UH's unsurprising, but not wildly encouraging decision to bring back baseball HC Todd Whitting for a 16th season in 2026
• What the lack of an update on the softball head coach tells us about who UH might be hiring
• Track & Field sends several athletes and a relay to NCAA Outdoors, with some heartbreaking near misses and one injury absence
• Kicking around some interesting Coog-related questions from our followers on the slime infested waters of social media... a summer tradition of sorts around here

The boys are back and its that, the most welcome of Houston Cougar offseason topics, an episode with a ton of good men's hoops offseason news which is included in a number of different Cougar sports topics covered in this episode, as follows:

• Milos Uzan officially returns to the men's basketball program! What Uzan's return means for the 2025-26 season & Pop Isaacs' corresponding de-commitment from the program
• Kelvin Sampson's extension becomes official
• Appropriately honoring Antoine Jean's incredible 2025 baseball season & the team's season ends at the Big 12 tournament
• Looking ahead to Cougar athletes competing at the NCAA Track & Field West Prelims

Just because the boys have reached the end of Houston Cougar regular season sports for the 2024-25 season doesn't mean there isn't a ton to talk about from sports in and out of their respective seasons, as Bobby & Sam kick around the following topics:

• A really encouraging 'ahead of schedule' performance from Track & Field (primarily, but not exclusively the men's team) at the BIg 12 Outdoor Championships
• Recapping the final regular season baseball series vs Arizona & looking ahead to a die or die week in Arlington (are there any other kind) at the Big 12 Baseball Championship
• The FINAL 24-25 Cougar Golf Corner, talking Moa Svedenskiold's NCAA Championship appearance & the latest commitment to the women's golf program
• Tennis has its first offseason roster movement with 2 interesting transfers commiting in the past couple of weeks
• Eddie Nuñez drops some interesting men's basketball news items
• A teaser of the otherwise Patron-exclusive '2025 Coog Vibe Check, Part 2' episode that's dropping this current week

We're partying like its an early season Pawd episode, because both co-hosts are in person in Vegas with the following Houston Cougar topics on offer:

• Bobby gets the chance to weigh in on UH moving on from Kristin Vesely, bigger picture thoughts on everything uncovered in the past 12 months, and talking specific candidates for UH's newest vacancy
• Baseball clinches (maybe?) at least a trip to the Big 12 postseason
• Another Golf Corner featuring the Coogs in an NCAA Regional
• Previewing the Coogs at the Big 12 Outdoor Track & Field championships
• SNEAK PREVIEW of our premium "Cougar Athletics Vibe Check, Pt 1" pawd

The original co-hosting duo returns to discuss UH letting go of longtime softball head coach Kristin Vesely, including returning to reporting last summer of a toxic environment in the Cougar softball program, things the co-hosts have learned in the time since, and what UH did right (very little) and didn't do right (lots) institutionally in reaching today's outcome and what the program should look for in its next leader.

The boys are back, as the lazy days of May certainly don't equate to the lazy Pawdcast co-hosts of May as there are a number of Houston Cougar sports topics to discuss on this show:

• Baseball finally earns their way to lead the show, with a 4-0 week that puts the team in prime position for the Big 12 postseason & looks ahead to a big road series in the Valley of the Sun
• Golf Corner: checking in on women's golf at the NCAA Columbus Regional and the men's trip early next week to the NCAAs in Champaign-Urbana
• Men's Hoops makes a rare outsider hire for new assistant coach Mike Ekanem
• Bobby has Sam rank five songs that'll be near and dear to all Coogs' hearts
• Checking back in on an unsurprisingly poor softball season & telling ourselves some variation of "surely Kristin Vesely can't be the coach here much longer" 

For the last time in the month of April 2025, the boys have returned to discuss a mixture of Houston Cougar sports topics, both of the in season and offseason news variety, including the following:

• A triumphant Golf Corner following an impressive 4th place finish by the men's team at the Big 12 championships & the women's team learned their postseason destination and Bobby gives a listener refresher on the golf postseason format
• Football sees 4 new transfer arrivals and more departures from the defensive backs
• Talking Matthew Mitchell's first 3 transfer adds to the women's basketball program
• Catching up with the standout performances from the last few weeks of the Outdoor track & field season
• A 2-2 baseball week that the boys don't feel terrible about & a BIG weekend series with Utah looming

You better believe the boys are back for a late April Pawdstravaganza of Houston Cougar sports content... sports in their offseason (or spring season), sports in the business end of their seasons, sports right in the middle of their season. What we're saying is we're talking Cougar sports, including the following topics:

• JoJo Tugler, Emanuel Sharp, and others confirm their very welcome returns to Cougar men's basketball
• Diving into the '25 spring football practices, position groups/players the guys are most intrigued by, and some notable recent transfers in and out of the program.
• A Big 12 championship Golf Corner as the men have a solid first couple of rounds and the women are doomed by a poor final round after a strong start
• Our final in season Tennis Corner of 2025, with things we're encouraged about and areas the team can improve after year 1 of Kat Adamovic's tenure
• Baseball completes a season sweep of Rice and splits games in a weather shortened series at OK State and looks ahead to a big road series at K State

The boys are back here at the beginning of the hot part of the year with a variety of interesting Houston Cougar sports topics, including the following:

• Looking at the 2 newest men's hoopers: Pop Isaacs of Creighton and Kalifa Sakho of Sam Houston, what they've done in their careers prior to arriving at UH and how they could fit onthe 2025-26 team.
• Terrance Arceneaux departs men's hoops, our best memories & what went right/wrong in his time at UH, plus Milos Uzan's unsurprising decision to test the NBA draft waters
• Matthew Mitchell makes some intriguing hires on his 1st women's hoops staff
• A Cougar Golf Corner featuring the women's team winning an event in Dallas that Bobby caught in person & beginning competition at Big 12 championships & an encouraging event finish in Arizona from the men's team ahead of Big 12s next week
• A Cougar Tennis Corner where Sam finally got to watch the Coogs in person for 2 very different matches in Utah that showed how far the team has to go & also the positive signs of the culture Kat Adamovic has started building in year 1
• Baseball gets swept for the 2nd time in 3 home Big 12 series and it feels like another week of 1 step forward, 2 steps back

The boys return to discuss a tough loss from an absolute classic of a national championship game against Florida and the unbridaled joy of the semifinal come from behind win against Duke and its crew of uber talented freshmen. 

The boys are back in town again in classic pawdcast fashion to talk about an absolutely jam packed week of Houston Cougar sports and news, including the following topics:

• A titanic men's basketball Final Four showdown with Duke, previewing everything about the Blue Devils and their various uber talented freshmen
• Matthew Mitchell takes over as UH women's basketball head coach, unpacking his impressive coaching resume & what he can realistically achieve here
• A TRIUMPHANT Tennis Corner off of a 1st ever Big 12 victory
• What we learned about Track & Field's top performances at the Texas Relays
• A disappointing baseball series loss to TCU that has the boys asking a lot of the same questions as before

This is an episode where we can dispense with the usual preamble as HOUSTON COUGAR MEN'S BASKETBALL IS GOING TO THE FINAL FOUR... thanks to wins over Purdue and Tennessee, which Bobby and Sam talked about in this here pawdcast.

Bobby and Sam are back to discuss what is certainly the highest profile Houston Cougar news of the week that was, plus everything else current in the world of UH sports, including the following topics:

• Previewing the Coogs' Sweet 16 men's basketball opponent, the Purdue Boilermakers, what they're good and areas where the Coogs can take advantage
• A historic performance at the NCAA Swim & Dive championships
• Baseball has us feeling sort of optimistic (?) again
• Track & Field opens Outdoor season at home
• A mostly positive Cougar Golf Corner, featuring both the men's and women's teams

The boys are back (the boys are back) approximately 18 hours after the Houston Cougars punched their 6th straight ticket to at least the Sweet 16 of the NCAA men's basketball tournament. Talking takeaways and best moments from Saturday night's win over Gonzaga and finding time to recap a comprehensive thrashing of SIUE in the round of 64 on Thursday.

The boys are back... with some slightly more marinated thoughts about the Houston Cougars' opening round NCAA men's basketball tournament opponent, included among the following topics:

• Preview the SIUE Cougars with help from beat writer Matthew Kamp and additional thoughts from the guys
• Looking at a future, potential round of 32 match up in UH's future
• Recapping the Cougar performances from the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships
• A triumphant Cougar golf corner with our best men's result from the current season
• A much less triumphant return to talking Cougar baseball after getting decisively swept at home by Texas Tech on opening weekend

The boys are back on the joyous occasion of the 2025 NCAA Tournament bracket reveal, with the Cougars getting a 1 seed for the 3rd straight season and thoughts about the remaining teams in the Coogs' part of the bracket, including a possible heartburn inducing 8-seed lurking.

A little taste of what the wonderful people who financially support the work that Bobby and Sam do on a weekly basis get for their support and in this case that's a meaty full Big 12 men's basketball preview, featuring the guys' thoughts and 7 different school-specific experts to talk about the teams in and around the NCAA Tournament, without getting bogged down in the usual bracket minutiae.

Bobby and Sam return for a hoops-heavy, but not hoops-exclusive episode here in mid-March with the following Houston Cougar sports topics on offer:

• Recapping a men's hoops regular season finale win over Baylor, LJ Cryer's phenomenal performance, and Bobby's in person experience in Waco
• Thoughts before the Big 12 men's hoops tournament & what the guys would like to see from the Coogs in KC
• UH and former WBB head coach Ron Hughey part ways, where UH should look next and bigger picture program questions
• A quick look at the UH athletes representing at the NCAA Indoor Track & Field and Swimming & Diving championships
• Bonus baseball & women's golf thoughts

In what may be the most jam-packed episode of the 10th season of this pawd, Bobby and Sam move as efficiently as possible through a mostly very positive week that was:

• Men's Hoops grabs a 2nd straight un-shared Big 12 championship via wins over Cincy and Kansas, plus previewing a late Saturday night regular season finale at Baylor
• Swimming & Diving's 3rd place finish @ Big 12 championships in Washington. Talking standout performances and big picture thoughts, as this program's ridiculous consistency continues
• Talking Big 12 Indoor Track & Field championships, featuring a 5th place men's finish, several individual titles and numerous standout performances (plus a surprise appearance from Shaun Maswanganyi)
• Women's Hoops mercifully sees the 2024-25 season end, with a program coaching change looking imminent
• Baseball still has us actually feeling mostly positive, plus Bobby talks about his in person experience at the weekend series in Arlington
• Somewhat humbling Tennis and Golf Corner results to discuss

The regular hosting duo of Bobby and Sam return to discuss the following Houston Cougar sports topics from the week that was and will be, in the following order:

• Men's hoops gets a pair of top 10 Big 12 wins: defeating Iowa St and avenging the earlier loss to Texas Tech in Lubbock, clinching at least a share of the Big 12 title in the 2nd game. Recapping those games and giving big picture thoughts after yet another conference title in the Kelvin Sampson era
• Previewing the men's hoops opponents for the coming week: home games against Cincy and Kansas, which will wrap the season slate at the Fertitta Center
• Quick preview of the Big 12 Indoor Track & Field championships
• Baseball wins its 2nd weekend series in a row, this time at Cal, and the hosts are feeling optimistic?!?!
• Tennis corner returns! Recapping a nailbiter loss at UTSA to close non-conference and previewing the opening Big 12 weekend's roadies at OK State and K State
• Golf corner returns! Both the women's and men's golf teams returned to action at different Lone Star state events

The boys are back, Bobby and Sam have the enviable task of discussing a delightful week that will be from the world of Houston Cougar sports:

• Men's Hoops notches another road top 25 Big 12 win, knocking off the Arizona Wildcats in Tucson with a season defining performance from Milos Uzan and the boys do some time travel to talk about a Tuesday night, drama free win over Arizona State
• Previewing the top 10 Men's Hoops matchups to come w/Iowa St and Texas Tech
• Learning about new soccer head coach Ben Williams
• Previewing swimming & diving's Big 12 championship meet next week
• Thoughts after baseball's positive, but not decisive opening series win over Minnesota & road trip to the Bay Area

Another week, another opportunity to dive into a heaping helping of Houston Cougar sports happenings:

• Men's Hoops trudges through a road win at lowly Colorado, but leaves no doubt in Baylor's first Big 12 MBB trip to the Fertitta Center
• Previewing a massive Saturday game at a top 25 Arizona team w/1st place in the Big 12 stakes & a slightly less massive midweeker at Arizona St
• A departure & arrival on the football coaching staff
• Previewing the 2025 Cougar baseball season
• Tennis Corner off a tough, but encouraging loss in Dallas that Bobby watched in person

The boys are back in town (even though Bobby is recording from out of town) with a MEATY, 90+ minute episode filled with Houston Cougar sports happenings to talk about:

• Cougar men's basketball's jam packed 3-game week, with a super close OT loss to Texas Tech sandwiched in between workmanlike wins over WVU and OK State. Previewing Colorado and Baylor in the week to come
• '25 football schedule talk & one co-host has issues with the lack of a schedule release
• Catching up with Track's indoor season and the past couple of meets
• Women's golf has their spring debut & previewing the '25 spring season for men's golf
• A TRIUMPHANT Cougar Tennis corner off a 3-0 start to the season

The regular co-hosting duo is back, with Bobby back on terra firma in Texas, with the boys discussing the following Houston Cougar topics:

• An unbelievable win at Kansas by Cougar men's basketball, with big performances from Mylik Wilson and J'Wan Roberts, among others
• Previewing 2 challenging upcoming MBB conference games, at WVU and hosting Texas Tech
• Soccer HC Jaime Frias steps down, unpacking the last 3 seasons & where UH could look next
• Women's Golf HC Lydia Lasprilla joins the Pawd and afterwards we preview the '25 spring season
• Our first Cougar Tennis corner of the '25 spring season! Talking the first win of the Kat Adamovic era & 2 upcoming non-conference matches