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We're BACK, mere weeks away from the start of the college football season and mere hours away from the start of the 2024-25 Houston Cougar athletics season, with these topics to kick around:
At last, we have a brand new, 10th (!!!) season of the Pawd to debut and we do so in our customary fashion, with a couple of news item appetizers to kick us off:
The boys have reached the end of Season 9! And what better way to commemorate a UH athletics and pawd season in the books than the 7th annual Paw-scar awards, commemorating the best athletes, teams and moments of the 2023-24 season.
Plus, we found time to discuss the following newsy topics:
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We're back on our regular weekly recording pace, with the following Houston Cougar topics on the agenda:
Oh hey, I guess our summer break is over. Its been a newsy last few weeks on many fronts in the world of Houston Cougar sports and the full trio of co-hosts return to discuss these topics:
We recap additional reporting on alleged unacceptable behavior by Houston Cougar softball head coach Kristin Vesely and the resulting toxic culture in the program under Vesely's leadership, as reported to us by players and staff members in the program and look at where UH appears to go from here with a subsequent AD change and other questions about who will even be coaching the program next year.
EMERGENCY PAWD! In a surprising and shocking move, UH leadership and Dr. Renu Khator dismissed Chris Pezman from his job as the UH athletics head honcho. We take a look at Pezman's 6-year tenure, successes/failures, what led to such a sudden and emphatic dismissal and what roles fundraising and other factors played in the decision.
And NOW for some fun summer content: Houston Cougar Tennis HC Kat Adamovic joins the Pawd to talk about her vision for the program, background, and gives listeners a little primer on college Tennis and what makes it uniquely awesome
The boys are back in town with some you might find a bit closer to the usual, standard pawdcast fare:
In this episode we recap a number of serious allegations relayed to us by multiple sources with firsthand knowledge (players and staff) of the Houston Cougar Softball program under current head coach Kristin Vesely, in addition to related inaction by UH athletic department leadership.
I'm going to level with you, its 11:31 PM and I am having of all things, writer's block writing a show description, BUT the full compliment of pawd co-hosts had plenty to say about the following Houston Cougar topics:
The OG hosting pairing returns this week with a veritable cavalcade of Houston Cougar topics, in season and offseason, to discuss this week and those topics were as follows:
The boys are back (the boys are back), with Cougar sports questions to answer and a healthy offering of current sports happenings on Cullen Boulevard to kick around:
After a brief mid April hiatus, the Pawd is back to talk about a mixture of offseason and in season Houston Cougar sports talk, including the following topics:
The full group of co-hosts are back to talk about the 2 of the most positive things in Cougar athletics right now:
The OG co-hosts, Dustin and Sam, are back to discuss the end of a big and incredibly memorable season among the following Cougar topics:
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The gang is all here! Bobby, Dustin, and Sam are back in the saddle and somehow survived the roller coaster of emotions from Sunday night's Round of 32 win over Texas A&M to talk about the following Houston Cougar sports topics:
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2 of the boys are back in town to do what we all love to do and talk a little Houston Cougar sports, including these topics:
Its the moooost wonderful time of the year, a mere minutes after the reveal of the 2024 NCAA men's basketball tournament bracket, Bobby and Sam joined to discuss the following topics:
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The full trio of co-hosts is back for what could be the best Houston Cougar regular season week in pawdcast history and since probably pre-dating all co-hosts' 17-18 years of fandom and discussed the following Coog topics:
It was the best of times, it was... well, still pretty awesome times for the Houston Cougars (one host also came back with some good personal news) as Dustin and Sam soldiered on without Bobby who accidentally double booked us and dinner with his parents (understandably, the parents won out) to tackle the following topics:
The boys are back, all 3 co-hosts are healthy and in full voice with plenty of Houston Cougar happenings to talk about, including the following:
With Dustin sidelined due to illness, Bobby and Sam returned to discuss a really positive week from the world of Houston Cougar sports:
The boys are back in to-ooown again, as all 3 co-hosts return to tackle the following Houston Cougar topics:
The full compliment of co-hosts, the trio of Dustin, Bobby, and Sam return with a metaphorical overflowing pot of Houston Cougar happenings to talk about: