Fighting court rust, Hitchcock finds a way to top La Marque

The Galveston County Daily News (Sports) 12/6 3:45P By JAMES LACOMBE The Daily News

In Tuesday night’s contest, the Bulldogs leaned on strong stretches of defense and low post play to cobble together a 54-42 home win over the Cougars.

Ball High golden in basketball season opener against rival La Marque

The Galveston County Daily News (Sports) 11/21 10:54A By JAMES LACOMBE The Daily News

The Ball High Tors boys basketball team used size and depth to their advantage for a resounding 66-43 road win Monday afternoon over the La Marque Cougars in the teams' annual Clash of the Causeway rivalry game.

La Marque erupts in 3rd quarter to upend Waltrip in early-season boys hoops contest

The Galveston County Daily News (Sports) 11/14 3:41P By JAMES LACOMBE The Daily News

Like in their regular season opener Saturday, the La Marque Cougars put together a humdinger of a third quarter on both ends of the floor en route to a 50-29 home win Monday night against Houston Waltrip in a non-district…

La Marque shakes off slow start to win basketball season opener over Santa Fe

The Galveston County Daily News (Sports) 11/12 11:37A By JAMES LACOMBE The Daily News

In their 2022-23 regular season opener at home Saturday afternoon, the young La Marque basketball running Cougars overcame early struggles and surged in the second half to come away with a 61-45 win over the Santa Fe Indians.

With postseason spot up for grabs, Sealy routs La Marque

The Galveston County Daily News (Sports) 11/4 3:38P By BRANDON C. WILLIAMS Correspon

Sealy quarterback D’Vonne Hmielewski accounted for five first-half touchdowns as the Tigers handed La Marque a brutal 56-13 loss in the Cougars’ season finale at TCISD Stadium on Friday.

Brookshire Royal pounces early to ease by La Marque

The Galveston County Daily News (Sports) 10/28 4:20P By BRANDON C. WILLIAMS Correspon

Scoring early and often, Brookshire Royal rolled to a 47-7 win over visiting La Marque on Friday night to improve their record to 8-1 overall and 4-1 in District 10-4A-II.

Mike D’Antoni: The Rockets isolation offense wasn’t pretty, but it was effective

Houston Rockets 10/28 5:40A Clutch

Former Rockets coach Mike D Antoni made an appearance on the Thinking Basketball podcast to discuss his career, and he went into his stretch with the Houston Rockets (2016-2020). One of the big topics discussed was the isolation sets that the...

Mistakes, Columbia run game stymies La Marque in loss

The Galveston County Daily News (Sports) 10/21 4:46P By BRANDON C. WILLIAMS Correspon

Penalties and five turnovers — along with an overpowering Roughnecks run game — spelled defeat for the Cougars in a 41-15 setback at TCISD Stadium, dropping them to 2-6 overall and 2-2 in District 10-4A-II.

Why Alperen Sengun will come off the bench

Houston Rockets 10/18 11:46P Clutch

When the Rockets traded Christian Wood , it was crystal clear that Alperen Sengün was the new starting center for the Houston Rockets. As we re on the cusp of the Rockets 2022-23 season opener, there s only one problem he s not. Bruno Fernando is...

Rockets extend Kevin Porter Jr. to incredibly team-friendly deal

Houston Rockets 10/17 12:43A Clutch

Today was the deadline for the Rockets to extend Kevin Porter Jr . The Rockets have had an offer extended to KPJ for some time and the word behind the scenes was it was likely this day would come and go without a deal. That changed in a hurry...

KJ Martin reportedly drawing interest on trade market

Houston Rockets 10/11 10:54P Clutch

According to Jake Fischer of Yahoo Sports, the Phoenix Suns have had ongoing talks about acquiring Rockets forward KJ Martin while Portland and Miami are two other known teams with interest in Martin. There has been talk of trading KJ since...

La Marque wins 2nd straight to spoil Sweeny's homecoming

The Galveston County Daily News (Sports) 10/7 4:25P By JAKE DOWLING The (Brazosport)

It didn’t have a joyful end for Sweeny on homecoming night as the Cougars spoiled it with two touchdowns in a span of 1:15 in the fourth quarter for a 30-20 La Marque win at Bulldog Stadium.

Jabari Smith steals show in Rockets preseason opener

Houston Rockets 10/3 2:32A Clutch

Finally, Rocketball is back the Rockets destroyed the San Antonio Spurs 134-96 in the preseason opener Sunday night. Granted, the Spurs look flat out terrible (the top contender for Wembanyama?) and may finish dead last (and it showed), but there...

Jabari Smith steals show in Rockets preseason opener

Houston Rockets 10/2 8:32P Clutch

Finally, Rocketball is back the Rockets destroyed the San Antonio Spurs 134-96 in the preseason opener Sunday night. Granted, the Spurs look flat out terrible (the top contender for Wembanyama?) and may finish dead last (and it showed), but there...

Backup QB, stingy defense lead La Marque past Wharton

The Galveston County Daily News (Sports) 9/30 4:47P By BRANDON C. WILLIAMS Correspon

Three touchdown passes from sophomore Anthony Miles and a stingy defense teamed up to give the Cougars 27-9 Homecoming win over Wharton, the first win of the season for La Marque and the initial victory for new head coach Wade…