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Problems Still Plague Cinderella Houston
Mar 17th 2010 – 9:00PM
HOUSTON -- Tom Penders was so impressed with the initial pitch to come to the University of Houston in 2004 that he got up and walked out on then-athletic director Dave Maggard. While Maggard was supposed to sell Penders on the merits of taking the job at a program with a storied history, Maggard instead spent most of...
Background on Phi Slamma Jamma
Phi Slama Jama was the nickname of the University of Houston Cougars men's basketball teams from 1982 to 1984. Coined by former Houston Post sportswriter Thomas Bonk in a January 3, 1983 article, the nickname was quickly adopted by the players and even appeared on team warmup suits by the middle of the 1982–83 season.
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