Houston men’s basketball has become a machine under coach Kelvin Sampson, an unlikely national juggernaut that has risen to the upper echelon of the sport after spending the better part of the ...

Before the game even started, opponents were already shaken. The Houston Cougars' legendary Phi Slama Jama squad, led by Clyde Drexler and Hakeem Olajuwon, transformed college basketball with ...

The 1982-83 Houston Cougars, a sensation nicknamed Phi Slama Jama, lost the N.C.A.A. men’s title game to North Carolina State on a dunk in the final moments. By Andrew Keh Forty years is too long to ...

HOUSTON – As the University of Houston men’s basketball team prepares to take on the Baylor Bears this weekend in the Final Four, KPRC 2′s Kris Gutierrez sat down with a couple of former UH basketball ...

With a 31-3 record and slam-dunking skills like no other, the “dunking fraternity” Phi Slama Jama put University of Houston men’s basketball on the map in 1983. So much so that Nike will soon be ...

With the Louisville Cardinals in town this weekend to play the Syracuse Orange at the Carrier Dome (see one of today's other two blog submissions), the minds of those of certain ages, wander back to ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The University of Houston men's basketball team is back in the Final ...

Houston’s Phi Slama Jama of the 1980s was a spectacle with Clyde Drexler, Hakeem Olajuwon and a high-flying Cougars team. Drexler has a more practical view of the Houston teams that reached the NCAA ...

The Houston Cougars are into the Elite 8, making history Saturday with a 62-46 thrashing of 11th-seed Syracuse. The last time the Cougars made it this far was 37 years ago when the Phi Slamma Jamma ...