University of Houston

Manvel (Texas) High School girls basketball coach Bryan Harris was at an open gym when he saw 6-foot-3 Brianna Turner on a side court with his 12-year-old son, Gregory. “Gregory called out to her, ‘I dare you to dunk it,’”...

* Commodity traders not seen as "too big to fail" * Watchdog raises scrutiny of lightly regulated sector * Bank lobby group commissioned study on trading houses By Emma Farge GENEVA, May 14 (Reuters) - A study commissioned by a global banking lobby...

Nathan Rabin Nathan Rabin is the head writer for The A.V. Club. His books include “The Big Rewind” and “My Year of Flops.” He also collaborated on “Weird Al: The Book.” He has written for the Wall Street Journal,...

Entering law school can create many opportunities for your career, but if you aren’t prepared for its demands, it can create just as many problems. Whether you’ve always assumed you’d go to law school or you’re just now considering...

It's heartening to see area college and university music programs taking up the slack with respect to significant recent American operas Chicago's professional opera companies have ignored. A little more than a week ago, student singers and orchestra...

No living person could explain what happened to the sports programs of the University of Connecticut in the last six months. It would take John Milton, who was so good with rebel angels being "hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky / With hideous...

Donald Hill-Eley has always told his Morgan State football players that life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond. Now, after enduring as strange a few months as any college coach could fathom, Hill-Eley is striving to live...

Scientists who study sleep understand that light has a dark side, because it can interrupt natural rhythms, causing the mood and learning problems that go with lack of rest. Johns Hopkins University researchers have taken the understanding a step...

Got those New Year’s resolutions ready? After a month or more of indulging at holiday parties and splurging on gifts, the time has come to get back on track. Lace up your sneakers and lock up your credit card or face constant reminders from bossy...

Richard Gonzalez, it turns out, is more of a self-made man than a lot of us knew. The Abbott Laboratories veteran of more than 30 years, who is pegged to serve as chief executive of the pharmaceutical company spinoff that the North Chicago-based medical...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Again and again, decade after decade, an array of authorities — police chiefs, prosecutors, pastors and local Boy Scout leaders among them — quietly shielded scoutmasters and others accused of molesting children,...

Swift justice for a University of Houston student who was robbed at gunpoint last week in a campus parking lot. Campus police say they have arrested two men for the September 19th armed robbery. Police say Ricardo Jamel Tangarife, AKA 'Pretty Rickey',...