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Houston's Kelvin Sampson Has Son Earmarked

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A five-year show-cause penalty against Sampson from his time at Oklahoma and Indiana has come back and benefited the Cougars, as the program plays for its first national championship against No. 1 Fl...
From USA Today
Regardless of what happens Monday night in the national-championship game, whether the Houston team Sampson coaches to be as tough at its core as any his father had in Pembroke can beat Florida or no...
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It’s a culture built by the simplest drills like one Sampson was asked about, where a ball hits the floor and two players do whatever is necessary – bruises and scratches be damned – to see who comes...
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