big-time UH booster<\/a>, who owns Hogue Landscape Services, had seats in the Daikin Park club level in front of the Beam Bar then moved over to Toyota Center where he was in the suite of Tilman Fertitta, Houston Rockets owner and former chair of UH\u2019s board of regents.<\/p>\n\u201cThis is Houston sports,\u201d Hogue said. \u201cBeing a hometown boy and a local business owner, I always want to support the city of Houston. Why would you not want to go to Daikin Park for opening day, then causally walk right down the street to Toyota Center and catch two Sweet 16 games?\u201d<\/p>\n
Hogue had his choice of food and drinks with his prime seats, so the only stop he had to make between events was at his car where he ditched his orange Astros shirt and traded it for Cougars attire so no Illinois fans would get any wild ideas about someone mistakenly wearing\u00a0Illini orange.<\/p>\n
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Steve Simons Jr., Rachel Maxcy, Steve Simons Sr., and Alan Maxcy at the Houston-Illinois Sweet 16 game on Thursday, March 26, 2026 at Toyota Center.<\/p>\n
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Maxcy is a big Astros fan, but he didn\u2019t even tempt fate by wearing any orange. He and Rachel showed up to Daikin Park in Cougars red with no need for a wardrobe change when they met Rachel\u2019s fianc\u00e9 Steve Simons Jr., and his father Steve Sr., and had no doubt their night was in good hands with UH.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we\u2019re going to take care of business,\u201d said Maxcy, who has his sights\u00a0set on another Final Four trip. \u201cMaybe by about 10 or 15 points.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stone Schloss pulled off a Houston sports doubleheader, attending Astros opening day in the afternoon at Daikin Park…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,55311],"class_list":["post-222367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-tsn-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}