Its nearly the end of the offseason, which calls for our every other year or so off-topic Pawd! So, Bobby and Sam are joined by friend/pawd graphic designer Bill to talk all things Formula 1, including the following topics:

• Biggest moments from the surprisingly compelling 2024 season so far
• Checking in with all 10 teams' big/little picture outlook
• Talking F1 'silly season' and the various announced/rumored driver moves

The boys have reached the end of Season 9! And what better way to commemorate a UH athletics and pawd season in the books than the 7th annual Paw-scar awards, commemorating the best athletes, teams and moments of the 2023-24 season.

Plus, we found time to discuss the following newsy topics:

• Cougar men's hoops alums Jarace Walker and Jamal Shead standing out at NBA Summer League and TBT with the Forever Coogs team featuring Rob Gray, Fabian White Jr, Justin Gorham and other program favorites
• Baseball loses Ross Kivett to his old employer: the University of Tennessee
• PAWDCAST HOST NEWS (*bumbumbum*)

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Twitter thread of 2023-24 Play of the Year Pawscars: https://x.com/SHPawdcast/status/1815755628817862742

We're back on our regular weekly recording pace, with the following Houston Cougar topics on the agenda:

• Introducing the nominees for our 7th annual Pawscar Awards, covering the 2023-24 UH athletics season
• Diving into Willie Fritz and the Cougar football staff's summer recruiting gains in the class of 2025
• A quick look at UH alums and current student athletes competing at this month's Paris Olympic Games

Oh hey, I guess our summer break is over. Its been a newsy last few weeks on many fronts in the world of Houston Cougar sports and the full trio of co-hosts return to discuss these topics:

• Discussing the rumored names for UH's athletic director vacancy, including but not limited to: David Fletcher, Oliver Luck, and Keli Zinn
• The bizarre decision to extend UH softball coach Kristin Vesely is finally revealed to the public at large
• Thoughts from Big 12 media days and where the Coogs were picked in the preseason poll
• Jamal Shead is a Toronto Raptor! Plus, Coogs in Summer League and TBT talk
• A trio of baseball pitchers get taken in this week's MLB Draft
• The much deserved extension for women's golf HC Lydia Lasprilla

We recap additional reporting on alleged unacceptable behavior by Houston Cougar softball head coach Kristin Vesely and the resulting toxic culture in the program under Vesely's leadership, as reported to us by players and staff members in the program and look at where UH appears to go from here with a subsequent AD change and other questions about who will even be coaching the program next year.

EMERGENCY PAWD! In a surprising and shocking move, UH leadership and Dr. Renu Khator dismissed Chris Pezman from his job as the UH athletics head honcho. We take a look at Pezman's 6-year tenure, successes/failures, what led to such a sudden and emphatic dismissal and what roles fundraising and other factors played in the decision.

And NOW for some fun summer content: Houston Cougar Tennis HC Kat Adamovic joins the Pawd to talk about her vision for the program, background, and gives listeners a little primer on college Tennis and what makes it uniquely awesome

The boys are back in town with some you might find a bit closer to the usual, standard pawdcast fare:

• Briefly addressing the 'elephant in the room' of what comes next from our most recent previous episode
• Louie Hinchliffe wins a natty (!!!!!) and Cougar men's track & field have a Big 12-best 6th place at NCAA Outdoors and the women grab their most points at Outdoors since 2007
• Breaking down UH's hire of new Tennis head coach Katarina Adamovic from Grand Canyon. Looking at Adamovic's strong resume & some of the new athletes that'll be playing next season for Adamovic
• Keisean Henderson and the seismic recruiting get he could represent for Cougar football in the c/o 2026, plus a quick c/o 2025 update after a summer recruiting weekend and catching up on a recent transfer addition in Ajani Carter
• Sean Kenny, we hardly knew ye and we get to know a familiar face in new baseball hitting coach Woody Williams.

In this episode we recap a number of serious allegations relayed to us by multiple sources with firsthand knowledge (players and staff) of the Houston Cougar Softball program under current head coach Kristin Vesely, in addition to related inaction by UH athletic department leadership.

I'm going to level with you, its 11:31 PM and I am having of all things, writer's block writing a show description, BUT the full compliment of pawd co-hosts had plenty to say about the following Houston Cougar topics:

• Men's Golf comes heartbreakingly close to advancing past the Baton Rouge regionals. Looking at an end of season run to be proud of and what the future looks like with one big, probable departure
• Track & Field leaves its first Big 12 Outdoor Championship with a lot of performances to be proud of and taking an early look at NCAA West Prelims
• Football adds CB JD Rhym, recently of Auburn to a position group that could use a former highly recruited talent needing a fresh start
• Women's basketball adds a couple of promising transfers, but still has some of the same questions
• Baseball's unfortunately bad conference season mercifully ends
• Softball sees its top 2 projected returning hitters enter the portal and a complete lack of an answer on who'll be leading this program in 2025