Memorial Magazine
Redefining What NFL Leadership Looks Like. Hannah McNair occupies an unusual intersection of football ownership, executive leadership, philanthropy, women’s sports, and Houston society and fashion. The wife of Houston Texans principal owner Cal McNair was elevated in March 2026 to Chief Community Officer and Vice President of the Houston Texans Foundation, putting her in the… Read More Hannah McNair: Houston’s First Lady of Football
Your offseason was relatively quiet with the exception of the signing of free agent Michael Brantley. Can you tell us about your off-season strategy? Quiet is a relative term, and from my perspective we were quite active when you consider the vast majority of our team is returning and we won 103 games and… Read More Exclusive Interview with Jeff Luhnow –Astros GM & President of Baseball Operations
by John Granato John Granato (JG): Your Season is coming up, tell us about it.Sam Windsor (SW): Yup very close. We have two exhibition games before the league starts. January 11th is our first one, down at Constellation Field home of the Skeeters. That’ll be a return to Constellation for us; we played a nine-game… Read More Rugby Gaining Mainstream Popularity: Sabercats’ Sam Windsor Interview
Texans GM Brian Gaine by Craig Larson Texans First Year GM Brian Gaine will try and right the ship after last year’s disappointing season. Q: You know a lot of people are going to focus in on the QB position and the comeback with Deshaun Watson. Where do you feel he is physically and mentally?… Read More Interview: Texans GM Brian Gaine
Barry Warner: When did it really hit you that you owned the team that won the World Series? Jim Crane: Well, listen it was not an easy ride. We worked hard to get there and going down to the last game. It took a couple of days to sink in, but you know, it’s still… Read More Houston Astros Chairman Jim Crane: Exclusive Interview
When the Houston Astros raised the World Series trophy in 2017, it was the first baseball title by any Texas team (One more thing we can hang over our northern neighbors from the Big D). There may be plenty of credit to go around, but none more deserving than the entrepreneur turned baseball’s preeminent general manager, Jeff Luhnow.… Read More Jeff Luhnow: Exclusive Interview
by John Granato & Raheel Ramzanali – With the Houston Astros’ momentous season well underway, there may be plenty of credit to go around, but none more deserving than entrepreneur-turned-baseball preeminent general manager Jeff Luhnow. To say that he is an analytics guy is an understatement; he is reinventing the term. Whether it happened in… Read More Jeff Luhnow: The Probabilistic Manager