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Grind Basketball ready to shake up the basketball industry after investment from Mark Cuban

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Thomas Fields is a native Houstonian who played basketball at Reagan High School, now known as Heights High School. Fields figured out a solution to make expensive basketball equipment not only affordable but also portable and available to the masses through Grind Basketball.

Houston ISD’s Joe Tusa, the trailblazer, dies after a decorated career

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In the late 1960s and 1970s, Tusa saw Houston high schools through integration and Title IX. "He wrote me a handwritten letter when I got this job to just congratulate me," HISD AD Andre Walker said. Under his direction, he saw Yates win a state football title in 1985 and Wheatley basketball win three-straight state titles. Sharpstown won a baseball state title in 1982 and Yates girls hoops won state in 1983. Tusa was at the epicenter of HISD’s heyday and laid the foundation for high school sports in Houston and in the Lone Star State.