HOUSTON — On Saturday morning, Jon Lester walked to his locker and yelled to a clubhouse guy, “Can we put this on GameDay?”
This is Texas, Jon. By law, the TV was already on ESPN’s college football pregame show. Just a commercial.
On the other end of the clubhouse, Jason Heyward and Matt Szczur, a former football star at Villanova, sat and watched GameDay on another TV for most of the morning media access time, with Heyward expressing his admiration for Pitt running back James Conner, who had a GameDay feature on his fight against cancer before the Pitt-Penn State game.