Southern’s Houston blocks out time for his team

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana  --  Within an hour of finishing the Southwestern Athletic Conference track and field meet last spring, Dwayne Houston said he began receiving text messages from his teammates on the Southern football team.

There was a common theme.

The teammates first wanted to congratulate Houston on being named the Most Outstanding Field Performer at the meet and for winning conference championships in the hammer throw and shot put.

But they also wanted to remind him it was time to turn his full attention to the sport he plays in the fall.

“They told me, ‘Good job,’” Houston recalled.

“‘Now get ready to focus entirely on football.’”

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