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Jeff Brucculeri

Jeff Brucculeri is a freelance writer and broadcaster. You can contact him at [email protected], or follow him on Twitter @JeffBSports.

Major League Baseball has a lot of changes to consider

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By the time you read this, we will either have and agreement between the Major League Baseball owners and players, or the lockout will have begun cancelling several games including moving back opening day. Either way, this work stoppage isn’t good for either side, nor the fans. Baseball has lost fans over the years for…

Former Tulsa coach Tubby Smith, 70, decides to retire

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Former University of Tulsa head basketball coach Tubby Smith, announced last week he is stepping down as head coach of the High Point University men’s team. Smith, won a national championship while coaching at Kentucky in 1998, and is being replaced by his son and current associate head coach G.G. Smith for the remainder of…

Without pros, the U.S. hockey team is doing quite well

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I always enjoy watching the Olympics; the summer games and the winter games. While watching the 2022 Winter Olympics from Beijing over the past two weeks I’ve made several observations. Hockey is one of my favorite sports, so it stands to reason that I would enjoy watching the Olympic hockey tournament, featuring teams and players…

ORU games top the weekend action

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It was a busy sports weekend, last week, and I’m still exhausted. On Thursday evening, I played in the Pep Band at the ORU men’s basketball game. The Golden Eagles were hosting Western Illinois. If you’ll recall, that was the evening after five-to-seven inches of snow fell on Tulsa in the previous 24 hours. The…

Don’t ever stop doing what you enjoy

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As I begin to write this column, I’m reminded of a column I wrote three years ago this month, in February 2019. I’m just glad a column like this doesn’t come around any more often. See the last time, I wrote about what it means to be a weekend warrior, and how I injured my…

Former MLB pitcher Jerry Reuss came close to perfection

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Former Major League pitcher Jerry Reuss was the keynote speaker at the Claremore Field of Dreams Baseball Banquet last week, and I had the opportunity to sit down and interview him. The annual banquet is a fundraiser for the Claremore High School, Claremore summer and Rogers State baseball programs. Reuss played 22 seasons with eight…

Tulsa’s Les Rogers passes

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Time to get caught up on some news and notes: University of Tulsa Athletic Hall of Famer and baseball All-American Les Rogers died on January 10, at the age of 73. Rogers was a third baseman on the TU baseball teams (1968-70) that won the Missouri Valley Conference Championship in 1969 and 1970. He was…

Sportsradamus’ 2022 prognostications

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I, Sportsradamus, the all-knowing, all-seeing swami of sports prognostications, present to you my annual predictions for this, the year 2022. As I pointed out last year at this time, coming off the year of a pandemic and most of the sports world having been shut down in 2020, I predicted that 2021 would not be…

Famous sports figures passed in 2021

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This week we take a look back at the sports figures who died in 2021. Several big names passed away in the first month of the year. Floyd Little was a three-time All-American running back and one of the first stars of the Denver Broncos. He was a 2010 Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee….

May your family experience the true spirit of Christmas

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As I sit here thinking about celebrating Christmas with my family over the next couple days, I realize this has been a year of transitions, and without our faith in God, I don’t know how we would have managed. Compared to 2020, I think most people would say that this year was much better, however,…