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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.

Victory Field in Indianapolis is an impressive stadium

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INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana– Every time I visit a new minor league baseball stadium, I can’t help but compare it to the Tulsa Drillers ONEOK Field, and Victory Field in Indianapolis measures up quite well. Victory Field is home to the Indianapolis Indians, the Triple-A team of the Pittsburgh Pirates. On the night I was there last…

King’s Island’s 50th anniversary

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MASON, OHIO – Kings Island amusement park has had a very pop culture existence. It was featured on family sitcoms in the early 1970s, and later was the location of one of Evel Knievel’s motorcycle jumps. Now celebrating its 50th Anniversary, this park has become one of my favorite amusement parks in the country. Recently,…

ORU wins Summit crown

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Oral Roberts University hosted the Summit League Baseball Championship Tournament last weekend, for the first time since 2019, and the Golden Eagles beat Omaha for the title and the automatic bid to the NCAA Baseball Tournament. The No. 2-seed Golden Eagles advanced through the double-elimination tournament by defeating No. 3 South Dakota State, 9-4, and…

Local paper shorted while Justin Thomas wins PGA

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Nobody knows when we’ll have another major golf tournament in Tulsa, maybe not in my lifetime, but they are always a financial boon to the city and usually a lot of fun for me to cover. I have covered over a dozen big-time golf tournaments in my 33 years working in the Tulsa media; either…

Here are players to watch during the PGA Championship

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It’s here, finally, the anticipation is over. The PGA Championship tees off at Southern Hills Country Club today, and wraps up with the final round on Sunday. This is the first time since 2007, that the PGA Championship has been held in Tulsa, and I have been anxiously awaiting it’s return. We’re actually getting the…

Road trip back East brings memories

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KANNAPOLIS, North Carolina – Our travelogue from last week continues, as we drove from Gatlinburg, Tenn., to my sister-in-law’s house near Galax, Va. – a quaint little town in the southern part of the commonwealth. We only spent one night there, so not much to write about. From there we continued on to Kannapolis, N.C.,…

Great adventures at the Great Smoky Mountains Park

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GATLINBURG, Tenn. – If you’ve never been to the Smoky Mountain region of Tennessee, you may be amazed at how much there is to do there. I certainly was. It might be fair to say the Gatlinburg – Pigeon Forge area is the Branson of the East. Branson has Silver Dollar City; Pigeon Forge has…

ORU hires women’s basketball coach

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Oral Roberts University introduced its new women’s basketball head coach at a press conference last week. Kelsi Musick becomes the 11th head coach in the program’s history. Musick replaces Misti Cussen who was let go recently after 10 years as head coach and 26 years on the women’s basketball coaching staff. Musick, a native of…

PBR Classic plans to remain in Tulsa

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Jose Vitor Leme, of Brazil, was the only rider to go a perfect 3-for-3 on the weekend, finishing with a 90-point ride in the championship round Saturday, to win the elite Unleash the Beast’s PBR Express Ranches Classic at the BOK Center. It was the 17th annual event of the Professional Bull Riders in Tulsa….

Tubby Smith, Blount in TU’s Hall of Fame

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A new class of hall of famers were inducted Saturday night at the University of Tulsa. Olympic rower Michelle Sechser, National Champion miler Chris O’Hare, All-America soccer player Ryan Pore, MVC Football Offensive Player of the Year Jeb Blount, legendary basketball coach Tubby Smith and the 1971 College World Series Baseball Team were inducted in…