Sports

Tennessee has a tough schedule

June 18, 2020

According to CBS Sports, Tennessee has the second toughest schedule in the Southeastern Conference. Tennessee is scheduled to play Oklahoma in Norman this season. Writer Tom Fornelli put the Volunteers behind only Arkansas. The Razorbacks play Notre Dame this fall. Fornelli wrote that Tennessee’s game against Oklahoma on the road is more difficult than Arkansas’…

Missouri State’s budget concerns

June 18, 2020

According to a report in the Springfield News Leader, Missouri State Athletics Director Kyle Moats said his athletics department is budgeting as if it won’t play its football game at Oklahoma on Sept. 5. Moats said he hopes to play the game but he is planning as if he won’t bet the $600,000 guaranteed payment…

TU’s Chris Paul on committee

June 18, 2020

PROVIDENCE, R.I. –– University of Tulsa offensive lineman Chris Paul has been appointed as the American Athletic Conference’s representative to the NCAA Division I Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and will serve as chair of the conference’s SAAC executive board for the 2020-21 and 2021-22 academic years. Paul is one of 32 student-athletes on the NCAA Division…

Update on the Cannon Ballers, Drillers

June 11, 2020 Jeff Brucculeri

KANNAPOLIS, North Carolina – After several months of being at home and not being able to travel, we have finally ventured out beyond Tulsa County. For the third time in 12 months, we find ourselves at my mother-in-law’s house in Kannapolis, N.C. The reason for this trip and its details would likely bore you, however,…

Big 12 distributes $37.7 million

June 11, 2020

Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said during the league’s spring meetings that the Big 12 was distributing an average of $37.7 million to each school for the 2019-20 school year, just $1.1 million less than the last year. The Big 12 had a 13-year streak of raising revenues for the schools. The Big 12 got…

OU football players will return to workouts on July 1

June 4, 2020

The University of Oklahoma will re-open its facilities for voluntary football workouts on July 1. That is later than what will be allowed by the Big 12 Conference, which has given the green light to schools to re-open facilities on June 15. The Southeastern Conference and schools like Clemson and Ohio State will be open…

OSU players are now returning

June 4, 2020

On Monday, 35 Oklahoma State football players returned to the campus. Another group was expected on Thursday and the final group will be back on Monday, June 8. All of the football players will be tested for the coronavirus. In Payne County, as of May 28, there were only 45 cases of the coronavirus with…

MLB summer season may be doomed

June 4, 2020 Jeff Brucculeri

As the days and weeks go by, and as our country slowly lifts the “shelter-in-place” order, it’s looking more like there won’t be a Minor League Baseball season, and the Major League season is also in question. Last Friday, over 200 minor league players were released by their respective teams, leaving everyone to believe the…

Tulsa switches to digital ticketing plans

June 4, 2020

The University of Tulsa athletics will move to Digital First ticketing for all reserved and general seating at ticketed Golden Hurricane athletic events beginning with the 2020 football season. With Digital First ticketing, fans will have the flexibility to easily store and save season or single-game tickets on their mobile device at any time. TU…

OU switches to digital ticketing

June 4, 2020

The Oklahoma Athletics Department will fully move to digital ticketing at all of its venues, as well as for football parking. Although ticket buyers will no longer have the option to print their tickets at home, officials said the new digital system will provide quick and safe ticket delivery of season, mini-plan and single-game tickets…