Sports

Road trip to Sioux Falls, S.D. is fun

March 21, 2019 Jeff Brucculeri

Some years when I go to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, for the Summit League Basketball Tournament, it’s snowing with temperatures in the teens, and some years, the weather is a bit more tolerable. This year, it was cold, but not too terrible. That also describes how the Oral Roberts University men’s basketball team played. The…

OU is seeded 7, OSU is seeded 9 in the Big 12 Tournament

March 14, 2019

Seventh-seeded Oklahoma, by most accounts will receive an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament even with an early exit from this week’s Big 12 Tournament in Kansas City. Oklahoma State, on the other, would have to win four games in a row to get the NCAAs this year. No. 9 seeded OSU opened Wednesday night…

NDSU beats ORU in Summit Tourney

March 14, 2019

SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota – A disappointing season for the ORU men’s basketball team ended Sunday as ORU (11-21) lost to North Dakota State (16-15), 73-86, in the opening round of the Summit League Championship Tournament. ORU started the game 10-10 from the field and opened up a 13-point lead less than seven minutes into…

Kyler Murray, Justice Hill make headlines at the Combine

March 7, 2019

Kyler Murray made a splash without doing much and Justice Hill jumped at the opportunity to shine at last week’s NFL Combine in Indianapolis. Murray is a former Oklahoma quarterback who turned his back on a Major League Baseball contract worth millions to put his name in the NFL Draft. He could go No. 1…

Colorado hs wrestler prefers chivalry

March 7, 2019 Jeff Brucculeri

A Colorado high school wrestler recently decided to forfeit a match in the state high school tournament, because he was scheduled to wrestler a female. This isn’t the first time a story like this has hit the news, but what is newsworthy is the boy’s reasons for not wanting to wrestle a girl. First, we…

Bob Stoops will coach and manage the Dallas XFL team

February 28, 2019

Former Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops has been named head coach and general manager of the new XFL’s team in Dallas, Texas. The XFL will begin play in February of 2020 with eight teams. Each team will have 45 players to cover a 10-week schedule (and a two-week post season slate). The XFL will also field…

TU spring drills March 3

February 28, 2019

The Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team will hold their first spring practice will take place on March 3. The March 3 opening of spring football is the first of the 15 scheduled spring practice dates that is slated for two weeks before and two weeks after the school’s Spring Break. Spring Drills will conclude with…

Tickets for Tulsa football

February 28, 2019

With the best home slate in recent history –– Oklahoma State, Wyoming, Navy, Memphis, UCF, and Houston –– The University of Tulsa is now selling season tickets to the public. Full Season ticket packages are available with prices ranging from $100 to $330 for the six games at H.A. Chapman Stadium in 2019. “This is…

No combine for M. Brown

February 28, 2019

Oklahoma wide receiver Marquise Brown, a potential first-round pick in the upcoming NFL Draft, had surgery for a Lisfranc injury in January that will keep him from taking part in the combine and the Oklahoma pro day. Brown, the cousin of Pittsburgh Steeler receiver Antonio Brown, is expected to be ready for summer training camp….

Ankle injury ends my season

February 28, 2019 Jeff Brucculeri

According to Merriam-Webster.com, a “weekend warrior” is defined as “a person who participates in a usually physically strenuous activity only on weekends or part-time.” That often refers to those men and women who participate in sports as a leisure activity. You know the type: the beer-drinking softball leagues, the bowling night with the gals, etc….