More than 14,000 Oklahoma State football fans went to Stillwater Saturday to see the final spring practice in hopes of a resurgence of Cowboy fortunes this fall. More than 130 former Cowboys – including Mason Rudolph, Marcell Ateman, Chris Lacy and Brandon Weeden – were there to cheer on the next crop of OSU players…
Former University of Tulsa basketball star Kwanza Johnson has been hired as an assistant coach at his alma mater, for the second time. Johnson, a 1995 graduate of TU, brings 20 years of collegiate coaching experience, including stops at TCU, Georgia, Nevada, Little Rock and Eastern Illinois. Johnson got his start as an administrative assistant…
There’s a good chance that Oklahoma will start a transfer quarterback for the third season in row this fall. In 2017, Texas Tech transfer Baker Mayfield started and in 2018 Texas A&M transfer Kyler Murray started. Both won the Heisman Trophy. Mayfield was the No. 1 pick in the NFL Draft and that could happen…
Three-time Cy Young Award winner Clayton Kershaw, of the Los Angeles Dodgers, pitched a rehab assignment game with the Tulsa Drillers last Tuesday, and local baseball fans responded well. The Drillers beat the Springfield Cardinals, 3-2, although Kershaw didn’t get the win. It was announced Monday morning that Kershaw would be making his second rehab…
Oklahoma fans will get to see three quarterbacks battle for the starting nod Saturday during the annual spring game in Norman. Jalen Hurts graduated from Alabama in December with one year of eligibility left. Under the graduate transfer rules, he is immediately eligible at OU. In high school, he was rated the No. 1 dual-threat…
Defense may be the key to The University of Tulsa improving their football results in 2019. During the spring game on Saturday, the defense forced the offense into 3-and-outs five times. The offense ran 108 plays, with 73 percent coming in the passing game and the rest on the ground for a total of 314…
For the sixth straight time that Eddie Sutton has been a finalist for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, the former Oklahoma State head coach has been denied entry. There’s really no explaining why the 24 panelists have yet again voted against his induction. The Basketball Hall of Fame announced on Saturday the 2019…
The Oakland Raiders have signed former Oklahoma quarterback Landry Jones to a free-agent contract. Jones was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2013 as a fourth round pick and backed up Ben Roethlisberger for five years before being released before the start of last season. He was signed by the Jacksonville Jaguars but was cut…
The Tulsa football team battled through high winds and temperatures in the 30’s through practice No. 11 last Saturday morning and went through their first full scrimmage. “It was good for us to get out and work through some different situations. Anytime you go through a scrimmage, coaches are off the field and guys are…
The American Athletic Conference and ESPN have reached agreement on a 12-year media rights extension beginning in 2020-21, according to American Athletic Conference Commissioner Mike Aresco and ESPN Executive Vice President of Programming and Scheduling Burke Magnus. ESPN has been the conference’s principal media rights holder for football, men’s and women’s basketball and Olympic sports…