Tulsa’s DaQuan Jeffries has been selected to the Great Clips Slam Dunk Championship roster for the 31st annual State Farm College Slam Dunk & 3-Point Championships at Minneapolis’ Target Center on April 4. Jeffries is one of eight men’s college basketball players selected for the event that will air live on ESPN at 8 p.m….
There is a movement in Montreal to secure a Major League Baseball franchise for the city, however, some people feel the city doesn’t deserve a second chance at professional baseball. I say, it does. First, there is precedent with other cities who have lost major sports franchises and have had second opportunities. In fact, the…
First Tee of Tulsa will hold it’s third annual “Masters Classic” fund raiser at Flying Tee, April 10, from 4 – 8 p.m. The First Tee of Tulsa is a program I have long believed in and supported because of the impact it makes in young people’s lives. The program was established in 1999, with…
One of the big questions for the Oklahoma State football team this spring is how the offense will react to the new offensive coordinator Sean Gleeson. OSU has been consistently good on offense lately and Gleeson comes from Princeton where he ramrodded one of the most prolific offenses in the nation. Princeton was undefeated in…
In a defensive struggle, Oklahoma came up short against No. 1 seeded Virginia Sunday and lost 51-63. The loss eliminated the Sooners from a trip to the Sweet Sixteen. It also left the Big 12 Conference with only one team – the Texas Tech Red Raiders – in th NCAA Tournament. The Sooners overachieved this…
Even match between OU and Miss. No. 9 seed Oklahoma and No. 8 seed Mississippi seem evenly matched for their first-round game in the NCAA Tournament Friday. OU plays Ole Miss at 11:40 a.m. Friday in Columbia, South Carolina, in a game televised by truTV. Whoever wins the Friday game will face the winner of…
On Thursday, fans will be let in the BOK Arena to watch open practices of the invited teams. The first practice begins at 11 a.m. and the final team practice concludes at 6:20 p.m. Each of the eight teams will have a 40-minute practice. The arena gates will open at 10 a.m. and there is…
The Oklahoma State men’s basketball team lost to TCU in the first round of the Big 12 Tournament, 73-70, in Kansas City. Yor Anei got his first career double-double, scoring 17 points and collecting 10 rebounds. He added seven blocks, a mark that is the most by a Cowboy in a Big 12 tournament game….
Jeriah Horne scored 19 points to lead a second-half Tulsa comeback, but SMU held on for a 74-65 win on Thursday night in the first round of the American Athletic Conference Championship in Memphis. Horne went 8-of-18 from the field and hit three 3-pointers for the Golden Hurricane (18-14), while senior DaQuan Jeffries added 15…
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…