Sports

Clayton Kenshaw creates excitement

April 18, 2019 Jeff Brucculeri

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…

OU looks for its next starting quarterback in the spring game

April 11, 2019

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 shines during Golden Hurricane’s spring game

April 11, 2019

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…

Eddie Sutton’s exclusion is inexplicable

April 11, 2019 Jeff Brucculeri

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…

Former OU QB Landry Jones Goes to Oakland

April 4, 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…

Montgomery pleased with quarterbacks

April 4, 2019

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…

AAC inks ESPN deal

April 4, 2019

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…

Jeffries in dunk contest

April 4, 2019

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….

Montreal deserves a MLB franchise

April 4, 2019 Jeff Brucculeri

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 – Flying Tee

March 28, 2019

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…