SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – While traveling to the Summit League Tournament in South Dakota, aboard a comfortable, luxury coach – also known as the ORU Pep Band and Cheer Squad bus – I began thinking about the thousands of miles I’ve logged on similar buses over the past 30-plus years. I won’t even go as…
For the first time, Tulsa is co-champion of the regular American Athletic conference season with Houston and Cincinnati. It is the first conference championship for Tulsa since 2013-14 when the Hurricane won the Conference USA Championship. The Golden Hurricane will begin a quest to win the AAC Championship Tournament on Friday when No. 3 seeded…
Oklahoma’s Austin Reaves scored a career-high 41 points to lead a stunning comeback for the Sooners who beat TCU 78-76 Saturday in Fort Worth. The win put Oklahoma in third place in the final regular season Big 12 standings and solidified their case for an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. A loss would have…
Oklahoma State entered the Big 12 Basketball Tournament by winning four of their last games – including a stunning 81-59 rout of Texas in Austin on Saturday. The loss put a big dent in the Longhorns’ chances for an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. Because of OSU’s season record – 17-14 overall and 7-11…
This is a national election year, with the Presidential election coming up in November, and regardless of party affiliation, it seems everyone is hyper-sensitive about the messages their receiving from the media, the candidates, and celebrities. Case in point – Garth Brooks. For several years now, awards shows have become one political speech after another….
No. 4 seed ORU will play No. 5 seed Omaha at 6 p.m. Sunday in the first round of the Summit League’s Championship in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The game will be on ESPN+. ORU lost to Omaha, 67-74, in January in Omaha but beat Omaha 81-78 Feb. 12 in Tulsa. With a win, ORU…
Doolittle’s broken nose not a problem Oklahoma greatly enhanced its case for an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament with a 73-62 win at No. 20 West Virginia Saturday and a 65-51 win over No. 22 Texas Tech last week. ESPN was projecting the Sooners to be a No. 10 seed before Tuesday night’s home…
Can Oklahoma State win the Big 12 Championship Tournament? It’s not probable but it remains a possibility as the Cowboys (15-14, 5-11 in the Big 12) have won five out of their last eight Big 12 games after a mid-season slump in which they lost nine of 10 conference matchups. And the latest surge includes…
As of Monday, Tulsa (20-9, 12-4 in the AAC) was tied for first place with Houston atop the American Athletic Conference standings after winning five out of the last six conference games. Tulsa played at Temple Wednesday night and will finish the regular season at 3 p.m. at Wichita on CBSSN. The Golden Hurricane have…
Friday evening, February 22, 1980, I had just finished eating dinner and had tuned our black-and-white RCA console television to WKBW-Channel 7, the ABC affiliate in Buffalo. I was 15 years old, and already a huge hockey fan, but more than that, I loved watching the Winter Olympics, and this evening the USA hockey team…