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My Soccer Life …

May 4, 2023 Jeff Brucculeri

I’ve worked in minor league baseball since I was a batboy in 1978. Over the years, I have also umpired and coached baseball at many levels, however, it has become apparent that soccer has been a greater part of my life than baseball. My first exposure to soccer came in the mid-1970s as I watched…

OU Baseball completes sweep at Texas

April 27, 2023

The Oklahoma baseball team won both games of its Saturday doubleheader at No. 14 Texas, 9-6 and 6-4, to complete the weekend series sweep at Disch-Falk Field. OU had won Friday’s series opener 2-1. The Sooners (22-19, 7-8 Big 12) swept the Longhorns (27-15, 8-7 Big 12) for the first time since 1998 and swept…

OSU sweeps series at Kansas

April 27, 2023

Oklahoma State won its fifth-straight game Sunday, completing a series sweep of Kansas with an 8-3 win at Hoglund Ballpark. With the victory, the 24th-ranked Cowboys improved to 28-13 overall and moved into second place in the Big 12 standings at 11-7; KU is now 19-21 and 5-10 in the league. OSU the Friday game,…

ORU takes two of three NDSU

April 27, 2023

Justin Quinn hit a go-ahead two-run homer in the 13th inning and the Oral Roberts Baseball team picked up its sixth straight series win with an 8-4 victory over North Dakota State in the rubber match Sunday afternoon from Doc Ross Field, in Council Bluffs, IA. The series was played in Iowa, due to the…

OU loses to OSU 19-8 in Bedlam

April 27, 2023

The Sooners led off the game scoring in the first inning with a three run home run by Dakota Harris driving home Anthony Mackenzie and Bryce Madron. The Cowboys came right back with 5 runs in the first to lead 5-3. Two runs were scored off a double by Nolan Schubart, another off a sacrifice…

Large crowd for OU Spring Game

April 27, 2023

Utilizing a complicated scoring system, the University of Oklahoma Defense (white team) came away the winner of the annual Sooners Red vs. White spring game at Gaylord Family – Oklahoma Memorial Stadium on Saturday. The White squad beat the Red team (offense), 84-82. A crowd of 54,409 braved the windy and chilly conditions to watch…

Revert to old medicine, take a look at your lifestyle and diet

April 20, 2023 Dr. Marcus O. Durham Rosemary Durham

[Looking at history and why our area has its unique political and religious attitudes.] The redbud article sure did stir comments. Few think of native tree bark, roots, leaves, and flowers as food and medicine. From where else could these come? Today’s story will be mostly a direct quote from the email of our good…

Sooners win one, drop two to Red Raiders

April 20, 2023

No. 21 ranked Texas Tech took two-out-of-three games against the Oklahoma Sooners in the weekend series at L. Dale Mitchell Park, in Norman. In Friday night’s opener, Jackson Nicklaus recorded three RBI and forced the game to extra innings with a RBI single in the bottom of the ninth, tied 6-6. Texas Tech scored seven…

OSU splits with West Virginia

April 20, 2023

The Oklahoma State Cowboys had a similar weekend as the OU Sooners, losing the first two games of the series against West Virginia and winning the final game of the series. Oklahoma State dropped its series opener to West Virginia, 6-3, Friday night at O’Brate Stadium. The Mountaineers jumped out to a 3-1 lead in…

ORU Sweeps Northern Colorado

April 20, 2023

Oral Roberts University defeated the Northern Colorado Bears in three straight games this past weekend at J.L. Johnson Stadium, in Tulsa. The Golden Eagles recorded their third consecutive series sweep and are off to their best start (12-0) in Summit League play since beginning 20-0 in 2004. In Friday’s opening game of the series, ORU…