Oklahoma’s Peyton Graham hit a game-tying two-run homer in the eighth inning as Oklahoma beat Florida 5-4 in Gainesville, Florida, Monday night to win the NCAA Gainesville Regional after a weather delay of more than five-and-a-half hours. What did Graham do during the record-setting rain delay? “I took a nap for about an hour and…
Oklahoma State fell one win shy of advancing to a Super Regional as the No. 7 national seed Cowboys dropped a 7-3 game to Arkansas in the NCAA Stillwater Regional final Monday night. The Cowboys end the season with a 42-22 mark. The 42 wins is OSU’s highest total since they had 43 in 2016….
MASON, OHIO – Kings Island amusement park has had a very pop culture existence. It was featured on family sitcoms in the early 1970s, and later was the location of one of Evel Knievel’s motorcycle jumps. Now celebrating its 50th Anniversary, this park has become one of my favorite amusement parks in the country. Recently,…
Predation, habitat loss, and bad weather all are suspects in the decline of Oklahoma’s wild turkeys, but the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation is looking inward as well—at turkey DNA. The state’s first late-start hunting season, with a reduced bag limit, ended May 16 with about 100 DNA samples among the harvest. They will go…
Oral Roberts University hosted the Summit League Baseball Championship Tournament last weekend, for the first time since 2019, and the Golden Eagles beat Omaha for the title and the automatic bid to the NCAA Baseball Tournament. The No. 2-seed Golden Eagles advanced through the double-elimination tournament by defeating No. 3 South Dakota State, 9-4, and…
No. 1 Oklahoma and No. 7 Oklahoma State breezed past opponents in last week’s NCAA Softball Super Regionals and earned a spot in the upcoming Women’s College World Series. Oklahoma (54-2) raced past Central Florida in Norman Saturday, 7-1. The Sooners will face the Northwestern-Arizona State regional winner on Thursday at the USA Softball Hall…
Nobody knows when we’ll have another major golf tournament in Tulsa, maybe not in my lifetime, but they are always a financial boon to the city and usually a lot of fun for me to cover. I have covered over a dozen big-time golf tournaments in my 33 years working in the Tulsa media; either…
It’s here, finally, the anticipation is over. The PGA Championship tees off at Southern Hills Country Club today, and wraps up with the final round on Sunday. This is the first time since 2007, that the PGA Championship has been held in Tulsa, and I have been anxiously awaiting it’s return. We’re actually getting the…
Oklahoma State won their first Big 12 softball title by beating No. 1 Oklahoma, 4-3, in eight innings Saturday in the final round of the Big 12 Championship at Hall of Fame Stadium. The Oklahoma softball team was seeded No. 1 in the upcoming NCAA Tournament and will host a regional at Marita Hynes Field…
The University of Tulsa added four-year transfer Brandon Betson and junior college transfer Bryant Selebangue to the basketball roster, Coach Eric Konkol said. Betson, a 6-1 guard, is transferring from Chicago State, where he was second-team all-Western Athletic Conference honors last hear. Selebangue, who was also an all-league selection in 2021-22, is a 6-9 forward…