Sports

Tulsa gets Tennessee DB

July 15, 2021

The University of Tulsa added University of Tennessee cornerback Kenney Solomon to the Golden Hurricane roster. Solomon is the seventh transfer student-athlete to join the Tulsa football roster since June 1. With the extra collegiate season due to Covid-19, Solomon has three years of eligibility remaining. He is the fourth defensive newcomer transferring to Tulsa…

Olympic changes will cost billions

July 15, 2021 Jeff Brucculeri

Delaying the 2020 Summer Olympics a year was already going to cost the Tokyo organizers billions of dollars, but now the Tokyo Olympics will lose even more, as spectators will not be allowed to attend the games. It was already projected the Tokyo Olympics would lose $3 billion, following the delay, due to the COVID…

Gwen Berry does not hate but disrespects her country

July 8, 2021 Jeff Brucculeri

You probably never heard of Gwen Berry before last week, and you probably only know of her because of her protests and not for her ability as an Olympic hammer thrower. Berry caused quite a stir at the end of the U.S. Olympic Track and Field trials, as she turned her back on the flag…

Major League Baseball battles sticky pitcher problems

July 1, 2021 Jeff Brucculeri

It took only seven days into the new crackdown on foreign substances for the first Major League Baseball pitcher to be ejected for having something sticky in his glove. Although the rule has been in the books for decades, MLB announced that beginning June 21, a strict enforcement of its rules against applying foreign substances…

Ardmore native Marvin Johnson transfers to Oklahoma

July 1, 2021

Oklahoma men’s basketball coach Porter Moser has signed transfer Marvin Johnson to a financial aid agreement. Johnson, a guard who earned first-team All-Ohio Valley Conference honors last season, will have one year of eligibility at OU. A member of Edmond North High School’s 2016-17 Oklahoma Class 6A state title team who averaged 22.2 points per…

Summit League cage schedule

July 1, 2021

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – Summit League officials released the men’s and women’s schedules for the upcoming 2021-22 basketball seasons. Both slates begin the week before Christmas and will feature an 18-game, home-and-home mirrored schedule between the league’s 10 men’s and women’s programs. The addition of St. Thomas, who will officially join the league as a…

Fishing becoming more popular here

July 1, 2021

OKLAHOMA CITY — In the two years since the Oklahoma Fishing Trail launched, the State of Oklahoma has seen tremendous growth in the popularity of fishing in the state. In 2020, Oklahoma became a top-5 state for creating new anglers, with more than 138,000 people taking up fishing. The state ranked second in the United…

Tulsa to rename two city parks

July 1, 2021

The City of Tulsa plans to rename the current Veterans Park, located at 18th and S. Boulder Park Drive, to Dream Keepers Park, honoring Tulsa’s Native American history. Veterans Park will then be relocated to the current site of Centennial Park, at 1028 E. 6th Street, an area that is at the heart of local…

Fields named to academic squad

July 1, 2021

NORMAN — University of Oklahoma football defensive back Pat Fields was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District 7 Football Team for his combined performance on the field and in the classroom, the College Sports Information Directors of America announced. Fields, a junior on the 2020 OU football squad, has compiled a 3.81 GPA while simultaneously…

Two Cowboys on academic team

July 1, 2021

STILLWATER – Oklahoma State’s Logan Carrter and Amen Ogbongbemiga earned spots on the CoSIDA Academic All-District team. As a result, they advance to the CoSIDA Academic All-America ballot. A graduate student who carries a 3.72 grade point average in health care administration, Carter returns to the Cowboys this fall. Ogbongbemiga has moved on to the…