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…
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…
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…
STILLWATER – Oklahoma State coach Mike Boynton was selected as one of three court coaches for the USA Basketball U19 World Cup Team training camp, which was held June 20-22 in Fort Worth, Texas. This was Boynton’s debut with USA Basketball, which is looking to defend its FIBA World Cup title after Cowboy standouts Cade…
The Oklahoma City Thunder officially have six draft picks – the most of any team – but unfortunately the highest pick is No. 6 following the NBA Draft Lottery. The Thunder’s picks are at numbers 6, 16, 18, 34, 36 and 55. The Thunder’s own pick was No. 6 in the first round. The question…
Big 12 partners ESPN and FOX Sports have announced early season and special date football selections across their linear and digital platforms. Opening weekend gets underway on September 3 as Kansas hosts South Dakota on Big 12 Now on ESPN+. Non-conference games continue the next day highlighted by Kansas State meeting Stanford on FS1 in…
Thanks to the college football transfer portal, players are switching teams all over the place. The University of Tulsa football team had added six transfers to the 2021 roster, including five 4-year college transfers and one junior college student-athlete. Tulsa added three players to each side of the ball, including two defensive backs and one…
STILLWATER – Oklahoma State coach Mike Boynton has hired assistant coaches David Cason and Larry Blunt. Cason, a 25-year collegiate coaching veteran with stops at Texas, North Carolina, Notre Dame, VCU and Tulsa, spent the last three seasons as the associate head coach at FIU. He has been a part of more than 400 victories…
As I sit here writing, I was reflecting on this past Sunday, Father’s Day, and the influence we father’s have on our children’s love of sports. Before we get into a debate over the importance of sports, let me say, the number one thing I hope to pass on to my kids is my faith…
A lawsuit filed by a former University of Oklahoma women’s volleyball player reveals that scholarship athletes were required to watch and discuss a political documentary that compares former President Donald Trump and his supporters with violent segregationists in the 1960s. Because she expressed disagreement with that premise, Kylee McLaughlin’s lawsuit said she was subsequently ostracized…