Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy always seems to cut to the chase in interviews. Gundy told the media at last week’s Big 12 Media Days that the league will flourish even without Oklahoma and Texas, who are bolting for the SEC by 2025. ”I don’t think there’s any question as this moves forward that…
Oklahoma has a new football coach and a whole lot of new players. In an interview during Big 12 Media Days in Dallas, new coach Brent Venables thinks any newness will be overshadowed by the 14 years he spent as an OU assistant before becoming the defensive coordinator at Clemson. On the Sooners 2022 Team,…
I’ve been thinking lately. Actually, I’ve been reminiscing a lot lately. Maybe because I’m in my 50’s and I’m a grandparent, but whatever the reason, I’ve spent a lot of time looking back on my life. Baseball has been a huge part of my life since I was a kid. Until the pandemic shutdown minor…
Former University of Tulsa quarterback Dane Evans is now in his fourth season of professional football north of the border. Evans is a member of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League. Evans, whom I follow on Twitter, is a native of Chickasha, Oklahoma, and graduated from high school in Sanger, Texas. He completed…
Former Oklahoma basketball coach Lon Kruger, now retired, was named to the 2022 National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame Class. Kruger coached for over 40 years, with his final 10 years in Norman as the head coach of Oklahoma. A native of Silver Lake, Kansas, Kruger had a record of 195-128 (.604) with the Sooners….
When Oklahoma and Texas decided to leave the Big 12 Conference and join the Southeastern Conference, it had a ripple effect that impacted at multiple college athletic conferences. And the shakeup could be even more dramatic as USC and UCLA have been approved and will switch to the Big 10 Conference in 2024. The vote…
TV networks to change schools? There was a time in the not too distant past that college athletic conferences were very traditional and very regional. Member schools competed against each other every year for decades, creating some of sports most heated rivalries. That’s no longer the case. The leading motivator for colleges to stay or…
Mississippi’s baseball team topped Oklahoma 4-2 Sunday to deny the Sooners a chance for a third national championship. OU was undefeated in College World Series play in Omaha, Nebraska, until they fell to Mississippi 10-3 on Saturday and then on Sunday. Horton, from Norman, also set an MCWS Championship series mark with his 13 punch…
After a decisive 6-2 win over Notre Dame Sunday, the Oklahoma baseball team needs just one more win to advance to the three-game championship round of the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska. OU was set to play the winner of the Tuesday game between Notre Dame and Texas A&M on Wednesday. If OU wins…
Some people may think it’s a bit early to be getting excited about the 2026 World Cup soccer tournament coming to the United States, but not soccer enthusiasts. FIFA announced last week, the host cities for the World Cup, and I’m already considering what cities I will travel to, in order to see games in…