OKLAHOMA CITY – The Oklahoma Sooners capped an extraordinary, record-setting season with a two-game sweep of Texas to win the Women’s College World Series for the second year in a row. OU (59-3) has now won six national championships, including four of the last seven. Only UCLA (12) and Arizona (8) have won more. The…
BLACKSBURG, Virginia – Oklahoma blasted five runs to race past No. 7 Virginia Tech Sunday 11-2 to earn a ticket to the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska. OU (42-22) will open against Texas A&M at 1 p.m. Friday on ESPN. OU will make the College World Series for the 11th time and the first…
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana– Every time I visit a new minor league baseball stadium, I can’t help but compare it to the Tulsa Drillers ONEOK Field, and Victory Field in Indianapolis measures up quite well. Victory Field is home to the Indianapolis Indians, the Triple-A team of the Pittsburgh Pirates. On the night I was there last…
Fans won’t have to wait until October to enjoy a Red River Rivalry that will decide a national championship. No. 1 Oklahoma clobbered UCLA 15-0 Monday to earn a trip to the Women’s College World Series to face Texas, who beat Oklahoma State 5-0 and 6-5 also on Monday. OU started Monday with a 7-3…
The seventh-national seeded Oklahoma State softball team fell to Texas, 5-0, and 6-5 on Monday at Hall of Fame Stadium. The Cowgirls finished the season with a 48-14 record. OSU came into the day needing just one win in two possible games to secure a spot in the WCWS championship series against Bedlam rival and…
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…