Sports

Update on the Cannon Ballers, Drillers

June 11, 2020 Jeff Brucculeri

KANNAPOLIS, North Carolina – After several months of being at home and not being able to travel, we have finally ventured out beyond Tulsa County. For the third time in 12 months, we find ourselves at my mother-in-law’s house in Kannapolis, N.C. The reason for this trip and its details would likely bore you, however,…

Big 12 distributes $37.7 million

June 11, 2020

Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said during the league’s spring meetings that the Big 12 was distributing an average of $37.7 million to each school for the 2019-20 school year, just $1.1 million less than the last year. The Big 12 had a 13-year streak of raising revenues for the schools. The Big 12 got…

OU football players will return to workouts on July 1

June 4, 2020

The University of Oklahoma will re-open its facilities for voluntary football workouts on July 1. That is later than what will be allowed by the Big 12 Conference, which has given the green light to schools to re-open facilities on June 15. The Southeastern Conference and schools like Clemson and Ohio State will be open…

OSU players are now returning

June 4, 2020

On Monday, 35 Oklahoma State football players returned to the campus. Another group was expected on Thursday and the final group will be back on Monday, June 8. All of the football players will be tested for the coronavirus. In Payne County, as of May 28, there were only 45 cases of the coronavirus with…

MLB summer season may be doomed

June 4, 2020 Jeff Brucculeri

As the days and weeks go by, and as our country slowly lifts the “shelter-in-place” order, it’s looking more like there won’t be a Minor League Baseball season, and the Major League season is also in question. Last Friday, over 200 minor league players were released by their respective teams, leaving everyone to believe the…

Tulsa switches to digital ticketing plans

June 4, 2020

The University of Tulsa athletics will move to Digital First ticketing for all reserved and general seating at ticketed Golden Hurricane athletic events beginning with the 2020 football season. With Digital First ticketing, fans will have the flexibility to easily store and save season or single-game tickets on their mobile device at any time. TU…

OU switches to digital ticketing

June 4, 2020

The Oklahoma Athletics Department will fully move to digital ticketing at all of its venues, as well as for football parking. Although ticket buyers will no longer have the option to print their tickets at home, officials said the new digital system will provide quick and safe ticket delivery of season, mini-plan and single-game tickets…

State hs sports resume working

June 4, 2020

The Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association board of directors rejected the organization’s proposed guidelines for COVID-19 by a vote of 7-6. Because the proposal failed, high school sports activities were able to resume immediately as the sports world re-opens from the coronavirus situation. The rejected plan would have banned offseason activities before June 1 and…

Hurts, Nichols are Big 12’s best

June 4, 2020

For the third time in the last five years, Oklahoma athletes have won the Big 12’s top athletic honors. The conference office announced that Maggie Nichols and Jalen Hurts are the 2019-20 Big 12 Athletes of the Year. Thirteen Sooners have now been named Big 12 Athlete of the Year in the 24-year history of…

Eddie Sutton belongs in the Hall of Fame

May 28, 2020 Jeff Brucculeri

There was a big, collective, “finally” that was heard throughout the college basketball world this past April, when the announcement was made that former Oklahoma State head basketball coach Eddie Sutton was named to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Sutton, died May 23, at his home in Tulsa. He was 84. Sutton had…