Sports

No fans in the stands at UNC games

September 3, 2020

North Carolina athletic director Bubba Cunningham (formerly at Tulsa) said UNC will start the football and other fall sports without fans at home games because of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. Cunningham said the restriction will last through September for football, men’s and women’s soccer, field hockey, volleyball and cross country. Tailgating has been banned. Cunningham…

OSU basketball schedule is loaded

September 3, 2020

STILLWATER – The 2020-21 Oklahoma State basketball non-conference schedule could potentially feature three regular-season conference champions, 10 teams that finished in the top-100 of the 2020 N.E.T. Rankings and eight squads that won 18 games or more despite the shortened season. Oklahoma State will play host to seven non-conference games in Gallagher-Iba Arena, headlined by…

Sooners sign guard Josh O’Garro

September 3, 2020

Oklahoma basketball coach Lon Kruger has signed 6-5 guard Josh O’Garro. A native of George Town, Cayman Islands, O’Garro joins Oklahoma from Santa Clarita Christian High School in Santa Clarita, Calif. He recently reclassified from the class of 2021 to class the of 2020 and began his OU coursework on Monday. “Josh is a terrific…

Toby Lane promoted to TU assistant

September 3, 2020

A six-year veteran of The University of Tulsa basketball staff, Toby Lane, was promoted to assistant basketball coach, it was announced by Coach Frank Haith. Lane has spent the past 13 seasons under Haith, first as the associate director of basketball Operations at Miami (Fla.), then at Missouri as the director of operations and most…

Spotlight was on former TU athlete

September 3, 2020

Following a speech by Vice President Mike Pence at the Republican National Convention, in a nine-minute video, titled “Lincoln,” Pastor Aaron Johnson praised President Donald Trump’s support of opportunity zones. Johnson, a former TU football student-athlete, is executive director of the Tulsa Dream Center. His story was highlighted for helping change lives. The Tulsa Dream…

OU scrimmages as fall football practice aims at Sept. 12

August 27, 2020

With about two weeks left before the first game, the Oklahoma Sooner football team is getting to meet the challenges of a new season and the adjustments forced by the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. OU had started fall drills early because the season opener at home against Missouri State was originally schedule for August 31. That…

ESPN films OSU practice as Cowboys conduct fall drills

August 27, 2020

STILLWATER – Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy has his team practicing as more answers are forthcoming about the fall season. “I think the lack of direction has been the most difficult thing for the players,” Gundy said. “As coaches we have to adjust and play the hand we have been dealt. Once the Big…

Tulsa AD Derrick Gragg has accepted a job with the NCAA

August 27, 2020

Derrick Gragg, University of Tulsa vice president and director of athletics since 2013, is leaving TU for a position as the new senior vice president for inclusion, education and community engagement at the NCAA. “Derrick’s leadership truly will be missed,” TU Interim President Janet Levit said. “He recognizes that the student in student-athlete always comes…

Tulsa AD Derrick Gragg has accepted a job with the NCAA

August 27, 2020 Jeff Brucculeri

All sports are governed by a set of rules that are written in a rule book and enforced by the officials of the game. Those rules create order and boundaries, and are in place to make the games fair. Sports also have a set of unwritten rules, which sometimes need to be broken. Last week,…

OU, OSU and Tulsa will play football in a fall season

August 20, 2020

Even under the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic, Oklahoma State will host Tulsa on September 12 and Oklahoma will play Missouri State on September 12 in Norman. Those football games are part of revised Big 12 football schedule that features nine conference games on one nonconference game. Tulsa versus Oklahoma State TU is OSU’s nonconference…