Sports

Great American – no sports

August 20, 2020

The Great American Conference’s Council of Presidents voted tol suspend all fall and winter sports – basketball, cross country, football, soccer and volleyball – and the two-semester sports of golf and tennis through December 31. Oklahoma members include East Central University in Ada, Northwestern Oklahoma State in Alva, Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee, Southeastern State…

The ‘fluid situation’ surrounding U.S. sports is getting sticky

August 20, 2020 Jeff Brucculeri

“It’s a fluid situation.” That will be a term that becomes synonymous with the year 2020. In other words, “schedules are subject to change,” or the way I’ve been looking at it, “don’t bother getting your hopes up, because it’s all going to change anyway.” That’s about all that can be said for not only…

ORU is taking things one step at a time

August 13, 2020 Jeff Brucculeri

This past Saturday, I had the honor of filling in for Charley Biggs, as host of the Tulsa Beacon Weekend radio program. My guest was Oral Roberts University President, Dr. Billy Wilson, who shed some light on what ORU has done to prepare for students to return to campus, and how to proceed with athletics….

Toledo cancels its Sept. 5 game at Tulsa

August 13, 2020

The Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team may not play a full slate of 12 games this fall after their opening game with Toledo was canceled. Toledo is a member of the Mid-America Conference and that league has postponed its football schedule until the spring. TU and Toledo were playing a home-and-home series that started in…

OU-Army game is canceled, Riley suspends fall practices

August 13, 2020

Thanks to a decision by the Big 12 Conference, Oklahoma’s football team will not travel play Army this fall. And OU will move its home game with Missouri State probably to Sept. 5 or 12 because MSU’s league, the Mid-America Conference voted to move its conference football schedule to the spring. It will allow teams…

Sooners are ranked No. 6

August 13, 2020

Oklahoma has been voted as the No. 6 team in the nation by the preseason Coaches Poll. OU has been ranked in the top eight or higher 19 times in the last 21 years. The poll has Oklahoma State at No. 16, Texas at No. 14 and Iowa State at No. 25. Baylor, TCU and…

UConn: No 2020 football

August 13, 2020

The University of Connecticut Department of Athletics will not field a football team this fall. UConn, which is an independent after leaving the American Athletic Conference at the end of last year, had already lost 2020 games against Illinois, Indiana, Maine and Mississippi because of cancelations by those schools’ respective conferences. And there was uncertainty…

Ohio State-Michigan moved to Oct. 24

August 13, 2020

In the Big Ten Conference, Michigan and Ohio State will play on October 24, which will be the first time since 1942 that they haven’t play each other at the end of the regular season. And Maryland announced that it would begin the football season without spectators in the stadium. And fans won’t be able…

TU or W. Illinois vs. OSU?

August 13, 2020

After the Big 12 Conference voted to limit football teams to only nine conference games and one home nonconference game, Oklahoma State fans are wondering who that nonconference game will be and when it will be played. OSU’s season opener was supposed to be in Stillwater against Oregon State. But that was canceled when the…

12 games for AAC teams

August 13, 2020

The American Athletic Conference said its plan for the 2020 football season include a start date of September 19. Each team will play eight conference games and up to four nonconference games on their originally scheduled dates. Decisions on Fall 2020 competition in the sports of baseball, softball, women’s lacrosse, women’s rowing, men’s and women’s…