Sports

TU’s Gragg on racial action group

June 25, 2020

PROVIDENCE, RI – American Athletic Conference Commissioner Mike Aresco has announced the creation of a Racial Equality Action Group consisting of administrators, head coaches and student-athletes from The American’s member institutions along with select ex officio members of the conference staff. The University of Tulsa’s Vice President and Director of Athletics, Dr. Derrick Gragg will…

TU football players back on campus

June 25, 2020

The first phase for University of Tulsa football players to return to campus started June 21. The majority of the football team returned June 21-25, followed by all remaining football student-athletes along with men’s and women’s basketball from June 28-July 2. Men’s and women’s soccer returns on July 5, volleyball on July 12 and the…

Family time at Chautauqua Lake brought back memories

June 18, 2020 Jeff Brucculeri

CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. – It’s always good to come back to my hometown area in Western New York, and there’s no better time to do so than in June. The weather this weekend was perfect; not too hot during the day, and not too cold at night. My wife and I grew up in Jamestown, New…

Lott watch list

June 18, 2020

A total of five Big 12 football players have been named to the watchlist for the 2020 Lott IMPACT Trophy Award. Baylor’s Terrel Bernard, Oklahoma’s Caleb Kelly, Oklahoma State’s Amen Ogbongbemiga, Texas’ Joseph Ossai and West Virginia’s Darius Stills were named to the watchlist. The Lott IMPACT Trophy, which has raised more than $1.6 million…

Oregon State player dismissed

June 18, 2020

Oregon State football head coach Jonathan Smith has dismissed redshirt freshman tight end Rocco Carley after audio surfaced of Carley making “racist and bigoted remarks” while speaking in a southern accent. The team took Carley’s profile from the school’s website. “I became aware of the comments made by Rocco Carley earlier this evening,” Smith wrote…

Tennessee has a tough schedule

June 18, 2020

According to CBS Sports, Tennessee has the second toughest schedule in the Southeastern Conference. Tennessee is scheduled to play Oklahoma in Norman this season. Writer Tom Fornelli put the Volunteers behind only Arkansas. The Razorbacks play Notre Dame this fall. Fornelli wrote that Tennessee’s game against Oklahoma on the road is more difficult than Arkansas’…

Missouri State’s budget concerns

June 18, 2020

According to a report in the Springfield News Leader, Missouri State Athletics Director Kyle Moats said his athletics department is budgeting as if it won’t play its football game at Oklahoma on Sept. 5. Moats said he hopes to play the game but he is planning as if he won’t bet the $600,000 guaranteed payment…

TU’s Chris Paul on committee

June 18, 2020

PROVIDENCE, R.I. –– University of Tulsa offensive lineman Chris Paul has been appointed as the American Athletic Conference’s representative to the NCAA Division I Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and will serve as chair of the conference’s SAAC executive board for the 2020-21 and 2021-22 academic years. Paul is one of 32 student-athletes on the NCAA Division…

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…