Former OU quarterback Jalen Hurts was the 21st pick in the second round last Friday by the Philadelphia Eagles. Hurts is Oklahoma’s third quarterback drafted in three years. OU is the only program to ever produce QB selections in the first two rounds of the NFL Draft in three consecutive years (Baker Mayfield and Kyler…
University of Tulsa defensive end Trevis Gipson was selected Saturday by the Chicago Bears as the 10th pick in the 5th round and the No. 155 overall selection of the NFL Draft. Gipson finished his career with 114 tackles, 25.5 TFLs, 13 sacks and eight forced fumbles. The four-year letter winner and two-year starter was…
Former Oklahoma State cornerback A.J. Green and cornerback Kemah Siverand did not get drafted but they have signed free agent contracts. Siverand signed with the Seattle Seahawks and Green signed with the Cleveland Browns. This was the first draft since 2008 in which no OSU players were drafted.
Tulsa is supposed to play Toledo in Chapman Stadium on Saturday, September 5. Because of the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent “stay at home” orders, no one is certain if that game will be played on schedule. The challenge for TU coach Philip Montgomery and other college football coaches is how to prepare for those opening…
I don’t usually write about college basketball signings, but there has been some interesting news out of the local college athletic departments, and some interesting names have popped up in the press releases. The most shocking signing, at least to me, is of sophomore transfer Maya Mayberry with the University of Tulsa women’s basketball team….
Besides trying to get some badly needed yard work done, and do some other work around the house, the past couple of weeks has afforded my wife and me a lot of time to watch television. Along with watching the occasional classic Major League Baseball or National Hockey League game from the 1970s or 1980s,…
The Oklahoma State Cowboy baseball team was scheduled to move from Allie P. Reynolds Stadium to the new O’Brate Stadium on March 20 and host TCU to open the Big 12 season. The Chinese coronavirus pandemic changed all that. Beginning with the March 13 game in Stillwater against Fresno State, the Oklahoma State baseball season…
Former Oklahoma State basketball coach Eddie Sutton – who won 806 games at the collegiate level – has been selected for enshrinement in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Sutton, 84, had been nominated seven times before . The induction ceremony, in Springfield, Massachusetts, is scheduled for August 29, 2020. “It is certainly an…
Some good news and some bad news came from the Oral Roberts University Athletic Department last week; Director of Sports Medicine, John Joslin, became a hall of famer, and longtime fan Wayne Otto passed away. Joslin has served in the sports medicine department at ORU since 2008, and was recently named as an inductee into…
I had only met Fred “Curly” Neal twice, but like so many people around the world, I loved him and was a huge fan. The former dribbler with the Harlem Globetrotters died last week (March 26) at the age of 77, at his home outside Houston. Neal’s ballhandling skills were legendary, and he learned from…