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OU has top QB, WR and offensive line

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If the NFL Draft is an accurate indication, Oklahoma had the best quarterback, the best wide receiver and the best offensive line in the nation this year. After just one season as a starter, former OU quarterback Kyler Murray was the No. 1 pick in the draft by the Arizona Cardinals. The Cardinals were so…

Final spring practice fuels hope for the 2019 OSU season

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More than 14,000 Oklahoma State football fans went to Stillwater Saturday to see the final spring practice in hopes of a resurgence of Cowboy fortunes this fall. More than 130 former Cowboys – including Mason Rudolph, Marcell Ateman, Chris Lacy and Brandon Weeden – were there to cheer on the next crop of OSU players…

Quarterback choice looms for Oklahoma

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There’s a good chance that Oklahoma will start a transfer quarterback for the third season in row this fall. In 2017, Texas Tech transfer Baker Mayfield started and in 2018 Texas A&M transfer Kyler Murray started. Both won the Heisman Trophy. Mayfield was the No. 1 pick in the NFL Draft and that could happen…

OU looks for its next starting quarterback in the spring game

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Oklahoma fans will get to see three quarterbacks battle for the starting nod Saturday during the annual spring game in Norman. Jalen Hurts graduated from Alabama in December with one year of eligibility left. Under the graduate transfer rules, he is immediately eligible at OU. In high school, he was rated the No. 1 dual-threat…

Defense shines during Golden Hurricane’s spring game

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Defense may be the key to The University of Tulsa improving their football results in 2019. During the spring game on Saturday, the defense forced the offense into 3-and-outs five times. The offense ran 108 plays, with 73 percent coming in the passing game and the rest on the ground for a total of 314…

Former OU QB Landry Jones Goes to Oakland

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The Oakland Raiders have signed former Oklahoma quarterback Landry Jones to a free-agent contract. Jones was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2013 as a fourth round pick and backed up Ben Roethlisberger for five years before being released before the start of last season. He was signed by the Jacksonville Jaguars but was cut…

Montgomery pleased with quarterbacks

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The Tulsa football team battled through high winds and temperatures in the 30’s through practice No. 11 last Saturday morning and went through their first full scrimmage. “It was good for us to get out and work through some different situations. Anytime you go through a scrimmage, coaches are off the field and guys are…

AAC inks ESPN deal

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The American Athletic Conference and ESPN have reached agreement on a 12-year media rights extension beginning in 2020-21, according to American Athletic Conference Commissioner Mike Aresco and ESPN Executive Vice President of Programming and Scheduling Burke Magnus. ESPN has been the conference’s principal media rights holder for football, men’s and women’s basketball and Olympic sports…

New OSU OC likes what he sees

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One of the big questions for the Oklahoma State football team this spring is how the offense will react to the new offensive coordinator Sean Gleeson. OSU has been consistently good on offense lately and Gleeson comes from Princeton where he ramrodded one of the most prolific offenses in the nation. Princeton was undefeated in…

Kyler Murray, Justice Hill make headlines at the Combine

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Kyler Murray made a splash without doing much and Justice Hill jumped at the opportunity to shine at last week’s NFL Combine in Indianapolis. Murray is a former Oklahoma quarterback who turned his back on a Major League Baseball contract worth millions to put his name in the NFL Draft. He could go No. 1…