Oklahoma Sooners Rumors & News

TCU baseball game against Oklahoma State tentatively set for 11 p.m. start

College Football Confidential | Fort-Worth Star Telegram — A rain delay of 3 1/2 hours Thursday to start the Big 12 baseball tournament in Oklahoma City has pushed the projected starting time for TCU's game against Oklahoma State to 11 p.m. The original starting time for TCU-OSU, as...

Oklahoma tornadoes: OU's Merv Johnson 'was extremely lucky, but I wasn't very smart' with weather decisions

Oklahoman — BY JOHN ROHDEOklahoma director of football operations Merv Johnson started out making wise decisions on Monday — but later that same day, um, not so much.           “I wasn't very smart,” Johnson admitted.Read more on NewsOK.com

Oklahoma tornadoes: Sooner football teammates, coaches united again, in tragedy

Oklahoman — BY JASON KERSEYMOORE — Corey Callens often teases Rodney Rideaux about what is virtually the one thing — the side of Interstate 35 each lives on in Moore — separating the two OU assistant coaches. “I tell him, ‘You stay on your side of town; I'll stay on mine,'” Callens said with a laugh. Callens and Rideaux were OU teammates in the late 1990s.Read more on NewsOK.com

Oklahoma softball: Why the Sooners can't seem to shake Texas A&M

Oklahoman — BY JENNI CARLSONOklahoma continues its march toward the Women's College World Series later this week in NCAA softball super regional action. The opponent? Texas A&M.; Of course. The Sooners can't get away from the Aggies. Even though Texas A&M; bolted the Big 12 for the SEC last summer, the Sooners can't turn around without running into the Aggies.Read more on NewsOK.com

Sam Bradford witnesses another natural disaster

Oklahoman — Sam Bradford's mind was elsewhere at Rams OTAs, thinking about the devastation in Oklahoma and recalling a similar storm in 1999. The former Putnam City North and University of Oklahoma quarterback was in Oklahoma City on Monday, watching on TV as a tornado ripped through Moore. Read more on NewsOK.com

Bus carrying TCU baseball team finally arrives in OKC after six-hour, storm-affected trip

College Football Confidential | Fort-Worth Star Telegram — A bus carrying the TCU baseball team to Oklahoma City Monday for the Big 12 tournament was forced to pull over at a rest area south of Pauls Valley and wait out storms. The team was scheduled to depart Fort...

Big 12 baseball tournament in OKC delayed a day, will use a new format

Texas College Blog | Dallas Morning News — The Big 12 Conference has opted to delay its annual baseball tournament in Oklahoma City due to the tornadoes that hit the area Tuesday. Instead of canceling the event, which was debated internally, the Big 12 Baseball Championship tournament will … Continue reading →

Moore tornado hits home for former Oklahoma punter Tress Way

Oklahoman — Chicago Bears rookie punter Tress Way was sitting in a meeting room at Halas Hall on Monday when news of the Moore tornado reached his cell phone. Message after message began pouring into his phone, but in a rookie meeting the undrafted punter didn’t dare touch it, even though he was anxious to find out what was going on outside of the building. News of the devastating tornado was stunning to Way, who punted the last four years for the University of Oklahoma. Read more on NewsOK.com

Oklahoma football: Jay Norvell working on luring a tall group of wide receivers to Norman

Oklahoman — BY JASON KERSEYNORMAN — Oklahoma co-offensive coordinator Jay Norvell seems intent on luring another strong group of wide receivers to Norman in the 2014 recruiting class. Four-star prospect Dallis Todd, from La Mirada, Calif., committed last month, and Norvell has already established strong relationships with coveted wideouts like Mark Andrews (6-foot-6, 225 pounds from Scottsdale, Ariz.), Dorian Leonard (6-4, 200 pounds from Longview, Texas) and Tulsa Union's Jeffery Mead (6-5, 179 pounds). Height is one noticeable attribute linking those prospects, and it could make Oklahoma's 2014 receiver...

Oklahoma football: A look at OU's 2014 wide receiver targets

Oklahoman — BY JASON KERSEYNORMAN — Oklahoma is chasing lots of top wide receiver prospects for next year's recruiting class.Read more on NewsOK.com

College football: Coaches, athletes weigh in on NCAA's suspended recruiting proposals

Oklahoman — BY JASON KERSEYOklahoma coach Bob Stoops thought the NCAA's decision to deregulate many of its college football recruiting rules was made in haste. “Seemed like they were just ready to, in other words, ‘Let's take it out of the NCAA and our compliance hands, and let's have no regulation,'” Stoops said.Read more on NewsOK.com

Oklahoma football: Sooners get pair of commitments

Oklahoman — BY RYAN ABER, Staff Writer, raber@opubco.comOklahoma offensive line coach Bill Bedenbaugh spent Friday morning recruiting in Ohio. The trip immediately paid dividends by mid-morning when Troy (Ohio) offensive guard Alex Dalton committed to the Sooners. Later in the day, OU added another commitment when Gulfport (Miss.) Harrison Central cornerback Tito Windham committed to OU. Dalton (6-foot-4, 280 pounds) is OU’s first offensive line commit for the 2014 class.Read more on NewsOK.com

Oklahoma football: Jay Norvell's wife Kim hosts Zumbathon to battle cystic fibrosis, the disease she's dealt with all her life

Oklahoman — BY JASON KERSEYNORMAN — More than four decades ago, doctors diagnosed 6-month-old Kim Fehrman with cystic fibrosis, then told her parents she wouldn't live long enough to start kindergarten. Her life expectancy continually increased, though, as research and medical advances were made in the fight against the chronic disease that produces mucus, which clogs the lungs and hinders food digestion. Kim — now married to Oklahoma co-offensive coordinator Jay Norvell — turns 45 next month, but continues to battle her illness every day with medicine, airway clearance techniques, exercise and fundraisin...

Oklahoma football: Cedar Hill cornerback Marcus Green commits to OU

Oklahoman — BY RYAN ABEROklahoma picked up its fifth commitment for the 2014 class Sunday when Cedar Hill (Texas) cornerback Marcus Green committed to the Sooners. Green (6-foot-1, 176 pounds) chose the Sooners over Nebraska, Missouri, North Carolina and Texas Tech among others. The recruitment of the Rivals three-star corner picked up steam in recent weeks as Sooner defensive coordinator Mike Stoops visited Cedar Hill twice in the last two weeks. Rivals ranks Green as the No.Read more on NewsOK.com

College softball: OU to host regional, faces Marist in first round

Oklahoman — BY STEPHANIE KUZYDYM, Staff Writer, skuzydym@opubco.comOklahoma will begin its road back to the Women's College World Series on familiar territory. The top-ranked Sooners (47-4), who will be the No.Read more on NewsOK.com

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