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Remembering Mark Acres' top games at ORU

1/25/2013 2:49 PM

On Thursday night, Oral Roberts University retired Mark Acres' uniform number 42 during a ceremony at halftime of the Golden Eagles' victory over Lamar.

Acres recalled ... 

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Will cost of 'gas' help Oral Roberts basketball team?

1/25/2013 2:18 PM

If Oral Roberts wins a Saturday home game against McNeese State, credit Central Arkansas’ Jarvis Garner with an assist.

Explanation: McNeese State will play at the ... 

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Bonus Mark Acres stories: Larry Bird, Kenny Rogers and Dwight 'The Flight' McGhee

1/24/2013 12:06 PM

Mark Acres will soon become the third Oral Roberts basketball player to get his jersey retired by the university.

His jersey will be raised to the rafters at halftime ... 

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A few final thoughts on the Suttons saying goodbye to their mother

1/12/2013 6:45 PM

In about one hour, Scott Sutton and Sean Sutton will coach Oral Roberts University in a basketball game for the first time since attending their mother’s funeral on Friday.

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Amid family tragedy, Scott Sutton expresses appreciation for support

1/3/2013 8:21 PM

Patsy Sutton, wife of former basketball coach Eddie Sutton and mother of Oral Roberts basketball coaches Scott Sutton and Sean Sutton, has been hospitalized since suffering ... 

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ORU's Trevino selected for Baseball America preseason honors

1/3/2013 3:22 PM

Oral Roberts third baseman Jose Trevino has been selected to Baseball America's Preseason All-America third team.

Last year, Trevino was a Baseball America Freshman ... 

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Tulsa win among most surprising in Mayor's Cup history

12/22/2012 10:03 PM

During the Mayor’s Cup men’s basketball rivalry between Tulsa and Oral Roberts, there haven’t been a lot of upsets in their 48 meetings, but there have been a few surprises.

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Memories from Mabee Center's opening games

12/21/2012 12:45 AM

As Bill Haisten writes in Friday’s editions of the World, Oral Roberts University’s Mabee Center has aged beautifully and is “Still Fine at 40.”

I remember when ... 

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After cheering for OU, OSU, Byford family switching to ORU

11/28/2012 2:37 PM

Corbin Byford’s dad is switching allegiances again.

Byford is a freshman basketball player at Oral Roberts University. His father, Lyndle, was an All-Big Eight offensive ... 

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ORU wraps up Great Alaska Shootout: Beware of Belmont

11/24/2012 2:19 PM

Oral Roberts, zapped in the semifinals of the Great Alaska Shootout by Charlotte, will drop to the consolation bracket and play a third-place game 9 p.m. Saturday against ... 

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Thanksgiving in Alaska? Eddie Sutton thankful he wasn't eaten by bear in Alaska

11/23/2012 12:08 PM

Last week, Oral Roberts University basketball coach Scott Sutton was telling me all the reasons he was looking forward to taking his team to the Great Alaska Shootout.

“It’s ... 

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Name recognition (and Sidney Moncrief) help Oral Roberts land latest recruit

10/31/2012 2:16 PM

Eddie Sutton has been retired from coaching ever since the brief farewell fling he had at the University of San Francisco in 2008.

Think the Sutton name still has ... 

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Tulsa World sports writer Jimmie Tramel is a former class president at Locust Grove High School. He graduated magna cum laude from Northeastern State University with a journalism degree and, while attending college, was sports editor of the Pryor Daily Times. He joined the Tulsa World on Oct. 17, 1989, the same day an earthquake struck the World Series. Since 2001, he has been honored more than 30 times in Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists contests for sports reporting, sports columns and sports features. He is the Oklahoma State football beat writer and the Oral Roberts basketball beat writer. In 2007, he wrote a book about OSU football with former Cowboy coach Pat Jones.

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