http://www.tulsaworld.comThe latest news and information from the Tulsa World.5Copyright 2013, World Publishing Co. All rights reserved.West Virginia baseball coach Randy Mazey said something during a conference call on Tuesday that I was going to use to take the Big 12 Conference to task. But the Big 12 beat me to it on Wednesday ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Major_kudos_to_West_Virginia_baseball_coach_Big_12/20480?subj=54Thu, 23 May 2013 09:12:42 CDTWish we knew more about the details of why Mike Gundy has blocked Wes Lunt’s intention to transfer from Oklahoma State to either Tennessee, Vanderbilt or Southern Mississippi. Maybe Gundy has ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Somehow_Gundy_has_created_yet_another_PR_mess_with/20404?subj=54Fri, 17 May 2013 20:14:00 CDTGot a chance to visit with Ed Podolak on Monday at the golf tournament fundraiser for Langston football, and he articulated a few thoughts on Bob Stoops and Iowa, Marcus Allen and short-yardage running, ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Could_Stoops_still_go_to_Iowa_What_made_Marcus_Allen/20400?subj=54Fri, 17 May 2013 14:54:54 CDT OKLAHOMA CITY — Before Oklahoma City and Memphis hit the floor at Chesapeake Energy Arena for Game 5 of their Western Conference semifinal series — a series won 4-1 by the Grizzlies with Wednesday’s ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Thunder_vs_Grizzlies_Randolphs_physique_belies_his/20376?subj=54Thu, 16 May 2013 00:33:39 CDTMaybe Justin Blackmon will never get it. Blackmon’s assertion Monday that he doesn’t have an alcohol or substance abuse problem, but rather a “problem with making a poor decision,” is only partly ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Blackmon_needs_to_admit_he_has_more_than_a_decision/20337?subj=54Tue, 14 May 2013 11:04:43 CDTMike Gundy really messed up. Not this spring, when he announced Clint Chelf as Oklahoma State’s starting quarterback for 2013 and then, in a desperate attempt at damage control, re-announced ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/With_Lunt_gone_what_has_Gundy_learned/20295?subj=54Fri, 10 May 2013 14:26:39 CDTOKLAHOMA CITY — When his time at the postgame microphone was finished, Kevin Durant stood up, walked away, then froze, patting his pockets, a staggered look of panic rushing over his usually stone face....http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/As_great_as_Kevin_Durant_has_been_he_sure_could_use/20240?subj=54Wed, 08 May 2013 02:55:00 CDTOklahoma football legend Rod Shoate was finally elected to the College Football Hall of Fame on Tuesday, and quite a bit overdue. But another Sooner linebacker prodigy, Brian Bosworth was not....http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Shoate_Bosworth_still_leave_impression_on_todays_players/20230?subj=54Tue, 07 May 2013 14:10:03 CDTNot sure exactly which mountaintop from which Trent Dilfer has been watching Oklahoma football, but his lens seems a bit blurry. Dilfer, a former NFL quarterback who admirably speaks his mind ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Dilfer_gets_credit_for_speaking_his_mind_but_he_was/20064?subj=54Sat, 27 Apr 2013 21:33:44 CDTThe 2013 NFL Draft is over. There may have never been a better teaching tool for Oklahoma football players. Starting with Lane Johnson at the No. 4 overall pick and ending with Tony ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Plenty_of_lessons_to_be_learned_from_Sooners_NFL_Draft/20063?subj=54Sat, 27 Apr 2013 19:54:00 CDTOklahoma State on Friday announced an enticing home-and-home schedule with Boise State. Advantage, Mike Holder. OSU’s athletic director wants more attractive opponents. OSU’s coach, ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/OSU_Boise_State_a_tremendous_idea_whether_Gundy_thinks/20047?subj=54Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:17:00 CDTA few quick thoughts on Russell Westbrook’s knee injury announced Friday morning by the Oklahoma City Thunder: * Getting to play armchair doctor (i.e., covering so many athlete injuries) is ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Heres_a_look_at_Russell_Westbrooks_possible_prognosis/20043?subj=54Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:50:00 CDTBIXBY — Scott Brooks “loves” the Tulsa 66ers, he said on Monday. So the Oklahoma City Thunder coach showed his ongoing affection for the team’s D-League affiliate by assigning three players ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Thunder_assigns_trio_to_66ers_playoff_series/19953?subj=54Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:01:02 CDTKicking around ideas for how the American Athletic Conference will line up when the University of Tulsa joins? Write off any logic for 2014. The AAC will have just 11 teams, and commissioner ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/In_its_new_league_TU_expects_to_keep_four_non_conference/19772?subj=54Sat, 06 Apr 2013 19:03:00 CDTOKLAHOMA CITY — In preparing to write a column for the World’s Sunday’s print editions, I asked Oklahoma basketball coach Sherri Coale during a press conference Saturday at Chesapeake Energy Arena to describe ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Ahead_of_Sweet_Sixteen_showdown_vs_Vols_OUs_Coale_describes/19676?subj=54Sat, 30 Mar 2013 15:37:53 CDTFormer Union High School quarterback Mackenzi Adams, just a year into his college football career at Vanderbilt, apparently was considering transferring. Until he got a letter from someone who ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Steve_Davis_determination_helped_Unions_Adams_persevere/19628?subj=54Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:48:00 CDTOklahoma basketball coach Lon Kruger reportedly has listed his Las Vegas home for sale. For $4.95 million. Built in 2010 — his sixth of seven years in Las Vegas, when he was coach ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Check_out_Krugers_Las_Vegas_mansion_now_selling_495/19616?subj=54Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:10:00 CDTAs the Michigan and Villanova bands dueled in Stanford’s Maples Pavilion on Sunday afternoon, University of Tulsa basketball coach Matilda Mossman reflected on her team’s loss to the top-seeded Cardinal ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/For_Tulsa_basketball_2013_can_be_an_agent_of_change/19594?subj=54Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:02:30 CDTPALO ALTO, Calif. — Since Dr. James Naismith famously hung his peach baskets, it’s only happened once. OK, maybe it happened in a church league or college intramurals or tiny tikes. ...http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/TUs_mission_Difficult_but_not_impossible/19581?subj=54Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:52:52 CDTSAN JOSE, Calif. — It looked like a mismatch. Turns out, it was. Only, not the way everyone expected. Big and burly Marcus Smart, 6-foot-4 and full of muscles, against ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Against_OSUs_Smart_Oregons_point_guard_tandem_was_little/19559?subj=54Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:09:20 CDTSAN JOSE, Calif. — Good game today between Butler and Bucknell out in Lexington, Ky. Don’t know where Keiton Page followed the game — either on TV at the Oklahoma State hotel, in the Cowboy ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Butler_wins_Page_is_thrilled/19556?subj=54Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:49:16 CDTSAN JOSE, Calif. — Whoever said money can’t buy happiness never saw what Nike sovereign Phil Knight and energy mogul Boone Pickens did for their alma maters. Money bought facilities for the ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Oregons_Phil_Knight_OSUs_Boone_Pickens_are_two_billionaires/19544?subj=54Wed, 20 Mar 2013 20:35:40 CDTYou never really know what to expect from the NCAA. When University of Tulsa senior Bryan Burnham applied for a sixth year of eligibility, it looked like an easy decision for the association: ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Free_Bryan_Burnham_NCAA_needs_to_do_the_right_thing/19536?subj=54Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:27:54 CDTYou probably know the story of Steve Davis reaching out to comfort Landry Jones. But you don’t know the story of Steve Davis reaching out to comfort John Hoover. Davis, the two-time ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Steve_Davis_kindness_had_no_limits_neither_did_his/19501?subj=54Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:16:00 CDTKANSAS CITY, Mo. — Oklahoma State and Oklahoma played nine hours apart on Thursday at the Sprint Center, but they played almost the same game. With one big difference. With their ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Cowboys_Sooners_played_exact_same_game_in_Big_12_but/19469?subj=54Thu, 14 Mar 2013 23:25:38 CDTThis much I know for sure: there are not enough athletic trainers in the sports world. Quite a few of those that we do have, however, have descended upon Tulsa. Members of the Mid-American ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/The_world_needs_more_athletic_trainers_and_now/19467?subj=54Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:23:26 CDTIt was good to see the Oklahoma City Thunder perform in a pinch on Sunday night. The Thunder’s trend this season of blowout victories, wherein starters spend all or most of the fourth quarter ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Thunders_clutch_fourth_quarter_at_Clippers_was_a_relief/19315?subj=54Mon, 04 Mar 2013 10:38:26 CDTBig 12 Conference commissioner Bob Bowlsby will not try to mandate that his schools no longer play football games against lower-division schools like the Big Ten did last week, but he’s strongly in favor ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Bowlsbys_against_FCS_blowouts_but_doesnt_want_to_mandate/19159?subj=54Thu, 21 Feb 2013 10:08:45 CDTI need to offer a slight correction on Sunday’s column about how the University of Oklahoma needs to pony up more cash for its football assistants. My percentages were fine. Bob Stoops does ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/OU_does_pay_Stoops_607_percent_of_its_75_million_budget/19096?subj=54Mon, 18 Feb 2013 08:25:00 CDTWhat’s going on in Norman right now is not a shakeup of the coaching staff. It’s a purge. Minutes after the Tulsa World confirmed that Bob Stoops had fired his second assistant in ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/By_dismissing_Kittle_Stoops_addresses_cronyism_tag/19029?subj=54Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:09:24 CDTBy now, it’s clear that Bob Stoops wasn’t entirely serious last month when he sat on a stool in front of a handful of local print reporters and patted his program on the back for finishing the 2012 season ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/First_Patton_now_Shipp_Stoops_never_believed_things/19028?subj=54Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:33:18 CDTIt’s an ugly business, college football recruiting. Less than a week after getting all the binding signatures he needed to built Oklahoma’s 2013 class, OU coach Bob Stoops canned offensive ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/James_Patton_will_be_missed_at_OU_by_future_and_current/18996?subj=54Mon, 11 Feb 2013 12:01:48 CDTOKLAHOMA CITY — Nick Collison feels Bill Self’s pain. On Wednesday, after Self’s Kansas Jayhawks were beaten at hapless (and winless in the Big 12 Conference) TCU, Self said it was “the worst ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Collison_not_happy_about_KU_struggles_but_at_least/18972?subj=54Fri, 08 Feb 2013 19:00:48 CDTHere’s a suggestion for the Oklahoma Secondary Schools Activities Association: Instead of splitting Class 6A into two 16-school divisions — one of two possible scenarios for the 2014 season ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Hey_OSSAA_How_about_a_Jenks_Union_district_and_an_everyone/18936?subj=54Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:46:00 CDTOKLAHOMA CITY — Kevin Durant is good to go. After sustaining a slight injury in Saturday’s loss at Cleveland, Durant participated in shootaround at Chesapeake Arena Monday afternoon and coach ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Durant_fine_for_Mavs_OKC_wants_another_bounce_back/18873?subj=54Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:04:45 CDTMaybe the Big 12 Conference is getting ahead of itself. But maybe it’s not. The Big 12, so often maligned for pandering to Texas and for lacking strong leadership over its first 15 ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Bringing_back_Big_12_title_game_comes_with_risks_but/18812?subj=54Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:13:08 CDTSpeaking with former OU running back Spencer Tillman the other night at the Tulsa Public Schools Athletics Hall of Fame ceremony, he had a lot to say about his old school and the conference in which the ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Tillman_Despite_dynasty_Alabamas_Saban_scared_to_death/18729?subj=54Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:44:00 CDTI need to share an email I received after my Tuesday column on Lance Armstrong. Although I tried, I probably fell short in portraying my feelings about Armstrong’s “heroism” as a brave cancer ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Still_angry_about_Lance_Armstrongs_deceit_and_tyranny/18590?subj=54Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:16:00 CDTNORMAN — Remember where you were a couple Sundays ago when Adrian Peterson almost chased down Eric Dickerson? Bob Stoops certainly does. “I was at the Beef Bowl at Lawry’s,” Stoops ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Watching_Peterson_Stoops_could_barely_hold_his_water/18551?subj=54Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:54:00 CDTNORMAN — Although Bob Stoops was the one sitting on the high stool and it was a handful of writers who were plopped comfortably in the theater chairs of Oklahoma’s Adrian Peterson Team Meeting Room, we ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Bob_Stoops_OU_needs_a_better_press_box/18537?subj=54Sun, 13 Jan 2013 17:11:00 CDTNORMAN — Oklahoma defensive coordinator Mike Stoops regrets the controversial remarks he made Friday about Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel on an Oklahoma City radio station. Stoops reached ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Mike_Stoops_regrets_controversial_comments_on_Manziel/18532?subj=54Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:37:19 CDTNORMAN — You’ve got to give it up to Mike Stoops. He’s been a head football coach. He’s now an assistant. When someone asks him a question, the Oklahoma defensive coordinator usually speaks ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Mike_Stoops_If_Manziel_can_stay_out_of_jail_eligible/18529?subj=54Fri, 11 Jan 2013 18:06:00 CDT NORMAN — Like coaches at just about every college football program, Oklahoma’s Bob Stoops has routine annual performance reviews with his staff. And just like most coaches — most employees, ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Bob_Stoops_Brothers_performance_as_defensive_coordinator/18528?subj=54Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:44:46 CDTI never got the feeling that either Mike Gundy or Bill Young was telling me the whole truth. And today we learn that, in fact, they weren’t. In a couple of one-on-one conversations ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Telling_half_truths_put_both_Gundy_and_Young_in_an/18510?subj=54Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:01:00 CDTWatching Oklahoma play on Friday, then watching Alabama play on Monday, it became startlingly clear how far away the Sooners really are from winning another college football national championship. ...http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/As_long_as_Sooners_run_this_kind_of_offense_elite_players/18464?subj=54Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:06:00 CDTI’ve been asked several times in the past few days if I feel stupid for casting my Heisman vote for Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o, or if I regret not voting for Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel, ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Do_I_feel_stupid_for_giving_Teo_my_Heisman_vote_over/18440?subj=54Mon, 07 Jan 2013 13:20:17 CDTARLINGTON, Texas — Johnny Manziel heard it over and over during his magical weekend in New York City, but he wasn’t sure if he quite believed it. Every day, he believes just a little bit more....http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Manziels_learning_what_challenges_life_presents_as/18390?subj=54Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:01:00 CDTLAS COLINAS, Texas — Fame and fortune hasn’t changed Bob Stoops. Not really. Anyone who thinks Stoops’ success as head coach at Oklahoma has turned him into an egomaniac probably doesn’t grasp ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/In_win_ledger_and_bank_ledger_2012_was_good_but_could/18381?subj=54Wed, 02 Jan 2013 13:06:00 CDTDALLAS — What do you do if you’re a quarterback at Oklahoma State? If you’re Wes Lunt, who’s just wrapping up his true freshman season by standing on the sideline at the Heart of Dallas Bowl, ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Cowboys_QB_competition_is_closed_Chelf_is_the_starter/18364?subj=54Tue, 01 Jan 2013 14:04:00 CDTARLINGTON, Texas — It’s really too bad how Dominique Whaley’s senior season has gone. From one of the best stories in college football last year — a walk-on, an NAIA transfer, a Subway sandwich ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Sooners_Whaley_has_mixed_feelings_about_ruined_season/18362?subj=54Tue, 01 Jan 2013 10:54:37 CDT