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Cardinals Pick Kyler Murray First Overall, Stuff Josh Rosen In The Attic
Back in October, Texas Tech’s then-head coach Kliff Kingsbury had high praise for the Oklahoma quarterback his team was about to face, Kyler Murray. He told reporters that if he could, he’d take Murray with the first pick of the draft. The Cardinals appeared to take that comment into serious conside...
Gymnastics Doesn't Need A Safety Valve
This weekend, UCLA women’s gymnastics defeated their Pac-12 rival Oregon State in Corvallis, which was hardly an unexpected result given that the Bruins were ranked third heading into the competition and the Beavers were 20th. En route to this victory, the Bruins scored 197.9, a season high for them...
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Oklahoma Is Happy To Accept Transfers, But Unwilling To Let Their Own QB Move Freely [UPDATE]
Jalen Hurts announced today that he would be leaving the Crimson Tide and transferring to play at Oklahoma next season. Since the QB graduated from Alabama already, he can use his final season of NCAA eligibility for the Sooners without having to sit a year. In an essay at the Players’ Tribune, some...
Kyler Murray Is Entering The NFL Draft
After a little bit of uncertainty over whether he would wind up choosing the Oakland Athletics’ farm system instead of an immediate shot at the NFL, Oklahoma QB and Heisman winner Kyler Murray has picked football over baseball and will enter the NFL draft, as reported by Murray himself in this refre...
Tell Me Again Why Kyler Murray Would Ever Want To Play Baseball?
Heisman-winning-QB-but-also-A’s-draft-pick Kyler Murray has a choice to make, and it looks like he’s going to forego a baseball career (for now) to enter the NFL Draft, and it looks like he’s going to announce that as soon as tomorrow. Both the A’s and Major League Baseball have sent envoys to Dall...
Report: The Oakland A's Are Preparing For Kyler Murray To Enter The NFL Draft
Another wrinkle has been added to the most important will he/won’t he saga involving a college athlete in quite some time. Heisman Trophy winner Kyler Murray is expected to declare for the NFL draft on Sunday, according to a report from the San Francisco Chronicle. The Oakland A’s, who drafted Murra...
Alabama Did What Alabama Does To Oklahoma
In Saturday’s first 17 minutes of game time, Alabama reeled off 28 straight points to knock down Oklahoma before anyone at the Orange Bowl had a chance to buy a second beer. That early lead proved to be the cushion Alabama needed to coast to an easy, if not entirely calm, victory in Miami. The final...
Alabama Football Player Stops Himself From Saying Something Interesting About Kyler Murray
When asked a question about Heisman Trophy winner and Oklahoma quarterback Kyler Murray, Alabama defensive lineman Quinnen Williams almost gave an honest answer in advance of Saturday night’s Orange Bowl....
Oklahoma's Grant Calcaterra Makes Impressive One-Handed Touchdown Catch To Ice Big 12 Championship
On third-and-ten, from his opponent’s 18-yard line, Oklahoma quarterback Kyler Murray threw a perfectly-placed pass towards the end zone for tight end Grant Calcaterra. With the defender draped all over him, the sophomore was able to muscle away and outstretch his right arm to complete a one-handed ...
Oklahoma's Robert Barnes Not Flagged For Potential Targeting Hit On West Virginia's Marcus Simms
Oklahoma outlasted West Virginia in a 59-56 classic Big 12 shootout that likely had defensive coordinators everywhere weeping for the future of their positions. But even with all of the scoring, and general back-and-forth action, one of the biggest plays in the game came at the tail end of the first...
Oklahoma Sooner Schooner RUF/NEK Shows Us The Pain Too Much School Spirit Can Cause
If you were watching the ABC broadcast of the Bedlam Series, you might have missed one of the top highlights of the game as it happened. After No. 6 Oklahoma scored to go up 14-7 on Oklahoma State, the Sooner Schooner made its way out onto the field to celebrate—as it does after every score. This ti...
Texas Is Back Thanks To Kicker Cam Dicker
Texas kicker Cam Dicker forgot he was a freshman on Saturday and absolutely nailed a 40-yard go-ahead field goal to give the No. 19 Longhorns a 48-45 lead over No. 15 Oklahoma with nine seconds left in regulation. Texas looked as though it would win the game with ease, entering the fourth quarter up...
Jay Novacek's Kid Says He Suffered Severe Brain Damage From Fraternity Hazing Incident At Oklahoma
Football fans of a certain age will remember Jay Novacek as the infuriatingly dependable third-down target of Troy Aikman on those dominant Cowboys teams of the mid-90s. Novacek retired from football in 1997. His son, Blake Novacek, was also pursuing a career in sports—sports broadcasting, to be exa...
Oklahoma Is Relentlessly Fun And Fantastic
Welcome to the Deadspin 25, a college football poll that strives to be more democratic and less useless than every other preseason poll. Leading up to the college football season kickoff, we will give you previews of the 25 teams that you, the readers, voted to be most worthy of writing about. Now, ...
Report: EPA Head Scott Pruitt Used His Position To Get 50-Yard-Line Seats For The Rose Bowl
I find myself more impressed than anything by EPA head Scott Pruitt’s venality. Sure, the man is corrupt. But he’s corrupt in ways no one had ever even conceived of before! The man’s unflagging creativity in graft is inspiring, in its gross way, and his drive is something to behold. For the rest of ...
Dual-Sport Athlete Kyler Murray Wants To Gamble On One More Year Of College Football<em></em>
Oklahoma QB Kyler Murray was considered a fringe first-round baseball prospect a month ago, but few people would have guessed that he’d go to the Oakland A’s in the top 10 of Monday’s draft, since Murray is planning to play football for the Sooners in the fall. The Athletics clearly decided that th...
Oklahoma Softball Scores Unconventional Run
The third-ranked Oklahoma softball team beat the Texas Longhorns by a score of 7-1 today. The win featured a grand slam, but the highlight of the game is this here example of extremely creative base-running, by senior catcher Lea Wodach, who scored the go-ahead run in extremely unconventional fashio...
Trae Young Couldn't Carry His Whole Team
Oklahoma’s Trae Young almost certainly just played the last game of his NCAA career, and he busted his ass. Today’s 83-78 overtime loss to Rhode Island featured the entire Rams team each making important contributions, while Young put practically all of his Sooner teammates on his back....
Deep Three Sends Kevin Harlan Into Maniacal Laughing Fit
Ten-seed Oklahoma and seven-seed Rhode Island are currently locked in a close first-round matchup; so far, Rams senior guard Jared Terrell, the team’s sharpshooter and leading scorer, has struggled inside the arc, shooting just 4-of-12. But the Weymouth, Mass., native has been on fire from a mile aw...
Oklahoma Needs To Get Out Of The Trash Heap Fast
It was only two months ago that Trae Young’s Oklahoma team was ranked fourth in the nation. With the most exciting player in the country leading the way, the Sooners improved drastically from an awful 2017 season, riding a 14-2 start that turned their freshman point guard into a national fascination...