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Former University of Oklahoma players can be found peppered throughout summer league rosters this year. Former Sooner Willie Warren will be playing on the Los Angeles Clippers summer leage team. PHOTO BY JOHN CLANTON, THE OKLAHOMAN ARCHIVES Unfortunately, everyone will have to wait a little...

By now you’ve probably heard about Chad Jones, the former LSU player and New York Giants draft pick who was involved in a serious car accident Friday in New Orleans. In this April 30, 2010, file phtoo, New York Giants' Chad Jones looks on during rookie football camp in East Rutherford, N.J....

Oklahoma Sooner Head Women’s Basketball Coach Sherri Coale was the recipient of a personalized jersey from the Lawton-Fort Sill Cavalry basketball team at the Lawton-Fort Sill Chamber of Commerce Annual Banquet on Friday. OU women's basketball coach Sherri Coale was presented with a...

USA Basketball gave Oklahoma coach Jeff Capel a nifty way to get away from it all. He’s coaching U.S. under-18 national team that will play in the FIBA Americas U18 Championships for Men starting this weekend in San Antonio. The team is headlined by Kyrie Irving, the Gatorade National Player...

Chat with college baseball/OSU writer John Helsley

OU athletic director Joe Castiglione doubted an OU-Nebraska series will continue, now that the two schools will be in different conferences. When asked about the possibility of playing Nebraska out of conference, Castiglione responded, “Given our current schedule, I don’t see a place for...

Chat with OU beat writer Jake Trotter at 11 a.m.

The University of Texas will announce its plans to join the Pac-10 after its Board of Regents meet next Tuesday, a source confirmed to Orangebloods.com. The regents meeting will take place at 11 a.m. in Ashbel Smith Hall in downtown Austin, according to the Austin American-Statesman. A brief...

Chat with OU beat writer Jake Trotter at 11 a.m.

Just when conference alignment can’t get any stranger, it does. The Kansas City TV station KCTV5 is reporting, citing multiple high-level sources, that Texas and Texas A&M are now looking to move to the Big Ten Conference and have petitioned for membership, leaving Oklahoma scrambling to...

Colorado’s decision to leave the Big 12 is official. Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe released the following statement moments ago: “The Big 12 Conference has been informed that the University of Colorado has accepted an invitation to join the Pacific-10 Conference. I continue to work...

Friday at a noon press conference, Colorado will announce that it is leaving the Big 12 and joining the Pac-10, the Boulder Daily Camera is reporting. The Pac-10 has announced it, too. Without Nebraska, and now Colorado, the chances of the Big 12 surviving are slim. Now, the question is,...

As the world turns in conference realignment, Oklahoma’s football coaches have been adding to their 2011 recruiting class. The Sooners landed another verbal commitment Thursday in offensive tackle Derek Farniok. The 6-foot-9, 319-pound native of Sioux Falls South Dakota committed to the...

OU picked up a pair of verbal commitments during its football camp this week. Duncan offensive tackle Dylan Dismuke pledged to the Sooners, according to SoonerScoop.com. So did Euless Trinity, Texas, cornerback Brandon Carter, according to OUInsider.com. Carter, 5-11, 161 pounds, also had...

OU lost its first verbal commitment for the Class of 2011. Dallas A. Maceo Smith tight end Chris Barnett has informed the Sooner coaching staff he is re-opening his recruitment, though will keep OU in the mix. “I felt it was disrespectful to Oklahoma and the Sooner nation to keep taking...

One of the many things followers of OU women’s basketball love about the Sooners is how they remind you that sports are supposed to be fun. It’s rare when they don’t play with a smile on their face. Of course, winning helps. And the same can be said of many women’s college athletic...

Armed with his own high-profile experiences, former Oklahoma football great Brian Bosworth is in the midst of a project he hopes will help guide young players not so familiar with the spotlight. “I’m trying to create an atmosphere where kids understand that...

The Oklahoma Sooners are No. 1 At least according to one college football preseason ranking. Phil Steele’s College Football Preview, one of the major annual preseason college football magazines, ranks OU No. 1. That’s right, No. 1. The rest of Phil Steele’s Top 25: 1. Oklahoma 2....

Over the last three years, Oklahoma has just missed out on signing big-time wide receivers Julio Jones, Rueben Randle and Darius White. But this recruiting class, the Sooners already have secured a verbal commitment from one of the top wideouts from the Class of 2011 in Trey Metoyer. The...

When former Oklahoma forward Tiny Gallon declared for the NBA Draft, few believed his chances of getting drafted at all were good. But according to ESPN draft analyst Chad Ford, not only is Gallon have a good chance of being drafted, there’s a possibility he could go in the first round....