BCS National Championship: Bye, Bob Stoops? Doubtful 8 hr ago | Add a comment MIAMI — The Oklahoma football Sooners landed among the palm trees Friday, leaving behind tremors back home. Someone might want their coach. Another Stoops Watch looms. According to the Rocky...

BCS National Championship: War of words - It’s not Big 12 vs. SEC 8 hr ago | Add a comment FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — SEC broadcaster Gary Danielson compares Big 12 stats to pesos. Florida quarterback Tim Tebow did or didn’t say he couldn’t wait to go against a Big 12...

BCS National Championship: Juaquin Iglesias is tough, talented 9 hr ago | Add a comment MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Sam Bradford won the Heisman. Jermaine Gresham, G.K. McCoy and Duke Robinson made All-American. Jeremy Beal, Jon Cooper, Nic Harris, Travis Lewis, Phil Loadholt, DeMarco...

BCS National Championship: The Rock Star QBs - OU's Sam Bradford vs. Florida's Tim Tebow 9 hr ago | Add a comment FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Tim Tebow walked into the Harbor Beach Marriott the other day, and the clamor could not have been greater had Elvis Presley himself stopped by after filming "Girl...

OU football: Behind the 8 ball Sat, Jan 3, 2009 | Add a comment FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The 8 ball is a funny sphere. Sort of like love and your tax return, the 8 ball can both enrapture and crush. The 8 ball is the avenue to both victory and defeat. The...

Will Denver Broncos make a run at Bob Stoops? Thu, Jan 1, 2009 | Add a comment When Steve Spurrier’s two-year adventure with the Washington Redskins ended in ignominy, we figured the ol’ ballcoach had a message for protégé Bob Stoops. Stay away from the NFL. But...

Coach-friendly owner could make Denver Broncos job attractive to OU head coach Bob Stoops Thu, Jan 1, 2009 | Add a comment When Steve Spurrier’s two-year adventure with the Washington Redskins ended in ignominy, we figured the ol’ ballcoach had a message for protégé Bob Stoops. Stay away from the NFL. But...

Tramel: Special stories for Christmas Wed, Dec 24, 2008 | Add a comment A Christmas story, 1964: Billy’s grandparents gave him a regulation basketball goal. Which is not the greatest toy for a kid two days shy of his second birthday. You don’t want...

Big 12’s true test comes in the next two weeks Tue, Dec 23, 2008 | Add a comment Big 12 football enters the bowl season with its highest status ever. Oklahoma is in the national championship game. The league supplies the No. 1 (OU), No. 3 (Texas) No. 7 (Texas Tech) and No. 13...

Sooners piling up style points Mon, Dec 22, 2008 | Add a comment STILLWATER — The Sooner points kept piling Saturday night. Seven, 14, 37, 51, 61. Kept piling for Oklahoma State, too, which made this the zaniest, wildest, highest-scoring game in Bedlam...

Fun, good basketball is all we can ask of OKC Thunder this season Mon, Dec 22, 2008 | Add a comment Life is good as an NBA city. The Thunder won just the other day. Unexpected life raft Nenad Krstic could be floating by any time. LeBron James played 42 minutes and 46 seconds Sunday night not...

NFL: A final frantic finish Sun, Dec 21, 2008 | Add a comment IRVING, Texas — Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Texas Stadium listened to Dylan Thomas’ advice. It refused to die without a fight. For most of its final football game, the...

Miami has become OU Sooner's home away from home for bowl games Sat, Dec 20, 2008 | Add a comment Earnie Seiler was an Oklahoma State grad but a Miami man. The front guy for the sleepy Florida fishing village that wanted to attract tourists. So in late 1938, here he came back to Oklahoma,...

NFL: End of an aura in Dallas Fri, Dec 19, 2008 | Add a comment IRVING, Texas — On this night of reflection, this night when pro football says farewell to a monument, might as well start with an old story. Texas Stadium, the ahead-of-its-time coliseum,...

1968 All-College: 4 days with ‘Pistol’ Pete Fri, Dec 19, 2008 | Add a comment Abe Lemons was angry that December night 40 years ago. His Oklahoma City University Chiefs, playing in their own city, in the venerable All-College Tournament, were not the people’s choice....

Viking's RB Adrian Peterson makes his MVP case Thu, Dec 18, 2008 | Add a comment Roll call of the NFL’s division-leading quarterbacks. Eli Manning. Jake Delhomme. Kurt Warner. Ben Roethlisberger. Jay Cutler. Kerry Collins. Tarvaris Jackson/Gus Frerotte. Matt Cassel. Chad...

Cheers & Jeers: Chuck Long’s imprint on Sooners Thu, Dec 18, 2008 | Comments 19 CHEERS →To Dallas Cowboy fans, who flooded Terrell Owens with a series of healthy boos last Sunday night. Good for T.O. to know his act has worn thin in Big D. →To Chuck Long, now fired...

Loss of DeMarco Murray not the end of the world for Sooners Wed, Dec 17, 2008 | Comments 47 NORMAN — The Sooners will miss DeMarco Murray in the Big Bowl. It’s never good when your starting tailback undergoes major surgery 17 days before the ultimate game. Especially a...

Dallas Cowboys: Rising star in Big D Mon, Dec 15, 2008 | Comments 2 IRVING, Texas — After all the fuss over whether Tony Romo should throw the ball to Terrell Owens or Jason Witten, the Dallas Cowboys settled the issue Sunday night against the Super Bowl...

Tramel: Bradford can cement his place in history with a hardware double Sun, Dec 14, 2008 | Comments 183 Sam Bradford called it unreal. And kept calling it unreal. I counted three times in his Heisman Trophy acceptance speech Saturday night Good a word as any for the Slingin' Sammy Heisman story....