Manny Pacquiao is one of the famous boxer of this time. In the Philippines he was even considered hero for winning all his fights. The good thing whenever he got a fight the criminal rate in the country was always zero. No records of crime was being done. Another was there was no traffic in…
Monthly Archives: June 2008
Purcey has learned his lesson
Former Oklahoma pitcher David Purcey has learned plenty in his two big league starts this season, including when to push himself and when to throttle back. He was back at Triple-A Syracuse by the following morning but with a lesson learned. For each spot start, Toronto made it clear he wasn’t going to stay, a…
Kids take home some ‘Adrian moments’ after a day at Norman camp
NORMAN — No way was Adrian Peterson going to let this happen. He spotted the boy across the field, sitting cross-legged by himself, his head pointed toward the grass. “What are you doing over here by yourself?” Peterson asked. The 7-year-old raised his knee and unveiled a solid brown bruise. Peterson bent down, put his…
Oklahoma AD Joe Castiglione named APR group chairman
Joe Castiglione, vice president for intercollegiate athletics programs and director of athletics at the University of Oklahoma, has been appointed by NCAA President Myles Brand to chair the Football Academic Progress Rate (APR) Working Group to review the academic progress rate as it pertains to Division I football student-athletes. APR just concluded its fourth year…
Oklahoma limits businesses to employing 5 Sooners at a time
NORMAN, Okla. (AP)—Oklahoma has banned any business from employing more than five Sooners athletes at the same time as part of its response to NCAA violations that occurred when three football players took pay for work they had not done at a car dealership. In a series of compliance changes intended to bring more thorough…
Some thing about Cricket
The cricket is very much similar to the base-ball game. There are so many similarities as well as differences to make it a unique game. This is also a team game consist of 11 players in each team The game is play by wooden bat and a very hard round ball .The ground set up…
The New Class Checks In
NORMAN, Okla. — Two additions to the University of Oklahoma women’s basketball program arrived on campus this week. Freshmen Whitney Hand and Jasmine Hartman enrolled in June intersession and began classes Monday, allowing them to participate in upcoming preseason workouts with the team. Hand, a 6-1 shooting guard from Fort Worth, Texas, and Hartman, a…
Former Sooner standout dies at 76
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — — Tom Catlin, a standout football player at the University of Oklahoma in the 1950s and former defensive coordinator for the Seattle Seahawks, has died. Catlin was 76. Catlin died Saturday at a hospice facility in Seattle, Wash., from complications stemming from a recent surgery, said his brother, Charles Catlin of…
Board of Regents to review Budke’s contact
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — — Oklahoma State women’s basketball coach Kurt Budke could receive another raise after guiding the Cowgirls to the round of 16 in the NCAA tournament for only the second time in school history. Meeting in Oklahoma City on Friday, the Oklahoma A&M Board of Regents approved an agenda item allowing university…
Line newcomers could provide big boost for McLoud
SHAWNEE, Okla. — After watching his youthful offensive line perform at a recent University of Central Oklahoma football team camp, McLoud head coach Eric Cardin discovered three new reasons to be excited. “I thought we did pretty well at the camp,” Cardin said. “We have three new offensive line starters and they held their own….