Oklahoma Sooners 2012 Signing Day Live Thread

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 04:04 AM PST

The big day is finally here. The day where you can get way too excited about the decision of teenagers and not feel like a total weirdo. Well, a little bit less of a weirdo. Ok, not at all like less of a weirdo. But that won't stop us, so no reason it should stop you. We'll be here all day to...

Onuoha reveals OU intent on Twitter

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 03:53 AM PST

On the eve of National Signing Day, Edmond Santa Fe's Michael Onuoha gave a sudden verbal commitment to Oklahoma.

OU football signees and commitments

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 03:45 AM PST

OU football recruiting expanding beyond region

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 03:40 AM PST

Barry Switzer often says Oklahoma can't win without recruiting Texas.

Gymnastics: Stone named event specialist of the week

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 03:12 AM PST

Oklahoma women's gymnast Sara Stone was named Big 12 Event Specialist of the Week for the second straight week.

OU edges Kansas in OT

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 02:56 AM PST

Sharane Campbell scored a career-high 23 points, including a rare 3-pointer to put Oklahoma ahead for good in overtime, as the Sooners defeated Kansas 74-68 on Tuesday night.

OU's Fitzgerald treasures friendship with KU's Robinson

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 02:52 AM PST

You don't need Wednesday night's Oklahoma-Kansas game to appreciate how OU's Andrew Fitzgerald feels about Thomas Robinson, the Jayhawks' national player of the year candidate. You don't need any game, ...

Oklahoma 2012 recruiting bios

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 01:33 AM PST

The bios of the 2012 recruiting class for the University of Oklahoma.

Sooners start National Signing Day expecting to land 22 pledges, three others

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 01:31 AM PST

After picking up its 22nd verbal commitment late Tuesday night with Edmond Santa Fe defensive end Michael Onuoha, Oklahoma began National Signing Day expecting no real surprises.

Sooners hope to lock down signatures today of more than 20 commits

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 10:49 PM PST

The fax machines have been dusted off and tested. Today is the one day a year the outmoded piece of technology serves an important use. National letters of intent will begin streaming into the Swtizer Center around 8 a.m. and won’t stop ...

Sooners finally reach realization about defending

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 10:49 PM PST

In real life there isn’t a light bulb that suddenly fires up above someone’s head when an idea sinks in. If there were, Oklahoma’s practice gym would have been a little brighter this week. Something former OU coach Jeff Capel tried to get ...

Oklahoma Sooners National Signing Day 2012 Preview

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 10:36 PM PST

(by Shawn S. Lealos/Examiner.com) When Brent Venables left the Oklahoma Sooners staff, the biggest worry was that the Sooners were losing their biggest recruiting tool....

Edmond Santa Fe Defensive End Commits On Eve Of National Signing Day

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 10:30 PM PST

via photos3.newsok.com Defensive end Michael Onuoha couldn't quite wait until Wednesday to announce that he was going to be a Sooner. He made his announcement late Tuesday night via Twitter that he was heading to Norman to play his college ball. Rivals has the 6-5/225 Onuoha as a three-star...

Oklahoma going national for 2012

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 10:30 PM PST

(by Jake Trotter/ESPN) NORMAN - The blueprint for an Oklahoma recruiting class has been simple. Secure the in-state stars while plucking the best possible players out of Texas. It's a formula that has produced numerous conference and national championships....

Weekend changed Tapper's life

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 10:26 PM PST

(by Brandon Chatmon/ESPN) Cory Robinson saw something special in Charles Tapper (Baltimore/City College) long before anyone at the University of Oklahoma did. Along with Devin Reed, Robinson is co-founder of Next Level Nation....

OU women's basketball team beat out Kansas Jayhawks in overtime

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 09:59 PM PST

Oklahoma survived a scrappy Kansas Jayhawks squad Tuesday night, coming out on top 74-68 in an overtime victory at Allen fieldhouse in Lawrence.

OU men's basketball player thrives to defend his court

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 09:52 PM PST

Basketball fans might recall the demonstrative language of a player who declared to defend his half of the hardwood to the fullest measure.

OU women's tennis team deal with growing pains

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 09:49 PM PST

As the only senior on the OU women’s tennis team, Marie-Pier Huet is taking on more of a leadership role this year. She is doing her part to assist the talented but inexperienced team through the first portion of the long season ahead.

Recruiting: Santa Fe defensive end Michael Onuoha chooses Oklahoma

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 09:21 PM PST

BY RYAN ABER AND JASON KERSEY, Staff Writer, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; jkersey@opubco.comThe 6-foot-5, 225-pounder chose Sooners over Missouri so family can attend games. “It will be good to have somebody have my back rather than being so far away from home and having no one around for me.” Read more on...

The Currency of Signing Day

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 08:35 PM PST

(by Rachel Bachman/Wall Street Journal) On the first Wednesday in February, a date known in college-football circles as "signing day," those who have made significant emotional investments in the sport wait breathlessly as the nation's top high-school recruits make their final decisions about where...

Will Oklahoma's national recruiting efforts be undone by homesickness/playing time?

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 07:42 PM PST

It’s here. Love it or hate it, National Signing Day is upon us. In Wednesday’s Tulsa World, I’ve compiled a report — in industry jargon, we call it an “advance” — on how Oklahoma’s ......

Mike Stoops live

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 06:38 PM PST

Good stuff from Mike Stoops Tuesday night, thanks to an extremely thoughtful interview by Al Eschbach on Oklahoma City's Sports Animal. A lot of it had to do with Stoops' relationship with Brent Venables, ......

Recruiting: OU commit, Durron Neal, ready to 'get it over with'

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 05:25 PM PST

BY RYAN ABER, Staff Writer, raber@opubco.comThe wide receiver from St. Louis DeSmet Jesuit is the prized recruit in Sooners' expected signing class. Read more on NewsOK.com

Texas out of the DGB sweepstakes

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 05:23 PM PST

Texas out of the DGB sweepstakes Not really sure how in it they ever really were. Certainly not the 50+% b.s. that Texas sites were selling to their burnt orange Kool-Aid slurping masses. Claiming a "moral victory" for still being in it as they're claiming is really just kind of sad. To...

Big 12 basketball: Bill Self is showing how good of a basketball coach he really is

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 04:01 PM PST

BY MIKE BALDWIN, Staff Writer, mbaldwin@opubco.comKansas has not only reloaded, but it might be in line for another Big 12 championship. Read more on NewsOK.com

Big 12 releases 10-team schedule to TV partners

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 03:50 PM PST

(by Dennnis Dodd/CBS Sports) The Big 12 released a 10-team football schedule to its TV partners, the conference said Tuesday afternoon. That indicates West Virginia will be in the league in 2012....

Big 12 has big, long-term decision looming regarding expansion

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 03:45 PM PST

(by Brett McMurphy/CBS Sports) Last week the Big 12 Conference's expansion board met. Nothing was voted on. Nothing was decided. The Big 12 still has 9½ teams (West Virginia, at least of Tuesday morning, is not yet all in for 2012)....

Oklahoma Football Recruiting: 7 Late Targets Sooners Hope to Sign

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 02:59 PM PST

Things are getting hectic for every program across the country as National Signing Day is merely a few hours away. The majority of recruits have already made up their minds and are preparing for their ego-boosting press conferences where they will personify their decision by putting the...

Oklahoma football: Landry Jones breaks no new ground with ESPN

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 02:30 PM PST

Landry Jones went on ESPN’s College Football Live last week, and it made me feel good. Jones was no more revealing with the ESPN crew than he is with us back here in Oklahoma. The Sooner quarterback is nothing if not bland. Which is part of what exasperates OU fans so much. They want their [...]

2012 Oklahoma Baseball Preview - Outfield

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 02:09 PM PST

The dynamic of Oklahoma's baseball team will be extremely different from the past two year's and that may be a good thing. After making a trip to Omaha in 2010 the Sooners struggled for various reasons in 2011 and ended up getting bounced from the NCAA Tournament well short of the CWS. Now some...

2012 Big 12 Football Schedule Delayed Beyond Original Deadline

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 01:42 PM PST

(by Jason Kirk/SB Nation) Earlier in January, Big 12 commissioner Chuck Neinas said the 2012 Big 12 football schedule would be released by February. We're now about nine hours away from February....

Report: Big 12 to begin looking for new commissioner

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 01:37 PM PST

(by Matt Murschel/Orlando Sentinel) The Big 12 will being the process of finding a replacement for commissioner Chuck Neinas, that according to Chuck Carlton of The Dallas Morning News....

Q&A: Former OU LB Rufus Alexander

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 12:56 PM PST

(by Jake Trotter/ESPN) Landing blue-chip linebacker Rufus Alexander was one of the biggest recruiting victories Brent Venables had at Oklahoma. Alexander, who had offers from Texas and LSU, ended up being an All-American and Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year at OU in 2006....

Joe Washington's presidential courting

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 12:25 PM PST

(by Ivan Maisel/ESPN) The persuasive power of President Lyndon B. Johnson is the stuff of Washington legend. Selling ice to Eskimos is nothing. As the Senate majority leader and again as president, LBJ sold civil rights legislation to a Senate controlled by Southern segregationists....

OU women's basketball team faces Jayhawks tonight in Lawrence

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 10:03 AM PST

The OU women’s basketball team looks to take sole posession of second place in the Big 12 as it travels north to Lawrence, Kan. to take on the Kansas Jayhawks.

Sterling Shepard plans to continue family tradition at OU

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 09:50 AM PST

When Sterling Shepard was 6 years old, his life was turned inside out, changed forever by the sudden and tragic death of his famous father.

Andy Staples: Recent realignment having minimal impact on 2012 recruiting classes

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 09:31 AM PST

(SI.com) Dorial Green-Beckham, the 6-foot-6, 220-pound receiver every coach in the nation would sign if he could, has narrowed his choices to four schools: Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas....

COLUMN: Injuries force OU to adapt mid-season

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 09:17 AM PST

Oklahoma’s loss to No. 1 Baylor last week revealed that this season’s injury list is beginning to suck the air right out of the Sooner women’s basketball team.

National Signing Day Eve: Ever Wondered What A National Letter of Intent Looked Like?

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 08:54 AM PST

Tomorrow is National Signing day for the college football world. What that means is that we get to see who will be coming on to join the Sooners for the 2012 season, and help Oklahoma continue on for the Chase for Eight. As I reported last week, we have six players who are already enrolled [...]

Video: Blake Griffin over Kendrick Perkins (reverse angle) during OKC Thunder at LA Clippers

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 08:45 AM PST

Former OU star Blake Griffin's dunk over Kendrick Perkins (reverse angle) during the Oklahoma City Thunder at Los Angeles Clippers game on January 30th, 2012....

Oklahoma football: Another second-generation player on the way

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 07:30 AM PST

Sterling Shepard plans to sign a letter of intent on Wednesday to play football for the Sooners. Our gal Jenni Carlson wrote a great column for the Tuesday Oklahoman about Shepard’s legacy. You can read here about Sterling’s heritage. His dad, the late Derrick Shepard, and his uncles,...

OU Football Recruiting - Prepping For Signing Day

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 06:05 AM PST

[UPDATE] - Edmond Santa Fe DE Michael Onuoha will not be annoucning today as previously reported. Instead, he will be announcing his decision tomorrow on NSD. (Or not. Welcome to Sooner Nation Michael!) Wednesday, which is National Signing Day, will be some degree of crazy for teams all across...

Predicting out OU men's basketball remaining schedule and postseason hopes

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 06:00 AM PST

Oklahoma men's basketball currently sits at 13-7 overall and 3-5 in conference play. With an eye on exceeding everyone's expectations, aside from their own of course, we thought now would be as good a time as any to take a look at the Sooners remaining schedule. Nothing real scientific here, just...