Sooners Etc is an OU Sooner football and basketball news aggregator, the format of which is based on the odd news section of my humor website that launched in early 2005. Sooners Etc features excerpts from local, state and national newspapers aticles, web articles and blog posts. Videos are occasionally thrown in for good measure. Our Internet "bird dogs" sniff out any new articles or blog posts mentioning the Sooners planet-wide.

My inspiration for creating the site stemmed from the lack of a decent OU Football schedule on any website. All of the schedules out there were too small, too hard to find, or just plain lousy looking. For this reason the OU Football Schedule reamains at the top of the front page of the site to this day. My original thought, along with the schedule, was to throw in a few news items about the Sooners from sources other than the Oklahoma media, such as the opponents' press, national publications and blogs, etc. Back in the 1970s when I attended the OU-Texas game on a regular basis I enjoyed reading Blackie Sherrod's column in the now defunct Dallas Times-Herald. I thought that other Sooner fans might enjoy the perspective of seeing OU football fom the outside looking in.

Sooners Etc launched just a few weeks before the 2007 North Texas Game with not much more than the schedule and a few newspaper article excerpts. During the 2007 season the site featured article excerpts from opponents newspapers. Also added during the 2007 season was the Big 12 and Other News section. This was inspired by the Callahan calamity at Nebraska, the Francionne fracas at Texas A&M, and the growling Gundy incident at OSU. The section certainly came in handy recently to cover the Summer of 2010 conerence realignment hullabaloo.

Articles excerpts from local and state newspapers were added prior to the 2008 season along with "clippings" from selected blogs and websites. By the end of the 2008 season approximately 3000 article excerpts with links had been posted. Following the 2008 football season the OU Men's and Women's Basketball sections were added. As of this update of this page on July 31st, 2010 the total post count is over 8300.

Please feel free to email me at any time with any comments and suggestions or to inquire about advertising information: webmaster (at) soonersetc.com