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What Caused the Earthquake in Oklahoma?

(Oct. 13) -- Sooner shakeup! Residents of Oklahoma were jolted this morning by something entirely unexpected: an earthquake that struck the state around 9 a.m. local time, damaging several buildings, causing minor injuries and rattling people in five other states. The quake was centered five miles east-northeast of Noble...

Big 12 Meetings Adjourn With No Commitments, Lots of Questions

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- No matter what Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe (above) says publicly, he came here to the league's spring meetings this week looking for commitments from all 12 members. But the commish left empty-handed Friday. Beebe received anything but assurances as the four-day Big 12 spring meetings broke off....

Ex-Sooner Tiny Gallon Talks About $3,000 His Mother Took

Former Oklahoma center Keith "Tiny" Gallon and his mother may have had a legitimate need for "borrowing" $3,000 from a Merrill Lynch financial adviser, according to an interview Gallon gave Thursday. Sylvia Wright, a single mother, had nowhere else to turn for money to get her son's transcripts released from Oak Hill...

Oklahoma Watching Kansas Ticket Scandal With Great Interest

The elaborate ticket scandal that sent shock waves through the Kansas athletic department Wednesday is serving notice to athletic departments across the nation to make certain the proper checks and balances are in place. That message certainly wasn't lost on the Oklahoma athletic department, which once employed three of...

Thursday & Long: Sooners to Dominate First Round

NEW YORK -- The NFL Draft is just hours away, which means soon we'll actually know things. But since we're still in the prediction game for a little while longer, here's something I've been hearing over the past day or so from people involved in how the top of the draft will play out: The Washington Redskins, who currently...

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Background on Oklahoma Sooners

The University of Oklahoma features 19 varsity sports teams. Both men's and women's teams are called the Sooners, a nickname given to the early participants in the land rushes which initially opened the Oklahoma Indian Territory to non-native settlement.

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