Sports are all about the cliché. “Defense wins championships.†“No pain no gain.†One you always hear during the recently finished NCAA Tournament is analysts describing a coach’s response to a decision by a player. “That was a shot that when he put it up you say no, no, no and then it goes in and you say, YES!†The next time you hear the name Jeff Capel, think of this sports cliché.
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NORMAN, Okla. — The Oklahoma women’s basketball team (29-4) has received an NCAA Tournament berth for the seventh straight season and will be a No. 2 seed in the San Antonio Regional. OU will open the first and second rounds against No. 15 seed Pepperdine (14-16) at the Pepsi Center in downtown Denver.
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NORMAN, Okla. — The University of Oklahoma men’s basketball team will participate in the NCAA Tournament for the 11th time under 12th-year head coach Kelvin Sampson when it meets Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Thursday at 11:25 a.m. CST in Jacksonville, Fla. The No. 6 seed Sooners and No. 11 seed Panthers are two of the 16 teams that comprise the Minneapolis Region field.
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Oklahoma State will travel to Miami, Fla., to face the Miami Hurricanes in the first round of the National Invitation Tournament, it was announced Sunday night. The Cowboys and Hurricanes will tip off at 8 p.m. Central Time on Wednesday, March 15, inside the BankUnited Center on the Coral Gables campus.
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NORMAN, Okla. — The advent of spring in Oklahoma brings longer days, warmer temperatures and thunderstorms. March also returns the Sooners to the football practice fields.
OU begins spring practice on Monday, March 20.
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Anybody who thinks Vince Young isn’t ready for the NFL please stand up. I’m only going to say this once, sit down Mack. Anybody who thinks that the Saints, Titans, Jets, and Raiders would be completely out of their mind not to draft Vince Young in the top six of the draft raise your hand. Seriously Mack, we’re trying to conduct a scientific poll here. Forget it, Mack obviously isn’t going to let us do this, congratulations anyway Mack.
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Former All-American, and Heisman Trophy Runner-Up, has rejoined the Oklahoma coaching staff as Quarterbacks Coach. Heupel led Oklahoma to the 2000 National Championship and owns 13 school records.
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Oklahoma alumni Tommie Harris and Roy Williams are headed to Honolulu for the 2006 Pro Bowl. Tommie Harris is going for the first time in his second season and Roy Williams is bowling for the third time in four NFL seasons.
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After showing the likes of Samford, Binghampton, Belmont, Coppin State, and Southern what was already painfully clear to everybody else (that OU is much better) Oklahoma will begin to play a more consistently challenging schedule starting Thursday. The Sooners will tip off at 7:30 pm on Thursday against the West Virginia Mountaineers inside the Ford Center as part of the All-College Classic, following the Tennessee-Oklahoma State tilt.
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SAN DIEGO – Chuck Long, who has a national championship ring, five top-six finishes in the national polls and 10 appearances in bowl games as products of an impressive 11 seasons as a collegiate assistant coach, has been named the 16th head football coach at San Diego State, athletic director Jeff Schemmel announced Saturday.
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