Sports
Rod Lott
Thunder — er, make that Sooner — up! The University of Oklahoma football schedule has arrived.
Monday 20 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: Sooners
OU unveils football schedule for 2011
Begins Sept. 3 at home
A fan’s guide to Twitter
Commentary
Brandon Buckner
In Oklahoma and across the nation, student-athletes are being reprimanded for abusing team policy and common sense in fewer than 140 characters. Last fall, Sooner wide receiver Jaz Reynolds was suspended from the team for insensitive tweets following the University of Texas shooting.
Bitter pills
As police investigate Austin Box’s accidental death from drug toxicity, a nonprofit calls the tragedy ‘a teachable moment.’
News
Rob Collins
The El Reno Police Department’s investigation into Austin Box’s accidental death continues after last week’s release of the Oklahoma Medical Examiner’s toxicology report.
Shirt happens
CFN
Gazette staff
Mike Gundy has more than one kind of suit to think about this football season: One is worn by players, and another is from a contractor allegedly donning the colors of Sooner infidels.
Game on
Off-season is over! Do you know where you’ll be drinking yet?
Food and Drink Features
Shawn Lealos
The people begin arriving in Norman as soon as the sun begins to rise. They park their vehicles and set up their grills as the tailgating begins. Soon, the campus is full of fans, young and old. By the time the Oklahoma Sooners take the field, more than 90,000 people are on campus, ready to cheer their team on to victory.
Cause for alarm
OU and a family friend deny broadcaster’s claim that Austin Box’s death was ‘suicide.’
News
Rob Collins
Former University of Oklahoma star and national broadcaster Spencer Tillman characterized Austin Box’s tragic death as a “suicide” this week on a Houston sports talk radio station, despite the Oklahoma Medical Examiner’s ruling that the death was accidental.
Surfing stalk-arazzi
CFN
Gazette staff
Blake Griffin has expressed his interest in playing overseas, and he’s also interested in playing in the sea.
In the ’zona
Headed west, sports fans? Tote this Arizona agenda along for your OU and OSU bowl season touring.
Sooner scoop
Fueled by more media choices, covering OU football has become a cottage industry.
Sports
Andrew Gilman
Used to be, getting Sooner football news was a matter of waiting to pick up the newspaper or turn on the local TV news.
