Jay C. Upchurch

More than 30 years before Tiger Woods captured his first PGA title, a little-known golfer named Pete Brown rolled into the tiny Oklahoma town of Burneyville and made history. The 29-year-old Mississippi native bested a tournament-tested field at the 1964 Waco Turner Open. What’s so significant about the final results of some little golf tournament […]

Adrian Peterson got hurt this season, just like some members of the NFL brass feared he might. That was the knock on the former University of Oklahoma running back going into the NFL draft last spring. That was the reason teams like Detroit, Cleveland, Tampa Bay, Arizona and Washington all passed on the one-time Heisman […]

All of that commotion you hear outside your window today is the celebrating, lamenting and absolute craziness known throughout the sporting world as national signing day. After months of courting, coddling and concocting, college football coaches everywhere finally get the official word on who is becoming a part of their respective programs. Those who keep […]

Local football fans have good reason to take even more interest in Super Bowl XLII: Wes Welker. When the New England Patriots and the New York Giants clash on Sunday, Welker will be one of the reasons the Patriots are favored. The Oklahoma City native set a franchise record by hauling in 112 passes during […]

The way things are shaping up, the New Orleans Hornets could very well be back to the Ford Center in the not-too-distant future. And this time, it would be on a permanent basis. All we have to do is patiently wait and see how it all unfolds. A few months ago, it looked as if […]

Another women’s Bedlam basketball game, another blowout. Similar to the last 11 encounters, last Saturday’s meeting between the University of Oklahoma and the Oklahoma State University teams ended with the Cowgirls’ resounding 82-63 victory in front of the largest crowd (13,611) ever to witness a women’s sporting event in Oklahoma. It was the first-ever Bedlam […]

Three games. Three losses. Not exactly what Eddie Sutton had in mind when he signed on as interim head coach for the San Francisco University men’s basketball program back in late December, admittedly to fulfill his goal of reaching 800 career wins. Had Sutton known just how bad his new team really is, he might […]

One New Year’s wish involves the late Gene Corrotto, who passed away in November at age 93. The Arkansas native and former OU football captain helped establish Norman High as a prep football power during his time as head coach there from 1958-73. Like most coaches from his era, Corrotto did everything from call offensive […]

I have but one sports-related item on my holiday wish list this year: I would like to see the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame committee take a serious look at inducting Jim Weeks. Weeks spent almost 30 years as sports editor of The Norman Transcript. During that time, the Muskogee native built a reputation as […]

While surfing the Internet the other day, I ran across a locally based message board featuring an all-too-familiar debate over which school has the more successful athletics program: the University of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State? As anyone familiar with the bedlam series might expect, OU and OSU fans pretty much butt heads on every point […]