Jay C. Upchurch

On the eve of the 2007 World Cup, which runs Thursday to Monday at the Don E. Porter ASA Hall of Fame Stadium, Team USA enters the competition as the team to beat. More than 26,000 fans attended the 2006 World Cup, which helped bring an estimated $1.2 million into the Oklahoma City economy. ESPN […]

Paul and Lloyd Waner used the lessons they learned playing on their family farm in Harrah to become the most prolific brother tandem in Major League Baseball history. The Waners spent 14 seasons in the Twenties through Forties terrorizing opposing teams side by side at Pittsburgh’s Forbes Field. The siblings earned the nicknames “Big Poison” […]

While recognized as one of the greatest players in Oklahoma State football annals, Woodward native Bob Fenimore is not a household name. That’s because more than 60 years have passed since Fenimore helped lead the Oklahoma A&M Cowboys to the program’s only undefeated season ever. During that memorable 1945 campaign, the “Blonde Bomber” led the […]

For Daniel Agnew, disappointment came last September. Just three days prior to his scheduled departure for Switzerland ” where he was slated to compete in the 2006 Triathlon World Championships ” Agnew got a call from his sponsors letting him know that due to financial issues, they had decided not to help fund his trip. […]

At this past weekend’s 2007 NCAA Track and Field Championships, a record 22 Sooners competed and 14 returned home with All-America honors. That second number matches the combined school record established in 1997. Just last year, Martin Smith was hired to lead OU’s struggling track and field programs. All Smith had done in his previous […]

There was a time when the mere mention of Winford Boynes’ name automatically raised debate as to whether or not he is the best basketball player the state of Oklahoma has ever produced. That began when Boynes was still burning up the nets for Capitol Hill High School back in the mid-Seventies. But his legend […]

The local sports scene is offering plenty of alternatives to all of the folks going through recent NBA withdrawals. There’s probably nothing on the slate fully capable of replacing the level of excitement the Hornets generated, but area fans don’t have to sit around at home and mope. Baseball enthusiasts, who always have the RedHawks […]

Having announced plans for a women’s rowing program, the University of Oklahoma will join more than 80 other Division I schools already competing in varsity rowing, a sport traditionally limited to the East Coast. Currently, the only other Big 12 schools with Division I rowing programs are:” Texas, ” Kansas and ” Kansas State. OU […]

On May 10, Dale Earnhardt Jr. officially announced he will leave his father’s racing team at the end of the 2008 race season. While Earnhardt Jr. realizes there might be some negative reaction from some longtime Earnhardt Sr. fans concerning his decision, he said he is walking away from Team DCI only and not his […]

On Sunday ” in the kind of dramatic fashion only the Yankees can conjure up ” Roger Clemens stood up with a microphone at Yankee Stadium and announced himself as the savior to all who wear pinstripes and bow down to small statues of Babe Ruth every night. OK, so those aren’t the exact words […]