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OKLAHOMA CITY — Officials at Oklahoma State said Thursday that a former baseball player accepted a used car as a gift while he was in a summer league in what the NCAA contends was a major rules violation that could cost the program.
When former major league catcher Johnny Bench announced the winner of his namesake award for the national collegiate catcher of the year on Friday night at the Hyatt Regency, the Oklahoma native started singing, "Boomer Sooner, Boomer Sooner."
Augie Garrido is the all-time winningest coach in Division I baseball and his Texas Longhorns open the College World Series best-of-three finals against LSU tonight.
Winning news conferences took on a different meaning for Big 12 men's basketball since the end of last season. It had nothing to do with making a good first impression, but by pledging intentions to stay put.
He'll start out this fall likely on the scout team, and then it will remain to be seen whether he becomes Bill Snyder's next great dual-threat quarterback.
Southern Mississippi reliever Jonathan Johnston walked Brandon Loy on four pitches with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth to give Texas a 7-6 win in the College World Series on Sunday night in Omaha, Neb.
Wichitan Tevan Everett came within six one-hundreths of a second of being an NCAA 800-meter champion on Saturday afternoon in Fayetteville, Ark.
Spend a few minutes talking with Mike Fox and the North Carolina coach will praise everyone around him, from assistant coaches to office secretaries and groundskeepers.
CWS Seed: 1. Coach: Augie Garrido (563-267-2, 13th season). Road To Omaha: Won Austin Regional: beat Army 3-1; beat Boston College 3-2 in 25 innings; beat Army 14-10. Won Austin Super Regional: beat TCU 10-4; lost to TCU 3-2; beat TCU 5-2.
