Sean Moran

Dream Big, Work Hard. On the surface it's two simple statements, but in reality, it's a mission statement for NFL All-Pro defensive lineman JJ Watt's career on and off the field. Watt's accomplishments on the field are well documented. Three-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year. Five-time Pro Bowler. The Houston Texans star has even led...

In the next couple of weeks, Norman senior Cade Horton faces the enviable task of having to choose between two great options: sign a professional contract with a Major League Baseball franchise or go to the University of Oklahoma and play football and baseball. Horton is recognized by many Major League draft experts as one...

Most young high school coaches are forced to bide their time as an assistant for a few years until the right opportunity comes along to run their own program. Chase Littlejohn and Rylie Torrey skipped that prerequisite and have fast tracked their way to the head of the class. The soon-to-be husband and wife were recently...

Ada junior Jaxson Robinson It's become commonplace for aspiring college basketball players to hold off going to college for a year and enroll at a prep school. There they get another year of hoops experience without using any college eligibility. They also get an additional 12 months of personal growth and recruiting attention. Ada junior...

Raising ticket prices during a pandemic wasn't ideal timing for the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association, but it was a necessary move in order to keep up with the rising costs of holding championship events. During its April board meeting, the OSSAA Board of Directors unanimously voted to increase ticket prices for championship events to...

YurView will debut a new 30-minute show on May 5th that will give viewers a behind-the-scenes, in-depth glimpse into players, coaches, administrators and everything in between that helps make high school athletics such a phenomenon in Oklahoma. Ford High School Weekly will air Tuesdays at 6:30 pm CST on YurView Cox Channel 3. Complete episodes,...

When the call went out recently for volunteers to help with Union High School's wildly successful drive-thru food program, teachers, staffers and administrators sprang into action. That included many associated with Union Athletics. Shortly after schools were shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Union, the state's second-largest school district, began handing out more than 32,000...

April 19th, 1995 is a day Oklahomans will never forget. The Sooner State was the epicenter of national news that fateful day after 168 people were killed and hundreds more injured during the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. Twenty-five years later, the images and memories of that day are...

One of the few bright spots in an otherwise bleak high school spring sports season occurred recently with the announcement of the annual Boys and Girls Gatorade Basketball Players of the Year. Aaliyah Moore was named the girl's recipient after a stellar junior season. Despite the shortened season, the 6-3 forward averaged 21.9 points and...

When the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association announced last week that all high school activities were cancelled for the remainder of the school year, it dashed the dreams of many boys and girls basketball teams still clinging to the hope that they might get to play for a state championship. It was a disappointing, yet...