Sean Moran

February 9, 1989, is an infamous day in Oklahoma sports history. Basketball fans gleefully recall when University of Oklahoma coach Billy Tubbs grabbed the public address microphone and addressed the crowd during a heated Big 8 Conference hoops game against Missouri. Tubbs cracked, "The referees have requested that no matter how bad the officiating...

It’s safe to say NuNu Campbell will always remember his 18th birthday. The senior football standout and his Holland Hall teammates played one of its biggest rivals that day, Cascia Hall, and Campbell responded with two touchdowns as the Dutchmen claimed a convincing 45-7 victory. To cap off the celebratory weekend, the three-star rated defensive back...

A year ago, Union High School was mired in an 0-4 start, it’s worst in over 40 years. This year, they’re off to a 2-0 start and ranked number one in Class 6A-I. One key reason for the team’s improvement has been the play of senior tailback Rovaughn Banks. Banks began last season as the...

Zach Blankenship recalls it as an “out-of-body experience.” The Bixby senior remembers attempting to hang clean 300 pounds at July’s Night of Champions, a fun event that signals the end of the Spartans’ summer workouts and preps the beginning of a new high school football season. Under the stadium lights and surrounded by teammates, the 5-5,...

They say you can’t go home again, but Sapulpa head football coach Tim Holt, Jr., is out to prove that adage wrong. Holt grew up in Sapulpa and was the head coach at Coweta and an assistant at Broken Arrow before returning to Tulsa’s west side this year to take over the Chieftain program. “You always...

When Southmoore head coach Joshua Norman took over the SaberCat football program two years ago, he wanted to provide his players with an experience that allowed them to achieve success on the field as well as in the classroom and the community. The former OU and NFL standout does this with what he calls The...

A showdown between Oklahoma’s defending 6A-I and 6A-II state champions highlights YurView’s 2021 Ford High School Football Game of the Week television schedule, which was released earlier this week. On Friday, September 3rd, the Jenks Trojans play host to the Bixby Spartans in one of the most anticipated games of the regular season. The two...

  Kingfisher hoopsters Bijan Cortes and Matthew Stone have played together for so long, they know what the other is going to do on the court. Such was the case last week when the duo took part in the large-class Oklahoma Coaches Association All-State basketball game at Frank Herald Field House at Jenks High School. Late in...

Former Sapulpa star Temira Poindexter held the ball at the top of the key. She dribbled left and drove the lane. The only thing between her and the basket was former Piedmont guard and current University of Tulsa teammate Delanie Crawford. The two met in mid-air, and Crawford got the better of the matchup, as...

When 21-year-old Kathen Funburg was named head coach of Prue (OK) High School’s eight-man football team this summer, little did he know that he may now be the answer to a trivia question. Funburg may be the youngest high school football head coach EVER. According to research done by High School Football America in 2020, the...