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2+ hour, 58+ min ago (262+ words) Oklahoma football piled four sacks the last time it faced Alabama. None came from lead rusher R Mason Thomas, though, as he sat out with an injury. Now Thomas is back " leading to a major endorsement from Brent Venables ahead of their College Football Playoff meeting. The head coach trusted his other rushers to rattle Ty Simpson in the November meeting. Thomas returned to practice at full strength, per George Stoia III of On3/Rivals Wednesday. Venables also fired off this message via the Sooners insider. "He cares deeply about his opportunity here. I'm excited for him to get back on the field," Venables said. Outside linebacker Kip Lewis surfaced as OU's top pass rusher in the 23-21 road win over "Bama. Venables masterfully delayed Lewis's blitzes to throttle Alabama's air attack. Thomas, though, is lauded for his high-motor and tenacity off…...

3+ hour, 18+ min ago (278+ words) Oklahoma quarterback John Mateer appears closer to full strength heading into the College Football Playoff, and head coach Brent Venables provided a positive update on his status ahead of the Sooners" matchup with Alabama on Friday. Mateer has played with a protective wrap on his right throwing hand since breaking it during Oklahoma"s Sept. 20 game against Auburn. During a brief media viewing of practice Monday, Mateer was seen throwing without the wrap for the first time in more than two months. It has been roughly two and a half months since he underwent surgery. "If you asked him, he still has some soreness, so he"s not pain-free," Venables said Wednesday during his virtual availability. "From a stability standpoint, he"s better than he"s been and gripping the ball and things like that." Mateer"s production has reflected…...

3+ hour, 47+ min ago (312+ words) The Oklahoma Turnpike Authority is declaring an emergency after a semi driver damaged 6 bridges with a truck load that violated height regulations. Three of those bridges are closed, waiting for repairs, from around Claremore to the Adair area. The Oklahoma Turnpike Authority says a truck with a load too tall for height regulations damaged the bridges. A turnpike work crew heard the first bridge strike, which happened near Claremore on the bridge on 530 Road. "They were working near that bridge, and they heard the hit and immediately called it in to OHP," said Lisa Shearer Salim, of the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority. "That's when OHP pulled the driver over, a few miles away." The bridges hit include: OHP says the driver was "not permitted" and was placed "out of service," to be administratively handled by federal regulators. "Our understanding is that…...

8+ hour, 28+ min ago (148+ words) STILLWATER " The Oklahoma State athletic department has announced the OSU NIL Alliance to provide a unified approach to revenue sharing and endorsement opportunities for the school's student-athletes. The Alliance will provide resources and partnerships for athletes as they navigate the era of name, image and likeness in college athletics. Within the department, Brakston Brock has been appointed to the newly created role of senior associate athletic director of NIL strategy and revenue generation and will oversee the initiative. In this role, Brock will lead the coordination of all OSU NIL Alliance activities across the athletic department and associated entities. This will ensure alignment and a streamlined effort throughout revenue-generating areas and commercial partners to maximize opportunities for athletes. More: North Texas QB Drew Mestemaker to enter transfer portal, per report This article originally appeared on Oklahoman: Oklahoma State athletic department…...

13+ hour, 40+ min ago (274+ words) Alabama and Oklahoma are set to open the 2025-2026 College Football Playoff when they meet Friday night in Norman, and fans received some insight on who will be suiting up for the game. The CFP's availability reports were revealed Wednesday evening, and both sides have plenty of players featured on the list. For the visiting Crimson Tide, defensive backs Kameron Howard and Dre Kirkpatrick Jr., defensive linemen LT Overton and Jeremiah Beaman, linebacker Jah-Marien Latham, and running back Kevin Riley were all listed as "out.' Tight ends Josh Cuevas and Danny Lewis Jr. were both under the "questionable' tab. Overton has missed time this season and continues to be a major loss for the Alabama pass rush, while Cuevas' status will be worth monitoring over the coming days. The senior tight end has hauled in 30 passes for 341 yards and 4 touchdowns this…...

17+ hour, 21+ min ago (205+ words) OKLAHOMA, USA " A jury in Oklahoma has indicted a former pastor for child sex crimes. Joseph Lyle Campbell, 68, was indicted on Dec. 17 for one count of first-degree rape and one count of lewd or indecent acts to a child under 16. The Oklahoma Attorney General's Office said the crimes allegedly happened when Campbell was the youth pastor at Eastland Assembly of God Church in Tulsa during 1984." According to the release, he allegedly raped a girl aged 11 or 12 in the garage of his home sometime between May 1 and Oct. 1 of that year. Also, Campbell reportedly sexually abused a 14-year-old girl at the church between March 1 and Dec. 1. Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond said there should be no tolerance for these types of crimes." "The crimes alleged in the indictment are horrific," Drummond said. "There can be no tolerance for child sex predators,…...

22+ hour, 9+ min ago (458+ words) The groups are interested in designing new ways for the state's independents to have a more representative voice in the election cycle, or increase civic engagement. Independent political groups are moving quickly to capitalize on a mistake from Oklahoma's Democrats, which has closed independent voters out of its primaries for the next two years. News of the primary status, which breaks with roughly a decade of tradition for the state's Democratic party, was announced after an announcement from the Oklahoma State Election Board last week. Nearly 500,000 independents are registered to vote in Oklahoma. The Sooner State Party, which launched this summer, is a group seeking to become an officially recognized political party and says it represents independents. "It came about because we had Republicans, Democrats, and independents which were coming together that, basically, were saying that they were tired of…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago (359+ words) Kane Wommack took a moment to set the record straight. A reporter asked the Alabama defensive coordinator a question Tuesday about turnovers, and Wommack saw an opportunity to share his preferred verbiage. "Takeaways," Wommack replied. "We call them takeaways. Turnovers imply they gave us the ball. Takeaways implies we took that thing from them. We do. We want to create takeaways." In Wommack's explanation for why he uses certain phrasing, he also provided a reminder of one of the Alabama defense's primary focuses, only behind.The Crimson Tide wants to take away the football. That's the case every week, but there's especially an emphasis on it this week as No. 9 Alabama prepares to face No. 8 Oklahoma on Friday, December 19 (7 p.m. CT, ABC/ESPN) in Norman, Oklahoma in the first round of the 12-team playoff. The last time the two teams played,…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago (316+ words) Last time Alabama football went to Oklahoma, the game was a nightmare. The Crimson Tide lost 24-3 against an underdog Sooner squad, and its College Football Playoff hopes were dashed by a third defeat. On Friday, UA will be back in Norman for a CFP game, against an Oklahoma team that beat it in Tuscaloosa earlier this year. On Tuesday, wide receiver Germie Bernard discussed the challenge of going back to Norman, and brought up one oddity about the stadium. "Their lights, it kind of got me last time that we played," Bernard said. "The lights were kind of, I don't know, in a weird position, you could say." Memorial Stadium's lights are positioned high up in the corners around the field. That's different than many venues, where the lights are on the sidelines. The Crimson Tide dropped four passes throughout…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago (407+ words) Before Alabama football's last game against Oklahoma, Crimson Tide coaches spoke about how well the Sooners figure out opponent signs. The UA offense moved the ball well in that game, but turned it over three times, leading to a 23-21 victory for OU. Ahead of the rematch with Oklahoma in the College Football Playoff, Alabama offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb was asked whether he thought the Sooners had any of his signals in the prior game. "I think that those guys that are working signals eventually get them during the course of a football game," Grubb said Tuesday. "So you have to have measures throughout the game to try and combat that. And I thought, yeah, there was times where you certainly thought there were some of those things that they had gotten." The way Oklahoma picks up signs is totally legal…...