Jase Day

[USA Softball @USASoftball]

Only 𝗧𝗛𝗥𝗘𝗘 remain. 👑

🌟 Jordy Frahm — @nebraskasa
🌟 Megan Grant — @UCLASoftball
🌟 Isa Torres — @FSU_Softball

The #USASoftball Collegiate Player of the Year will be announced ahead of the #WCWS in 𝐎𝐊𝐂!
🔗 https://t.co/tWqy43bnuY

[Rawlings Softball @RawlingsSB]

𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗢! 🔥

The 3x National Champ, OU alum, and infielder for the Carolina Blaze is officially joining Team Rawlings! 🤝 Welcome to the Team, Alyssa! #TeamRawlings x @alyss_33

[Enes Kanter FREEDOM @EnesFreedom]

To my Oklahoma family;
this piece comes straight from the heart.

I hope you’ll take a moment to read it and feel what I felt.
Thank you for allowing me to be a small part of it.

I came to @okcthunder to play basketball. I left carrying 168 lives.

When I was traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder, I was thinking about basketball, nothing more.

I didn’t know that before I ever stepped on the court, this place would show me something that would stay with me far longer than any game.

Like any player, my mind was on the game. A new team, a new city, a new opportunity. I expected the usual routine when I landed in Oklahoma City. Physicals, practices, meetings, and a jersey waiting in a locker.

But before any of that, Sam Presti pulled me aside and told me there was somewhere we needed to go.

He didn’t explain much, and I didn’t think to ask. I was focused on the next step in my career.

What I didn’t understand was that, before I could represent the place I was about to play for, I needed to understand it.

So instead of heading to the facility, he took me to the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum.

I walked in without knowing what I was about to see, and within minutes, everything slowed down.

There are 168 chairs at the memorial, each one representing a life lost on April 19, 1995. They are arranged in quiet rows, each engraved with a name, each standing where a person once stood in that building. Then you notice something that is impossible to process the first time you see it. Some of the chairs are smaller.

They belong to children.

There is no speech that prepares you for that, no headline that captures it. You simply stand there, and the silence carries a kind of weight that is hard to describe but impossible to ignore.

As you walk through the memorial, you pass between two gates marked 9:01 and 9:03. At first, they seem like simple numbers, but then you understand what they hold. One marks the last minute before the attack. The other marks the first minute after. And in between those two gates is 9:02, the moment when everything changed.

That minute does not feel like history when you are standing there. It feels present.

The reflecting pool stretches across what used to be a city street, its surface calm and still. When you look into it, you do not just see water. You see yourself standing in a place where unimaginable loss occurred, and for a moment, everything else in your life becomes quieter.

Nearby stands the Survivor Tree, an American elm that was damaged in the blast but endured. It is not untouched. Its scars are part of what it represents. But it is still standing, and in that, it carries a kind of strength that does not need to be explained.

We did not speak much while we were inside. It did not feel like a place for conversation. Some places ask for words. This one asks for reflection.

When we stepped outside, Sam Presti looked me in the eye and said, “This is what this state has been through.”

Then he said something I will never forget.

“Every time you step on that court, you are not just playing in front of fans. You are playing for a state that carries this with it. Give them everything you have. They deserve that.”

In that moment, basketball felt different.

Not smaller, but clearer.

Because what I had just seen was not only about what was lost. It was about what remained. A state that had experienced unimaginable pain and still chose to come together, to rebuild, and to move forward without losing its humanity.

From that day on, every time I stepped on the court, I carried that with me.

On the nights when I was tired, when I was hurt, when I was dealing with challenges that felt heavy in the moment, I would think about those chairs, about that minute, about the people behind those names. And I was reminded that what I was going through did not compare to what this state had endured.
https://t.co/XfNLliRVaO

[Jase Day @JaseDay]

Yes that *checks notes* streak of losing ONE series in Austin was brutal. Wasn’t sure if it was ever going to end.

[SEC Network @SECNetwork]

No. 2 Oklahoma takes down No. 4 Texas‼️

It's the Sooners' first series win in Austin since 2022 😳

[Devon Henderson @HendersonDevon_]

Megan Grant, a two-sport athlete for UCLA, didn’t think she was going to get to celebrate with her title-winning basketball teammates in PHX.

Her softball game started at 12 in LA while they tipped off at 12:30 in AZ.

Here’s how she made it anyways.

https://t.co/NMAc4jaHvr

[Maren Angus-Coombs @Maren_Angus]

UCLA's Megan Grant had quite the day:

🥎 Sweep Indiana
✈️ Flight to Phoenix
🏆 National champion
😱 Surprise basketball teammates to celebrate

Dual-sport greatness.

Read: https://t.co/gixHH29p6t

[UCLA Softball @UCLASoftball]

CHEF MEGAN. NATIONAL CHAMPION. 👩‍🍳👑🏀

[UCLA Softball @UCLASoftball]

GUESS WHO JUST ARRIVED IN PHOENIX. 🏆👩‍🍳

[Jase Day @JaseDay]

@TX_Sports_Fan @tennis4life13 @HornsBsblNews That video was from 2022. They were not going for a 3 peat yet and they had lost to FSU in game 1 of the finals 10 months prior.

[643 Charts @643charts]

WAR Leaderboard - D1 Softball 🥎 🔥

1️⃣ J. Frahm, @HuskerSoftball
2️⃣ M. Grant, @UCLASoftball
3️⃣ M. Johnson, @BelmontSoftball
4️⃣ K. Terry, @TexasTechSB
5️⃣ J. Woolery, @UCLASoftball
6️⃣ T. Shumaker, @GatorsSB
7️⃣ J. Erickson, @GatorsSB
8️⃣ M. Stephens, @GSU_Softball
9️⃣ E. Cook, @TommieSoftball
🔟 P. Goold, @HailStateSB

WAR quantifies a player’s total offensive and defensive contribution.

[Jase Day @JaseDay]

@fatstevie2013 @TapXMikey @ChrisMizTV @EASPORTS_CUT Win the game.

[L/C - Legacy Creators Management @lcmgmtgroup]

NOW REPPING → 𝗝𝗢𝗥𝗗𝗬 𝗕𝗔𝗛𝗟 𝗙𝗥𝗔𝗛𝗠. Welcome to the L/C family, heavy hitter! 🔥@jordybahl

[Jase Day @JaseDay]

@BillyM_91 https://t.co/GYfPRequ2p

[Tim Murray @1TimMurray]

Comparing the wins...

Notre Dame
0-2 vs Sagarin top 10
2-2 vs Sagarin top 30
2-2 vs current AP Top 25 (since new CFP isn't out)

Miami
1-1 vs Sagarin top 10
2-2 vs Sagarin top 30
1-0 vs AP Top 25

Oklahoma
1-1 vs Sagarin top 10
7-2 vs Sagarin top 30
3-2 vs AP Top 25

[Lev Akabas @LevAkabas]

The Oklahoma City Thunder defense is in a league of its own right now

[Arch Manning Highlights @ArchHighlights]

Today is the start of a big run 😈

[Jase Day @JaseDay]

@FromthestandsSB Three are so obvious that you don’t have to name a single one and everyone knows who they are. Adding anyone else requires significantly diminishing the criteria.

[Jase Day @JaseDay]

@HRtrackerSports @FromthestandsSB

[Jase Day @JaseDay]

@SoftballOnSI @SJunkie39222 And said “We don’t know ball.”