Seth Ulsaker

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[20 Years Ago Sports @20YearsAgoSport]

Oklahoma has announced that starting QB Rhett Bomar as well as offensive lineman J.D. Quinn have been dismissed from the team for breaking NCAA rules.

It’s reported they both took payment in excess of time actually worked at a local car dealership.

The Sooners will now turn to Paul Thompson to run the offense for the 2006 season.

[Seth Ulsaker @SethRyan80]

@VandyTracker Didn’t lift him up but still

[PEARatings @PEARatings]

Path to Championship Difficulty

Oklahoma's path to the championship is the hardest path since college baseball went to this tournament format. They played 11 games against national seeds.

[LJ Mercurius @LjMercurius]

Um National champs?

[Oklahoma Baseball @OU_Baseball]

WHY NOT OKLAHOMA?

[Eddie Radosevich @Eddie_Rado]

The story tonight? More #Sooners freshman pitching. Xander Mercurius K's a career-high 9 over 7 innings.

Mercurius/Rager combined: 14.1 ip, 3 runs, 2 BB & 17 Ks.

Unreal.

[Oklahoma Baseball @OU_Baseball]

had to swing by and see our guy @BwittJr otw to Omaha ☝️

[Chris Lambakis @chris_lambakis]

Three of the greatest players in Sooner Basketball history, all gone far too soon. @OU_MBBall @ttrebound

[Wallis Marsh @WallisMarsh]

Please Keep Jim Ross in your prayers.

@OU_Football @Oklahoma_AD @OUAD_Emeritus @CoachBobStoops @jrsbbqcomfood @JRsBBQ

[Luke Booker @lm_book]

Update: We just won best in the nation for this cinematic recap. 🏆

These videos are a full team effort. Incredibly proud of what we’ve accomplished.

Boomer Sooner.

Creatives 📽️:
@Hammer_Flowers
@TheJonPetrie
@peytongoure
@madisonplummer5
@TheronASmith

[Marge @maggistratus]

Quite possibly the most Oklahoma post of all time https://t.co/WxaqnecJvi

[FBI @FBI]

Today, the FBI joins the nation in remembering the victims of the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The blast destroyed most of the nine-story building, injuring hundreds of people and taking the lives of 168, making it the deadliest act of homegrown terrorism in U.S. history. The FBI immediately responded to help, and the lessons learned shaped our approach to terrorism investigations in the years that followed. Learn more at https://t.co/yU7LM7on2b.

[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

[George Stoia III @GeorgeStoia]

Owen Heinecke: Back!

[George Stoia III @GeorgeStoia]

Owen Heinecke's legal counsel replied to the NCAA's rebuttal with a 10-page response on Friday, including comparing Heinecke's case for eligibility versus Laurence Seymore, who was recently given another year of eligibility after transferring to Texas.

[Steve Bullard @stevebullard]

So to sum up the @ncaa case here:
OH: I’ve played college football 3 years and I’d like to play 4.

NCAA: yeah but you COULD’ve played 4. Meanwhile we’re gonna give this other dude his 7th.

[LakeShowYo @LakeShowYo]

Luka in March: 600 points
Anthony Davis as a Maverick: 587 points

The Lakers pulled off the greatest heist of all time 🔥

[LakeShowYo @LakeShowYo]

JJ Redick is officially the 2nd Lakers coach ever to win 50+ games in each of his first two seasons.

He is the 5th coach in history to do it 🔥

[LakeShowYo @LakeShowYo]

Luka Doncic MASTERCLASS vs Cavs 🤯

42 POINTS
5 REBOUNDS
12 ASSISTS
2 STEALS
13/26 FG
6/13 3PT
10/10 FT
+21 +/-
34 MINUTES

[SEC Network @SECNetwork]

OKLAHOMA BREAKS THE SEC SOFTBALL HOME RUN RECORD IN 32 GAMES 😳

122 HRs and counting for @OU_Softball 💪