The Bill Haisten podcast – Détails, épisodes et analyse

In this week’s Bill Haisten Podcast, there is a little talk about OU’s need for better and more physical blocking as it prepares for its move to the SEC. There is a brief look at this weekend’s start of the Big 12 basketball schedule. The star of this podcast, however, is the Oklahoma City Thunder. Through the first 33 games of the NBA season, the Thunder occupies second place in the Western Conference and seems to be a real threat in the postseason. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has solidified his position as one of the five best players in the world.

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In advance of Saturday’s Oklahoma State-Texas clash in the Big 12 Championship game, Bill Haisten talks with longtime media associate/friend Shawn Clynch. Before returning to his hometown of Austin for a television job and coverage of Texas football, Clynch covered several of Mike Gundy’s OSU teams for an Oklahoma City TV station.

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This Bill Haisten Podcast centers on Oklahoma State and the inability in recent years of four signature sports – wrestling, baseball, men’s golf and men’s basketball – to consistently flourish at a national level.

Underachievement in those programs coincides with a university attempt to raise more than $300 million for new facilities, and it doubles the pressure on Cowboy football to remain a winning program.

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OSU announces $325 million athletics master plan that includes new softball stadium, indoor track facility and Gallagher-Iba expansions

'It is remarkable': With the Big 12's future clear, OSU's Chad Weiberg is eager for the new frontier

Breaking down OSU’s 2023 schedule, which features trips to UCF, Houston and a Bedlam game in Stillwater

What to watch for in 2023: OSU's athletic department budget will reach $100 million for the first time

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The Tulsa World’s Bill Haisten and Barry Lewis take a look at the extraordinary high school football culture in the Tulsa area. Also: a quick review of LIV golf and a little Thunder talk.

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Collinsville 'out for blood' after last year's early playoff exit

Bill Haisten: Recovering and reloading – Union should contend again in 6AI

Wagoner `back to business' after 'surreal' championship

Bixby is hungry, and versatile Kordell Gouldsby is ready for 'more on his plate'

Jaxson Grimes a `right piece' in Metro Christian's All-State QB tradition

The best high school football players in the Tulsa area: The 2022-23 All-World finalists

Bill Haisten: LIV Tulsa review — in every way, it was better than expected

Bill Haisten: Intriguing possibility -— beyond 2023, LIV Tulsa golf at Cedar Ridge

Criticism of LIV Golf is personal for some: 'The kingdom is not to be trusted'

Bill Haisten: Ready or not, it’s time for LIV Tulsa and a healthy attendance response

Bill Haisten: Agreeing with Cedar Ridge on having said yes to LIV golf

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Combining his Jenks varsity seasons (1996-98) with the four seasons he played at OU (2000-03), Matt McCoy’s record was 87-9 with three Class 6A titles, two Big 12 titles and the 2000 national championship.

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From August 2003: Snap, hold, kick: smooth process

From January 2004: Tulsa trio's last hurrah: Kory Klein (Union), Renaldo Works (Booker T. Washington) and Matt McCoy (Jenks) will finish their careers in the Sugar Bowl

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Tulsa native Rick Dickson was a Bishop Kelley and University of Tulsa athlete, the TU athletic director in 1990-94 and the TU athletic director again since 2020. In advance of a big weekend of events for the Golden Hurricane athletic department – the Hall of Fame Weekend – Dickson discusses the state of college athletics and reflects on his personal Hurricane Katrina experience.

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Bill Haisten: 'And Sam's is still next door' — the story of Tulsa legend Henry Primeaux

Bill Haisten: ‘This tire is flat,' Rick Dickson says of TU’s marketing/attendance crisis

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Bill Haisten: On Day 50 of the Rick Dickson ride, ‘a new energy’ at TU

Bill Haisten: In interim AD process, the circumstances of 2020 double the pressure on TU to get it right

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As the longtime public-address announcer for the Cowboy football and basketball teams, Larry Reece was courtside for the Eddie Sutton era of greatness at Gallagher-Iba Arena. From his seat in the press box, he witnessed the transformation of Boone Pickens Stadium and OSU football.

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Tournament director and longtime Cedar Ridge Country Club member Frank Billings says the May 12-14 LIV event will be a high-energy, great-golf experience for patrons.  Included in the field is Phil Mickelson, who hadn’t played very impressively since joining the LIV tour but last week finished second in the Masters.

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This week’s Bill Haisten Podcast guests are Jenks coach Keith Riggs and the Tulsa World’s Barry Lewis. Riggs revisits all aspects of the  unforgettably historic Jenks-Bixby football game, played on Nov. 3 and televised on ESPN. The Trojans prevailed 38-35, ending Bixby’s state-record winning streak at 58 games.

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For the second time in a month, the Oral Roberts head basketball coach is the Bill Haisten Podcast guest. Paul Mills was in that position on March 3. As Mills last week accepted the head-coaching position at Wichita State, his top ORU assistant – Russell Springmann – was promoted to the top job at ORU.

Springmann reflects on ORU’s two recent runs to the NCAA Tournament, on the greatness of Mills as a practice coach and on having discovered a 10th-grader – Kevin Durant – during a basketball event in Maryland. Springmann at that time was on the Texas staff. Before any other big-time program offered a scholarship to Durant, Springmann and Texas did. It worked out pretty well for the Longhorns.

At ORU, Springmann inherits a hot Golden Eagle program that soon will benefit from the Mike Carter Center – one of the more dazzling practice facilities in college basketball.

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Russell Springmann on promotion to ORU head coach: 'This is a new beginning'

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Paul Mills: ORU's 30-win season 'will fuel us moving forward'

Throwback Tulsa: When ORU hosted the NCAA Tournament in 1974

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