Sitemap - 2023 - Oklahoma Columnist, by Clay Horning
Turnovers, bowl loss can't blight real progress made on way to where Sooners are going
Bowl games are to be won, but not like they used to be … which is entirely too bad.
Venables has right approach, but will it help to keep players in an NIL and transfer portal age?
Ryan Walters appears to be surrounded
The Oklahoma City Thunder are a much better basketball team than you've been led to believe
Brent Venables weighs in on the college game and sounds great doing it
Is it so hard being a white male Republican in Oklahoma? Stitt, Walters seem to think so.
It's hard to be a Porter Moser doubter now
Plunging deeply into high school hoops
The magic of a great sports page
Though not the one you think, Dillon Gabriel still has an Alamo Bowl role to play for Sooners
Florida State can still win a national championship and it couldn't be simpler
Can the state board, Walters really do this?
Choosing both Littrell and Finley could keep Sooners away from Lebby's biggest failures
Lebby's departure gives Venables a second chance to get his most important hire right
Not easily, Sooners get where they need to be
Reasons for thanks, the sports version
Wildly inconsistent Sooners lucky to escape first trip to Utah victoriously
What the hell is Markwayne Mullin thinking?
Drake Stoops' story could have been greater, if only he'd been given the opportunity sooner
Sooners take off behind Gabriel, Stoops and a better idea how to move the ball
Oklahoma Dems should not wait to embrace abortion rights, wading fully into the fight
Losses, lack of discipline, speaking in circles have Venables' second year gains in jeopardy
At Bedlam, Sooners on field deserve better than they got from their coaches on sideline, up high
Sooners, Pokes too smart to say goodbye to Bedlam forever, right?
Ryan Walters is so happy Donald Trump called him he can hardly contain himself
What's going on with the Sooner offense?
Why does Jeff Lebby keep doing what he did Saturday in Lawrence?
You mean he doesn't show up at work, either?
Sooners win coaching sweepstakes, clearly, but who knew the margin would be so great?
Facing disaster, Oklahoma triumphs instead
Myers, Koons must face the music and still a horribly bad taste lingers
Having beaten Texas, maybe it's better Venables can't see what must be true
History says Sooners still a long way from regular-season perfection
Are Thunder's days numbered? New poll claims support for new arena to be well underwater
Are Thunder's days numbered? New poll claims support for new arena to be well underwater
Sooners looking like team, program, Venables sought to create (a little like 2000 Sooners, too)
Red River Rivalry: Sooners all the way back after Dillon Gabriel turns loss into victory
As in Washington, Oklahoma Republicans prove they're horribly dysfunctional, too
Year later, Brent Venables suddenly looks like just the right coach for a game like Saturday's
Turning on a dime, Sooners get better against Cyclones as Longhorns loom
One small, lost lesson from the debate stage that's bad news for all of us
Sooners ground game struggles not all they're cracked up to be
Despite low scoring, hardly anything not to like from Sooners at Cincinnati
Ryan Walters, others like him, never tell us how, never offer details, never bring the facts
Among Bedlam coaches, only one living in the real world and he's in Norman
If that's the new offensive plan, Sooners could be going somewhere
Where have we heard words like Lincoln Riley's? Around here, pretty much everywhere
Briles moved to background, Lebby scrutiny can now fall upon job for which he was hired
Between consternation and triumph, Sooners offer much of both against Mustangs
Ryan Walters' quest to make Oklahomans radical right-wing dummies is neverending
Does opening-day accuracy point toward an actually new and improved Dillon Gabriel?
Though Dillon Gabriel was great, the Jackson Arnold experience still began
Considering Kingfisher, Jeff Myers and Ryan Walters' absence when there's no payoff
Venables chooses road less traveled (successfully)
Remembering Terry Funk, a king of the ring
Tulsa schools maintain accreditation, Ryan Walters remains radioactively toxic
Baker Mayfield has one more chance
Recruiting, still, not what it's cracked up to be
Gajewski has nowhere to hide until he makes things right with Kelly Maxwell
As Donald Trump's fraudulence is constant, Ryan Walters' lies are neverending
Cheer for Sooners, but not for their next conference to become even more powerful
It's the political opening Oklahoma Democrats must not turn down, now and later
The polls are fabulous, even still, but the coaches are being far too kind to Oklahoma
Has anything happened while I'm away?
Religious persecution? Not remotely
Sooners' departure helped create a Big 12 it might never have left. Oh, well.
Though Ryan Walters can't do what he says he might, he can still make life hell along the way
Venables' sophomore season unlikely to reach Switzer, Stoops heights, but maybe Gary Gibbs?
They appear to be coming for Kevin Stitt
Gentner Drummond is on the clock
Don't count on Bedlam being gone for long
Addressing his growth as coach, Venables' words offer a little hope (emphasis on 'little')
In sports, the death of 'What happened'
Making Sooners a Tide or Tiger knockoff was never a good idea in the first place
How hard it must be to be as fragile as Ryan Walters
Hot, yet thoughtful post July 4 takes
Sooners' football media days list tells you right where they are
In this slow motion scandal, Stitt, Walters on the run from Drummond, Byrd
The greatest phenom since … never?
It's amateur hour in Oklahoma as long these folks are in charge
Sooners bound to see Jordy Bahl again
Calling Jokic' shot two years in advance
Sooners come back, win it all, because it's just what they do
Does anybody really want to beat the Sooners
Come for the Sooner victory, stay for nine full innings of softball fabulousness
Sooners so good, Vols don't show
Back at the World Series, Jordy Bahl answers all the questions
Everything there is to know about the Women's College World Series, seriously.
Where they're going, hard knocks await Sooners in dang near every sport
An amazing half inning gives way to a disastrous Sooner loss at Big 12 tournament
Saturday's Bedlam setback makes for Sooner uncertainty entering Big 12 tournament
Carmichael makes a little history, Sooners shut out Cowboys, force Bedlam rubber game
Can't pitch, can't win the story of Sooners' series opening Bedlam loss
The Sooners are amazing, but are they good for the sport? Not like they used to be, at least
How to put Sooner softball in its proper perspective? Try really, really hard
It turns out there's more to Ryan Walters than you think there is. Also, it doesn't matter
Sooners' late-season surge still going
So you want to be a sportswriter? It's all about details … and a lot of words on disc golf, too
So certain, Venables must be right
If Tucker Carlson can go down, maybe Ryan Walters can, too
Often meaningless, between Venables, Gabriel, others, this spring game might not have been
The joy of having a baseball team
After play-in experience, Thunder not rebuilding, just building, with no end in sight
Against Pelicans, everybody pushed Thunder through (and sportswriting help, too)
A deep dive into one night of Sooner softball that told us a whole lot about Sooner softball
History stands against Porter Moser, who's impossibly lost three more players
Don't be taunting women's college sports, because they're on the move
On big diamond, Sooner embarrassment again giving way to triumph
For the side uninterested in stopping the slaughter, please steal these ideas
Ryan Walters embarrassingly, dangerously, moronically strikes again
Maybe Porter Moser gets one more year because every Sooner coach gets three bad seasons
Have Brent Venables and staff learned any lessons? Thus far, it's entirely a matter of faith
Their season over, coach Jennie Baranczyk's Sooner women have done so much
Sooners must stop letting the game happen to them if they're to keep Dancing
If college wrestling wants to break through, these are the changes that must be made
Having not played well in weeks, Sooner women must turn it around to take next step
So you want to be a sportswriter: the high school column
Porter Moser's failure at Oklahoma intrinsic to the basketball he refuses to quit coaching
11 games in, everything you need to know about coach Skip Johnson's Sooner baseball team
Coach Jennie Baranczyk's Sooners do it a different way to claim first conference hardware since 2009
Keeping a small man like Ryan Walters small
Finally, after waiting forever, it's time to return to baseball
Leslie Osborn, labor commissioner, and at least one more Republican telling it like it is
Brent Venables is on the clock
At the break, Thunder busting expectations and underachieving all at the same time
Though still No. 1, coach Patty Gasso's Sooners prove mortal over season's first weekend
The night they put Stephen Jones on the wall
Kicking and screaming, Porter Moser may have found something, but too late to matter
Stephen Jones, an all-time great Tiger, to be enshrined upon NHS' hoops Wall of Fame
Ranking the Sooners, top to 10th
For NPS, it's not just a new football stadium, not even close
Another Bedlam game, another collapse from Porter Moser's Sooners
The best, most prolific sharpshooter ever is a Sooner and her name is Taylor Robertson
Sooner fans can only hope Nick Saban takes Jeff Lebby off their hands
The vanishing $13 million and what it means for college football
When it comes to Sooner hoops, take the team that wants to score (not the one that doesn't)
Haven't we seen about enough of Porter Moser's Sooners?
In a horrible moment, as the nation watched, ESPN utterly failed
Brent Venables may have foreshadowed staff changes on way out of Orlando