OU coach Lincoln Riley reminded his team of championships being won by having "defying moments in tough games and tough situations.''

OKLAHOMA CITY — Eventually, the Thunder are going to win one of these. Despite a sparkling finish, it wasn’t Sunday.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Thunder center Steven Adams had already missed two games to a bruised left knee and Sunday, against Milwaukee, would have marked his fourth straight start after missing those back-to-back outings against Portland and New Orleans.

Madi Williams scored a career-high 24 points and pulled down 13 rebounds in Oklahoma’s 82-75 victory over UAB on Sunday at Lloyd Noble Center.

Kennedy Brooks rushed for season-high carries and yards against Iowa State, as Oklahoma’s offense reintegrated its running backs again.

When the Enid Plainsmen football team walked off the field Friday night at D. Bruce Selby Stadium following a season-ending 56-7 loss to Broken Arrow, it marked the end of a season for the record books, but for mostly the wrong reasons.

Timely stops were ultimately the difference between the Sooners avoiding a second consecutive loss and Iowa State stunning Oklahoma for a second consecutive trip to Norman.

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Trey Sermon received one carry in a little more than two quarters of play against Iowa State, and it didn’t end well.

Oklahoma State was trying to focus on its play in the post against a smaller Kansas City squad Saturday.

Sooner placekicker Calum Sutherland has been kicked off the team, The Transcript confirmed on Friday.

Oklahoma and Tulsa announced a three-game series that will kick off at Skelly Field at H.A. Chapman Stadium in four years.

NORMAN — Tre Brown was one of just two scholarship cornerbacks Oklahoma had at its disposal two weeks ago in Manhattan, Kansas after Parnell Motley’s ejection.

NORMAN — Sherri Coale looked at her players in hindsight and realized that, a year ago, they didn’t know what they didn’t know.

Jalen Hill won't be available for Oklahoma's game against Minnesota in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

If Chisholm is forced to forfeit games in which the player appeared, it would knock the Longhorns out of the playoffs.

There is a lot of excitement around this year’s class of newcomers on the Oklahoma State men’s basketball team, but it’s the returning starting five that carried the Cowboys to a season-opening win Wednesday night.

NORMAN — ESPN analyst Kirk Herbstreit had a lot to say Wednesday when it came to one-loss teams and the College Football Playoff.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Danilo Gallinari had been shoeless for about 20 seconds, ever since Chris Paul hit a 17-footer that beat the shot clock on a busted possession with 1:32 remaining.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Everybody needs a stat to watch, right?

Austin Reaves corralled an Alondes William pass and raced to Oklahoma’s basket on a breakaway midway through the second half.

After Vivian Gray spent most of last year being the sole offensive output, help is here for the new season.

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The Heisman Trophy has become more of a quarterback-driven award with the amount of numbers put up by college offenses at a breakneck pace.

Oklahoma beat Oklahoma City University 88-68 in a preseason women’s basketball exhibition Monday at Lloyd Noble Center.

The Thunder count four centers and three point guards, yet all three of the point guards play more than three of the four centers.

Thunder coach Billy Donovan may not want Shai Gilgeous-Alexander becoming too comfortable.

NORMAN — Oklahoma will ring in a new men’s basketball season at Lloyd Noble Center on Tuesday.

Kristian Doolittle will be unavailable for Oklahoma's season opener against UTSA.

The Sooners (7-1, 4-1 Big 12) could face an undefeated Baylor team; the 11th-ranked Bears are 8-0 and 5-0 in conference play going into Saturday's game at TCU.

It’s been years since an Oklahoma player took home the Butkus Award, but Kenneth Murray’s giving the Sooners a chance.

NORMAN — Oklahoma opens its ninth season under coach Lon Kruger against UTSA on Tuesday.

NORMAN — The final traces of Oklahoma’s last Final Four team dissipated at Colonial Life Arena last March.

Sophomore safety Kolby Harvell-Peel found a way to top a Oklahoma State single-game record with six pass breakups in the Cowboys' 34-27 upset of Iowa State on Oct. 26.

A major, unexpected shift happened to the Oklahoma State receiving corps Wednesday, but it didn’t hinder the group Saturday afternoon.

Chuba Hubbard accomplished a feat no one believes has ever happened.

 Lincoln Riley’s career has been built on offense, but Oklahoma’s coach had no difficulty identifying what went wrong defensively at Kansas State.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Two things are true about how Oklahoma City managed to win only one of its first five games.

OKLAHOMA CITY — In a game they scored 115 points, the Thunder scored just 21 in the fourth quarter, repeating some of the failures that had led to four late losses five games into the season.

Everybody thought Kaylee Dao just missed, that Oklahoma’s best player, who’d scored more than half her team’s goals this season, had poked one just wide.

Needing a win to earn the conference championship, the Oklahoma State soccer team came out firing early and often Thursday night at Neal Patterson Stadium.

A protective order was filed against Oklahoma kicker Calum Sutherland in Cleveland County Court on Thursday, according to court documents. 

Marcus Watson still remains suspended from the Oklahoma State men’s basketball team.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Though winnable games against Washington and at Houston have gotten away from the Thunder, they’re well ahead of the game by at least one defensive measure.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Good enough to dream, yet not good enough to not get beat.