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Tulsa World veteran sports columnist Bill Haisten address the latest issues, trends, teams and players making news. Follow Bill on Twitter: @Billhaisten
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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 seem...
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 week's Bill Haisten Podcast guest is former University of Tulsa All-American Jerry Ostroski, who spent nine seasons on the Buffalo Bills' offensive line and now is the father of TU defensive end Owen Ostroski. Jerry and Bill discuss their picks on Person of the Year in the NFL and in college football. Also discussed: TU freshman QB Kirk Francis' stunning, 345-yard passing performance.
This week’s Bill Haisten Podcast centers on two huge football games – Bixby-Jenks and Bedlam in Stillwater. Haisten explains why he’s predicting a 38-34 OU victory.
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Tulsa World columnist Bill Haisten discusses last week’s OU-Texas classic and contends that it was the Sooner program’s first real statement win since the 2017 flag-plant victory at Ohio State.
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On Saturday, Tulsa World sports columnist Bill Haisten is at the Cotton Bowl for his 20th OU-Texas football game. Haisten reflects on his personal history of having covered or attended 19 chapters of one of college football's classic rivalries.
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...It's been a difficult season so far for the Oklahoma State Cowboys. But Mike Gundy's future is secure. Bill Haisten explains why in this week's episode. Even if things get worse this season, Gundy will be back for a 20th season at OSU in 2024, if he wants to return, Bill says. Interesting fact: At 56, Gundy is the same age as Bob Stoops when Stoops stepped down as OU's coach.
The timing is bad for OSU to have a...
After 36 years in the Tulsa Police Department, and after having become a central figure in A&E’s “First 48” series on real-life homicide investigations, Dave Walker retired in 2018. A St. Louis native and former three-sport high school athlete who loves baseball and the Cardinals, Walker reflects on a lifetime in law enforcement.
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Booker T. Washington football coach Jonathan Brown reflects on an unsettling opening-night experience and his time at Tennessee with Peyton Manning. Also, Brown looks ahead at OU’s switch to the Southeastern Conference.
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When high school teams are matched in a college stadium, it’s a big-event game or a championship game. During Thursday's Battle of the 'Burbs, in a rematch of the 2022 Class 6AI title contest, Bill Blankenship’s third-ranked Owasso Rams clash with the top-ranked, defending champion Bixby Spartans. For the 16th time, and in the opener of his 40th season of coaching, Blankenship is involved in a high school game ...
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.
<...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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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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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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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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Bill Haisten: With guts and a 357-yard run game, Jenks shocks Bixby and ends the streak
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 c...
This week’s Bill Haisten Podcast guest is Eric Coley – the best player on the best team in University of Tulsa basketball history. In 2000, Coley and the 32-win Golden Hurricane advanced to the Elite Eight level of the NCAA Tournament. With a chance to roll to the Final Four, TU was beaten 59-55 by the Tar Heels. If Coley hadn’t been in foul trouble, Bill Self’s final Tulsa team probably would have advanced to ...
"This speaks to the resiliency of the kids": Owasso had a 3-6 start to this season, with a difficult holiday season with illness, but now have a berth in the 6A state tournament. In this week's episode, Bill Haisten hosts Rams basketball coach Brian Montonati and his freshman son, Jalen Montonati. The two talk about the season's turnaround; the son-father dynamic; which programs are recruiting Jalen (Coach once...
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