One conference is allowed to do one thing, another isn’t.

Like most businesses across the country – and the globe – the Big 12 Conference is feeling the monetary effects of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

The Oklahoma Secondary Schools Activities Association dashed any hope springs sports would continue.

Jeff Murray was crouching in his umpire blue and grey during a regional tournament at Norman High, when former Midwest City star Vernon Maxwell hit a home run that Murray jokes still hasn’t landed.

Cleveland County’s three high school basketball teams left standing will end their 2019-20 seasons with victories — just not the way they envisioned.

Kooper McAlvain, Tate Christian, Seth Stacey and Tristan King are trying to make sense of it all.

Chris Young has been so concerned about his players and their safety since their season ended, he hasn’t had much time to think about how special May could have been for his program.

Just before going into surgery to treat a bicep injury, it still hadn’t resonated with Giselle Juarez that her senior season was finished before it truly started.

NORMAN — On paper, it might look like mop-up duty. There were few games last season that Caleb Kelly was healthy enough to compete in, so little action that he was able to retain that year of eligibility.

No news is good news for the Norman High girls.

Sports is nothing like it's showcased in Hollywood movies.

Oklahoma remains an option for 2021 five-star quarterback Caleb Williams, who the Sooners are eyeing to fill the void left by Brock Vandagriff's decommitment. 

Trey Sermon was just getting acclimated to college football in 2017 when he scored his first touchdown as an Oklahoma Sooner.

Ryan Gaines and Greg Tipton have known each other for nearly 30 years. They attended school together at Oklahoma and now have careers there.

The sports cancellations started like a ripple and developed into a full-blown tsunami the likes of which we have never seen in most of our lifetimes.

Oklahoma State baseball fans will have to wait 11 months to see the first pitch at O’Brate Stadium.

NORMAN — It’s difficult to miss Mike Kertok as he makes his way to his Marita Hynes Field seat.

On March 10, Tuesday, Oklahoma’s football Twitter account asked its followers a question.

Maggie Nichols spoke about her career in retrospect Friday, as if it had passed.

The NBA season is not necessarily lost, but the regular season is surely done.

This was supposed to be a huge year for Nicole Mendes.

CLAREMORE — After top two finishes in three tournaments this spring, coach Steve Brown and the Rogers State University men’s golf team was looking forward to defending its title in this week’s Hillcat Classic.

Their names were and are Britt Gaston and Cliff Courtenay and they were just 17 years old the night they attended a ballgame on April 8, 1974.

Skip Johnson knows what he’s going to do with the rest of Oklahoma’s canceled baseball season. There are bass ponds and turkey hunts waiting for him.

When Blake Jarwin signed a lucrative extension with America’s Team this week, he was also thinking about his fellow Americans.

EDMOND, Okla. — If you were going to start a wrestling program in Edmond, Oklahoma, wouldn’t you want the program’s leader to be a man who has run through the pipeline of Edmond Wrestling?

This week of March was supposed to be filled with exciting championship moments and disappointing heartache in the world of college sports.

A nation at odds, generations quarreling, a horse ran into the breach.

Spring football often lays the foundation for promising football seasons.

UPDATED (7:40 p.m.) — Oklahoma’s spring football game will not take place April 18.

CLAREMORE — Just a week ago, the Rogers State University women’s golf team was on the top of the world.

I don’t know where to begin.

Parnell Motley admitted to a cluster of reporters that he didn’t really even like combine-style testing. But he didn’t have a choice.

The Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association remains hopeful its state basketball tournaments and spring sports schedules will resume.

NORMAN — Oklahoma’s softball season, typically good to stick around until late May to early June, met its demise last week amid rising concern over the country’s coronavirus disease outbreak.

NORMAN — Cade Cavalli’s emotions settled in quickly once Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castiglione said those four words.

It was a whirlwind of an offseason for Kasey Dunn.

One of the more highly anticipated annual events in Enid, the NJCAA Division II World Series, has now been added to the list of cancelled sports events due to ongoing concerns over potential spread or exposure to the coronavirus.

The National Junior College Athletics Association has made the decision to cancel all upcoming championships and spring sports for the remainder of the season amid concerns over the current coronavirus outbreak.

The Oklahoma City Thunder sent an update to season ticket holders and fans inside the arena for Wednesday’s suspended game against the Utah Jazz. The franchise also posted that message to Twitter, making it fully public.

On a scratchy telephone line with roughly a dozen reporters on the other end of it, following a day of hours-long meetings, Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castiglione asked for understanding with regard to the uncertainties.

An 8:30 p.m. start to their state-tournament opener afforded the Norman High girls a light Thursday morning.

The Oklahoma State men’s basketball team won perhaps one of the last college basketball games in the 2019-20 season.

NORMAN — A few passes sailed out of reach, but they didn’t concern Nick Basquine much.

OKLAHOMA CITY — The NBA suspended its season after postponing the Jazz-Thunder game Wednesday night, which was a result of Utah center Rudy Gobert testing positive for the coronavirus.

Philip Redwine-Bryant could have just written down athlete on his resume for NFL scouts Tuesday, and he wouldn’t have been wrong.

NORMAN — Oklahoma got back to its stingy ways defensively Tuesday.