Schoolcraft grad to finish All-American baseball career with College World Series runner-up
The 6-foot-4, 225-pound right-hander inherited 23 runners and only six came around to score during his final season with the Cavaliers, which helped them reach the College World Series. With his throwing arm now at 100-percent health, Bales is ready to return to the mound for an Oklahoma team coming off a Cinderella run to the College World Series championship round. “It just came down to wanting to go somewhere that had the appealing things from an academic standpoint and a baseball standpoint, as well as a medical standpoint,” he said of his transfer decision. At Schoolcraft, Bales was a five-sport athlete and earned 16 varsity letters between his time on the Eagles’ football, basketball, bowling, golf and baseball teams. Baseball Luke Leto announces transfer destinationKalamazoo Hackett grad Adam Wheaton ready to launch pro baseball careerFormer Schoolcraft 5-sport star Blake Bales to make College World Series debut with VirginiaSchoolcraft five-sport athlete Blake Bales gives new meaning to ‘March Madness’
mlive.comInmate in Oklahoma kills officer at privately run prison
A corrections officer has died after being attacked by an inmate at an Oklahoma prison, officials said on Monday. The attack on officer Alan Jay Hershberger happened Sunday at the Davis Correctional Facility, which is a privately run prison in Holdenville about 70 miles (115 kilometers) southeast of Oklahoma City. Department of Corrections officials said in a press release that inmate Gregory Thompson, 49, attacked Hershberger from behind with a homemade weapon while a group of inmates was returning to a housing area from recreation.
news.yahoo.comCast your vote for which college football teams are sure-thing playoff contenders this season: College Football Survivor Show
COLLEGE FOOTBALL, USA -- The College Football Survivor Show launched a year ago with the premise that there were four sure things in college football when it came to contending for the College Football Playoff. Only Alabama made the playoff from the group of sure things. So who are the sure things in 2022? Are the sure things the same as last year, or have some of them changed? Here are seven potential sure things to vote on for this season.
mlive.comRescued Oklahoma tigers get care in California and new home
Two neglected tigers rescued from a long-shuttered roadside tourist attraction in Oklahoma are beginning new lives more than 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) away at California’s Oakland Zoo after receiving much-needed medical treatment. The female tigers, now named Lola and Mia, were rescued in June from an Oklahoma attraction that was closed in 2008 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for multiple animal safety and welfare violations. Lola had a facial deformity caused by an untreated infected tooth and underwent dental surgery on Thursday at the Oakland Zoo.
news.yahoo.comTexas abortion provider Alan Braid will reopen clinics in Ill., N.M.
Choose your plan ArrowRight Alan Braid, who defied the Texas abortion ban last fall, selected locations most accessible to patients who can no longer access the procedure in their home states. AdvertisementSan Antonio, where Braid’s Texas clinic was based, is an 11-hour drive from Albuquerque and a 14-hour drive from Carbondale. Rather than close his doors in 2015, when new restrictions forced approximately half of all abortion clinics in Texas to shutter, Braid took out a loan and began building a $3 million state-of-the-art facility to comply with the laws. Local antiabortion activists say they’re thrilled Texas patients will no longer have easy access to Braid’s clinic. When the clinic closes its doors, she said, she’ll be “ecstatic.”“It’s hard to even describe how happy I’ll be,” she said.
washingtonpost.comBlack leader who fought Trump Tulsa campaign rally killed
A Black business leader and community activist who joined Tulsa civic leaders in fighting then-President Donald Trump's plan to hold a campaign rally on Juneteenth in a city known as the site of one of the nation's deadliest white-on-Black mob attacks has been killed in what police describe as a domestic incident at her home. Investigators were trying Thursday to develop a timeline that led to Sherry Gamble Smith and her husband, Martin Everett Smith, being fatally wounded in their home in the Tulsa suburb of Bixby, Oklahoma. Police dispatched on a call about a reported death about 8 a.m. Wednesday went to the Smith home and found Gamble Smith dead and her husband wounded.
news.yahoo.comSushi anyone? Big Ten rips open Pac-12 like a fish
USC and UCLA are heading to the Big Ten one year after Texas and Oklahoma decided to join the SEC. Only if you’re fans of a college football team in the SEC and the Big Ten, and maybe not even then. The Big Ten gutted the Pac-12 like a bear ripping open sockeye salmon. The new-look SEC is scheduled for 2025, but who knows what college football will look like then. Where is Notre Dame going to land in this latest reshuffling of college football?
mlive.comTexas man on death row pleads guilty in 3 cold-case killings
A man already sentenced to death for a cold-case killing in Oklahoma pleaded guilty to murder Wednesday in the deaths of three girls whose disappearances in Texas also went unsolved for decades. William Reece, 62, pleaded guilty in a courtroom in Galveston in the 1997 killings of 12-year-old Laura Smither of Friendswood and 17-year-old Jessica Cain of Tiki Island.
news.yahoo.com2022 College World Series: Predictions and odds as Ole Miss and Oklahoma battle in the Final
The College World Series is set in Omaha as the Ole Miss Rebels will take on the Oklahoma Sooners in a best-of-three series. Click here to claim this offer and you can use your risk-free bet on the College World Series this weekend. Let’s break down why our experts predict Oklahoma can win the College World Series this weekend. 2022 College World Series Final prediction: Oklahoma (+105)At this point in Omaha, it comes down to which team has the most reliable arms left. Therefore, the Sooners are our bet to win the College World Series.
mlive.comLawmaker: Report shows Oklahoma death row inmate's innocence
A Republican Oklahoma state representative who is a self-described death-penalty supporter on Wednesday said a report by a Houston law firm into the conviction of death row inmate Richard Glossip proves Glossip's innocence. “We've got an individual sitting on death row that's been there 25 years and I believe he's totally innocent,” said Rep. Kevin McDugle. McDugle called for a new appeals court hearing for Glossip based on the investigation by Houston law firm Reed Smith, which produced the report at no charge to the state.
news.yahoo.comFormer Michigan softball ace announces transfer destination
Former Michigan softball pitcher Alex Storako is joining the two-time defending national champion for her final collegiate season. The Frankfort, Illinois native announced Monday that she is transferring to Oklahoma, which is coming off a 59-3 season – the second-best winning percentage in NCAA softball history. Storako entered the transfer portal last month after four seasons in Ann Arbor. Michigan also loses co-ace Meghan Beaubien, who completed her fifth and final season of eligibility in 2022. Senior catcher Hannah Carson, a 2022 all-Big Ten second-team selection, also entered the portal last month but has not announced a new destination.
mlive.comTwo Texas Heisman candidates, and Oklahoma and Baylor as playoff contenders: Big 12 preview on The College Football Survivor Show
COLLEGE FOOTBALL, USA -- Sam Khan Jr., a senior college football writer for The Athletic, joins Shehan Jeyarajah and Doug Lesmerises to dive into a summer playoff preview for the Big 12 on this episode of The College Football Survivor Show. Who is the playoff favorite in the conference -- Oklahoma, Baylor or Oklahoma State? Are Bijan Robinson or Quinn Ewers of Texas, Dillon Gabriel of Oklahoma or Deuce Vaughn of Kansas State real Heisman Trophy contenders? Find out on this episode of The College Football Survivor Show. Previous episodes on The College Football Survivor ShowBig Ten playoff previewACC playoff preview10 most important people in the playoff race
mlive.comToby Keith is battling stomach cancer: ‘I need time to breathe’
Country singer Toby Keith was diagnosed with stomach cancer last fall, he announced Sunday. “I’ve spent the last 6 months receiving chemo, radiation and surgery. I need time to breathe, recover and relax,” he said in a statement on Instagram. In January 2021, a week before the attempted coup at the Capitol, former president Donald Trump presented a National Medal of the Arts to Keith, who performed at the pre-Inaugural “Make America Great Again! Welcome Celebration.”The Toby Keith Foundation, founded in 2006, aims to help children fighting pediatric cancer and opened the OK Kids Korral in 2014 to provide “a cost-free, convenient and comfortable home for pediatric cancer patients receiving treatment” at nearby Oklahoma hospitals and treatment centers.
mlive.comTulsa hospital shooting: At least 3 dead in ‘catastrophic scene’; shooter also dead
TULSA, Oklahoma — Three people were killed Wednesday in a shooting at a Tulsa medical building on a hospital campus, a police captain said. Meulenberg said the shooter also was dead. The Natalie building houses an outpatient surgery center and a breast health center. Aerial footage from a TV helicopter appeared to show first responders wheeling someone on a stretcher away from the hospital building. Dozens of of police cars could be seen outside the hospital complex, and authorities shut down traffic as the investigation went on.
mlive.com4 Dead, Including Gunman, in Shooting at Tulsa Medical Office
Tusla Police DepartmentFour people, including the gunman, were killed Wednesday afternoon in a shooting at a medical building in Tulsa, Oklahoma, police said.“We’re treating this as a catastrophic scene right now,” Tulsa Police Capt. Richard Meulenberg told reporters.In a Facebook statement, Tulsa Police said they “responded to a call about a man armed with a rifle at the Natalie Building at St. Francis Hospital. This turned into an active shooter situation“At this point, we can confirm the shoo
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