She Field as the Head Coach: OU Softball Head Coach Patty Gasso has Just Been Fired After she…

Patty Gasso, the esteemed head coach of the University of Oklahoma (OU) softball team, has been dismissed from her position following allegations made by her son, DJ Gasso. The accusations have led to her termination after a distinguished tenure with the Sooners.

Under Gasso’s leadership, the OU softball program achieved remarkable success, including multiple national championships. Her coaching prowess and dedication were instrumental in elevating the team’s performance and reputation.

The decision to terminate Gasso comes amid a season where the Sooners have demonstrated strong performance, starting the season with an impressive record. Despite the team’s success, the allegations against Gasso have overshadowed the program’s achievements.

The university has not publicly disclosed the specifics of the allegations made by DJ Gasso. The situation has raised questions about the balance between personal matters and professional responsibilities in collegiate athletics.

As the OU softball program navigates this challenging period, the focus will be on maintaining the team’s performance and addressing the concerns raised by the allegations. The university is expected to provide further information as the situation develops.

This development marks a significant shift for the OU softball program, which has been a powerhouse in collegiate softball under Gasso’s guidance. The community awaits further details and the university’s next steps in response to this unexpected turn of events.

Good News: Netflix Set to Release Documentary on Clemson Tigers…

This new heartstring-tugger tells the story of Ray McElrathbey, a football player who stepped in to help raise his younger brother while at Clemson University.

The Christmas Caroler Challenge (8 p.m., The CW) – In the Season 2 premiere we meet the 10 competing groups — from the most ultra-traditional virtuoso performers to those with the most unexpected twists on the classic Christmas carol. Celebrity judges Brandon Rogers, Mikalah Gordon and Garry Beers assess each group.

Inn Love By Christmas (8 p.m., Lifetime) – In this new Lifetime movie, a successful young woman living in Miami is climbing her way up the corporate ladder in the hotel industry. Although she doesn’t get back to her small northern hometown often, her grandmother is able to convince her to come home for Christmas.

 

Keith Morrison provides an update on the case of 23-year-old Kaylee Sawyer, who disappeared after attending her friend’s bachelorette party in Bend, Oregon, in 2016. An intense multi-state manhunt led investigators to her killer, a college campus security guard named Edwin Lara. Tonight’s show has new interviews with Kaylee’s mom and the family’s lawyer after they reached a settlement earlier this year with the killer’s employer. We also get never-before-released deposition tapes with the Lara’s co-workers.

20/20 (9 p.m., ABC) – “20/20” has the story of Rodney Reed, who was granted a stay of execution in his conviction for the 1996 murder of Stacey Stites in Texas. Reed, who is being assisted by The Innocence Project, maintains that he did not kill Stites. “20/20” has an exclusive interview with Stites’ mother, Carol Stites, who talks about the heartbreak of losing her daughter and gives her opinion on the case. We also get interviews with Stites’ sisters, who believe Reed is guilty; and with Barry Scheck, attorney and co-founder of the Innocence Project, who believes they will prove Reed is innocent. We’ll also see an older death row interview by correspondent Deborah Roberts, conducted just weeks before Reed’s scheduled execution.

Craft in America (9 p.m., PBS / UNC-TV) – The new season starts with storytellers — artists who use narrative to communicate personal and universal truths. Featured: Nicholas Galanin, Julie Schafler Dale, Linda J. Mendelson, George Rodriguez and Christina Bothwell. A second episode airs at 10.

The Kentucky Wildcats have signed 5 star quarterback Harrison Bailey after he decommit form Louisville and rejects offers form Michigan and Tennessee….

Former Tennessee football quarterback Harrison Bailey is transferring to Florida, he announced Monday.

Bailey is heading for his fourth school. He spent the past two seasons at Louisville after playing for UNLV in the 2022 season after leaving Tennessee in the middle of the 2021 season.

Bailey has completed 63.2% of his passes for 1,190 yards with 10 touchdowns and three interceptions in four seasons across three programs. He capped his Louisville career by starting in a 35-34 win against Washington in the Sun Bowl after starter Tyler Shough opted out. Bailey completed 16 of 25 passes for 164 yards and three

Bailey entered the transfer portal in October 2021 after sitting as the third-string quarterback behind Hendon Hooker and Joe Milton in 2021 under coach Josh Heupel. He played in one game in the 2021 season, completing 3 of 7 passes for 16 yards and rushing for a touchdown against Tennessee Tech in September before entering the portal.

The Marietta, Georgia, native started the final three games as a freshman in the 2020 season, which featured a revolving door of quarterbacks under fired Vols coach Jeremy Pruitt. He was 48-for-68 passing for 578 yards and four touchdowns in six games in 2020.

He signed with Tennessee as a four-star recruit and the No. 99 overall prospect in the 2020 class, according to the 247Sports Composite.

Victor Osimhen, atacantul nigerian al echipei Napoli, ar putea face o mutare la AS Roma pentru a răzbuna tratamentul primit de la clubul său actual. the

Victor Osimhen, atacantul nigerian al echipei Napoli, ar putea face o mutare la AS Roma pentru a răzbuna tratamentul primit de la clubul său actual.

Conflictul dintre Osimhen și NapoliÎ Învara anului 2024, Osimhen a solicitat să părăsească Napoli, având în vedere interesul din partea cluburilor Chelsea și Al-Ahli. Cu toate acestea, negocierile au eșuat din cauza cerințelor financiare ale clubului italian, iar Osimhen a fost exclus din lotul pentru Serie A și i-a fost retras numărul de pe tricou, care a fost atribuit noului transfer, Romelu Lukaku.

Transferul la Galatasaray

Ulterior, Osimhen a fost împrumutat la clubul turc Galatasaray pentru sezonul 2024–2025. La Galatasaray, Osimhen a continuat să impresioneze, marcând goluri importante în competițiile europene și interne. Performanțele sale au atras atenția altor cluburi europene, inclusiv AS Roma.

Interesul AS Roma

Conform surselor din presa italiană, AS Roma ar fi interesată să-l transfere pe Osimhen, având în vedere conflictul său cu Napoli și dorința de a întări linia ofensivă. Mutarea ar putea fi văzută ca o oportunitate de a răzbuna tratamentul primit de Osimhen la Napoli și de a adăuga un atacant de calitate echipei.

Provocările transferului

Cu toate acestea, transferul lui Osimhen la AS Roma ar putea întâmpina obstacole semnificative. Napoli ar putea solicita o sumă considerabilă pentru a-l vinde, având în vedere valoarea sa de piață și performanțele sale recente. De asemenea, AS Roma ar trebui să negocieze cu Napoli și să asigure fondurile necesare pentru a finaliza transferul.

Concluzie

Deși există speculații că Victor Osimhen ar putea face o mutare la AS Roma pentru a răzbuna tratamentul primit de la Napoli, acest transfer ar putea fi influențat de mai mulți factori, inclusiv cerințele financiare ale Napoli și capacitatea AS Roma de a satisface aceste cerințe. Rămâne de văzut dacă această mutare se va concretiza în viitorul apropiat.

“Ik wil echt de wereldtitel mountainbiken winnen” – Mathieu van der Poel voegt fatbike-racen toe aan zijn doelen voor de Klassiekers en de Tour de France…

Mathieu van der Poel has revealed he will begin his 2025 road season at Tirreno-Adriatico in mid-March and then target the Tour of Flanders, Paris-Roubaix and an early stage victory at the Tour de France.

He will not ride the hilly UCI Road World Championships in Rwanda but instead wants to target a first cross-country mountain bike world title in Valais, Switzerland in early September.

“It’s the last piece of the puzzle that I’m missing. I really want to win the mountain bike world title. And with the Worlds in Rwanda, it’s ideal to focus only on mountain biking.”

Mathieu van der Poel heeft onthuld dat hij zijn wegseizoen van 2025 zal beginnen in de Tirreno-Adriatico medio maart en daarna de Ronde van Vlaanderen, Parijs-Roubaix en een vroege etappezege in de Tour de France als doelen heeft.
Hij zal niet deelnemen aan de heuvelachtige UCI Wegwereldkampioenschappen in Rwanda, maar wil zich in plaats daarvan richten op zijn eerste wereldtitel mountainbiken in Valais, Zwitserland, begin september.

“Het zal een beetje hetzelfde zijn als vorig jaar. De focus ligt op de Belgische klassiekers, dat is waar ik het beste in ben,” zei Van der Poel tegen Sporza en andere media tijdens de Alpecin-Deceuninck mediadag in Spanje.

“Het is een ideaal moment om weer op mountainbiken te focussen en de wereldtitel als een groot doel te stellen na de Tour de France. Het plan is om ook een paar Wereldbekerwedstrijden te doen als het mogelijk is, dat wil ik zeker doen. Maar dat is alleen mogelijk als het in mijn schema past.”

“Het is het laatste stukje van de puzzel dat ik mis. Ik wil echt de wereldtitel mountainbiken winnen. En met de WK in Rwanda is het ideaal om me alleen op mountainbiken te richten.”

Van der Poel won zijn recordgelijkmakende zevende wereldtitel bij de elite mannen in het veldrijden begin februari en genoot daarna van een pauze van het racen en wat tijd om te golfen en te skiën. Hij was een beetje ziek in Spanje, maar wuifde de problemen weg voor zijn seizoenstart en klassiekerdoelen.

“Het is niks om je zorgen over te maken. Na de Wereldkampioenschappen veldrijden voelde ik die ziekte al opkomen,” zei hij.

“Ik begin in Tirreno en dat lijkt me de beste voorbereiding voor Milaan-San Remo,” bevestigde Van der Poel, nadat hij aanvankelijk overwoog om Parijs-Nice te rijden.

“Het is in het verleden goed gegaan, dus ik denk dat een eendaagse etappewedstrijd van een week goed is om in de beste vorm te komen.”

Van der Poel won Milaan-San Remo in 2023 en hielp teamgenoot Jasper Philipsen om in 2024 een sprintoverwinning te behalen. Ze zullen weer samen rijden in Italië en daarna in Parijs-Roubaix. De Nederlander zal ook de E3 Saxo Classic rijden voordat hij zich richt op herhaalde overwinningen in de Ronde van Vlaanderen en Parijs-Roubaix.

“We zullen later kijken naar een race zoals Dwars door Vlaanderen. Het is ook nog niet zeker of ik aan Gent-Wevelgem begin. Ik zou liever de Ronde van Vlaanderen voor de vierde keer winnen dan voor de eerste keer in Wevelgem,” zei Van der Poel, die bevestigde dat hij niet zal starten in de Ardennenklassiekers in april.

Van der Poels grote doelen in de lente zijn ook de grote doelen voor rivalen Wout Van Aert en Tadej Pogačar. De Sloveen suggereerde zelfs dat hij Parijs-Roubaix zou kunnen rijden tijdens een recente verkenningstocht in Noord-Europa.

Van der Poel zou een record vierde overwinning in de Ronde van Vlaanderen kunnen behalen, maar hij is niet geïnteresseerd in het record of zijn rivalen.

“Ik focus me op het winnen van de wedstrijd, het record is een gevolg daarvan. Zoals bij de Wereldkampioenschappen veldrijden, alles wat er nu bij komt, is een bonus. Daarom kan ik er op een ontspannen manier naartoe werken,” legde Van der Poel uit.

“Ik weet niet wat Tadej zijn plannen zijn voor Roubaix. Als hij de vorm heeft die hij vorig jaar voor Vlaanderen had, dan wordt hij een zware tegenstander, maar ik lig er niet wakker van.”

“Je moet 110 procent zijn om hem in Vlaanderen te verslaan. Ik had goede benen, maar hij liet me nog steeds achter op de Oude Kwaremont. Maar hoe meer goede rijders aan de start staan, hoe beter, want dan valt de koers op zijn plek.”

Van der Poel had gesuggereerd dat hij de Tour de France van 2025 zou kunnen overslaan nadat hij vorig jaar door de race had moeten ploeteren en geen etappe had gewonnen. De Tour lijkt echter enorm belangrijk voor Alpecin-Deceuninck en dus zal Van der Poel terugkeren, weer samen met Philipsen, die zich zal richten op de sprintetappes en het eerste gele trui in Lille, in het noorden van Frankrijk.

Drie weken van hard racen zullen ook de basis leggen voor een latere zomer van mountainbiken.

“Het wordt mijn vijfde Tour. Er zijn kansen voor mij en Jasper in de eerste week. Hopelijk kan ik weer een etappe winnen,” zei Van der Poel.

OU Softball: Oklahoma Run-Rules Tulsa to Open Norman Tournament…

NORMAN — With all the snow and ice melting and the Oklahoma campus bathed in an almost unfamiliar glow, softball season resumed with a flourish.

On a sun-splashed, perfectly temperate afternoon in the Norman Tournament, No. 2-ranked Oklahoma delivered a 8-0 run-rule victory over Tulsa on Saturday at Love’s Field.

“We were really, really pleased about that because it looked like we may not play this weekend,” head coach Patty Gasso said. “The crowd came out. I’m really excited about that. They were excited to see us. It felt good to be home.

OU improved to 11-0 on the season, while Tulsa fell to 5-6. Dating back to last year’s College World Series, it was the Sooners’ 14th consecutive win.

Kierston Deal got the start for the Sooners. The left-hander hurled four scoreless innings with four strikeouts and allowed two hits and one walk.

“It was great to see how many Sooner fans were in the stands,” Deal said. “Like, even with the cold, like they’re sticking with us. Like, all the way through it.”

Isabella Smith pitched the fifth inning and quickly got two strikeouts before a ground ball ended it.

Deal ended three of the first four innings with swinging strikeouts — two of those with a runner on base. She also induced a ground-ball double play after walking leadoff hitter Faith Russell to open the game.

OU left two runners on base in the first inning, then loaded the bases on three walks in the second before breaking through.

Ella Parker’s one-hop ground ball to first base hit the chalk and skidded between Paige Knight’s cleats and into right field, bringing home all three runners with unearned runs and a 3-0 lead.

Kasidi Pickering slammed a double into the gap in right-center field to lead off the third inning and moved to third when Nelly McEnroe-Marinas’ deep fly ball was caught on the warning track in right. Ailana Agbayani then sent Pickering home with a sharp single through the left side for a 4-0 lead.

“Today was definitely a pick-me-up for the beginning of the season and how I’ve been doing,” Pickering said.

Gabbie Garcia led off the bottom of the fourth with a double into the right field corner, took third on Abigale Dayton’s groundout to second base, and came home on a wild pitch for a 5-0 lead.

Parker then followed that with a bloop double behind shortstop, extending her hitting streak to 15 games dating back to last year.

After Cydney Sanders walked, Pickering then smashed a three-run home run into the the shrubs behind the center field wall for an 8-0 lead. With runners on first and second, pinch-hitter Maya Bland drove a pitch to the left field wall for the third out.

“I think, to be honest, the last couple of weeks, we’ve seen these guys hit the ball much harder early in the game as well, like setting the tone,” Gasso said. “So we didn’t do anything wrong. We did everything right. Defense was great, pitching outstanding.”

OU resumes action in the Norman Tournament on Sunday with a 3:30 p.m. game against Wichita State before closing with two on Monday against Bowling Green (11 a.m.) and Abilene Christian (2 p.m.)

All games are scheduled to be televised by SEC Network+.

OU Softball: Patty Gasso is ‘Loving’ Her Team as Oklahoma Opens Play at Love’s Field…

NORMAN — The first two weekends couldn’t have gone much better for Oklahoma.

Patty Gasso’s new-look Sooners got tested throughout their California swing, and then OU made strides to dominate last weekend at the Getterman Classic in Waco, TX.

Now, the No. 2-ranked team in the land will get to make their full debut in front of hordes of Sooner fans at Love’s Field this weekend.

“I’m loving them right now,” Gasso said of her team on Tuesday. “They are just very hard working, they are fearless, they hustle, they’re strong, they play as a team, they’re somewhat intimidating on the field, they’re fast, they’re clutch — everything I’m looking for.

“I really, really enjoyed them this last weekend. I thought they played really, really well.”

Oklahoma is getting contributions from familiar faces.

Ella Parker has stacked back-to-back SEC Co-Player of the Week honors, and both Kasidi Pickering and Cydney Sanders have been excellent alongside her.

The newcomers, spearheaded by Abigale Dayton, look comfortable.

And OU’s pitching staff looks polished, as Campbell transfer Isabella Smith and Lousiana transfer Sam Landry have already thrown a five inning perfect game each.

“I really feel they’re very comfortable with each other,” Gasso said. “They fight. They fight as a team.”

The defense has been excellent, too, which has helped unlock a new dimension from some of OU’s new hurlers.

“Knowing how good our defense is and trusting them and trusting the coaches has allowed me to go in the strike zone a little bit more,” Landry said. “So if you look at my previous stats you’ll probably see I have a lot more walks even at this point in the season than I do this season. And that was just something because I always bit around the zone and I will admit I hated getting hit. But we’ve been working on that because it’s not that I hated getting hit, I just hated the ball getting put in play because I would get scared of what was going to happen sometimes.

“So I really trust our defense and I feel like it just really allows me to go at hitters because I know they’re going to make a play.”

Nelly McEnroe-Marinas has slotted in a third and been steady. BYU transfer Ailana Agbayani has been as advertised at second alongside Sanders at first, and a pair of talented freshmen continue to battle at shortstop.

Gabbie Garcia saw most of the action in the field during OU’s first weekend, and then Sydney Barker came alive at the plate in Waco.

She went 5-for-10 at the plate in two games each against Hofstra and Baylor, hitting two home runs, a triple and totaling 10 RBIs.

Putting the nerves of opening weekend in rearview was huge for Barker, but her continued work with OU associate head coach and hitting coach JT Gasso has paid dividends, too.

“It’s a lot about repetition,” Barker said. “Obviously hitting it hard at OU, we hit it hard every singled in the cages whether we’re able to get outside or we’re staying in. We just hit it hard every single day and so I think that makes just a huge difference.

“But also like Coach Gasso was saying, we’re just all so comfortable with each other and it’s kind of a feeling, I know my teammates are going to have my back as I have theirs. So it’s a very comfortable feeling going into these games this past weekend.”

Now, OU will have to get comfortable at Love’s Field.

The team got a taste of Oklahoma’s stomping grounds during fall ball, but there will be a different energy on opening day Saturday for all the new faces to get adjusted to.

“There’s 4,500 people here, it sounded as loud as the College World Series,” Gasso said. “It was just deafening to the ears. The sounds. It was fun, but we were playing very scared and nervous and tight, but we have gotten used to it. I hope this new team will feel it and get used to it quickly.”

Oklahoma will get going at 3 p.m. Saturday against Tulsa, and OU takes on Abilene Christian on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. On Monday, the Sooners face Bowling Green at 11 a.m. and Abilene Christian at 2 p.m.

Following No. 1 Auburn’s victory over No. 2 Alabama, Bruce Pearl and Auburn players hit the crimson crane at halfcourt.

Broome did briefly leave the game late in the second half with a lower-body injury after an awkward spin move. He returned and made Auburn’s final two shots from the field.

Broome was a dominating force from the beginning — he grabbed his 10th rebound early in the second half, securing the double-double with just under 17 minutes left in the game.

Broome and five teammates finished in double figures. Denver Jones scored 16 points, Chad Baker-Mazara and Miles Kelly added 15 points apiece, Chaney Johnson had 14 and Tahaad Pettiford 13.

Auburn starter Dylan Cardwell fouled out after playing just 12 minutes, Baker-Mazara, who came off the benche, fouled out with just over two minutes remaining. Johnson, who averages 23 minutes, picked up much of the slack, playing 33 minutes as Auburn shot 46% from the field.

Mark Sears scored 18 points and Grant Nelson added 12 points and 12 rebounds for Alabama, which rallied from a double-digit deficit in the game, but failed to complete the comeback.

Oats used the loss as a refocusing opportunity with his team for the three weeks until their next game against the Tigers.

“We’re not in full control of our destiny to win the league outright, but we are in control of our destiny to at least get a tie going forward,” Oats said. “We’ll see the maturity and leadership we have coming in on Monday.”

Just In: Is Nolan Arenado Finally Staying at Cardinals for 2025 after Latest Update?

During their annual holiday party at Busch Stadium, the St. Louis Cardinals looked poised to get the only item on their wish list.

It was the Friday after the Winter Meetings — the same day the Houston Astros agreed to  Like an aftershock, word began to spread: After trading Tucker — a move that strongly deviated from the Astros’ usual operations — they were for Nolan Arenado.

Anticipation grew throughout the day. So did momentum.

The Cardinals were on the verge of trading Arenado, their top offseason goal, and they’d not only pulled off a deal, they’d matched with one of the teams on the eight-time All-Star’s short and semi-problematic five-team list of acceptable destinations.

How close? The “1-yard line,” according to a source.

But now, the surreal sight of Arenado reporting back to Cardinals camp this month, greeted by hugs in the parking lot, makes it clear that the 1-yard line is suddenly several football fields away.

“Here we are,’’ Cardinals’ president of baseball operations John Mozeliak said in late January. “Things happen.”

Over the course of a few days, the Astros deal fizzled, undone by an unlikely snag: When Arenado was presented with the trade, he balked.

According to multiple industry sources, Arenado was unsure of multiple things, including the timing of the deal and what direction Houston was trending. Though the Astros were on his original list of trade destinations, the loss of Tucker and the likely loss of free agent Alex Bregman had caused Arenado to reconsider. He wanted more time, sources described, and while he did not tell the Astros “no” definitively, he also did not want to rush into a decision.

Talks with other teams never got that far. The Cardinals had conversations with at least nine organizations — including some surprises. According to an industry source, multiple teams inquired about Arenado early in the offseason, including the Detroit Tigers, Kansas City Royals and Los Angeles Angels. Those conversations did not yield much, as all three teams were considered non-starters. The Boston Red Sox had emerged as a potential fit until they signed Bregman days before position players were scheduled to report to their designated camps.

SUDDEN DEATH :Former Los Angeles Lakers Guard Darius Morris Passes Away at 33

 


  • Sudden death:Former Los Angeles Lakers Guard Darius Morris Passes Away at 33

The basketball world is mourning the untimely passing of former Los Angeles Lakers point guard Darius Morris, who died at the age of 33. The news of his sudden death has left fans, teammates, and the entire NBA community in shock and sorrow.

Morris, a second-round pick in the 2011 NBA Draft, played two seasons with the Lakers before moving on to stints with the Philadelphia 76ers, Los Angeles Clippers, Brooklyn Nets, and Memphis Grizzlies. Known for his agility, court vision, and strong defensive play, he brought energy and passion to every game he played.

The Los Angeles County medical examiner reported that Morris’s cause of death was coronary heart disease, with additional contributing factors of drug and alcohol use. While his professional career took him across the NBA and international leagues in China, Russia, and France, he remained deeply connected to the basketball community and his former teammates.

Tributes have poured in from across the sports world. The Lakers organization released a heartfelt statement expressing their condolences, saying, “We are heartbroken by the passing of Darius Morris. His talent, dedication, and love for the game will always be remembered. Our thoughts are with his family and loved ones during this difficult time.”

Former teammates and friends also took to social media to share their grief, remembering Morris as a kind and dedicated player who always gave his best on and off the court. Fans have been honoring his legacy by sharing highlights of his most memorable moments in the league.

Morris’s passing serves as a stark reminder of the fragility of life, especially for athletes who dedicate themselves to peak physical performance. His contributions to basketball will not be forgotten, and his memory will live on through the countless lives he touched both on and off the court.

As the basketball world grieves this tragic loss, fans and loved ones will continue to celebrate the impact he made during his time in the game. Rest in peace, Darius Morris.

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