This past weekend, the city of Tulsa had a unique visitor. This visitor was not a person or a band, but a historic airplane. This airplane, a B-17 bomber, is currently on a tour — the World War II Salute to Victory Tour — across the southern part of the country and Tulsa chosen to […]
Author: Tommy Reid
Can the NFL Play Through a Pandemic?
There has been much discussion as to how and when professional sports should come back due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The NBA and NHL were amid a season when the shutdowns of mid-March began to close events. MLB was just about to begin Spring Training games when they put a pause on all activities. Both […]
TU Wins Big in South Florida
Under the Friday night lights in South Florida last Friday night, the Tulsa Golden Hurricane showed up ready to play. Coming off a two-week break since last beating the number 11 ranked University of Central Florida on Oct. 10, the Golden Hurricane rolled into Tampa ready to play the University of South Florida Bulls. On […]
NFL Week Six Update
Despite some changes to team policies and rules this year, the NFL season has been moving along. Games have been played, teams have been winning and losing and progress toward crowning another Super Bowl champion has been made. After the first six weeks of the regular season (not including the two games played on Monday), […]
NBA Postseason Update
With a move to Los Angeles in 2018, LeBron James brought the hope of another championship to the southern California city who had not won one since winning with Kobe in 2010. Despite much anticipation and hope that they would win a championship in the first year that James was on the team, the Lakers […]
SA Innovatively Adapts 2020 Homecoming Week
While most on campus events have been canceled or moved online due to COVID-19 safety precautions, The University of Tulsa’s Student Association (SA) still hosted Homecoming 2020 in-person this year, though it was in a reduced fashion from past years. The main planner behind all of this was Caroline Williams, Student Association’s Executive Director of […]
2020 WNBA Update
The WNBA season just concluded, and like most other professional sports, they suffered unexpected changes to this season due to COVID-19. The 36-game season was originally scheduled to begin on May 15, 2020 with a two-month break for the 2020 Summer Olympics in July and August. However, the Olympics did not happen this summer as […]
MLB Update -League Championship Edition
American League (1) Tampa Bay Rays vs (6) Houston Astros – In Game 1, the Rays avoided a top of the eighth scare when they had a one-run lead and the Astros had the bases loaded. Diego Castillo came into the game to pitch, got out of the inning with a one pitch inning ending […]
An Uxpected TU Win
Saturday, Oct. 3, 2020 was the biggest win the Golden Hurricane football team has had since 1996. While Tulsa beat the number 11 ranked UCF Knights 34-26, it did not always look like Tulsa would win. At the end of the first quarter, the Knights were up by fourteen points, and with two minutes left […]
MLB Update – Division Championship Series
The second round of the MLB postseason, the division championship series, is complete. Like with the Wild Card round, the league division series was filled with excitement and close games. American League. (1) Tampa Bay Rays vs (5) New York Yankees – The Rays had a three games to two series win over the Yankees […]