Updates from Saturday, May 31 Corey Jones and Kelly Hines of TulsaWorld.com provide a synopsis of Sgt. Thomas Cooper discussing Devon Thomas' arrest: Thomas, 18, and four others are accused of breaking into a residence, forcing a person inside into a bedroom and threatening to shoot him or her, and then waiting for an acquaintance to arrive so they could rob him, Cooper said. When the second person arrived, the intruders at gunpoint stole his marijuana, money, shoes and ...

Penn State built plenty of recruiting momentum throughout the spring, but one of its key early commits has changed his plans. The Nittany Lions lost a pledge from 4-star linebacker Josh Barajas on Friday morning when he flipped to Notre Dame, according to Steve Wiltfong of 247Sports. The 6'3", 210-pound prospect initially pledged to Penn State on March 30, capping off a two-week stretch that featured four 4-star commitments for James Franklin. His decision to back out of that verbal ...

Thanks to my esteemed colleague, Matt King, who came up with the idea to pick a $15 all-time John Calipari Kentucky team, my mind began to wander. What about the rest of college basketball during that five-year run by Calipari? The idea is pretty simple. Design your best team by picking one player at each position and stay below the $15 salary cap. What you determine as the best team is up to your discretion; imagine you're the GM or ...

If SEC coaches and admins had it their way, Penn State coach James Franklin would never leave Big Ten country to coach in a summer camp.  According to ESPN's Brett McMurphy and Edward Aschoff, Franklin, formerly Vanderbilt's head coach, and his staff plan on coaching prospects at Georgia State (Atlanta, Georgia) and Stetson (Deland, Florida) camps in June.  Franklin's smart to do so. He's taking advantage of a loophole within an NCAA rule (13.12.1.2) that limits where football programs can ...

College football is still three months away, but with summer on the horizon, fans can start getting excited for what's to come in August. For USC, the Trojans are looking to start Steve Sarkisian's inaugural season as head coach on the right foot, and to generate as much excitement at the start of 2014 as they ended with in 2013. The Trojans will have a decent amount of depth this season thanks to an influx of ...

With all of the bellyaching about the recent decisions by the SEC and ACC to keep eight-game conference schedules, a most important point was largely missed: The scheduling setup makes competition within those conferences unfair. Whenever there's an imbalance in the strengths of the conference's divisions, the race for the championship will become lopsided. Essentially, you'll rarely get the two best teams to play in the conference championship games. On top of that, there's also the ...

Urban Meyer is widely considered one of college football's best recruiters, but what sets him apart isn't his ability to sign blue-chip prospects—it's that he finds the ones who perfectly fit his system. Meyer wants tough, smart and angry football players. He wants his team to play with an edge, and building that starts on the recruiting trail by identifying the right players. Ohio State is recruiting some of the country's top talent for its 2015 recruiting ...

Tom Izzo has attracted numerous high-profile recruits for the class of 2015. As Michigan State surrenders arguable its three top players, garnering as much incoming young talent is vital. As they head into their 2014-15 campaign, the Spartans still face questions in multiple facets. The losses of Keith Appling and Gary Harris evidently diminish the firepower and experience of their backcourt. Appling’s backup, Travis Trice, played pivotal minutes and produced clutch performances as last season winded ...

At this time last year, Isaiah Hicks was the most anticipated arrival in a stacked freshman class for UNC basketball. Following a wretched debut season, Hicks has a lot of catching up to do just to reach the bar set by classmates Nate Britt and Kennedy Meeks, let alone to live up to his billing as a future Tar Heels star. The 6’8” forward still has ample time to recover from his slow start and prove that ...

It's the most fundamental part of the sport of basketball: shooting. Yet the ability to get the ball in the hoop with high accuracy is not an easy task. Making more than 50 percent of your shots is considered a really good rate, while hitting better than one-third of attempts from three-point range unofficially qualifies a player as an outside shooting expert. (If only all areas of life allowed for being able to miss about half ...