For eight decades, OU basketball has been coming to Kansas City for conference tournament memories. Those memories end with the 2024 Big 12 Tournament. The Sooners are off to the SEC next season, and while the football will be wild, the same won’t be true of basketball.

Episode highlights:

2:30: The original holiday tournament was a bastion of Big Six/Big Seven/Big Eight basketball

5:15: Kansas City once roared with Sooner fans

Producer: Jacquelyn Musgrove
Creative Director: Michael Lane
Social media: Bobby Howard
Director of Content: Mike Sherman
Director of Audience/Sponsor Fulfillment: Jay Spear

OSU basketball coach Mike Boynton is well-liked and well-respected. But the descent of the program under Boynton has landed the Cowboys where they don’t want to be: indifferent to their own fans. When OSU loyalists vote with their absence at Gallagher-Iba Arena, the gig is up for Boynton.

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Kelvin Sampson has the gang back together — former Sooners Quannas White, Hollis Price and Kellen Sampson have helped Kelvin turn Houston in a college basketball power. The Cougars have been to the 2021 Final Four and now are ranked No. 1. Kelvin brings his Cougars to OU on Saturday night for a game at Lloyd Noble Center, and he joined The Berry Tramel Show to talk about Sooner memories.

Episode highlights:
3:15: Kelvin Sampson on the ruggedness of the Big 12
9:00 Kelvin Sampson on the Houston rebuild
15:38: Kelvin Sampson on old Big Eight days
18:29: Kelvin Sampson on his favorite OU season
21:48 Kelvin Sampson on his best scorer
Producer: Jacquelyn Musgrove
Creative Director: Michael Lane
Social media: Bobby Howard
Director of Content: Mike Sherman

The Negro Leagues are going to video — Negro Leagues stars are included in MLB: The Show, the most popular baseball video game, and Negro Leagues Baseball Museum president Bob Kendrick believes it’s an avenue to awaken even more interest about the once-forgotten stars of yesteryear.

Episode highlights:

2:50: Bob Kendrick on promoting baseball and softball to inner-city youth via the Rookie League Foundation.
8:16: Bob Kendrick on Oklahoman Bullet Joe Rogan and the 100-year commemoration of the first Negro Leagues World Series, played in 1924.
13:51: Bob Kendrick on the Negro Leagues being included the MLB: The Show video game.
17:16: Bob Kendrick on Major League Baseball recognizing Negro Leagues statistics in the official baseball records.
21:26: Bob Kendrick on the history of the Negro Leagues that still could be uncovered.

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Mike Stoops’ on-and-off relationship with OU football comes around again, with the Sooners in the SEC.

Episode highlights:

1:46: Mike Stoops on playing Texas, but not OU, in 2024
2:46: Mike Stoops on rehabilitating under Alabama coach Nick Saban
5:17: Mike Stoops on OU’s similarities with Clemson
9:15: Mike Stoops on how he hasn’t yelled in two years
11:17: Mike Stoops on working for brother Mark after brother Mark had worked for him

Producer: Jacquelyn Musgrove
Creative Director: Michael Lane
Social media: Bobby Howard
Director of Content: Mike Sherman

Navy football coach Brian Newberry grew up in OKC, went to Westmoore High School and now sheds a tear standing on the sideline awaiting kickoff of the Army-Navy game.

On this episode, Newberry shares how much he loves his job, which hasn’t been too affected by the madness of the transfer portal and NIL, his Oklahoma past and Navy football’s future.

Episode highlights:
0:48: Why he has one of the nation’s best jobs
2:09: The transfer portal’s effect on the Midshipmen
4:22:On coaching the Army-Navy game
8:35 On his memories at Westmoore High School
16:29 On the future of Navy football
18:44: On Navy’s option offense

Producer: Jacquelyn Musgrove
Creative Director: Michael Lane
Social media: Bobby Howard
Director of Content: Mike Sherman

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Oklahoman Todd Berry just retired as executive director of the American Football Coaches Association, where he’s spent almost eight years advocating for his membership. Berry says football coaches are besieged by inadequate rules in this new age of the transfer portal and NIL money, and that’s fueling the restlessness among the AFCA membership. Todd Berry joins The Berry Tramel Show to talk about these issues:

3:00: Todd Berry on the going rate for a good college quarterback

5:03: Todd Berry on the restlessness among college football coaches

7:17: Todd Berry on the unintended consequences of the changes in college football

9:40: Todd Berry on the transfer portal

14:04: Todd Berry on the potential danger to the NCAA’s Olympic sports

18:12 Todd Berry on roster management for coaches

22:06: Todd Berry on the college football calendar

25:45 Todd Berry on coaches salaries

Producer: Jacquelyn Musgrove
Creative Director: Michael Lane
Social media team: Bobby Howard

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Scott Verplank was Longhorn bred but chose OSU instead and has made his golfing life in Oklahoma. He’s won NCAA championships, the U.S. Amateur, Ryder Cup matches and a most-emotional Byron Nelson Classic. Now Verplank is joining the Sellout Crowd Network for a golfing show, but first he hopped onto the Berry Tramel Show to talk about his extraordinary career.
2:13: Scott Verplank on winning a PGA Tour event as an amateur

4:07: Scott Verplank on Tiger Woods’ impact on golf’s new young lions

5:41 Scott Verplank on how he became an elite golfer

8:28: Scott Verplank on why he went to OSU instead of Texas

12:04: Scott Verplank on his OSU golf coach, Mike Holder

14:39: Scott Verplank on his college career

16:53: Scott Verplank on winning the PGA Tour’s Western Open as an amateur in 1985

19:04: Scott Verplank on his favorite victory, the 2011 Byron Nelson Classic

Producer: Jacquelyn Musgrove
Creative Director: Michael Lane

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