Cliff Brunt, Author at Daily Hampshire Gazette

The Rosemont High School football takes the field for a game against Galt High School in Galt, near Sacramento, Calif., Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. Superintendent Torie Gibson felt she had no choice but to make the unpopular decision. When learning Amador High's football team had a group chat titled, “Kill the Blacks,” filled with derogatory language and racial slurs, she ended the Northern California school’s varsity season. The discipline was swift and abrupt. Moments before Amador...

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High school football incidents spark racism talks, programs

by Cliff Brunt Associated PressDecember 22, 2022

Superintendent Torie Gibson felt she had no choice but to make the unpopular decision. When learning Amador High’s football team had a group chat titled, “Kill the Blacks,” filled with derogatory language and racial slurs, she ended the Northern…

FILE - Oklahoma City Thunder forward Chet Holmgren (7) runs the court against the Memphis Grizzlies during an NBA summer league basketball game Wednesday, July 6, 2022, in Salt Lake City. Holmgren, the No. 2 pick in the NBA draft, will miss the 2022-23 season because of a right foot injury, the Oklahoma City Thunder announced Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Jeff Swinger, File)

Thunder No. 2 pick Holmgren to miss season with foot injury

by Cliff Brunt Associated PressAugust 25, 2022

FILE - Then Oklahoma head coach Lincoln Riley yells to his team before a play during the first half of an NCAA college football game against TCU, Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021, in Norman, Okla.Riley, one of college football's most successful young coaches who won 85 percent of his games in five seasons at Oklahoma and led the Sooners to four Big 12 titles and four New Year's Six bowls with three College Football Playoff appearances, has been named the head coach at USC, athletic director Mike Bohn announced Sunday, Nov. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams, File)

Oklahoma picks up pieces after Lincoln Riley leaves for USC

by Cliff Brunt Associated PressNovember 29, 2021

Oral Roberts players celebrate after beating Ohio State in a first-round game in the NCAA Tournament, Friday at Mackey Arena in West Lafayette, Ind.

Oral Roberts shocks Ohio State, first big upset of NCAAs

by Cliff Brunt Associated PressMarch 19, 2021

FILE - This March 7, 2020, file photo shows Connecticut head coach Geno Auriemma during an NCAA college basketball game in the American Athletic Conference tournament quarterfinals at Mohegan Sun Arena, in Uncasville, Conn. UConn has not had seven first-year players on its roster since back in 1988, the year the Huskies won the first of their 18 Big East titles. No. 3 Connecticut returns this season to the league it helped build with a young, but talented team after playing seven years in the American Athletic Conference without a conference loss.(AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)

Pandemic leaves opening week of college hoops in disarray

by Cliff Brunt Associated PressNovember 24, 2020

Mississippi State Head Coach Mike Leach, left, and Alabama Head Coach Nick Saban talk before the start of an NCAA college football game in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020. (Gary Cosby Jr/The Tuscaloosa News via AP)

Postponement, outbreaks: SEC takes a hit from COVID-19

by Cliff Brunt Associated PressNovember 9, 2020

FILE - In this Oct. 2, 2019, file photo, pitchers Monica Abbott, left, and Cat Osterman, right, watch during the USA Softball Women's Olympic Team Selection Trials in Oklahoma City. The Scrap Yard Dawgs, one of America's top pro women's softball teams, continue to suffer fallout from a controversial post on the team’s Twitter account. Dawgs players Cat Osterman and Monica Abbott, both members of Team USA, are among those who have criticized it. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

Pro softball team suffers fallout after GM’s anthem tweet

by Cliff Brunt Associated PressJune 25, 2020

FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011, file photo, former Oklahoma State coach Eddie Sutton, center, talks to fans during a ceremony honoring the 10th anniversary of the death of 10 members of the Oklahoma State basketball program in a plane crash, at halftime of an NCAA college basketball game between Oklahoma State and Texas in Stillwater, Okla. Sutton, the Hall of Fame basketball coach who led three teams to the Final Four and was the first coach to take four schools to the NCAA Tournament, died Saturday, May 23, 2020. He was 84. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

Eddie Sutton, Hall of Fame basketball coach, dies at 84

by Cliff Brunt Associated PressMay 25, 2020

FILE - In this June 15, 2009, file photo, T. Boone Pickens, president of BP Capital Group, speaks at Time Warner's headquarters in New York. Pickens, a brash and quotable oil tycoon who grew even wealthier through corporate takeover attempts, died Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019. He was 91. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

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Oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens dies at age 91

by Cliff Brunt Associated PressSeptember 11, 2019

FILE - In this Jan. 5, 2019, file photo, Alabama's Jalen Hurts answers questions during media day for the NCAA college football playoff championship game, in Santa Clara, Calif. Alabama quarterback Jalen Hurts has decided to transfer to Oklahoma. Hurts made the announcement Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019, in a story in the Players' Tribune .(AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Boomer Sooner: Tide QB Jalen Hurts transferring to Oklahoma

by Cliff Brunt Associated PressJanuary 16, 2019