Oklahoma State women's basketball adds four transfers, including former Owasso star Terryn Milton

OSU women's basketball adds four transfers

Oklahoma State women's basketball coach Jacie Hoyt has added four transfers to the roster on Monday.

Terryn Milton, Lior Garzon, Anna Gret Asi and Trinitee Jackson all signed with the Cowgirls. The four standouts will join Kansas City transfer Naomie Alnatas, who signed earlier this spring, as additions to the roster for the upcoming season.

Milton is a 5-foot-9 guard from Owasso who is coming in from Texas-Arlington; Garzon is a 6-1 forward who played at Villanova; Asi, a 5-8 guard, is transferring from Arizona; and Jackson is a 6-3 forward who is arriving from Arkansas State.

UCO hires Andrews as women's basketball coach

Emma Andrews was named University of Central Oklahoma women's basketball coach on Monday. She replaces Guy Hardaker, who retired in March after a successful 16-year run.

Andrews spent the last six years as head coach of the Cameron University program in Lawton. She guided the Aggies to five Lone Star Conference Tournament appearances and one NCAA Division II national tournament.

Andrews, a native of Melbourne, Australia, played college basketball at Fresno State over the 2007-11 seasons.

OSU men's hoops adds transfer

Oklahoma State got a big boost Monday with the addition of John-Michael Wright, the Big South Conference's leading scorer. Wright, a 6-foot guard from Fayetteville, North Carolina, averaged 18.4 points, 4.4 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 1.0 steals for High Point last season as a junior. The guard shot 36% from 3-point range. Wright also scored 20 or more points in 12 games last season, including 34 against Charleston Southern.

TEXAS: Longhorns guard Andrew Jones, whose college basketball career was interrupted for nearly two years by leukemia, announced he will skip a final season with Texas and turn professional. Jones ranks ninth in scoring in program history with 1,620 points.

He announced his decision to enter the NBA draft in a statement posted on social media. Jones was diagnosed with leukemia in January 2018 and missed most of that season and the next while undergoing treatment.

JMU softball cancels rest of season

The James Madison University softball team canceled the remainder of its 2022 season after the death of player Lauren Bernett last Monday.

Four games, one against Virginia and three against Elon, were affected. The Dukes had already canceled five games last week.

"This was an extremely difficult decision and one that was not made lightly," JMU head coach Loren LaPorte said. "We are so grateful for the support of our fans all season and for the love from the softball community during the past week. We will use this time to continue healing and to honor Lauren's memory while finishing the academic semester strong. Most importantly, we're thinking about our graduating seniors whose careers have come to an abrupt conclusion."

The Western Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Virginia said Thursday that Bernett, 20, died by suicide.

The catcher was part of a JMU team that qualified for last spring's Women's College World Series. The Dukes won games over Oklahoma State and eventual national champion Oklahoma.

Lawyer says racial issue belongs in court

A lawyer for an NFL coach who sued the league over alleged racist hiring practices has told a judge that arbitration is the wrong way to resolve the lawsuit in part because NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell would be the arbitrator. Attorney Douglas Wigdor said in Manhattan federal court Monday that the league wanted to force “behind closed doors” the claims of Brian Flores and two other Black coaches. It was the first court hearing for a lawsuit Flores filed in February, when he claimed the league was “rife with racism” even as the NFL publicly condemns it.

NFL attorney Loretta Lynch said all claims belong in arbitration. Flores was fired in January as head coach by the Miami Dolphins but has since been hired as assistant for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

SAINTS: The Honey Badger has reportedly found a new home, and it won't be far from where he played his college ball. Safety Tyrann Mathieu is expected to sign a contract with the New Orleans Saints, according to multiple reports. Mathieu, 29, is coming off of a three-year run with the Kansas City Chiefs in which he was a first-team AP all-pro twice and was selected to the Pro Bowl twice. He was born in New Orleans and grew up there, and starred for the LSU Tigers in Baton Rouge, La. in 2010-11.

CARDINALS: Star wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins has been suspended six games without pay for a violation of the league's policy on performance-enhancing drugs, the league announced on Monday. ESPN was first to report the suspension. Hopkins, 29, is one of the most dynamic playmakers in the league at the position and is a five-time Pro Bowler and three-time first-team all-pro selection.

Extra points

SWIMMING: Oklahoma City natve Bruce Bockus was invited to the 2022 U.S. Masters Spring National Championships in San Antonio. The former OU swimmer broke several Oklahoma state records for his age group (65-69). Nearly 1,850 swimmers competed in the national championships.

MLB: As Major League Baseball rosters had to be trimmed to 26 players by Monday, infielder Robinson Cano was one of the odd men out as the New York Mets designated him for assignment and optioned reliever Yoan Lopez to Triple-A Syracuse. The Mets still owe the 39-year-old infielder around $40.5 million between the 2021 and 2022 seasons.

COLLEGE BASEBALL: Just when you thought Ben Joyce couldn't throw any harder than 104 mph, something he did last month … well, he did. The University of Tennessee pitcher uncorked a pitch at 105.5 mph, breaking the college baseball record for fastest-ever recorded pitch. The pitch broke his own record he set in March when he fired a 104 mph fastball against South Carolina. The 105.5 mph pitch came against Auburn, as part of Joyce's four innings of work with six strikeouts and just one hit allowed.

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