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Brito joins former North Texas pitcher Hope Trautwein as big-time transfers who have elected to team up with Oklahoma for the coming 2022 season.
Now onto this week’s Friday edition of Hot Links! Portal Moser might be at it again, high praise for the OU DL, and more!
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On Thursday, Spencer Rattler announced that he has partnered with Chris Cabott and Steinberg Sports for NIL representation. I’m proud of the young man for seizing this major opportunity has has in front of him.
Porter Moser may be eying another quality transfer in Oral Roberts’ Kevin Obanor. Last season, the 6’8” redshirt senior forward led the Summit League with an average of 9.6 rebounds per contest and was the second-highest scoring Golden Eagle with 18.7 points per game.
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Smiles came easily for Kelly Holmes May 4 during her brief visit to Canton High School s softball field, the place where in 1992 she struck out a still-standing national record 24 batters in a seven-inning game. Whenever I go by a softball field, I remember the smell of the freshly-cut grass, the dirt, everything, said Holmes, who was inducted into the Canton High School Athletics Hall of Fame in 2018. Being here brings back a lot of great memories.
In April 2020, Holmes, who starred as a pitcher for the University of Michigan s softball program for four years after graduating from Canton in 1993, was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an incurable form of brain cancer.
Flotsam & Jetsam: Sopping wet pup and a brazen alligator
By Jim Carter
The unforeseen consequences of the Suez Canal blockage by the giant cargo ship Ever Given are continuing to ripple throughout the world. Garden supplies stores in Britain, for example, are experiencing a shortage of gnomes. Ian Byrne, a manager at Highfield Garden World in Westminster, Gloucestershire, recently told The Guardian that gnomes of any type – plastic, stone or concrete – are in short supply as a result of the Ever Given mishap. (When disaster strikes …)
Sign of the times: Thieves continue to expand their target list, which now includes Legos. French police recently caught a gang stealing complete sets from a store in Paris; they had been fencing them in Poland. And a guy in Oregon was arrested and charged with stealing $7,500 worth of Lego sets – the sets are apparently particularly attractive to collectors. Experts report that there’s even a black market now taking shape. (Tell the ki