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Tuition law helps military familiesOklahoma students who have lost or will lose parents during active combat to receive waiver
ENJOLI DI PATRIThe Oklahoma Daily
A new law that will provide free tuition in Oklahoma to children of troops killed in active military ser-vice is expected to apply to 130 to 150 students.
The Heroes Promise Act, which will provide up to 48 college hours of free tuition, went into effect July 1, but it will retroactively apply to any current incoming students whose parent was killed since Jan. 1, 2000, said Eric Bradshaw, Oklahoma House of Representatives media specialist.
Since the begining of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, about 100 Oklahomans have died, according to The Washington Post.
The act applies to all Oklahoma colleges and universities.
“Nothing we can do will ever re-place loss of a Mom or Dad who died for our country,” said Oklahoma Rep. Eric Proctor, D-Tulsa. “However, we have a moral obligation to help the children of our fallen soldiers attain their dreams.”
Proctor co-wrote House Bill 1343 with Oklahoma Sen. Tom Ivester, D-Sayre.
“My greatest concern as a soldier would be that my family was taken care of should I die,” Ivester said.
The tuition program could cost the state around $100,000 a year, but not until qualifying children are able to attend college, according to the Oklahoma policy website.
“The children need to know that the people of Oklahoma love them and will never forget their family’s sacrifice,” Proctor said.
New initiative that decreases licensees accuseed of violating antitrust laws
ENJOLI DI PATRIThe Oklahoma Daily
OU’s new licensing initiative, which would reduce licenses held by manufacturers in an effort to produce consistent OU branded goods, is coming under fire for possibly violat-ing antitrust laws, according to a letter sent to the athletic department.
Steven Bradbury of Dechert LLP issued a letter to 27 universities — incuding OU — demanding they “cease and desist from im-plementing or maintaining the Sideline +1
initiative.” In the letter, Bradbury accuses Sideline +1 of being an “anticompetitive re-straint of trade.”
OU’s Trademark Advisory Committee de-cided to enter into the Sideline +1 agreement, which went into effect July 1, OU licensing di-rector Renata Hays said. The initiative limits the number of licensees in some of the men’s apparel departments.
Bradbury accuses OU of working with other universities to supress competition by decreasing the amounts of licenses held by manufacturers.
“While an individual licensor is free to choose how to license its trademarks, the an-titrust laws prohibit licensors from acting in
concert to suppress competition in markets for licensed goods,” Bradbury said in his letter.
However, OU licensing director Renata Hays refutes Bradbury’s allegations and said OU did not get together with other schools when de-ciding to enter into the Sideline +1 agreement.
“We always do what’s in the best interest of the university, our fans and our licensing de-partment,” Hays said. “We didn’t speak to any other schools in the process.”
When The Daily requested docuements pertaining to the Sideline +1 initiative, no cor-respodence between other universities was found.
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HOUSING COMMUNITY
Condos built to withstand noise Business owner uses beef to provide reliefNew housing being built near
OU’s campus using sound suppresion to help residents
HALEY O’HARAThe Oklahoma Daily
An OU graduate is building new condos next to campus that are constructed with noise-suppre-sion materials to combat sounds produced by Norman’s frequent trains while offering students and buyers a home close to campus.
The new Loft 401 condomini-ums, located near the corner of Classen Boulevard and Boyd Street, are slated to open for resi-dents in August.
More than half the units in the four-story building have already been sold, according to the Loft 401 website.
Despite being located so close to the OU campus, Loft 401 stands right next to a railroad track.
Sarah Danner, a senior who hopes to transfer to OU in the fall, bought her condo when she re-turned to Norman after living in Oklahoma City.
Danner said when she visited the construction site to see how her condo was coming along, she couldn’t hear the train very much.
“The reality is that living in
Norman, no matter what, you’re going to hear the train,” Danner said.
The building is equipped with features to alleviate noise, said Julie Shubert, Loft 401 sales and market-ing member.
Loft 401 is constructed on a con-crete podium that decreases sound transmission, Shubert said.
Also, sound caulking is used at any points of penetration in the
drywall, and a Saflex interlayer in the windows will provide noise reduction compared to ordinary glass windows, she said.
Mark Risser, a graduate from the OU College of Architecture, had the vision of building a place to live in Norman that was within walking distance from campus.
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HUNTER CLAUSEN/THE DAILYA sign advertising the new condos adorns the currently-under-construction buildings. The lofts should be open to residents in August.
A team of employees from Rudy’s Country Store and Bar-B-Q restaurant traveled to Joplin, Mo., to aid the devastated city
ALYSSA GRIMELYThe Oklahoma Daily
When the general manager of Rudy’s Country Store and Bar-B-Q, a store employee and the store’s area director took 80 pounds of barbecue to Joplin, Mo., to feed police officers, they were unprepared for the sheer amount of destruction.
“As we pulled into town, I thought, we’d seen this on the news, but that didn’t do it justice,” Rudy’s employee Mike Greenleaf said.
Joplin, Mo., was hit by an EF5 tornado on May 23 that killed more than 150 people and devastated the city. The Rudy’s team headed to Joplin July 8, more than a month after the tornado struck the city.
As the team began distributing food and talking to the officers, they found out more and more of what the community lost, Greenleaf said.
“We saw the town displaced, the community ripped apart,” Greenleaf said.
Area Director Doug Vydrzal said the police officers were very appre-ciative of the team’s efforts.
“It was amazing that we were able to help them out,” Vydrzal said.In addition to the 80 pounds of barbecue, Rudy’s donated $7,500 to the
Joplin chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police, Vydrzal said.Mike Chapman, Rudy’s General Manager, said he decided to provide
aid for the Joplin police because the police were in need.Joplin needed help, so Rudy’s provided it, Chapman said.Greenleaf said he and Chapman performed a similar act for the police
officers of Moore after the May 3 tornado in 1999. Greenleaf said that in both cases, he and Chapman were playing only
a small part in the relief effort.
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KEEPING IT FRESH: MARKET OFFERS LOCAL GOODS
CASEY WILLIAMS/THE DAILYLisa Dooley wraps produce for a customer on July 9 during the Cleveland County Fairgrounds Farmers’ Market. Norman residents can visit the market to find fresh produce and goods produced by local farmers. The market takes place every Wednesday and Saturday from April to the last Saturday of October. The next market will begin Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon.
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SOONERS ON WORLD STAGEPair of OU softball players to compete in Women’s World Cup
EDITORIAL
COLUMN
Coburn’s plan a bold moveOur View: Tom Coburn’s proposed deficit reduction plan won’t pass, but it’s a good step.
On Monday, Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., released a deficit reduction plan that would save $9 trillion dur-ing the next 10 years.
His plan easily qualifies as the most am-bitious of all deficit-reduction plans being discussed, but it’s sad none of our politi-cians are actively discussing its content with Americans or each other.
There’s a lot in Coburn’s plan not to like. The cuts to social security, Medicare and Medicaid are painful. Medicare and Medicaid would lose $2.6 trillion by shifting costs from the government to the people, according to Politico.
For OU students, the big news about this plan is it seeks to end most federal student loans. Last year alone, 15 million college students took advantage of loan programs that this plan would cut, according to ThinkProgress.org.
Cutting from education, as we have argued in the past, is its own financial burden. Poor education in the U.S. creates a deficit much more difficult to fix than the one we’re dealing with now.
That said, there is a lot to like about this plan. It proposes to cut $1 trillion from the Pentagon and will raise a trillion more by cutting corporate tax loopholes such as ethanol subsidies.
Both these moves deserve a great deal of praise, especially coming from a politician with such strong conservative credentials.
But Coburn’s plan will not pass. The cuts to mili-tary spending and corporate tax loopholes won’t be supported by most Republicans, and the cuts to welfare programs won’t be supported by most Democrats. But it does have the potential to change the conversation about reducing the deficit.
We need to start asking whether we can afford our foreign policies, and Republicans need to realize tax increases are a necessary and fair part of any deficit-reduction plan.
Coburn’s plan makes meaningful con-tributions to both of those ends. Pointing out the potential savings that can be gained by cutting military spending will hope-fully start an overdue conversation about
whether we can afford to be dropping bombs in six different countries at the same time (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia and Libya).
Coburn’s proposed tax revenue, on the other hand, gives conservative Republicans cover to allow more revenue to be collected through taxes.
Coburn has acknowledged his plan can’t be passed. It’s sad our political climate allows a politi-cian to work hard to enrich the debate on deficit reduction only to know ahead of time all his efforts won’t even be discussed.
We applaud Coburn’s willingness to take on the tough topics of defense spending and corporate tax breaks. He also deserves credit for being willing to cross party lines. Washington could use more of that kind of attitude.
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OPINION[Gov.] Rick Perry jogs with a laser-sighted pistol strapped to his arm. In Texas, guns are also MP3 players.”
STEPHEN COLBERT (“The Colbert Report,” Tuesday)
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Google Plus is, in many ways, defined in opposition to Facebook. While Facebook has become known for its re-markably blasé attitude to user privacy, Google Plus has emphasized the privacy its users ostensibly enjoy.
In a broader sense, Google Plus attracts the many people who have been roped into using Facebook by its ubiquity despite their frustration with Facebook.
Google Plus is fast, simple and trustworthy, just like the rest of the Google brand.
The public impression of Google is a unique company that defies corporate stereotypes. As Google’s statement of principles says, “You can make money without doing evil.”
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New advances in technology lift audio libraries onto Internet
JAMES CORLEYThe Oklahoma Daily
The abacus was trumped by the calculator, the cal-culator was trumped by the computer, the computer was trumped by the Internet and the Internet was trumped by... the cloud?
The newest fad in infor-mation technology is cloud computing, which is stor-ing information on a server somewhere you’ll never see that gives you access to your information anywhere you have an Internet connection. No more emailing docu-ments to yourself or wishing you had more space on your MP3-enabled phone.
The business applica-tions of cloud computing
MUSIC TECHNOLOGY BOOKS
Cloud options vary in services
ILLUSTRATION PROVIDEDThe next technological step in consuming music is moving to cloud computing and storage.
are numerous, allowing co-workers to share documents, spreadsheets and lists easier than ever before, but the cloud is making the most impact on music.
G o o g l e, A m a z o n a n d Apple have all scrambled to
join the cloud fun over the last year, pushing out Web storage and streaming prod-ucts that all seem compara-ble on the outside but have different features on the in-side. However, a few notable underdogs are entering this
horse race against the tech-giant trio.
So how would one choose the best cloud music ser-vice from among the bunch? Measure the pros and cons yourself using the informa-tion below.
Amazon Cloud Drive Apple iCloud Dropbox Google Music Sony Qriocity Spotify
Availability
Cost (monthly)
Other features
Storage
Streamable*
Music
Mobile apps
Open
Free to $1,000
Music purchased on Amazon does not count against storage; unlimited
storage with all plaid plans for
one year
5-1,000 GB
Yes
Purchased/ user-provided
Android
Fall
Free to $25
Music purchased on iTunes does
not count against storage; syncs
purchases across all Macs/
iDevices
5 GB+
No
Purchased
iOS
Open
Free to $20
Includes public folder for
sharing with non-Dropbox
users
2-100 GB
Limited
User-provided
Android/iOS
Beta — Invite Only
Free (for now)
Fully integrated into Android
devices
20,000 songs
Yes
User-provided
Android
Open
$4-10
Access to deep music catalogue; streams to BRAVIA TVs,
Blu-ray players, PS3s
Yes
Matching service**
Invite-only
Free to $10
Access to deep music
catalogue; share music with
friends; ads with free streaming subscription
Yes
Matchingservice**
Android/iOS
*Plays on quali� ed, Web-ready devices over the Internet**Scans user’s computer for music and matches with online database for streaming
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[Gov.] Rick Perry jogs with a laser-sighted [Gov.] Rick Perry jogs with a laser-sighted pistol strapped to his arm. In Texas, guns pistol strapped to his arm. In Texas, guns are also MP3 players.”
STEPHEN COLBERT
Schools may be jails, author saysJournalist Annette Fuentes new book takes a look at how schoolhouses may represent jailhouses
High-tech surveillance. Metal detectors. Zero tolerance for, well, just about any bad behavior, real or overblown.
Welcome to “Lockdown High,” the title of a sweeping new book by journalist Annette Fuentes, describing how the schoolhouse has become a jailhouse and fear prevails.
Dating to Ronald Reagan’s war on drugs launched near-ly three decades ago, fueled by campus shootings and the 9/11 terrorist attacks, “preoccupation with security and vi-olence are particularly acute when it comes to children and teenagers,” she writes.
But a paradox exists, Fuentes argues, and it goes like this: “Children are con-sidered both potential vic-tims, vulnerable to dangers from every corner, and per-petrators of great violence and mayhem, demanding strict, preventive discipline.”
After the 1999 tragedy at Columbine High, where two students fatally shot 13 peo-ple and themselves, youth became Public Enemy No. 1 and the “criminalizing trends in juvenile justice that were swirling in the 1990s were by then flooding into public schools.” It came, ironi-cally, at a time when school violence and juvenile crime had actually begun to subside, Fuentes writes.
She dedicates an entire chapter to Columbine, which opted not to install metal detectors or turn itself into a for-tress after the campus rampage.
“The Columbine scenario is terrifying, but the odds of it occurring in your hometown are about one in two million,” Fuentes notes, citing a joint study in 2000 by the Justice Policy Institute and the Children’s Law Center.
She points out guns are by no means rampant in schools, and kids who bring weapons in are always suspended.
The bigger problem is an epidemic of “suspensions for discretionary reasons,” unrelated to serious crimes like weapons possession, Fuentes said. These suspensions, she contends, have become an easy way to squeeze out low-achieving kids amid the pressures of high-stakes testing.
In another chapter, Fuentes highlights a gaggle of “prof-iteers” looking to make money from schools by peddling everything from identification systems like radio frequen-cy tags and retinal scanners to background checks against sex-offender lists.
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There is a good chance that Lady Luck could intervene on your behalf in the year ahead, and help you fi nally achieve something you failed at numerous times in the past. Thus, it is important you keep on plugging toward your goals.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- Try-ing to help out another while at the same time attempting to do your own job is likely to turn out to be a bummer for both of you, as you lose track of which project you’re working on.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- You’re not likely to take kindly to those who oppose your opinions or ideas. If this is the case, you’re apt to turn your back on some really good thinking that could help you out a lot.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Be very careful about who you team up with. If you link up with some-one who doesn’t operate with the same high standards as you, this person could create trouble.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Owing to an inclination to negatively judge people in advance, you could easily begin a relationship thinking the worst of someone. It’s a sure way to cut your own throat and turn your back on a nice person.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Adopting the wrong attitude will defeat you right off the bat. All you’ll do is unjustly jaundice your view of everyone and everything.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Just because a friend of yours is in a mood that makes him or her diffi cult to get along with at this
point in time, there’s no reason to shun this person altogether. Let him or her be human.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Once you establish an objective, you’re apt be quite headstrong when going after it, which is well and good, as long as you don’t carry it too far. Be moderate, above all things.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- If you’re looking for some encouragement, don’t seek out the opinions of someone who seldom endorses another person’s ideas. All you’ll get is a negative assessment that’ll discourage you.
PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- Be careful about borrowing money that you could have trouble paying back, and avoid loaning out what you can’t afford to lose. In either case, it is likely to be problematical for you.
ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- Your self-suffi cient qualities might desert you and, as a result, you could wrongfully depend on others to accomplish your aims. You won’t like what they do, nor will you relish the results.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Although you’re usually pretty effi cient, this could be one of those days when everything you do seems harder or comes out all wrong. If this is the case, put off these jobs until another time.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Trying too hard to please someone will result in no one having a good time. Relax and let the chips fall where they may. Even if things still don’t go well, you’ll be able to laugh.
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Copyright 2011, Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
ACROSS 1 “___ of Two
Cities” 6 Slight 10 Die spots 14 Went down-
hill 15 Aaron
Spelling’s daughter
16 Not worth ___ (worth-less)
17 Employee who rarely takes off
19 Pung or coaster
20 “I know what you’re think-ing” gift
21 Fifth tone 22 Orderly
methods 24 Cavalry
member 27 Polite bow 28 Ric of The
Cars 30 Alvin of
dance 32 Asocial type 33 Baby bird of
prey 34 Wall,
Sesame and Easy (Abbr.)
37 Writer’s block break-through
38 “Patton” props
39 Word shouted at a thief
40 Yiddish exclamations
41 Baseball quartet
42 Calligra-pher’s stroke
43 Schoolbooks 44 Airborne
Rangers gear
45 Japanese mat
48 Attack from the air
50 Welcoming or parting gesture
52 Animal in a sty
53 Capote, on Broadway
56 Company that makes Easter egg coloring kits
57 Kids’ “earn-ings”
60 “To Live and Die ___” (1985 movie)
61 “The Beverly Hillbillies” regular
62 Princes in disguise?
63 Pickle choice 64 Sharp rebuff 65 BlooperDOWN 1 “___ forgive
those who trespass against us”
2 Some boxing outcomes
3 Hangar contents
4 Albanian cur-rency
5 “Mary Tyler Moore” co-star
6 Shoplifted 7 Lon of Cam-
bodia 8 “The Haj”
author 9 Five or
10-speeds 10 Danish 11 Dot in the
sea 12 Romantic
recitals 13 Producing
lather 18 Sell to a
pawn shop 23 Tallow ingre-
dient 25 Where blue-
jackets go 26 Crude quality 28 Edible
hodgepodge 29 Buffalo Bill
of the Wild West
31 Types 33 Brewery
fixture 34 Vehicle for
Blanche DuBois
35 “Hop ___!” (“Get go-ing!”)
36 Ratings on sunscreen bottles (Abbr.)
38 They may be hailed when
it hails 39 Bondservant 41 Speaker’s
platform 42 Channel to
the ocean 43 Pertaining to
the ankle 44 Forehead
feature 45 Moderately
warm 46 “... never met
___ didn’t like” (Rogers)
47 Future little leaguer’s game
49 Village of yore
51 Carrier to Jerusalem
54 Change decorations
55 “Back in the ___” (Beat-les)
58 Pasture 59 Here-there
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Softball added to shortlist for consideration for 2020 Olympics
The International Olympic Committee recently added softball to the shortlist of sports that may be admitted in the 2020 Olympic Games. The final vote for the 2020 games takes place in 2013.
“Softball brings so much to the Olympic movement,” said Don Porter, International Softball Federation president, in a press release. “We know that the IOC wants a sport whose best athletes will compete at the Games.”
Team USA coach Ken Eriksen applauded the ISF’s efforts to return softball to the Olympic stage.
“I don’t think these guys go to sleep without having done something that day to get us back into the 2020 Olympics,” Eriksen said.
Softball was taken out of the Olympics after 2008. The sport first entered the Games in 1996.
— RJ Young/The Daily
Former Sooner to compete against Team USA at World Cup
Former Sooner Jessica Legendre also will play in the World Cup of Softball as a member of Great Britain’s softball team. She started at third base for Oklahoma in 2008 and hit .216 for the season.
— RJ Young/The Daily
For the longest time, the U.S. has been the best in a wide array of things — ath-letics, politics, military, you name it.
But now times are chang-ing. The US of A is no longer the sole great superpower in the world, and to be hon-est, many don’t even con-sider America to be No. 1 anymore.
It didn’t help the public’s sentiment when the heavily-favored U.S. soccer team lost the World Cup final to Japan in penalty kicks on Sunday.
There has been growing discontentment about how America’s dominance in pro-fessional sports, particularly golf and tennis, is waning.
On the men’s side, tennis is controlled by the big four of Rafael Nadal (Spain), Roger Federer (Switzerland), Novak Djokovic (Serbia) and Andy Murray (UK). The top U.S. player, Mardy Fish, checks in at No. 8 with Andy Roddick trailing at No. 10.
It has been since 2003 that a U.S. player won a Grand Slam tournament.
Golf has been nothing short of a crapshoot, but in a very positive way. The past 11 majors have seen 11 different winners. All of these young players are great for golf. However, the highest-ranked U.S. player is Steve Stricker at No. 5, and the U.S. has only won four of the past 14 major
championships.Women’s golf is a little
brighter. Cristie Kerr stands at No. 2 in the world, but the rest of the top 10 is pretty much dominated by those of Asian descent (six to be exact).
The women’s tennis rank-ings are a disaster zone for the U.S. — the highest-ranked American player is No. 31. That’s never a good thing.
Thank goodness for the Williams sisters, Venus and Serena, who have been the only U.S. players to win a
Grand Slam since Jennifer Capriati at the Australian Open in 2002.
From some people’s reac-tions to all of this, you would think someone had planned to cancel Christmas.
Two things here.One, it’s really not that bad.
Sure, there isn’t an American ranked No. 1 in any of these sports, but when they’re competing against the rest of the world, Americans in the top 10 are pretty special.
Two, since when does the
U.S. have to have the best player in every sport or be the best at everything it does?
Golf, tennis and soccer aren’t even American sports. The modern game of golf originated in Scotland, and tennis originally began in France, but the modern game ripened in Great Britain.
In soccer, the U.S. struggles and just can’t seem to get over the hump to be an elite team on the global stage.
So the country is bad at something. Whoop-de-doo.
I’ll bet the same people who want the U.S. to be the best at everything are the same who think there is no other country that comes close to the U.S. in economic power or overall authority.
If you want to be the best, you have to play the best and beat them.
U.S. athletes just aren’t doing a whole lot of that right now.
— Luke McConnell,journalism senior
MARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ/APUnited States goalkeeper Hope Solo reacts after the U.S. lost the final match between Japan and the United States at the Women’s Soccer World Cup on Sunday in Frankfurt, Germany. The U.S. lost in penalty kicks.
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U.S. doesn’t always have to be the best
Sooner pair to take world stage with USA SoftballRicketts, Shults join Team USA for World Cup of Softball this week in OKC
RJ YOUNGThe Oklahoma Daily
World Cup of Softball kicks off at 7 p.m. tonight in Oklahoma City for Team USA as it seeks to win its fifth in six years.
This year’s team is full of new faces, including two members of the OU soft-ball team — juniors Keilani Ricketts and Jessica Shults.
Ricketts is coming off a s t e l l a r s e a s o n a s t h e Sooners’ ace in which she set a single-season record for strikeouts (452) and was awarded first-team All-American honors.
The six-foot-two-inch ju-nior said she is looking for-ward to competing against the world’s best fastpitch softball players in what is the sport’s largest stage.
“It’s really exciting to be here. It ’s the World Cup tournament, the capital of world softball.” Ricketts said. “Hopefully we’ll be getting a lot of OU fans out here.”
Shults shares Ricketts’ en-thusiasm about playing so close to the city where they play college softball.
“Having the opportunity to play [in Oklahoma City] is just really exciting,” Shults
said. “I’m excited to be back on the field again and play-ing with my best friend.”
Shults made the team as an alternate after booking one of the more spectacu-lar first halves to a collegiate softball season in recent memory, also earning first team All-American honors.
But late in the postseason, Shults contracted a previ-ously undisclosed illness she later attributed to an
inflammatory bowel disease called ulcerative colitis.
Over the last two months of the Sooners’ collegiate season, Shults lost nearly 25 pounds and the ability to help her teammates on the field.
“ I t w a s t o u g h g o i n g through what I went through, but my teammates helped pick me up,” Shults said.
In the past, Team USA c o a c h Ke n Er i k s e n ha s
coached players from the same school who play on the same team at the same time, and he said having Ricketts and Shults on the team has not been an issue for Team USA. His only expectation for the team is to win.
“ I c a n ’ t e v e n s a y t h e L-word ( lose),” Er iksen said. “If you tell me we’re not going to win, just tell me what game it is so I won’t show up.”
COLLIN SIMS/THE DAILYCatcher Jessica Shults (left) and pitcher Keilani Ricketts (right) talk with OU associate head coach Melyssa Lombardi during a game last season. The juniors will compete as first-timers with Team USA at the World Cup of Softball, which starts today in Oklahoma City.
Home games against national powers Ohio State and Connecticut highlight the nonconference schedule for Oklahoma’s women’s basketball team next season.
The Sooners announced the schedule Wednesday. Oklahoma opens the season Nov. 13 at home against Sacramento State before visiting New Mexico on Nov. 19.
Oklahoma will play in a tournament at Vanderbilt on Nov. 25-26 before hosting Ohio State on Dec. 4. The Sooners then will visit Fresno State on Dec. 8 before hosting Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Dec. 11.
From Dec. 18-20, the Sooners will face Ohio, Syracuse and Xavier in the Duel in the Desert in Las Vegas. Oklahoma will host Texas Christian on Dec. 28 and Connecticut on Feb. 13.
OU will also host the first two rounds of the NCAA women’s tournament on March 18 and March 20.
— AP
Sooner women release tough 2011 schedule
JOHN CLANTON/APMembers of the U.S. softball team sign autographs Tuesday at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City.
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