Oklahoma has ruled the Big 12 Conference for four years running because of a logic-defying consistency. Whether Bob Stoops or Lincoln Riley, Baker Mayfield or Kyler Murray, the Sooners have dominated the league since 2015 with a 33-3 record. Oklahoma State, with 13 losses, has been second-best in that stretch. Chief rival Texas had 16 losses in those four seasons. MORE: SN’s pre-preseason rankings for 2019 Ho hum. It’s another new day in Norman, and Alabama transfer Jalen Hurts is already regarded among the favorites to land in New York City as a Heisman candidate....

Governor Kevin Stitt and Dr. Mary Clarke, president of the Oklahoma State Medical Association (OSMA), lauded the ruling. OSMA is part of a lawsuit filed by four parents challenging the law banning mandates signed by Stitt. Judge Natalie Mai plans to issue a temporary injunction, which will take effect next week when she issues the written order. Her ruling was based on the reasoning that the law applies only to public, not private, schools and that schools that impose mandates must allow parents or students to opt out....

Gundy believes he can start getting ready for a 2020 football season—if it actually happens—within the next three or four weeks, according to a teleconference Tuesday with reporters. “How fast that can happen based on the tests that are available, I can’t say right now, but that’s the plan,” Gundy said in this ESPN report. “We have to have a plan, and the plan right now is for them to start on May 1....

The basic issues are clear enough. There will have to be some sort of formal arrangement to promote stability in the gulf. There will have to be arms agreements to forestall blackmail by countries possessing nuclear or other unconventional weapons, or huge armies. The Israeli-Palestinian wound will have to be salved. And, to deprive future Saddams of an issue, the wide gap between the haves and the have-nots of the Arab world will have to be narrowed....

Sources told ESPN.com the biggest hurdle in the investigations is a loaner car Tunsil received from Cannon Motors in Oxford, Miss. Tunsil allegedly kept the rental for too long after he got his own car back from a repair shop. The NCAA has deemed that an impermissible benefit, ESPN.com reported. MORE: Week 2 in photos | NCAA investigators question Tunsil’s stepfather Cannon Motors is a corporate sponsor of the Ole Miss athletic department....

The play is based Matthew Shepard, an openly gay student at the University of Wyoming, who was killed in 1998 in Laramie, Wyo., because he was gay. The play's director and theater faculty member Rory Ledbetter told The Daily Mississippian that members in the audience heckled cast members and used homophobic slurs during the show. He called it "borderline hate speech." MORE: First-and-10 | Week 6 picks | Top 25 schedule...

Tunsil was asked about accepting gifts after his Instagram account was hacked to display images of a text conversation — between himself asked Ole Miss assistant athletic director John Miller — in which he asked for money to pay rent and his mother’s $305 utility bill. His Instagram account has since been deleted, but Ole Miss confirmed those texts did happen, according to ESPN.com. MORE: Dolphins’ plans to help rookies like Tunsil already better than NFL’s...

TikTok user @booyouwh0relmao shared the video to her account, which showed the screen of the restaurant’s seating system. “We just got a table for 91…,” read the text over the video. Taking to the comments section, many viewers wrote that they hoped the servers were tipped well, while others questioned why such a large group would choose to eat at a restaurant. According to Taste of Home, a large group of people planning to dine out is encouraged to plan ahead of time....

Charles Oliveira (30-8-1, eight KOs) and Michael Chandler (22-5, 10 KOs) will vie for a significant payday and supremacy in the lightweight division as its Nos. 3- and 4-ranked fighters, respectively. That’s especially impressive for Chandler, who is fighting under the UFC flag for just the second time after moving on from Bellator. He is on a current three-win streak, all via knockout, heading into his bout vs. Oliveira....

“I’m probably best known for being an influencer,” the 21-year-old said during Monday night’s premiere of the long-running dancing competition series. However, many viewers of course disagree with this statement, with Giannulli perhaps being most famous for her role in the college admissions scandal that saw her mother, Lori Laughlin, serve time in prison. Giannulli is the daughter of former Full House star Loughlin and designer Mossimo Giannulli, who both served prison sentences for their part in the college admissions scandal....

MORE: 31 Greatest American Olympians | Rio Games TV schedule The app is available for 99 cents on both Android and Apple platforms and includes the 18-time gold medalist doing everything from playing beach volleyball to cuddling a koala. And, of course, swimming. Phelps may be the most decorated Olympian of all time, but these emojis may end up being what kids know him for 20 years from now. 

Fans in Moscow are still pretty, pretty angry at referee (and Dayton, Ohio native) Brad Meier. MORE: Olympic hockey schedule: U.S. plays at noon Wednesday No word on whether they built a statue of Meier in Red Square, simply to tear it down. It was Meier, remember, who ruled that Fedor Tyutin's potential go-ahead goal on Saturday didn't count; the net behind Jonathan Quick had come off its moorings. A little later, we'd all watched The T....

Media members will be tested for COVID-19 twice before traveling and undergo more tests once they arrive in Japan, Muto said. Additionally, journalists will have to sign a “pledge” to abide by the health and safety guidelines put in place for them, such as a limitation on free movement during the two-week quarantine. “If any violations are found, measures such as suspension or deprivation of accreditation and deportation proceedings will be strictly applied,” Muto said....

In the women’s tournament, Canada shocked Sweden in a penalty-kick shootout to win the gold medal, while the USA finished strong and claimed the bronze against Australia in a wild 4-3 game. The men’s gold-medal match was close to needing a penalty-kick shootout, but Brazil scored a winner deep into extra time to beat Spain 2-1. Mexico handled host Japan, 3-1 to claim the bronze. Men’s Olympic Soccer Tournament Malcom scored the extra-time game-winner on a counterattack as Brazil beat Spain for the gold....

Working against Doha are factors it cannot control, like the consensus among people who gossip about host-city horse races that 2016 is the Western Hemisphere’s “turn” after what will have been 20 years of unfriendly time zones. And with security the biggest and ever-escalating expense, it might be difficult to persuade IOC delegates to put the Games so close to Iran. (The last time the region made a push was Tehran’s campaign for the 1984 Games....

Onstage, all of Disney’s iconic characters had gathered, and we were told that our dancers will be moving and grooving to Disney music tonight. “From the ‘if the shoe fits wear it department’,” according to host Tom Bergeron, was Sailor Brinkley Cook, who would be dancing the Viennese waltz to “A Dream is a Wish your Heart Makes” from Cinderella. Bruno Tonioli took a moment to tell us all about the Viennese waltz, and Sailor was excited to dance to the song, which was a classic of her childhood—she was a huge Disney fan....

Dubbed the “Russian Facebook,” VKontakte (or VK) reported having 97 million monthly users. According to the company’s own figures, VK hosts 90 percent of internet users in Russia. Ukraine has banned VKontakte—among other Russian online platforms—since 2017, citing concerns over Russian cyberattacks. Last month, Vladimir Kiriyenko—the CEO of VKontakte’s parent company VK Group—was targeted for sanctions by the U.S. Treasury Department as part of “elites and families” close to Russian President Vladimir Putin....

First there was Bush’s 45-car motorcade to Ramallah, where he held hands with a beaming Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at his headquarters but didn’t leave many other smiling faces in his wake. That was followed by an “aircade” of Marine choppers into Bethlehem, where townspeople were frozen in place by their own Palestinian police, who raised guns at them in alleyways, while Bush took his time touring the grotto where Jesus was allegedly born....