Oklahoma State wide receiver Dez Bryant is headed to the NFL.

The NCAA has rejected a final appeal to reinstate Dez Bryant and Oklahoma State has probably seen the last of its All-America receiver.

St. Gregory’s University’s soccer seasons — men’s and women’s — came to an end Tuesday in Shawnee.
The Cavaliers missed the postseason by one game, finishing up with a 7-9 overall record with a 1-0 win over Sooner Athletic Conference foe Oklahoma Christian. The victory put the Cavs at 4-5 against SAC opponents.

St. Gregory’s Cavaliers, coming off a 2-27 season, will attempt to snap a 15-game losing skid as they open their 2009-10 basketball campaign tonight.
The Cavs will face Paul Quinn University at 7 p.m. in Dallas, Texas.

Oklahoma Baptist will begin its women’s postseason soccer schedule at home Saturday against Rogers State.
Game time is 2 p.m.

Seminole State College’s Belles are 1-0 on the season after a 123-45 tripping of Oklahoma City’s junior varsity team Monday.
The Belles outscored the JV Lady Stars 51-19 in the first half, and 72-26 in the second half.
Leading SSC’s charge was Teshia Griswold with 20 points, including a 10-of-17 performance from three-point range.

Oklahoma Baptist secured a home field postseason berth with a 4-2 Sooner Athletic Conference win over Mid-America Christian University Tuesday.
Courtney Anderson put the Lady Bison on top 1-0 with her 19th goal of the season with an assist from Mengjun Zang 47 seconds into the match.

Bob Stoops is great friends with Nebraska coach Bo Pelini and even let Pelini’s brother stay at his house for an extended period while they worked together at Kansas State.
He grew up admiring from afar the rivalry the Cornhuskers had with Oklahoma, where he’d eventually be hired as the head coach.
But would he like to see the Huskers re-establish themselves as the marquee team in the Big 12 North?

St. Gregory’s University started the 2009-10 hoops season on a positive note as the Lady Cavaliers defeated visiting Central Baptist College 88-82 Monday night at W.P. Wood fieldhouse.
Sophomore Jalisa Howard led the Lady Cavs with 22 points, including a 6-of-7 showing at the foul line. Howard connected on eight or her 11 attempts from the field.
Allison Klick and Leticia Silva came off the SGU bench to contribute 17 points and 15 points, respectively, and Silva led the Lady Cavs in boards with eight.
Carletta Hernandez, also off the bench, added 11 points for St. Gregory’s. Klick hit five of six attempts from three-point range, and Lacey Craig had a 100-percent (2-of-2) night at the charity stripe.

Free tickets to Oklahoma Baptist University’s Opening Night basketball game are available at numerous Shawnee locations.
The game, which begins at 7 p.m., Friday, pits the fourth-ranked Bison against Dallas Christian College.

Oklahoma Baptist picked up its 26th and 27th volleyball wins of the season Saturday at Bethany College, moving this year’s team into second on the school’s season wins list.

Hoping to rebound from last year’s 1-28 disaster, St. Gregory’s women will open the 2009-2010 basketball campaign Monday night with a 7 p.m. home assignment versus Central Baptist at W.P. Wood Fieldhouse.

Five different Bison scored in Oklahoma Baptist’s 6-1 Sooner Athletic Conference men’s soccer victory at Wayland Baptist Friday.
OBU posted 21 shots, putting 10 on goal, with Andre Costa scoring twice.

Oklahoma State quarterback Zac Robinson honors his late grandfather on game day with two simple, encouraging words written on adhesive strips under his eyes: Press on.
The message could also refer to the struggles his team has faced this season.

Sometime in March, Oklahoma Baptist University could be capping off a masterpiece of a season, but the weeks before the season tips off, the canvas more resembles a jigsaw puzzle that may or may not have all the pieces.
OBU was 28-5 last season and reached the second round of the NAIA Tournament as the No. 2 team in the nation. With two key elements still working through college and immigration requirements, what could be another terrific team is now best described in the word ‘potential.’
“I don’t know for sure yet, how this group fits together,” said Bison coach Doug Tolin. “We’ve got a chance to be a really good team, but we’ll see as we get into the season. I like all of our parts, but we’ve got a long way to go as a team.”

St. Gregory’s University’s soccer teams earned their first Sooner Athletic Conference soccer victories over the weekend, defeating visiting Wayland Baptist.
The Lady Cavs posted a 2-1 overtime win to move to 4-10-1 overall and 1-6 in the SAC, while the Cavaliers registered a 9-0 shutout for a 5-9 season record and 1-5 SAC record.

Oklahoma Baptist sophomore Courtney Anderson produced two goals to tie the school season record with 14, but the Lady Bison suffered a 3-2 setback at the hands of Oklahoma City University in Shawnee Tuesday.
OBU trailed 2-0 on a pair of Sarah Leonard goals in the first 12:14 of the match.
Anderson scored in the 43rd minute with an assist from Lin Yan to make it a 2-1 game at halftime.
Anderson tied the record and the match just 4:20 into the second half with an assist from Kirsten Morrow.

As his teammates gathered around him in a show of support, Heisman Trophy winner Sam Bradford described the unanimous advice it took for him to enter the NFL draft and end his college career at Oklahoma that was the fulfillment of his childhood dreams.
“To make this decision and realize that I’ve probably played my last game at Oklahoma,” Bradford said, taking pause at the thought, “it’s really tough.”
Bradford was raised by a former Sooners lineman just up the interstate in Oklahoma City and he considered the team a fitting substitute for the pro sports franchise, the state lacked. He signed with Oklahoma as an unheralded recruit, only to win the starting quarterback’s job as a redshirt freshman and then have his career take off as a sophomore.
He broke the school records with 4,720 yards passing and 50 touchdowns en route to the Heisman Trophy and the BCS championship game a year ago, and it was a 24-14 loss to Florida in the title game that brought him back for another season for another shot.

Oklahoma Baptist’s basketball squads garnered lofty rankings in the NAIA Division I basketball coaches’ Top 25 preseason poll released Monday.
The women of head coach John McCullough are ranked third and the men of head coach Doug Tolin are ranked fourth.
Coming off a NAIA Fab Four, 32-5 season, the Lady Bison were the highest-ranked team without a first-place vote. OBU received 261 points in the poll.
Defending NAIA champion Union is ranked No. 1 with nine first-place votes and 280 poll points, followed by Vanguard with two first-place votes and 272 points in the poll.

Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy expects injured running back Kendall Hunter to have a limited role if he’s able to play at all Saturday against No. 3 Texas.
Hunter, an all-Big 12 selection as the league’s leading rusher a season ago, has missed the last five games for the 13th-ranked Cowboys (6-1, 3-0) after spraining his right ankle in the second game of the season.
He sat out last week’s win at Baylor despite being cleared to play.