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Twitter Reacts: Oklahoma athletic director announces plans for Patty Gasso statue

At the Oklahoma Sooners national championship celebration, OU Athletic Director Joe Castiglione announced plans for a statue honoring Patty Gasso in 2024.

We are witnessing a living legend at the helm of Oklahoma Sooners softball. Patty Gasso just won her seventh national title, sixth in the last 10 years and third in a row in an historic season for the Sooners.

She was already the highest-paid coach in collegiate softball, helping not only build a dynasty in Norman but grow the sport of softball nationally. Now, the living legend will be immortalized.

Speaking at the Oklahoma Sooners national championship celebration, Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castiglione shared the University of Oklahoma will build a statue for Gasso in 2024.

“And I get emails and social media posts and people stopping me. ‘When are we going to dedicate a statue for Patty Gasso?”‘ Castiglione said. “So, y’all, we do things, you try to keep it secret for a while, but you just won’t let us keep a secret. So tonight, I’m just breaking it out. We’re gonna have a statue for coach Gasso next year!”

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“We have built a program for the ages on the rock that Patty Gasso brought to Oklahoma, so it’s only going to be fitting that we’re gonna have a statue for coach Gasso next year,” Castiglione said.

When she finally took to the podium, coach Gasso struggled to find the words. “I’m honored,” the legendary coach said as she choked back tears Saturday night during a celebration of the Sooners’ latest national title. “It’s the first time you guys can be silent. I haven’t heard you so silent.”

The Sooners plan to play their first home game of 2024 in the new Love’s Field, which could also be dubbed, “The House that Patty Built.” Presumably, when the Sooners move into their new digs, there will be an attraction outside honoring their living legend.

Bennie Owen, Bud Wilkinson, Barry Switzer and Bob Stoops helped create the legend that is Oklahoma Sooners football, Gasso is the architect of Oklahoma Sooners softball.

While she’d tell you it’s the players that are the foundation of the team, and that’s true, there’s been one constant at the head of the table for this program during its seven national titles and countless Big 12 championships. And that’s Gasso.

Here are some of the best reactions from Twitter.

Twitter reacts to Oklahoma’s 5-0 Women’s College World Series win over Florida State

Jordy Bahl and the Oklahoma Sooners had Twitter buzzing with their 5-0 win over the Florida State Seminoles to take a 1-0 WCWS championship series lead.

Not even the Oklahoma weather can slow the Sooners, who picked up their 52nd consecutive win to take Game 1 of the Women’s College World Series championship.

Their 5-0 win over Florida State was a dominant pitching performance from Jordy Bahl, who improved to 22-1. Bahl recorded 10 strikeouts and allowed two hits and a walk in the epic performance.

In addition to her pitching, Bahl helped the Sooners get on the board in the fourth inning, scoring from first on Kinzie Hansen’s RBI double.

Bahl still hasn’t allowed a run in the Women’s College World Series and hasn’t allowed a run in her last 24.2 innings pitched. It was her second shutout in a week. She blanked Stanford, 2-0, and also had double-digit strikeouts (11).

After being limited in the 2022 postseason due to a shoulder injury, Bahl has roared through the NCAA tournament and taken her game to another level in the Women’s College World Series.

In addition to Bahl’s performance, the Sooners received clutch at-bats from Kinzie Hansen, who had a pair of RBIs to continue her incredible postseason run. She’s hitting .500 in the NCAA Tournament with three home runs and 13 RBIs.

The Sooners are 60-1 and one win away from their third straight national championship.

Here’s how social media reacted to the win.

Twitter reacts to Michigan football landing UMass transfer Josh Wallace

Love this addition! #GoBlue

Michigan already had eight players coming to Ann Arbor via the transfer portal for the 2023 season. But Jim Harbaugh and the Wolverines weren’t quite done adding to their already stout transfer class.

On Wednesday morning, former UMass captain and starting cornerback, Josh Wallace, announced he would play his final collegiate season in Ann Arbor with Michigan.

By getting Wallace, Michigan tremendously improves its depth at the only position of need. The maize and blue return starters Will Johnson and Mike Sainristil, but the Wolverines are rather raw at the corner spot. It appeared either converted wide receiver Amorion Walker or Ja’Den McBurrows would start opposite of Johnson. Although one of them still can, the addition of Wallace gives the coaches a safety net.

During his four seasons at UMass, Wallace totaled 140 tackles, seven tackles for loss, three interceptions, and 28 pass breakups. The veteran corner had a stellar 2022 football season. He had 41 tackles, two interceptions and 28 pass breakups in his senior season with the Minutemen.

After the big addition to the secondary, Michigan Twitter went nuts. Here are the best reactions we could find after Wallace announced his decision.

Twitter reacts to Michigan State, Washington game to be played on Peacock

Twitter reacts to Michigan State football’s game against Washington being moved to Peacock

Michigan State and Washington’s week three contest was one of the most anticipated games on the Spartans schedule heading into the 2023 season. That feeling has changed for some Spartan fans.

It has been released that the two teams are going to square off at 5 p.m. EST exclusively on NBC’s streaming platform, Peacock, much to many fans dismay.

Check out how Twitter is reacting to this schedule update:

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Twitter reacts to Kendall Diggs’ walk-off homer lifting Hogs over Aggies in SEC Tourney

Arkansas baseball fans took to social media following Diggs’ walk-off homer. Here’s what they’re saying about Wednesday’s dramatic win in the SEC Tournament.

It took extra innings, but Arkansas baseball was able to get past the Texas A&M Aggies 6-5 to advance in the SEC Tournament. They’ll advance to take on the No. 5 LSU Tigers at 4:30 tomorrow.

The Diamond Hogs got off to a very slow start offensively on Wednesday, and dug themselves in a decently large hole. But the Razorbacks were able to do what they’ve done numerous times already this season – get big hits from the top of their lineup in crunch time.

Arkansas didn’t have a lead until the bottom of the seventh inning when [autotag]Jared Wegner[/autotag] hit a bomb into left field for a grand slam. It was his 13th of the season and put the Hogs up 5-4. They wouldn’t trail the rest of the game.

“Offensively we struggled a little bit. I felt like we started taking better at-bats the second half,” [autotag]Dave Van Horn[/autotag] said after the game. “We were down four runs or three runs, and we had a catcher’s interference, a walk in there, and then Jared [Wegner] got him a fastball in, and I’m sure he was hunting it after his previous at-bat, and he got it and he didn’t miss it.”

[autotag]Kendall Diggs[/autotag] was able to do what he has done countless times at Arkansas, and put an end to things in the 11th inning. Diggs went deep into right field for a solo walk-off home run – his 11th homer on the year.

“Exciting way to end the game,” said Van Horn. “Walk-off homer is about as good as it gets, and just proud of the guys for hanging in there.”

Arkansas’ win came in dramatic fashion and social media was on fire following the Diggs walk-off. Here’s what Razorbacks fans had to say about Wednesday’s win in Hoover.

Twitter reacts to Caleb Love decommitting to Michigan basketball

The second year in a row we have to deal with this.

Even after Michigan basketball lost Hunter Dickinson, Kobe Bufkin, and Jett Howard to the transfer portal and the NBA draft, the Wolverines would still be ok next season by adding three players themselves from the portal. The star being former Tar Heels guard Caleb Love.

But for the second year in a row, the Wolverines lost out on a transfer due to admissions. Last year, Texas Tech transfer Terrance Shannon appeared to be on track to transfer to Ann Arbor, but due to credits not coming over, he ended up playing for Illinois.

Fast forward an offseason, Caleb Love committed to play for Juwan Howard and Michigan, but reports are saying some of his credits wouldn’t transfer to Michigan, which resulted in Love decommitting from the Wolverines on Wednesday night.

Twitter went nuts after it was announced on Wednesday. Here is what some of the top names in the basketball world are saying about Caleb Love not being able to attend Michigan.

Social media reacts to Oklahoma Sooners 6-1 win over Texas to secure Big 12 tournament title

Best social media reacts to the Oklahoma Sooners 6-1 win over the Texas Longhorns to secure the Big 12 tournament title.

In their 6-1 win, the Oklahoma Sooners battled against two really good pitchers in Citlally Gutierrez and Estelle Czech to secure their fifth Big 12 tournament title in the last six seasons in their 6-1 win.

The top four hitters in Oklahoma’s lineup didn’t fair well, going 0-12, but it didn’t matter because the back end of the order showed off the Sooners’ depth. Haley Lee, Alyssa Brito, Kinzie Hansen, and Rylie Boone had RBIs, and Jordy Bahl scored a pair of runs to help the Sooners pick up the Big 12 championship sweep after their regular season title win.

It was a fantastic performance from Nicole May and Jordy Bahl, who allowed just one run on five hits and three walks on the day. Oklahoma showed off their hitting, pitching, and defensive prowess all weekend long and why they’re the favorite to win the national title again.

Now, the Sooners wait to hear who will join them in Norman for the regional round of the NCAA Tournament.

It was a beautiful day for softball in Norman and the crowds turned out like they do for the growing sport of collegiate softball.

With another trophy for the trophy case secured, here’s how social media reacted to the Oklahoma Sooners win over the Texas Longhorns.

Twitter reacts to Snyder & Harris agreement for Commanders sale

Some excellent reactions here.

On May 12, 2023, the Commanders announced that owners Daniel and Tanya Snyder have reached an agreement with Josh Harris regarding the sale of the Washington Commanders.

What was a month ago a non-exclusive agreement has now become exclusive. What was once a possibility now moves to the next phase of receiving the approval of the National Football League owners.

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Of course, there was much reaction on Twitter. Here is a sampling: