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By Alaa Abdeldaiem | @Abdeldaiem_Alaa Sports Capital Journalism Program LOS ANGELES –– It was time to make an appearance. Baker Mayfield had missed all non-football activities with the Oklahoma Sooners over the last three days due to illness, and he was prepared to miss another. But when the Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback turned on the television …

By Alaa Abdeldaiem | @Abdeldaiem_Alaa Sports Capital Journalism Program LOS ANGELES –– He sat, a picture of calm and composure in the midst of a media frenzy, fielding questions he knew to expect. It has been two weeks since Rodney Anderson was told he wouldn’t face charges after a woman accused him of sexual assault …

By Sarah Bahr | @smbahr14 Sports Capital Journalism Program LOS ANGELES — He’s as tall as three-and-a-half Rose Bowl trophies. He weighs as much as a giant panda. He can cover 80 yards in the time it takes to view a single snap. He’s missed fewer tackles this season than the margin of error in …

It is a truth universally acknowledged that lobster rolls taste better when consumed at sunset on the Malibu coast. After a day that started at 8 a.m. with Georgia and Oklahoma press conferences, my Sports Capital Journalism Program colleague Alaa Abdeldaiem and I finished our first stories with enough time to squeeze in a surfside …

By Sarah Bahr | @smbahr14 Sports Capital Journalism Program LOS ANGELES — In Georgia offensive coordinator Jim Chaney’s dreams, Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield’s cream pants are spotless as a clergyman’s cassock. His helmet gleams in the Southern California sunshine. His cleats? Marshmallow-white. In Chaney’s fantasy, Oklahoma’s one-man offensive juggernaut never sees the field, throwing for …

By Alaa Abdeldaiem | @Abdeldaiem_Alaa Sports Capital Journalism Program LOS ANGELES –– Ogbonnia Okoronkwo is tired of hearing it. The senior defensive end is facing a Southeastern Conference opponent in a bowl game for the second straight year, and as his Oklahoma Sooners prepare to take on Georgia at the Rose Bowl Game presented by …

I still remember the day fondly, sitting on my couch on one blazing Arizona summer day. Fall courses of the final semester of my undergrad career at Arizona State University were set to begin. I was coming to a crossroads, not sure where to go or what to do next.  Grad school was a thought …

Although the 2016 Final Four in Houston was my first experience as a member of the media during the event, it was not my first encounter at the Final Four. That was back in 2006, when I was a 13-year old basketball fanatic. The Final Four came to Indianapolis, and as a basketball-crazed boy in …

By Cameron Stewart |@ThatManCam Sports Capital Journalism Program HOUSTON — Villanova senior Daniel Ochefu couldn’t stand still. In front of his locker after the Wildcats’ shocking 95-51 victory over Oklahoma, the most one-sided national semifinal game in history, the combination of exuberance and shock wouldn’t allow his oversized limbs to stop fidgeting.  “I definitely was …

Sports Capital Journalism Program By Jay Smith | @_SmithJ_ North Carolina is set to face off against Syracuse on Saturday in the Final Four.  Carolina enters as the prohibitive favorite to cut down the nets, while Syracuse enters in a position you don’t hear a program with the prominence of the ‘Cuse usually fall under, the …