Wednesday, July 26, 2023
Fall gardens created during summer Lauren King Staff Reporter Many gardeners get their hands dirtiest during the summer months; however, even though summer might be the busiest growing season, gardening is a year-round activity. Gardening is an activity that is good for the mind and creates fresh produce that benefits the body. Serving from garden to table can benefit families and allow gardeners to be proud of their own home-grown fresh fruits and vegetables. “It’s so satisfying growing some of the foods you serve at home,” said Oklahoma State University Extension consumer horticulturist David Hillock. “Planting a fall garden will enable families to enjoy those fresh flavors even longer. It is important that before the fall season arrives, gardeners decide what they want to plant and harvest during the fall before the first chill of the season, Hillock said. “People who garden develop an appreciation and a desire for fresh, nutritious fruits and vegetables,” Hillock said. “Some of the best quality
Courtesy of OSU Agriculture This mixture of hot days and cool nights produce the best conditions for the soil yielding the fruits and vegetables.
garden vegetables in Oklahoma are grown and harvested in the fall when warm, sunny days are followed by cool, humid nights.” This mixture of hot days and cool nights produce the best conditions for the soil
yielding the fruits and vegetables. However, even though the weather allows for great soil conditions, gardeners still need to tend to the soil themselves. See Gardens on 6
Courtesy of Houston Athletics Houston coach Dana Holgorsen brought in transfer quarterback Donovan Smith from Texas Tech.
Holgorsen, Smith bring Big 12 experience to adjusting Houston
bility remaining. While it’s easy to look at the Cougars’ losses at key positions and write them off, coach Dana Holgorsen and his staff were able to bring in several players with Big Calif Poncy 12 experience, something the Staff Reporter seasoned leader of UH said the team emphasizes. Holgorsen mentioned incoming Over the next few quarterback Donovan Smith, weeks, The O’Colly sports formerly of Texas Tech, as staff will release its Big someone the team brought in 12 preseason rankings in for this reason. the form of team previews. “I felt like it was imThis time, it’s the Houston portant to bring a guy in with Cougars, which our writers Big 12 experience, and we picked to finish 11th. did that at a number of other After finishing its stint in the AAC with an 8-5 positions as well,” Holgorsen record, the Houston Cougars said. Smith is expected to were forced to make many win the quarterback competichanges as they prepared to tion against Lucas Coley and move to the Big 12. Like fellow new mem- be Houston’s Week 1 starter, and with Smith’s experibers UCF, Cincinnati and BYU, UH saw massive turn- ence at TTU, the former Red Raider should provide the over in the transfer portal, Cougars’ offense with a and it dug heavily into the steady hand at quarterback. portal to find replacements. “Donovan has imBut the hole made by the loss pressed me,” Holgorsen said. of star running back Alton McCaskill to the transfer por- “I think his best days are ahead of him, he’s only been tal is a difficult one to fill. playing quarterback for a During his freshman season, McCaskill burst onto couple of years, so he’s got the scene, rushing for nearly the upper hand right now based on 21 games of experi1,000 yards on 189 carries. Like many of his team- ence.” Smith is replacing longmates, McCaskill used his time Cougars starter Clayton strong showing as a springboard to leave town, heading Tune, who is now a member of the Arizona Cardinals. to Colorado where he will still have three years of eligi- See Houston on 4
Courtesy of Davis Cordova This is the last season with OU and Texas in the league and the only season with 14 teams in the Big 12. So, there are plenty of must-watch matchups.
Trevino’s tidbits
What are the games of the week in the Big 12 in 2023? calibur program like Penn State for the first week of the season, but, c’mon, who isn’t going to watch Deion Sanders’ Colorado debut at TCU. It’s an 11 a.m. game on FOX’s Big Noon KickGabriel Trevino off, and with not many other great matchups in week one, Columnist Colorado facing the national champion runner-ups may be College football is near, the best game on Saturday. Week 2: Texas at Alawhich means waking up for bama ESPN’s College GameDay If you don’t think it’s way too early and sitting in Texas-Alabama, it’s because that same spot on the couch you’re at Gaylord Memorial until Sunday. that day. There are great games Alabama has only lost each week across the country, twice at home in the past 10 and especially in the Big 12 years. One when Joe Burrow this season with 14 teams in the conference. Here’s the best made a stop on his Heisman tour in 2019 and the other games each week to mark on in 2015 to Chad Kelly. Can your calendar. Quinn Ewers be the third? He Week 1: Colorado at might’ve been able to beat the TCU Tide at home last season beSure, West Virginia is the only team brave (or dumb) fore a broken collar bone took him out in the second quarter. enough to schedule a highAlabama looks different
this year, too. There isn’t a Heisman favorite taking snaps. In fact, the starting quarterback hasn’t been named. So, this could be the year Texas starts a season-long “We’re back” tour in Tuscaloosa. Week 3: TCU at Houston Though BYU-Arkansas is an intriguing matchup on name-recognition alone, I expect the Razorbacks to thrash the Cougs in Fayetteville. Meanwhile, the other new Big 12 Cougs will host TCU in the first conference game of the season. The environment is sure to be something on its own. Either Houston fans pack the stadium in its first game in the conference, or TCU alumni invade. The game should be good, too. This could be the first glimpse into whether the Horned Frogs are ready to run-it-back or if Houston is a legit threat in the conference. See Big 12 on 3