TWO OKLAHOMA HIGH SCHOOLBASEBALL PLAYERS WILL PLAY FOR TEAM USA
A pair of Oklahoma high school baseball players will play for team USA in the 18U Baseball World Cup in Panama next month. Stillwater’s Ethan Holiday and Ft. Cobb’s Eli Willits were named to the team for the Internationl tournament starting Aug 2nd and going through Aug 11. Holiday enters his Sr. season at Stillwater HS as an Oklahoma State commit that hit over .400 while leading the Pioneers to the State Semifinals in Class 6A. Willits will also enter his final season at Ft. Cobb as an OU commit that hit over .600 for the Mustangs who have won back-to-back fall and spring state baseball titles. Both guys also appeard in the top 10 of next year’s major league baseball mock draft on ESPN’s website.
WNBA ALL STAR GAME SMASHES RATINGS RECORD
The Caitlyn Clark train continues to roll down the tracks, even in the much maligned WNBA. Clark was a ratings bonanza at Iowa and that continues as a rookie with the Indiana Fever. Saturday’s WNBA All Star game had 3.44 million viewers which smashed the previous record of 1.44 million back in 2003. It was up from 850,000 viewers just last year. This was the 17th WNBA broadcast this season that reached the 1 million viewer mark. 15 of those have featured Caitlyn Clark is some capacity. No WNBA broadcast had delivered one million viewers over the previous 16 seasons.
