CCoolllleeggee FFoooottbbaallll rruullee cchhaannggeess ffoorr 22002211 July 9 - July 15, 2021 Vol. 19, Issue 46 www.sportspagdfw.com FREE 2 July 9, 2021 - July 15, 2021 | The Sports Page Weekly | Volume 19 Issue 46 | www.sportspagedfw.com | follow us on twitter @sportspagdfw.com Follow us on twitter @sportspagedfw | www.sportspagedfw.com | The Sports Page Weekly | Volume 19 - Issue 46 | July 9, 2021 - July 15, 2021 3 July 9, 2021 - July 15, 2021 AROUND THE AREA Vol. 19, Issue 46 LOCAL NEWS OF INTEREST sportspagedfw.com Established 2002 Big 12 Athletes of the Year named Cover Photo: AROUND THE AREA nast nationally to earn first-team recogni- Year, and he is a three-time Academic All- 4 tion on all four events and the all-around. Big 12 selection. RANGERS REPORT In 2021, she collected 33 event titles Off the court, Butler served as a speak- 5 BY DIC HUMPHREY and scored four perfect 10s. Webb finished er at Baylor’s student-athlete unity walk GOLF, ETC her career with 67 event titles to rank sec- last summer. During his speech, he encour- 6 BY TOM WARD ond in school history. aged his fellow student-athletes to strive JOHN DEERE CLASSIC A May graduate with a degree in for equality and racial justice. He also 7 BY PGATOUR.COM Health, Medicine and Society, Webb was a served as a Sunday School teacher for sec- JOHN DEERE CLASSIC TOP 10 OU’s Webb and BU’s Butler Named Big four-time Academic All-Big 12 selection ond and third graders at Waco’s Harris MOMENTS from 2018 to 2021. Additionally, she vol- Creek Baptist Church and was a student- 8 BY PGATOUR.COM 12 Athletes of the Year Oklahoma gymnast Anastasia Webb unteered with various organizations includ- athlete representative for the NCAA IN MEMORIUM: DICKEY ing Team Impact, Mercy Hospital, J.D. Division I Men’s Basketball Oversight 10 MAEGLE and Baylor men’s basketball player Jared BY NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION Butler were named the 2020-21 Big 12 McCarty Center and the Boys and Girls Committee. Athletes of the Year. Webb is the seventh Club of Norman. While with Team Impact, Other female candidates for Big 12 BOOK REVIEW: WHERE Sooner female and third consecutive to win Webb communicated regularly with an 11- Athlete of the Year included Aaliyah Miller 11 PASSION LIVES year-old girl who battles aplastic anemia. (Baylor), Sami Williams (Iowa State), BY BO CARTER the accolade. Butler is the third Baylor male to win the award and first since 2014. She helped her experience the happiness Jenny Mosser (Kansas), Ayoka Lee (K- BIG 12 NEWS AND NOTES Nominees are submitted by Big 12 and togetherness of being on a sport team State), Maja Stark (Oklahoma St), Emily 12 BY BIG12SPORTS.COM institutions and selected, based on athletic as well as provided emotional support. Alvarado (TCU), Tara Davis (Texas), Ruth With his leadership and determination, Usoro (Tech) and Ceili McCabe (WVU). COLLEGE FOOTBALL NEWS AND performance, academic achievement and 13 NOTES citizenship, by a media panel as well as fan Butler led Baylor men’s basketball to its Male nominees were David Carr (Iowa BY BO CARTER voting conducted through Big12Sports.com first NCAA National Championship. The State), Marcus Garrett (Kansas), Tejaswin 14 THE TICKET WINDOW Webb won three individual NCAA three-year letterwinner became the pro- Shankar (Kansas State), Isaiah Levingston Championships with triumphs in the vault, gram’s first consensus First Team All- (Oklahoma), Cade Cunningham 18 AUTO REVIEW floor exercise and all-around. She became American in program history. He led the (Oklahoma St.), Tre’von Moehrig (TCU), BY KBB.COM just the ninth gymnast in NCAA history to Big 12 with a .416 three-point field goal Jordan Windle (Texas), Jace Jung (Texas 19 THE TICKET WINDOW accomplish the feat of winning three titles percentage and 2.0 steals per contest. The Tech) and Darius Stills (West Virginia). in one championship. Additionally, she Reserve, Louisiana, native was named the placed third on the balance beam and sev- Associated Press Big 12 Player of the Year Concacaf Gold Cup Games on July 10 & enth on bars leading OU trunner-up finish. and the United States Basketball Writers 25 at AT&T Stadium A native of Morton Grove, Illinois, Association District VII Player of the Year. Mexico vs. Trinidad and Tobago Follow us on Webb was named the 2021 Honda Sport In the NCAA National Championship Saturday, July 10 Award for women’s gymnastics. She was game, Butler scored 22 points, dished out Gold Cup Quartefinals Twitter & Facebook selected as the 2021 Big 12 Co-Gymnast seven assists and grabbed three rebounds Sunday, July 25 of the Year and was the WCGA Region 4 en route to being named the Most The Group Stage of the 2021 Concacaf twitter.com/sportspagedfw Gymnast of the Year. Also, she was select- Outstanding Player of the Final Four. Gold Cup will kick off on July 10th at ed as a finalist for the AAI Award. Butler graduated from Baylor in three AT&T Stadium where Mexico will face off facebook.com/sportspageweek- The senior won Big 12 titles in the bal- years with a BBA in management. Earlier against Trinidad and Tobago. Following ance beam and vault. 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Cleveland and Seattle are the only The bigger question though is Gallo. American League teams with a worse bat- He is the biggest beneficiary of ting average. OPS is considered by many Commissioner Rob Manfred’s edict to to be a better measure of offensive come down on pitchers using banned sub- prowess.