MORNING ROUNDUP
OU football lands Bethany alum Jocelyn Malaska as preferred walk-on via transfer portal
NORMAN — After two seasons at Utah, cornerback Jocelyn Malaska is coming home.
The former Bethany standout committed to OU on Tuesday as a preferred walk-on, he announced on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Malaska saw reserve action in eight games over the last two seasons, including five this season, primarily on special teams.
Malaska had 93 catches for 1,148 yards and seven touchdowns and also returned a punt and two kickoffs for touchdowns. He had 107 career tackles and seven interceptions in high school.
NFL fines Panthers owner David Tepper $300,000 for tossing drink at Jaguars fans
The NFL has fined Carolina Panthers owner David Tepper $300,000 for tossing a drink at fans in Jacksonville toward the end of a game on Sunday.
The league called Tepper’s conduct “unacceptable” in a statement released Tuesday. Tepper’s reaction came after rookie quarterback Bryce Young threw an interception with less than three minutes to play in a 26-0 loss to the Jaguars.
It wasn’t clear whether Tepper was reacting to something said to him or another loss for the NFL’s worst team. The Panthers are 2-14 and won’t even have the No. 1 overall pick in the draft because it was traded to Chicago for the top pick used to select Young.
ESPN apologizes for showing video of woman flashing breast during Sugar Bowl broadcast
ESPN has apologized for a video clip of a woman baring her breast that was shown during the broadcast of the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. It was aired coming out of a commercial during the second half of Washington’s 37-31 victory over Texas in a semifinal game of the College Football Playoff. A clip of people wandering on Bourbon Street in New Orleans showed a woman pulling down her top to expose her breast.
Extra point
OBIT: Frank Ryan, the quarterback who led the Cleveland Browns to their last NFL title in 1964, has died. He was 87. Ryan was a three-time Pro Bowler during seven seasons with the Browns. His family said he died while being cared for at a nursing home in Connecticut. He had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. The family said chronic traumatic encephalopathy may have played a role in the progression of the disease. Ryan donated his brain to Boston University’s CTE Center for study. After his playing career, Ryan, who earned a doctorate degree in mathematics from Rice, worked for the U.S. House of Representatives and helped develop the body’s first electronic voting system.