CWS Photo Gallery: Oklahoma Practice

View the AllSooners photo gallery from the Oklahoma Sooners' practice Thursday at Charles Schwab Field in downtown Omaha ahead of Friday's College World Series.

John E. Hoover | Jun 16, 2022

CWS Photo Gallery: Oklahoma Practice /

Cade Horton 2 — John E. Hoover / AllSooners

Skip Johnson watches Cade Horton

Trent Brown

Toby Rowland, Gene Stephenson

Trent Brown

Tanner Tredaway

Jimmy Crooks

Tanner Tredaway

Skip Johnson

Tanner Tredaway

Skip Johnson

Peyton Graham

Jake Bennett

John Spikerman

Kendall Pettis

Generic CWS - Scoreboard — John E. Hoover / AllSooners

Charles Schwab Field

Diego Muniz

Carter Campbell

Clay Van Hook, Tanner Tredaway

David Sandlin

Jake Bennett

Cade Horton

Cade horton

Cade Horton, Skip Johnson

Blake Robertson

Cade Horton 1 — John E. Hoover / AllSooners

Cade Horton, Skip Johnson

Blake Robertson

Published Jun 16, 2022

JOHN E. HOOVER

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.