How Oklahoma is Finding Joy During the Mundane, In-Between Moments

Some players can get buried in the boredom of baseball’s routine, but Skip Johnson’s Sooners have embraced it at the College World Series.

John Hoover |

OMAHA, NE — Get on the bus. Go to practice. Back to the hotel. Shower, eat dinner and then team meeting. Tomorrow, game day, another stiffly regimented routine, same as yesterday.

Then do it all over again. And again. And again.

Tucked away as honored guests in the Heart of America, finalists in this year’s College World Series, Oklahoma baseball players — and those from North Carolina — have been sticking to pretty much the exact same routine since the teams arrived for nine days now.

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