Former OU stars Rocky Calmus, Josh Heupel and Dewey Selmon on College Football Hall of Fame ballot

Former OU stars Rocky Calmus, Josh Heupel and Dewey Selmon on College Football Hall of Fame ballot

Former OU standouts Rocky Calmus, Josh Heupel and Dewey Selmon are among the college football stars who will be considered for induction to the Hall of Fame for the first time this year.

Michael Vick, Larry Fitzgerald and Terrell Suggs also earned spots among the 78 players listed from the Football Bowl Subdivision.

The National Football Foundation released Monday a list of 78 players and nine coaches from major college football who are on the Hall of Fame ballot. There also are 101 players and 32 coaches from lower divisions of college football up for consideration.

Vick, who led Virginia Tech to the BCS championship game against Florida State as a redshirt freshman in 1999, is among the most notable players appearing on the ballot in his first year of eligibility.

Vick finished third in the Heisman Trophy voting in 1999. He played one season of college football before being drafted No. 1 overall by the Atlanta Falcons in 2001. Vick's professional career was interrupted when he served 21 months in prison for his involvement in dog fighting.

Fitzgerald was the Heisman runner-up in 2003 to Oklahoma quarterback Jason White. He scored 34 touchdowns in just two seasons at Pitt.

Suggs led the nation in sacks with 24 in 2002 for Arizona State.

The 2024 Hall of Fame class will be chosen by the National Football Foundation's Honors Court and announced in January. Induction into the Atlanta-based hall is the following December.

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Report: Thunder executive Will Dawkins joining Wizards front office

An ex-Thunder contingent is forming in the nation’s capital.

Thunder vice president of basketball operations Will Dawkins, who’s spent the last 15 years in Oklahoma City, has been hired by the Washington Wizards as their new general manager and No. 2 executive behind Michael Winger, another Thunder alum.

The Athletic’s Josh Robbins and David Aldridge broke the news.

Dawkins had been with the Thunder since its inception in 2008. For the last three years he’s been vice president of basketball operations, sharing the title with Rob Hennigan.

Before that, Dawkins worked three years as the Thunder’s vice president of identification and intelligence, overseeing the Thunder’s scouting departments.

Dawkins joined the front office as an intern, and he also worked as an assistant video coordinator, a scouting coordinator and director of college player personnel.

In Washington, Dawkins will work under Winger, who was hired last month as the president of Monumental Basketball, which oversees the Wizards, the WNBA’s Washington Mystics and the G League Capital City Go-Go.

Winger joined the Wizards after a general manager stint with the Clippers. Before moving to Los Angeles, Winger spent seven years in Oklahoma City, where he worked with Dawkins in the Thunder front office.

Winger and Dawkins are two of five assistants under Thunder general manager Sam Presti who went onto become general managers Hennigan, who has since rejoined the Thunder, originally left to become general manager of the Magic. Troy Weaver is general manager in Detroit, and former Thunder executive Rich Cho went onto become a general manager in Portland and Charlotte.

There’s been a flurry of moves this NBA offseason involving former Thunder personnel.

Former Thunder assistant Monty Williams took the Detroit head coaching job after being fired by Phoenix.

Adrian Griffin, another former Thunder assistant, was named head coach of the Milwaukee Bucks.

Former Thunder guard Kevin Ollie was hired as a Nets assistant.

Darko Rajakovic, who coached the G League Tulsa 66ers before becoming a longtime Thunder assistant, is reportedly a finalist for the Raptors’ head coaching job. Rajakovic is currently a Grizzlies assistant.

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Extra points

NBA: Gabe Vincent scored 23 points, Jimmy Butler and Bam Adebayo each scored 21 and the Miami Heat evened up the NBA Finals by overcoming a monster effort from Nikola Jokic to beat the Denver Nuggets 111-108 in Game 2 on Sunday night. Max Strus scored 14 and Duncan Robinson had 10 for the Heat, who had a big early lead, then got down by as many as 15 — before reclaiming the lead in the fourth. And even then, they had to dig deep to finish it off. Jokic was 16 of 28 from the floor, the last of those shots a 4-footer with 36 seconds left to get the Nuggets within three.

—Staff and wire reports

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