Oklahoma
Ryan Walters and Oklahoma Ethics Commission agree to settlement
OKLAHOMA CITY (KSWO) – A settlement has been reached in the ethics investigation into Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters.
The Oklahoma Ethics Commission launched an investigation into Walters after it determined he may have violated ethics rules by supporting President Trump through an official state social media account.
But newly filed court documents show both the Oklahoma Ethics Commission (OEC) and Walters have entered into a settlement agreement to end the matter.
As part of the settlement, Walters will remove his elected title from his personal social media account and keep his personal and professional online presences separate.
In addition, Walters will pay a $4,000 civil penalty to the State, as well as $1,000 for the OEC’s attorneys fees.
This settlement, however, is not an admission of guilt on Walters’ part and court documents state there is no evidence he knowingly intended to violate any ethics rule.
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Oklahoma City Thunder (7-0, first in the Western Conference) vs. Portland Trail Blazers (4-3, eighth in the Western Conference)
Portland, Oregon; Wednesday, 10 p.m. EST
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Thunder -4.5; over/under is 228.5
BOTTOM LINE: Oklahoma City visits Portland aiming to prolong its three-game road winning streak.
Portland finished 36-46 overall and 19-33 in Western Conference games a season ago. The Trail Blazers allowed opponents to score 113.9 points per game and shoot 47.1% from the field last season.
Oklahoma City finished 68-14 overall and 39-13 in Western Conference play during the 2024-25 season. The Thunder averaged 26.9 assists per game on 44.6 made field goals last season.
INJURIES: Trail Blazers: Scoot Henderson: out (hamstring), Matisse Thybulle: out (thumb), Blake Wesley: out (foot), Shaedon Sharpe: day to day (calf), Damian Lillard: out for season (achilles).
Thunder: Nikola Topic: out (groin), Jalen Williams: out (wrist), Kenrich Williams: out (knee), Thomas Sorber: out for season (knee).
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Last season, Alabama football was effectively eliminated from College Football Playoff contention by way of a 24-3 loss at Oklahoma that was entirely uncharacteristic of the team that had just trounced LSU 42-13 two weekends prior.
The wait for the rematch spans less than a year, 357 days in total. On Nov. 15, the No. 4 Crimson Tide (7-1, 5-0 SEC) will meet the No. 11 Sooners at home at 2:30 p.m. CT. The game will be nationally televised on ABC.
Oklahoma (7-2, 3-2 SEC) is 2-0 in true SEC road games this fall. Those wins came at South Carolina and at Tennessee, respectively. The Sooners had a 6-7 season last year, its first in the conference, with the upset over Alabama paving the way for Brent Venables’ team to get into a bowl game.
Alabama began year two of the Kalen DeBoer era with a theme that continued from 2024 and was perhaps most exemplified by that Oklahoma game: losing on the road to an unranked team. However, since then, the Crimson Tide has not lost a game (though it came close in its 29-22 triumph at South Carolina on Oct. 25).
This Saturday, the Crimson Tide plays host to LSU in a game that kicks off at 6:30 p.m. CT, also on ABC. The Tigers (5-3, 2-3 SEC) revamped their coaching staff after a 49-25 home loss against undefeated Texas A&M Oct. 25, relieving head coach Brian Kelly of his duties the next day and dismissing offensive coordinator Joe Sloan the day after that.
The Sooners would do well to avoid another loss for their own hopes to get into the 12-team College Football Playoff. Texas and Ole Miss have defeated Oklahoma so far in 2025 (the Sooners and Longhorns play one another at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas), and a third loss with an SEC featuring so many contenders for a berth would be catastrophic. Oklahoma is on a bye this weekend, meaning it will be rested for the game at Alabama.
Alabama has not lost a conference home game since November of 2019 against LSU. All four of the Crimson Tide’s 2024 losses under DeBoer occurred away from Tuscaloosa. Its last home loss overall was in September 2023 against the Longhorns. That year, the team went on to make the last iteration of the four-team Playoff in what turned out to be Nick Saban’s final season as head coach.
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