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Update: Multiple Oklahoma Football Players' Homes Sustain Heavy Storm Damage

GoFundMe accounts, which OU football has verified as legitimate, have been established to help.
Update: Multiple Oklahoma Football Players' Homes Sustain Heavy Storm Damage
Update: Multiple Oklahoma Football Players' Homes Sustain Heavy Storm Damage

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Oklahoma football player Kori Roberson's home was severely damaged in Sunday night’s storms that roared through the Norman area.

Later Monday, it was revealed that running back Todd Hudson's home also had sustained heavy damage.

Roberson, a senior defensive lineman from Houston, was depicted Monday in photos posted by teammate Marcus Stripling. They and others were cleaning up debris outside Roberson’s Norman residence.

A GoFundMe account has been established to help. The link for that account has been verified as legitimate by OU football and has been shared numerous times on social media.

Hudson also set up a fundraiser to assist with his situation.

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John E. Hoover
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.

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