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To beat TCU, Sooners' Jones may need to be better than he was against Oklahoma State

11/30/2012 3:52 PM

FORT WORTH, Texas — TCU has the Big 12’s best statistical defense.

So, Oklahoma will need some offensive proficiency in its game against the Horned Frogs on Saturday ... 

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John E. Hoover
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Like Stoops did, TCU's Patterson has adjusted to quarterback quandary

11/29/2012 4:39 PM

NORMAN — Bob Stoops has been in Gary Patterson’s shoes.

Like Stoops did in 2006, Patterson dismissed his starting quarterback from the team at the start of what ... 

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John E. Hoover
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OU's Stoops fine with freshman (Manziel) or defender (Te'o) winning Heisman

11/26/2012 8:53 PM

NORMAN — Texas A&M took the muzzle off its hotshot young quarterback on Monday.

No such drastic changes are required at Notre Dame, where public relations isn’t ... 

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John E. Hoover
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Saturday's Bedlam classic was a lesson in resilience for Blake Bell

11/24/2012 11:01 PM

NORMAN — The intention was to write Sunday’s column as a tale of two quarterbacks.

But only one would fit in print.

Landry Jones’ big game Saturday night in ... 

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John E. Hoover
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TU players failed to heed Blankenship's message

11/24/2012 4:31 PM

NORMAN — Tulsa coach Bill Blankenship talked for some 30 minutes at his weekly press conference on Tuesday.

But really, there was only one question that mattered.

How ... 

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John E. Hoover
Sports Columnist

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Breaking down the Bedlam matchups

11/22/2012 1:57 PM

In Saturday’s Tulsa World, our staff will analyze the head-to-head matchups in this year’s Bedlam contest in Norman.

Those are the good ones, where you examine how ... 

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John E. Hoover
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Let's talk about the Big 12 Conference's 2013 schedule

11/20/2012 7:09 PM

A few randomizations and ruminations about the Big 12 Conference’s release of its 2013 football schedules on Tuesday:

* It’s the earliest anyone around here can ... 

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John E. Hoover
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OU's Stills: You don't hear about Sooners' discipline issues 'at Alabama'

11/19/2012 4:17 PM

NORMAN — Remember when Bob Stoops had to suspend all those football players? Remember all those Sooners from the 2010 and 2011 teams who simply didn’t return for the ... 

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John E. Hoover
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Did we see the last of the Belldozer at WVU?

11/18/2012 2:55 PM

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- The Belldozer, like the Split T and the Wishbone, is a thing of the past at Oklahoma.

Or, if it's not, it needs to be.

The gimmicky but ... 

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John E. Hoover
Sports Columnist

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No, Mack Brown isn't crazy ... but sadly, he'll be proven right

11/5/2012 9:02 PM

When I first read it, I thought Mack Brown had finally and completely lost his mind.

He wants to ask the Big 12 Conference to penalize rival hand gestures?

But ... 

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John E. Hoover
Sports Columnist

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Gundy, Aikman and Switzer: What is, what was and what was never meant to be

11/2/2012 1:02 PM

HENRYETTA — The summer before his senior year at Midwest City High School, Mike Gundy used to drive down to Norman to work out with Oklahoma’s quarterbacks.

Gundy ... 

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John E. Hoover
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Game Point

Tulsa World Sports Columnist John E. Hoover has been a newspaperman since 1985 and has worked at the Tulsa World since 1992. Among other things, he's covered the Dallas Cowboys, Kansas City Chiefs, Arkansas Razorbacks, Oral Roberts Golden Eagles, Oklahoma State Cowboys and Oklahoma Sooners.

Covering the Sooners in 2011, Hoover was named National Beat Writer of the Year by the Associated Press Sports Editors, and has won numerous writing and reporting awards at the World and other newspapers. He was sports editor in Tahlequah, Okmulgee and Waynesville, Mo., and assistant sports editor in Ada.

Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School and received a journalism degree from East Central University in 1989. He lives in Broken Arrow with his wife and two kids.

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