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Wake up the echoes: Notre Dame's shaky future may be good for Big 12

5/31/2012 7:28 PM

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — OK, so the Big 12 is not expanding.

But given the shaky ground on which Notre Dame stands, that could change literally at any minute.

And ... 

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John E. Hoover
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Expansion or not, Big 12 title game sounds dead

5/31/2012 3:40 PM

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Expansion or no expansion, it sounds like the idea of a Big 12 Conference championship game is dead.

Big 12 athletic directors, meeting this week ... 

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John E. Hoover
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For sale: late model QB...low miles...wants 10-12 years, OBO...call 555-Weeden

5/30/2012 6:00 AM


It’s hard to understand the consternation over Brandon Weeden’s age.

Really, who wants a 22-year-old quarterback behind the wheel of their billion NFL racecar?

If ... 

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John E. Hoover
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Oklahoma State should make easy decision: hire Rob Walton

5/29/2012 2:13 PM

The first thought here is that Oklahoma State will go hard after Oral Roberts University’s Rob Walton to replace Frank Anderson as baseball coach.

The next thought ... 

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John E. Hoover
Sports Columnist

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Rams' Bradford figuring out yet another playbook

5/23/2012 4:39 PM

Been trying to get an interview with Sam Bradford, but his agency says he’s not doing any media stuff outside of organized team activities in St. Louis.

The obvious ... 

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John E. Hoover
Sports Columnist

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NSU's Derrick Moore: football star, motivational speaker, author

5/23/2012 10:06 AM

A colleague passed along a new sports fiction novel recently.

It’s about a high school football star who deals with football trauma and teenage drama.

I’m not ... 

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John E. Hoover
Sports Columnist

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Eric Dickerson's love of all things Switzer, Dupree and Peterson

5/21/2012 8:04 PM


Eric Dickerson badly wanted to play college football for Barry Switzer at Oklahoma, but his momma wouldn’t let him.

Dickerson loved the way Marcus Dupree ran the ... 

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John E. Hoover
Sports Columnist

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Big 12-SEC wedding is a 'landmark agreement'

5/18/2012 2:43 PM

The Big 12 Conference and the Southeastern Conference got married on Friday.

Eloped, really.

The leagues’ decision to run off and step outside the college football ... 

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John E. Hoover
Sports Columnist

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Sooners WR Kameel Jackson's saga takes another twist

5/17/2012 5:20 AM

Kameel Jackson is back!

Or maybe this: Kameel Jackson never left!

Or how about: What’s going on with Kameel Jackson this week?

Oklahoma’s young wide receiver ... 

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John E. Hoover
Sports Columnist

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College HOF making an example out of Bosworth

5/15/2012 12:08 PM

Mark Simoneau was a fantastic linebacker during a real heyday at Kansas State.

But Mark Simoneau was no Brian Bosworth.

Tuesday’s revelation that Simoneau was ... 

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John E. Hoover
Sports Columnist

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Florida State to the Big 12? This War Chant sounds a lot like a War Hymn

5/14/2012 10:37 AM

Florida State to the Big 12? I don’t know. Just doesn’t sound right.

Of course, that’s exactly what I said about Texas A&M to the Southeastern Conference.

Texas ... 

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John E. Hoover
Sports Columnist

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The good and bad of football: Do I pass it on to the next generation?

5/13/2012 11:01 AM

My son’s been bugging me for three years to let him play tackle football.

I’ve put it off as long as possible, keeping him in the district’s intramural flag program ... 

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John E. Hoover
Sports Columnist

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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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