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Stoops' relationship with media affects Sooner Nation, too

7/26/2012 2:30 PM

Bob Stoops and Landry Jones did the ESPN “car wash” on Thursday, getting shined and polished at every stop during a day-long tour of the network’s facilities in Bristol, ... 

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John E. Hoover
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Briles says new stadium can help Baylor sustain success

7/24/2012 12:21 PM

DALLAS — Art Briles made Baylor a player. Robert Griffin made the Bears a contender.

But it is a forthcoming new stadium that will keep Baylor football relevant ... 

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John E. Hoover
Sports Columnist

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Weis: Kansas football is virtually the same as Notre Dame

7/24/2012 11:53 AM

DALLAS — New Kansas coach Charlie Weis’ last head coaching gig was the hallowed college football sanctum at Notre Dame.

It would seem logical that things are radically ... 

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John E. Hoover
Sports Columnist

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Gundy wants Lunt, defense to continue success with turnover ratio

7/24/2012 11:23 AM

DALLAS — Mike Gundy knows the best way for first-year freshman quarterback Wes Lunt to succeed at Oklahoma State is to not turn the ball over.

He also realizes Lunt ... 

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John E. Hoover
Sports Columnist

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Mack Brown and his entourage are cheerful and confident about Texas' QB picture

7/24/2012 11:00 AM

DALLAS — Texas coach Mack Brown took question after question about two topics: the Longhorns’ inability to run the football, and the Longhorns’ inescapably bad quarterback ... 

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John E. Hoover
Sports Columnist

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WVU's Holgorsen not bothered about returning to Stillwater

7/24/2012 10:22 AM

DALLAS — Everyone has been wondering what it’ll be like when Dana Holgorsen brings West Virginia into Stillwater.

The biggest concern is that OSU still uses many ... 

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John E. Hoover
Sports Columnist

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Big 12 Media Days: More BellDozer may be necessary, but is it a good thing for the future?

7/23/2012 1:29 PM

DALLAS — Despite how many national championships or Heisman Trophies Vince Young or Tim Tebow or Cam Newton or any other turbo-charged diesel truck with an arm can pile ... 

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John E. Hoover
Sports Columnist

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Landry Jones came back for this?

7/2/2012 3:14 PM

Landry Jones came back for this?

It’s still three weeks until Big 12 Conference media days in Dallas, so surely the University of Oklahoma senior quarterback will ... 

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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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