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Source: 'Sooner Sports TV' to be unveiled during OU-UTEP telecast

8/31/2012 1:13 PM

Oklahoma fans who tune into Saturday night’s telecast of the OU-UTEP game on Fox Sports will see a quick preview of their favorite team’s television future.

Sooner ... 

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John E. Hoover
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Cheer, cheer for Old Notre Dame...but not for Pinkett's old way of thinking

8/30/2012 2:15 PM

Allen Pinkett couldn’t be more wrong.

The former Notre Dame running back commented Wednesday on a Chicago radio station that his alma mater, and presumably other ... 

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John E. Hoover
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Blankenship: 'Jenks-Union phenomenon is amazing to me'

8/28/2012 6:23 PM

Bill Blankenship’s appreciation for what has transpired — what continues to transpire — between the high school football programs at Union and Jenks has multiple facets.

Now ... 

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John E. Hoover
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Sooners opening week: Williams OU's best runner? Stills back outside? Lynn ready to star?

8/28/2012 3:09 PM

A few ideas, thoughts, opinions and predictions left over from Monday’s press conference at Oklahoma:

* Damien Williams
Williams will be a significant contributor ... 

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John E. Hoover
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Big 12's Bowlsby: 'We don’t want the SEC to win another national championship'

8/27/2012 8:12 PM

NORMAN — The Big 12 isn’t just surviving. It’s thriving.

At least that’s the opinion within the conference’s footprint.

Outside the league? Well. . . .

“I ... 

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John E. Hoover
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For Gundy, Saturday mornings are ideal

8/24/2012 4:13 PM

STILLWATER — The first time Mike Gundy saw his team’s kickoff time at Arizona, his heart skipped a beat.

“I saw that 9:30 and I felt like we’re playing Tulsa again,” ... 

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John E. Hoover
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Longhorn Network picks up two Texas games; will anyone watch?

8/22/2012 3:26 PM

ESPN just announced the Longhorn Network will televise Texas’ first two games of the 2012 college football season.

You’ve heard all the jokes before — if a tree ... 

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John E. Hoover
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Will TU's Cody Green see more on his return trip to Iowa State?

8/20/2012 2:15 PM

Cody Green may be a first-year starter at Tulsa, but he played 18 career games, including four starts, at Nebraska.

One of those starts was at Ames, Iowa, where ... 

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John E. Hoover
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Welcome to Langston, new home of the ... high school football playoffs?

8/18/2012 4:51 PM

LANGSTON — I came here to write a column for Sunday’s Tulsa World on Langston University’s new athletic director, college football legend Mike Garrett.

But I return ... 

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John E. Hoover
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Stoops takes coaches poll seriously, but he'll be glad when it's dead

8/14/2012 7:08 PM

NORMAN — Being a voter in a college football poll is a pretty big responsibility.

In 2005, when the Associated Press asked me to be on its weekly Top 25 panel, I ... 

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John E. Hoover
Sports Columnist

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London Thunder: Good as gold, or playoff problems?

8/11/2012 1:38 PM

Is it a good thing or a bad thing that nearly one-third of the Oklahoma City Thunder are playing in Sunday’s Olympic gold medal game between Team USA and Spain?

For ... 

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John E. Hoover
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Early start up north will benefit TU, Manning

8/10/2012 7:20 AM

We interrupt this never ending stream of preseason college football to bring you a little preseason college basketball.

Oklahoma State’s men are in Spain, though ... 

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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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