By THE PICKER Sports Columnist on Feb 20, 2013, at 4:16 PM Updated on 2/20 at 4:16 PM
THE PICKER
What's going on in Stillwater?
Has T. Boone changed the playbook again? Wasn't this supposed to be Gundy's dream job?
First, ...
ESPN, though its parent company, the Mickey Mouse Club, has announced plans to fire approximately 400 people.
It has ...
Here's what all the experts are saying about the Thunder, past and future:
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
Blah, blah.
Blah.
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They really are going to have a fishing tournament in northeast Oklahoma in the winter.
Outside a heated dock.
And not just any fishing tournament, the biggest fishing tournament since the inventions of beer and bait, the Bassmaster Classic.
The tournament will run Friday through Sunday.
We checked out the weather forecast for Friday. We didn't check out the forecasts from the local TV meteorologists. Those people couldn't predict a replay of bad weather. Panic sells.
We checked national sites and learned the following: The predicted temperature at castoff, at the start of the fishing tournament, will be between 20 and 24 degrees.
In a rocket boat going full-out, we estimate that the feels-like temperature will be around minus 56 in the bright sunshine.
The favored lure Friday will be the one that looks like a strip of warm wool to crawl into.
And what do we think of fishing in 20-25 degree weather?
We love it. It's great. It's like golf at the British Open. Anybody can catch fish when it's room temperature.
Only a warrior can land five nice ones when there's ice forming on your radar.
The forecasts improve during the three-day tournament, with the Sunday finals expected to be fished in 60-something weather.
Anybody can cheer when it's 60-something.
Let's see who the real fishing fans are Friday morning at dawn with the temp at 25 and the wind out of the north.
See you at the lauch dock.
Perhaps.
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