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I wish you were in, Dixie

8/12/2012 3:04 PM


Any time you compile a list like the one I have in today's Tulsa World (significant female sports figures in Oklahoma history), you do it knowing that somebody deserving ... 

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Every Big 12 team has a flaw, so who wins the beauty pageant?

8/9/2012 7:33 PM

I’m going to tell you who I’m picking to win the Big 12 in the Tulsa World’s 2012 college football special section, but I need to point something out first.

Men ... 

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Breaking news: Hall of Fame football coach is a "real human"

8/7/2012 5:20 PM

Everybody has a Pat Jones story. “Or think they do,” Jones said. “One of the two. Same difference.”

The former Oklahoma State football coach was inducted Monday ... 

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Coach recalls "wild" free agent pursuit at SMU. Penn State next?

7/25/2012 7:47 PM

“I didn’t feel guilty. But I sure felt weird.”

The words come courtesy of former University of Tulsa football coach Dave Rader, who I thought of this week when I ... 

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Handle with care: Questions about Penn State situation

7/23/2012 5:56 PM

Observation from day one of the Big 12 football media days: Some coaches absolutely dodged (or talked around) questions about Penn State.

And I don’t blame them ... 

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Olympic tragedy: "I could hear them sobbing"

7/22/2012 2:52 PM

I’ve got a story in today’s Tulsa World regarding the 40th anniversary of the controversial 1972 Olympic gold medal basketball game between the United States and the ... 

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South Carolina not invading Texas. But what about other SEC schools?

7/17/2012 4:48 PM

Oklahoma and Oklahoma State and -- heck, every school in the Big 12 -- make a living in football by finding recruits in population-rich Texas.

When Texas A&M defected ... 

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Olympic debate: 1992 'Snub Team' could beat current Olympians

7/13/2012 11:13 AM

I’ll tackle the subject of Dream Team vs. current Olympic team for the third day in a row (don’t blame me; Kobe Bryant started it) and then I’ll leave it alone, unless ... 

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Dream Team vs. Olympic Team: Barkley bites back

7/12/2012 9:02 AM

In a war of words, do you really think Charles Barkley is going to lose?

Let’s set the scene:

Kobe Bryant went on record as saying the current U.S. Olympic ... 

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Dream Team vs. current Olympic team: Who wins?

7/11/2012 11:06 AM

Kobe Bryant said he thinks the current Olympic team could beat the original Dream Team.

Is he crazy? Or (yeah, this is a cheap shot) senile?

I sought the opinions ... 

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Hey, college football. Let's "pay" the fans

7/9/2012 5:11 PM

A college football playoff got approved. In the aftermath, Texas coach Mack Brown voiced an opinion that perhaps it’s time to pony up some money to players.

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What can we learn from Ibaka-James feud? Sammy Sosa was no fool

6/19/2012 3:46 PM

Serge Ibaka allegedly speaks five languages, at least one of which I can’t spell or pronounce.

He’s not stupid.

“Stupid” was the word LeBron James used after ... 

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Tulsa World sports writer Jimmie Tramel is a former class president at Locust Grove High School. He graduated magna cum laude from Northeastern State University with a journalism degree and, while attending college, was sports editor of the Pryor Daily Times. He joined the Tulsa World on Oct. 17, 1989, the same day an earthquake struck the World Series. He is the OSU basketball beat writer and a columnist and feature writer during football season. In 2007, he wrote a book about Oklahoma State football with former Cowboy coach Pat Jones.

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