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Found: Secret admirer of ORU basketball team

10/28/2012 9:11 PM

Oral Roberts University got one vote in the Associated Press preseason basketball poll and, if you know how balloting works, that means one person picked the Golden Eagles ... 

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Question: Does it hurt bad? Answer: Has anyone ever been hurt good? This might qualify.

10/18/2012 11:35 AM

Junior college transfer Tramel White, who is competing with D.J. Jackson and Mikey Manghum for the right to start at point guard for Oral Roberts University, sustained ... 

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New D-League coach Eduardo Najera: Almost a Golden Eagle

8/23/2012 6:59 AM

Here’s a sentence you didn’t read in today’s Tulsa World: Former Oral Roberts University basketball player Eduardo Najera is retiring from the NBA to become head coach ... 

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One team already eliminated from ORU's postseason hoops tournament

6/21/2012 9:56 AM

And then there were nine.

ORU’s new league, the Southland Conference, will have 10 basketball members next season. And one of them already has been eliminated from ... 

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The new ORU mission: Win two games, reach NCAA Tournament

5/24/2012 12:11 PM

I traded texts with Oral Roberts University basketball coach Scott Sutton this morning and can report this: He used the word “great” in regard to a change in the Southland ... 

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Who is ORU playing? Can DoMo go pro? Southland expanding?

5/22/2012 6:35 PM

How about five questions regarding the Oral Roberts University men’s basketball program?

And -- full disclosure -- I’m stealing info from an ORU coaches luncheon ... 

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Tweeting ORU fans lift perception of Golden Eagles

3/9/2012 10:15 PM

As Selection Sunday approaches, ORU is coming up in the world, at least in one bracketologist’s estimation. And it’s apparently all because of the efforts of Golden Eagles ... 

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ORU fans seeing hope for NCAA berth

3/8/2012 3:10 PM

Is a groundswell of public opinion building for ORU to be in the NCAA Tournament? It depends who you ask.

Golden Eagles fans were encouraged Tuesday night when ESPN ... 

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ORU fans watching other bubble teams in conference tournaments

3/8/2012 2:02 PM

ORU needs several other bubble teams to lose in their respective conference tournaments on Thursday to enhance the Golden Eagles’ chances of receiving an at-large berth ... 

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Emegano key player in Western Illinois turnaround

3/5/2012 12:14 PM

Western Illinois finished ninth last year and didn’t qualify for the Summit League Tournament. Now, the Leathernecks are in the semifinals for the first time in 13 years, ... 

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Putting the gold in Golden Eagles

3/3/2012 11:06 AM

ORU’s men will be staying gold during the Summit League Tournament.

The Eagles brought only one set of threads for the three-games-in-four-days event – the same ... 

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Tourney odds and ends: ORU's RPI climbing

2/29/2012 8:17 PM

For those who missed it, ORU reached 39th briefly Tuesday in the Ratings Percentage Index and moved higher, to 38, on Wednesday afternoon, according to RealtimeRPI.com.

It’s ... 

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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. Since 2001, he has been honored more than 30 times in Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists contests for sports reporting, sports columns and sports features. He is the Oklahoma State football beat writer and the Oral Roberts basketball beat writer. In 2007, he wrote a book about OSU football with former Cowboy coach Pat Jones.

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