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Wrong turns

10/30/2006 3:47 PM


I could bring attention to the predictions I got right, but I'm here to admit the ones I got wrong. 1, I wrote in print that OSU would not go to a bowl game if the Cowboys ... 

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Three cheers for lycanthropy

10/30/2006 3:45 PM

Television-wise, sporting events will have to take a backseat to something else tonight because this is Wolf Man Day. I love AMC's annual 'Monsterfest.' The cable channel ... 

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Shooting the breeze

10/27/2006 9:53 AM

I woke up this morning and the howling wind was louder than the TV that had been left on overnight, and if you are wondering what in the wide, wide world of sports that ... 

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You've got mail

10/24/2006 3:28 PM

It's usually not good to walk into the office and see that you have voice messages on your phone. More often than not, a message means that somebody is mad or wants to ... 

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Cardinal sins

10/21/2006 3:05 PM

This was my wife's idea: On our honeymoon, we went to a St Louis Cardinals game. All sports writers were little bitty fans before they ever became poorly dressed sports ... 

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Eye of the hurricanes

10/18/2006 1:30 PM


Hey coach, how do you feel about getting fired? That was the question I had to ask Larry Coker a few years back. Coker had just gotten his pink slip when he was an assistant ... 

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First dribble

10/14/2006 5:20 PM

Let's interrupt football season for an Oklahoma State basketball update. The Cowboys launched preseason camp with a two-hour practice session Friday night. A few observations: ... 

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Eastbound and down

10/12/2006 8:50 PM

My boys Mike Brown and Eric Bailey are headed to East Carolina for a TU football game and I've got some advice for them -- book a hotel room now. When I was younger and ... 

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Me Am Confused

10/9/2006 3:56 PM

Welcome to Bizarro World, where Baylor shares the lead in the Big 12 South, the Detroit Tigers are on the verge of going to the World Series and Mack Brown is suddenly ... 

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Baaa-d news

10/7/2006 1:24 PM

I do not like green eggs and sheep. After a food-less commute to Manhattan, Kan., for the Kansas State-OSU game Saturday morning, the Tulsa World crew arrived at the ... 

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Hold The Mayo

10/5/2006 3:48 PM

I have never trusted mayonnaise ever since Oklahoma football players ate 'poison' sub sandwiches one week prior to the 1993 OU-Texas game. After winning a road game at ... 

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Where is everyone?

10/3/2006 8:43 PM

I wonder if Tulsa -- the city, not the university -- appreciates Division I-A football. TU played a Tuesday night home game against Southern Miss and drew just over ... 

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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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