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Viva Knievel

11/30/2007 6:30 PM

It's a dark day in history. Evel Knievel died. The stunt cyclist who wrapped himself in bicentennial colors was my first sports hero. If you don't believe attempting ... 

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Thoughts On Super Bowl 41 3/4

11/30/2007 9:48 AM

The Patriots-Colts game was billed as Super Bowl 41 1/2 and the Cowboys-Packers game was supposed to be Super Bowl 41 3/4. Will there be a Super Bowl 41 7/8? Maybe it's ... 

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Independence Day Arrives for Pinkel Every April

11/29/2007 4:30 PM

Missouri beat writer Graham Watson was nice enough to ask me to write a guest blog for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and I thought I would be lazy and reprint it here instead ... 

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Not Bill Self. The Other Guy.

11/27/2007 3:52 PM

Hours before the annual Mayor's Cup game between Tulsa and Oral Roberts, I am reminded of a man who coached both schools. Bill Self? No. I was referring to the other ... 

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Turning Over, But Not A New Leaf

11/21/2007 7:37 PM

Oklahoma State basketball coach Sean Sutton keeps a treadmill at practices. Anyone who commits a turnover (or commits another sin) is sentenced to the treadmill. Here's ... 

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A Full Plate of Sports

11/20/2007 2:42 PM

Sports is just as much a part of Thanksgiving as turkey, dressing and pumpkin pie. A few remembrances (and feel free to share yours): 1, The first Thanksgiving Day football ... 

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The Show Mustn't Go On

11/19/2007 3:49 PM

If a two-loss team -- or heaven forbid, two two-loss teams -- reach the BCS championship game, let's just not have it. Call the rest of the season off and we'll start ... 

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North Texas Aftermath

11/16/2007 10:31 PM

People ask me what I think of Oklahoma State losing a basketball game at North Texas. This is what I think: Not a big deal. North Texas is good (23 wins and an NCAA Tournament ... 

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Getting Skilly At Skelly

11/13/2007 11:06 AM

When coaches say they don't read newspapers, I don't believe them because, usually, some flunky likes to gain favor with the coach by pointing out something in the paper ... 

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Patriot Games, Poe, Bad Boys Gone Good and Ward's Block Party

11/6/2007 7:40 PM

Random thoughts and opinions about the NFL: --Former Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula, who guided the only unbeaten Super Bowl championship team, says the New England Patriots ... 

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Yo, Adrian

11/5/2007 7:02 PM

I was wrong. I thought it was fitting that Adrian Peterson did not finish his college career as Oklahoma's leading rusher. I knew he was a good player, but I didn't think ... 

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Calling A Few Hogs

11/5/2007 7:02 PM

Arkansas has had six head football coaches since Frank Broyles gave up the job to focus on being athletic director. Broyles, who was honored by the university Saturday ... 

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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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