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Hole in None?

12/31/2006 1:22 AM

Rather than make a New Year's Resolution I do not have the will power to keep -- give up Mountain Dew, for instance -- I am going to issue a New Year's plea: Will somebody ... 

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Front Row Joe

12/28/2006 3:00 PM


Every reporter at some point asks a question that we will later come to regret and one of mine was asked to Joe Kines. Kines is serving as Alabama's temp coach in the ... 

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Tale of Two Rams

12/24/2006 3:48 PM

Owasso native Paul Smith became the first Tulsa quarterback to score touchdowns in three bowl games, but here's some breaking news: TU had two good football players from ... 

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Duck Tales

12/22/2006 7:07 PM

While on a road trip that will include covering three sportings events in three states in six days, I reached the conclusion that the fuss over Oregon replay official ... 

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A diary entry from banjo land

12/20/2006 9:27 AM

Thoughts during a basketball road trip to Nashville: When it comes to sports, doctors sometimes forget all about the hippocratic oath, and which one of the Mandrell sisters ... 

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A creature in every port

12/17/2006 9:18 PM

I am in the minority, perhaps, but I sort of enjoy a road trip to Shreveport. OSU is headed to Shreveport to play Alabama in the Independence Bowl. Mention Shreveport ... 

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Putting on the ritz

12/14/2006 8:34 PM

Every time I hear a Neil Diamond song, I think about dirty popcorn. Once upon a time my dad was in the military and we lived on an army base in Wertheim, Germany. Our ... 

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Fun and games

12/8/2006 2:58 PM


You can tell that Sean Sutton is his father's son (he inherited Eddie's scowl) and OSU's first-year head basketball coach also has a bit of Clark Griswold in him. When ... 

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Batman, Zsa Zsa and the Bear

12/5/2006 9:34 AM


If you are reading Batman nowadays (and shame on you if you aren't), then you know Batman just found out about a young son he didn't know he fathered, and I'm going to ... 

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PT Cruiser

12/3/2006 9:06 PM


I was assigned to stalk quarterback Paul Thompson at OU's preseason media day. I point out that I was assigned to do it because, if I had my choice of who to stalk, I ... 

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Cooler heads prevailed

12/1/2006 3:05 PM

People love to criticize the OSSAA for all sorts of reasons (usually it depends on whose ox is getting gored), but the governing body of Oklahoma high school athletics ... 

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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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