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Doing Thorpe's Legacy Proud

9/29/2009 4:08 PM

I always wanted to do this story: How many current athletes are descendants of Oklahoma-born Jim Thorpe, reputed to be the greatest athlete who ever lived. The master ... 

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TU alum Ruffin Thunderstruck

9/28/2009 5:30 PM

The Oklahoma City Thunder won't play a regular season game in Tulsa. The franchise chose to name itself the Oklahoma City Thunder instead of the more all-inclusive Oklahoma ... 

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March Madness in October

9/28/2009 2:39 PM

Oklahoma State is a bubble team. Say what? Isn’t it half a year too early to be talking about bubble teams? This isn’t about college basketball. It’s about college football. ... 

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Bring more madness, please

9/22/2009 12:30 PM

Let’s get greedy. The NCAA Tournament is coming to Tulsa in 2011. The city doesn’t want to be a one-hit wonder. We want all the March Madness we can get -- the crazier ... 

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Football stats and frog sushi?

9/17/2009 11:57 AM

Fun and games with the latest batch of stats on ncaasports.com: --The teams (Arizona State, Oklahoma) who rank 1-2 nationally in run defense have something in common. ... 

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Son of Rubber Band Man is Missouri-bound

9/14/2009 10:15 AM

Missouri basketball coach and former University of Tulsa player Mike Anderson was scheduled to make a golf excursion Monday to Tulsa, but the Vince Williams Memorial ... 

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Remembering another OU quarterback's first start

9/13/2009 6:37 PM


In no way am I declaring new Oklahoma starting quarterback Landry Jones to be the second coming of Troy Aikman. But Jones did something Aikman was unable to do: Win his ... 

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OSU-Houston?: It's one of those years

9/13/2009 6:15 PM


Shocked that Oklahoma State, one game after whacking an SEC team, could lose at home to Houston? You shouldn't be, and that's not a knock on the Cowboys. I'm getting ... 

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UH's Sumlin, OSU's Young meet again, sort of

9/9/2009 12:18 PM

Oklahoma State defensive coordinator Bill Young and Houston head coach Kevin Sumlin have something in common besides a date with each other this weekend. They were among ... 

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Season opener: Punch Bowl

9/4/2009 8:22 AM

The hot-button sports issue of the day is what should the punishment be for Oregon's LeGarrette Blount? He punched Boise State's Byron Hout after a season opener and ... 

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He's No. 78

9/3/2009 5:24 PM

G.J. Kinne, recently announced as the new starting quarterback for the University of Tulsa football team, hasn't played a down yet, but he's already better than 42 Division ... 

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From electric football to Booker T. football

9/2/2009 10:46 AM

I attended a Tuesday night public screening of a new documentary (title: “Hornet Football Excellence”) about Booker T. Washington football, then stuck around for a panel ... 

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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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