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Blake Posterized a Car

2/20/2011 1:27 PM

Blake Griffin “posterized” a car while a gospel choir sang on Saturday night.
Appropriate. Griffin has already “posterized” just about every human being in the NBA.
Griffin, ... 

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Tiger's Slump Continues Downward Slide

2/13/2011 3:05 PM

When Tiger Woods won the 2007 PGA Championship at Tulsa’s Southern Hills Country Club we figured he’d pass the all-time major championship record in a few years.
Woods’ ... 

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OU Needs a Turnaround Game

2/12/2011 3:26 PM

Oklahoma’s loss at Missouri was expected but it puts extra emphasis on the next two weeks to pull off some type of upset to perhaps save the season and a winning record.
The ... 

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Using Football for Basketball

2/10/2011 1:37 PM

There were 11,572 fans at Lloyd Noble Center on Wednesday night.
The debate is whether most of them showed up for the basketball game against Texas or to see Sam Bradford.
We’re ... 

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Bradford, Suh Prove Worthy of Top Two Picks

2/9/2011 1:52 PM

Sam Bradford and Ndamukong Suh, the NFL’s rookies-of-the-year, proved that what you do on the field should remain more important than all of those silly tests.
Bradford ... 

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Green Bay Won Because of the MVP

2/7/2011 9:51 AM

Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers had to be the Super Bowl most valuable player for his team to win.
Anything less and Pittsburgh would have won the game.
The Steelers, ... 

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Big 12 Must-Win Games are Won

2/5/2011 3:47 PM

Oklahoma State, Kansas State and Baylor, three desperate Big 12 Conference teams, got the victories they absolutely needed on Saturday.
OSU, KSU and Baylor are three ... 

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Winning is Nice Change at OSU, OU, TU

2/3/2011 3:59 PM

Victories by Oklahoma State, Oklahoma and Tulsa on Wednesday were signficiant.
If for no other reason, victories by major college basketball teams have become rare ... 

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Not Even Record Snow Stops Football Recruiting

2/2/2011 1:16 PM

There are some things, like recruiting high school football players, that cannot be stopped by 14 inches of snow.
Tulsa coach Bill Blankenship took two hours to get ... 

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The Frozen Tundra of Dallas

2/1/2011 3:30 PM

John A. Ferguson, the late great sports writer at the Tulsa World, probably holds the record for longest weather-related delay at our newspaper.
He once went to Fayetteville ... 

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Klein's Korner

Tulsa World senior sports columnist John Klein is in his fourth decade of covering sports. He started his newspaper career at The Daily Ardmoreite in 1977 and moved to the Tulsa World in 1978. He served 10 years as sports editor for the Tulsa World before being named to his current position in 2005. He also spent five years as the Southwest Conference beat writer for the Houston Post. He has won many writing awards and is a former Oklahoma Sports Writer of the Year.

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