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A Dogged Interview Subject
Published: 5/19/2008 4:35 PM
Last Modified: 5/19/2008 4:35 PM

Interestingly enough, the Tulsa World folks were swapping shop talk last week about some of their favorite interview subjects (I name-dropped Evel Knievel).
Anyhow, add another favorite to the list. I had always wanted to interview Sand Springs native, Basketball Hall of Famer and former Harlem Globetrotter Marques Haynes just because I imagined he would have more stories to share than a library.
I huddled with Marques (he lives in Plano, Texas, now) at a Tulsa hotel on Saturday and would have to put him on a short list of the all-time class gentlemen I have ever had the pleasure of meeting.
My 6-year-old kid was fired up about it, too. She has seen the Harlem Globetrotters guest star in "Scooby Doo" reruns and thought it was incredibly cool that I talked to somebody who has actually "met" Scooby Doo.
I told that to Marques when I saw him again Monday at a photo shoot. He laughed and said "Scooby Doo is a good old guy." And so is the guy who said it.







Reader Comments 3 Total
Harry (5 years ago)
Truly a great sports figure. As a former Sand Springs resident, its always been hard to understand how Oklahoma let him "slip under the radar". I can't wait to read it.
PS: Trivia question - what famous athlete is related to Mr. Haynes?
Harry (5 years ago)
Truly a great sports figure. As a former Sand Springs resident, its always been hard to understand how Oklahoma let him "slip under the radar". I can't wait to read it.
PS: Trivia question - what famous athlete is related to Mr. Haynes?
jimmie tramel (5 years ago)
I won't ruin the trivia question for someone else, but the famous relative played at TU and played for the Dallas Cowboys.
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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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