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Baaa-d news
Published: 10/7/2006 1:24 PM
Last Modified: 10/7/2006 1:24 PM

I do not like green eggs and sheep.

After a food-less commute to Manhattan, Kan., for the Kansas State-OSU game Saturday morning, the Tulsa World crew arrived at the press box only to discover the pre-game food was being catered by the Kansas Sheep Council.

Let the record show that I am a carnivore. I'll eat a cow. I'll eat a chicken, preferably with some bow tie pasta. And, unlike Julius on "Pulp Fiction," I will eat the "filthy animal" that he called a pig. Someone once told Homer Simpson that pigs are responsible for ham, bacon and sausage. Homer replied, "That would have to be a magic animal." Magic indeed. Wherefore art thou, on this day, little porky?

Carnivorous or not, there are some critters I will not eat. Among them: Horses, rhinos, giraffes, skunks and sheep.

So, I trotted down to the concession stand outside the press box and paid $4.25 for a cheeseburger that probably had been cooked hours earlier. P.S. Sportswriters shouldn't get free food at games anyway. They should have to pay like everyone else.

But, back to the subject of entrees, you can have rack of lamb. I prefer lack of ram.

Because sheep -- not the manliest of animals -- was served at the game, I have established OSU as a 10-point favorite.

P.S. Someone asked me to explain why I won't eat sheep. The best explanation I can come up with is that it just sounds baaa-d.



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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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