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Dean Clark's Dream Week
Published: 6/25/2010 1:25 PM
Last Modified: 6/25/2010 1:25 PM

Dean Clark, who was a well-known Tulsa World sports writer back in the 1970s and 1980s, had a dream week.
Clark, who made a living covering college football and basketball, absolutely loves tennis and soccer.
In fact, Clark was the original beat writer on the Tulsa Roughnecks - mainly because he was the only guy on the staff that knew anything about the sport.
He spent hours trying to explain the offsides penalty to the rest of us on the sports staff.
So, when soccer and tennis took center stage this week, Clark loved it.
First, he saw Landon Donovan score one of the biggest goals in U.S. soccer history to win its group at the World Cup.
Then, that was topped by John Isner's 11-hour, 5-minute victory over Nicolas Mahut, the longest tennis match in history, at Wimbledon.
We're guessing Clark saw every point of the 70-68 fifth set.



Reader Comments 1 Total
G-Tulsa (3 years ago)
It's nice to see that somebody in the business respects these two sports and is excited to write about them. As a tennis player and a fan of the game and its athletes, I enjoy reading the opinions of other avid fans. Let's get Mr. Clark some more page space to give his views. And a big congratulations to John Isner and Nicolas Mahut for their epic battle. They were true competitors and gentlemen in their match and after.
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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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