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Fear the All-Big 12 curse
Published: 10/8/2009 11:38 AM
Last Modified: 10/8/2009 2:12 PM

Allegedly, bad things happen after you appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated or the front of the Madden video game.

OSU's Dez Bryant appeared on SI's cover after the Cowboys opened the season with a win over Georgia. Then the Cowboys lost to Houston and lost Bryant because he committed the NCAA equivalent of perjury.

Troy Polamalu shared the Madden box with Larry Fitzgerald. Polamalu was injured in the season opener when he tried to pick up a ball followed a blocked field goal.

But if you really want to be jinxed, just get yourself named to the first-team All-Big 12 preseason offensive unit. Bryant? He was on the preseason squad. Just about every one of his preseason first-team teammates has gotten a big kiss from Lady (No) Luck.

QB--OU's Sam Bradford injured a shoulder in the season opener and hasn't returned.

RB--OSU's Kendall Hunter missed the nonconference finale with an injured foot and likely won't play in a league opener at Texas A&M.

TE--OU's Jermaine Gresham suffered a season-ending injury in a practice prior to the season opener,

OL--Texas Tech's Brandon Carter was stripped of his captaincy and was suspended because of a Tweet.

WR--Kansas' Dezmon Briscoe was suspended for violating unspecified team rules in the spring and also missed the season opener, but has played in every game since. (Coaches need to think of something else to say besides "unspecified team rules," because don't most of us assume those kind of violations were herbal in nature? If not, the coaches are letting us jump to that conclusion.)

OL--Texas center Chris Hall got knocked around pretty good against UTEP and twice left the game, but is expected to be available for a Saturday game against Colorado.

OL--OU's Trent Williams hasn't been struck by catastrophe, but offensive line play has been a sore spot for the twice-beaten Sooners. Maybe he doesn't deserve to be on this list.

Who has been immune? OSU lineman Russell Okung, Texas lineman Adam Ulatoski and OU running back DeMarco Murray, who may have used up all his bad luck -- at least injury-wise -- before this season.




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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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