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Published: 10/14/2006 5:20 PM
Last Modified: 10/14/2006 5:20 PM

Let's interrupt football season for an Oklahoma State basketball update.

The Cowboys launched preseason camp with a two-hour practice session Friday night. A few observations:

--JamesOn Curry had a bit of a baby face his first two seasons on campus. He doesn't have a baby face anymore. Maybe it's because he's doing something different with his hair. Or maybe he's just getting older.

--Keeping with a national evil trend, OSU has eliminated press row and will sell courtside seats to folks whose wallets are fatter than Chuck Taine (Google him, if you must). The new press seating area is so far away from the old spot that reporters who attend every home game will be eligible to vote in Ripley. Media folks won't pitch a fit because the move was inevitable. Money talks, never mind the 80 jillion dollars in free advertising generated by the media's coverage of sporting events. Last season, I scribbled a note to Mike Holder in regard to how many Big 12 basketball venues still have a courtside press row. After OSU's change, that number is five.

--OSU players should be tough. They are forced to dive for loose balls in practice. They are drilled on how to take charges. And they have to make baskets while two managers (or teammates) knock the cheese out of them with big orange pads. Sophomore post player Kenny Cooper showed no mercy when it was his turn to be the punisher.






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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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