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Four, Three, Two, One
Published: 12/4/2008 11:14 AM
Last Modified: 12/4/2008 11:14 AM

Four thoughts on the fourth day of December:
1, Oklahoma State basketball coach Travis Ford is returning to the court he used to play on, sort of.
Ford played the role of Danny O'Grady in a basketball movie called "The Sixth Man." He was a University of Washington point guard and footage was filmed at Hec Edmondson Pavilion, where Ford will take his OSU team Thursday night to face Washington in a Big 12/Pac-10 Hardwood Series game.
2, OSU is losing defensive coordinator Tim Beckman. The last umpteen defensive coordinators have all been scalded by critics of the Cowboy defense. Here's a thought: Maybe the defensive coordinators were all capable and what the Pokes really need is better talent on that side of the ball.
3, If the Conference USA football game is not a sell-out, then what I have always thought is officially true: Tulsa isn't a very good sports town. Oh, we talk a good game when it comes to being a good sports town. But we're the walk-up-on-game-day-and-maybe-buy-a-ticket kings of the universe.
4, The Ibrahima Thomas thing completely shocked me. When I heard Tuesday that perhaps one of the OSU basketball players was leaving the team, I presumed it would be someone who was hardly getting off the bench. Thomas is a starter and he always seemed to be wearing a smile off the court. Maybe Thomas and the Cowboys will patch things up and get back together.


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Mike (4 years ago)
Jimmie, I agree with #3 completely. And it doesn't stop at TU. All I hear from Tulsans is how Tulsa got jipped when the NBA chose OKC over us. Well, here is the proof why. All we do is talk big game about how we support our athletics and yet we cannot sell out a C-USA championship game or any of our minor league sport's games on ANY OCCASION no matter how well they are doing.

It seems Tulsa is the little kid who whines and cries about having his brother's toy and once he gets it, he loses interest, drops it, and walks away.
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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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