I owe you one, Keith
Published: 6/26/2007 11:31 AM
Last Modified: 6/26/2007 11:31 AM
Every June, about the time college baseball season ends, sportswriters in college markets check their brains at the desk and don't pick them up again until football practice starts in August. It's not a proud tradition, but it has been adhered to for years.
And occasionally, it has consequences.
In a story published in last Sunday's World, I claimed that when OU recruit Landry Jones had been invited to the Elite 11 Quarterback Camp, he had done what current Sooner quarterbacks Sam Bradford, Joey Halzle and Keith Nichol had not.
Fact is, Nichol attended last year's camp.
I made the mistake of scanning the 2005 camp roster instead of '06. Why? Because I in my summer-polluted mind, I momentarily thought Nichol was an '06 recruit, having just gone through spring practice with the Sooners.
If I'd stopped to thaw my brain, I would have remembered that Nichol enrolled at mid-semester and was at Lowell (Mich.) High School last fall for his senior season.
The lesson: Google is your friend. Punching in "Keith Nichol" and "Elite 11" would have saved me, and a lot of OU/Lowell fans who have since bombarded me with email, a lot of time and trouble.
At any rate, it was a bad oversight. And if I'm trying to make light of it, the fact is I'm embarrassed by such a blatant inaccuracy.
I'm hoping the media can interview OU quarterbacks again when practice starts in August. That way, I can march over to Nichol and by way of introduction, get something off my chest.
"My bad."
-- Guerin Emig
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Guerin Emig
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