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It's Eddie's Turn
Published: 2/3/2007 10:43 PM
Last Modified: 2/3/2007 10:43 PM

Thurman Thomas made the cut, and deservedly so, for the Pro Football Hall of Fame and now it's time for another former OSU sports figure to get into a Hall of Fame.
Eddie Sutton is the fifth-winningest coach in college basketball history. He should be in the Basketball Hall of Fame, period.
While the idea of an eastern media bias is perhaps urban legend, eastern media bias does exist in regard to the Basketball Hall of Fame. Besides Arizona's Lute Olson, name another college coach west of the Mississippi River to be picked for the hall lately.
Some other random thoughts:
--Big 12 basketball has been better at the top, but it's never been better from top to bottom. The easy place to get a road win in the league nowadays is where exactly? Maybe Colorado. But even the Buffs can put up a fight at home, as OSU found out Saturday.
--I'll straddle the fence on a Super Bowl pick. The Colts have an advantage at quarterback, but the Bears have a nice 1-2 punch (including the best Benson since Robert Guillaume) at running back and they will get to play against a Colt defense that was poor against the run during the regular season. The guys with horseshoes on their helmets played much better on defense once postseason arrived. Can they keep it up? That might be the key match-up.
--This is the 30th anniversary of the first Super Bowl I watched from start to finish. The Raiders beat the Vikings in Super Bowl XI and wasn't that the year the Raiders "cheated" the Patriots with an intentional forward fumble in the playoffs by Kenny Stabler? Remember a few years later when the Oilers and Raiders swapped quarterbacks, Stabler for Dan Pastorini? It's a different era. Can you imagine NFL teams swapping starting quarterbacks nowadays?
--Prince is doing the music for the Super Bowl. The Vikings -- the Purple People Eaters -- lost four Super Bowls. Purple Reign never came to fruition, but it looks like Purple Rain finally will.



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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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