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Maybe ESPN really does hate the Sooners
Published: 12/16/2008 8:54 AM
Last Modified: 12/16/2008 8:54 AM

Oklahoma fans are about ready to burn Bristol down.

First, ESPN gives Mack Brown all the platform he wants to make a BCS case for his Texas Longhorns. Then the Worldwide Leader showers Tim Tebow with rose petals in an attempt to get the Florida quarterback in the thick of the Heisman derby.

Now comes the 8-team mock playoff put together by Ted Bauer of ESPN The Magazine. Bauer likes the Gators in a close national final over...

USC.

That's right. It's the Trojans in a semifinal upset over the No. 1 seed Sooners... "Seeing as how USC's D is good, and Oklahoma's is good but did allow over 40 points to Oklahoma State, well, we'll take USC in a thriller."

-- Guerin Emig

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Thomas (4 years ago)

ESPN quit being about sports coverage when they started making the news instead of reporting it. The steroids in baseball thing blew up because ESPN needed to sell commercial time. Now that they're all booked up, you're not gonna hear anything about steroids in football, where the drug makes a bigger difference than in baseball. I only wish Fox Sports had good sports coverage. Then I could quit ESPN. Until then, I'll watch The Herd, yell at the TV, and hope my Sooners spoil all their fun. BOOMER....

Ken (4 years ago)

No child support paying punks like Billy Simms has brought this on OU

Gary (4 years ago)

ESPN has sunk so low tanking it for Florida and "anybody but OU" that People Magazine has more credibility when it comes to analyzing sports. I'd rather lean on the "Hominy Grits" sports page than the "sports leader". The Grits gets it right.

Eric (4 years ago)

I'm glad that it's being noticed. Maybe it's because Oklahoma isn't a big state like Cali, Texas, or Florida. I don't understand it. Coach Stoops and the Sooner program is as classy as it gets. No, what I think it is, is that people are a little jealous that OU goes to the big games every year. Probably ticks some people off. What else could it be???

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Tulsa World Sports Writer Guerin Emig has covered University of Oklahoma football and men's basketball for the Tulsa World since 2004. He lives in Norman, where he keeps the fact that he is a University of Kansas graduate on the down low.

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Tulsa World Sports Writer Eric Bailey covered TU sports before coming over to the OU beat. He came to the Tulsa World in September 2004 after working eight years at the Springfield (Mo.) News-Leader. He attended Haskell Indian Nations University and the University of Kansas, where he was a 1996 Chips Quinn scholar, a national award given to minority journalism students.

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