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Monster game on Halloween
Published: 10/27/2009 2:53 PM
Last Modified: 10/27/2009 2:54 PM

Oklahoma State’s colors are orange and black -- colors traditionally associated with Halloween.
OSU is playing a Halloween home game Saturday against Texas.
Hmmm. Could it be that the Cowboys are destined to spring an upset?
“Anything can happen on Halloween, so we are just hoping everything goes in our favor that night,” receiver Isaiah Anderson said.
OSU’s all-time record in Halloween games is 7-7.
The Cowboys have dropped two consecutive Oct. 31 games (to ranked Texas A&M and Kansas squads in 1998 and 1992) since their last Halloween victory, a 56-7 knockout of Kansas State in 1987, when Thurman Thomas ran for 130 rushing yards and Barry Sanders came off the bench for 105. The guy handing off to them was Mike Gundy.
What would Anderson be doing Saturday night if he didn’t have a Halloween game? He said he would probably be taking his 2-year-old son, Isaiah, Jr., trick-or-treating back home in Wichita Falls, Texas.
“I bought him a little monkey costume,” Anderson said. “He reminds me of Curious George because he is always getting into stuff.”
Anderson hasn’t been a dad for long, but he sounded like a Halloween veteran when asked if he will let his son eat all the trick-or-treat candy.
“I’ll do what most parents do,” he said. “I will go through and pick out my favorites and let him have the rest.”



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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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