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Nocturnal Creatures
Published: 8/27/2008 4:50 PM
Last Modified: 8/27/2008 4:50 PM

Oklahoma State released its 2008-09 basketball schedule, which means that the Cowboys know who their enemies are and I know who my enemy is: Father Time.
Remember when college sporting events started at a reasonable time?
Nearly one-third of OSU's regular season games (9 of 30) will tip off at 8 p.m. or later.
I don't know how people who commute to the games from Tulsa feel about that, especially when you've got to be at work the next morning, but I can tell you how I feel about it.
Selfishly, I think it smells like the Fish Market (although it is a neat place) that OSU football fans will have the option of visiting this weekend in Seattle.
An 8 p.m. or later start makes Joe Beat Writer a bad writer, not that I need help in that regard. At the end of late-starting games, stories are due like, five minutes ago. All you can do is hope you spell names right, including your own.
I understand that an 8 p.m. start usually signifies Big Monday and you can't turn down a coveted spot on the Big Monday stage. But OSU has only one Big Monday game this season, which means that someone else besides ESPN believes games which end closer to tomorrow than today are a good idea.
That's my rant. If I'm in the minority about the late starts, I'll shut up.





Reader Comments 5 Total

ghax (4 years ago)
you b ahhright jimbo! At least you don't have to go to fargo, brookings, cedar city, macomb, yada, yada, yada.
Arthur (4 years ago)
From a student's perspective, it wasn't that long ago for me I was a student during the most recent sweet sixteen and final four runs, it's great having those late games. Students have to get in line at least two hours ahead to get good seats. It also makes camping for students easier, since you don't have to skip class to make sure your spot in the camping line is saved. From an alumnus perspective, I have no idea how our older alums are going to be able to handle this, by older I mean wheelchair/walker age not SUV/soccer mom age. One of the things I loved about GIA was that people that could barely stand would stand and cheer for their cowboys. Pushing games later I would imagine, would diminish that crowd. Maybe it's an effort to appeal to a younger crowd?
Kel (4 years ago)
All i have to say is"Thank goodness for the DVR on my TV!!!"
MIKE (4 years ago)
This is completely off the topic but Arthur has spurred some memories. Waiting in line for at least 3 hours every home game, surviving the blistering cold winds that came thru the exterior of GIA like it was made to be a wind tunnel, camping out for the season openers and OU games in 17 degree weather....ah yes, the good ol' days.
Arthur (4 years ago)
You would think that with all of those bodies it would be warmer waiting to get into GIA, but those January and February games were freezing. Camping out was usually worse. I was not one of those fortunate enough to have a space heater and extension cords, but it made it that much better running in to GIA especially for Kansas and bedlam. Oh I miss that student section, but the late games are great for that atmosphere. Especially on Thursday nights in Stillwater.
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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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