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Pressure Tactics
Published: 1/2/2007 6:50 PM
Last Modified: 1/2/2007 6:50 PM

I don't know what your feelings were during a wild Fiesta Bowl on Monday night, but I was hurting for the guys in the press box.
Writing a game story on a night deadline can be a stressful thing. It's an especially stressful thing when the game goes down to the wire, or past the wire, if you are (un)fortunate enough to deal with overtime.
If a game is a blowout, you can get a headstart by writing a game story during the course of the second half. Otherwise, it's a mad scramble.
I'm guessing that people in the press box who were writing game stories had to write and rewrite their stories several times before perspiring through a final version.
In those instances, you just hope you spell your name correctly.


Reader Comments 4 Total
Bill (6 years ago)
I think all the TW writers deserve our emphathy for those late games in which the deadline presses so heavily upon them. They do a great job in that regard.

That, however, is where my empathy ends. The crew there were all over themselves with how wonderful OU was and what a "magical" season they had coming back from the Oregon game. You'd have thought OU was pre-ordained as a Champion!

Comeuppance hurts.
Rich (6 years ago)
Yeah, that is exactly what I was thinking. Those poor press guys.
Blair (6 years ago)
Jimmie, when the game was tied and went into overtime I told my brother this was a sports writer's nightmare. The game ended, what? Ten minutes before dealine? Obviously it was extended, but man, that is some serious time pressure!
jimmie tramel (6 years ago)
I hear you, Blair. Covering those kind of games will take 10 years off your life. One of our columnists told me he had 20 minutes to write and couldn't start until the game was over. That's about a paragraph per minute, with no time to think. It's not like being in eighth grade and having a month to do a book report.
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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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