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Reacting to sports news: Receding hairlines and college sports is bad business
Published: 1/29/2013 11:08 AM
Last Modified: 1/29/2013 11:08 AM

Reactions to recent sports news:

1, Kobe Bryant leads Lakers to a victory over Thunder and Tiger Woods wins a golf tournament.

Reaction: Have receding hairlines ever had a better week?

2, Bryant had 14 assists in consecutive games.

Reaction: Meet the player Bryant could be if he wanted to chuck ego to the side and max his skills. Ever seen Bryant take a turnaround 3-pointer from the corner with two defenders on him? Sure, more times than can be counted. And, occasionally, he’ll make degree-of-difficulty shots and jaws drop and highlights wind up on SportsCenter. But what that really means when you make a shot over two defenders is no one was guarding one of your teammates. You can’t be as good as you can be if you make the game harder than it needs to be.

3, One of the teams in the Super Bowl has a key player named Colin.

Reaction: Is this the World Cup? We playing football or futbal?

4, West Virginia basketball coach Bob Huggins apparently has a clause in his contract extension that would reward him with a $25,000 bonus for a regular season victory over Kansas.

Reaction: This is another example of why college athletics is the worst-run business on earth. (I could list 50 reasons). The job of the basketball coach in any conference is to beat teams in his conference. Will Huggins be docked $25,000 if he loses a regular season game to TCU?

5, The Big East is “probably” adding a team.

Reaction: I know the collegiate landscape and I know Tulsa has entered the pageant, but the Big East just needs to go away and let the new members go back to their old homes. I suppose the Big East is a conference, but it resembles a carcass.

6, Tom Brady was fined $10,000 for sliding into (almost like a kick) Ed Reed during the AFC title game.

Reaction: I guessed wrong. I thought Reed would be fined for “roughing” the sole of Brady’s shoe.

7, The Pro Bowl drew 12.4 million viewers.

Reaction: Either we desperately need a new measuring system for TV viewership or this nation loves football so much that it’s no wonder other people keep (AFL, USFL, XFL) keep trying to get a piece of the action.

8, At what age were you last excited about a Pro Bowl?

Reaction: I tossed that question out there on Twitter. Among those responding was the pride of Westville and the voice of pro wrestling, Jim Ross. Said Ross, “It was when I was still called Jimmy.”

9, Manti Te’o and the new normal.

I did a story the other day about Oral Roberts basketball player Steven Roundtree and the fact that, during an injury absence, he attended a grandfather’s funeral. I 100 percent believed Roundtree when he told me about his grandfather. Who would make up something like that? But, because of the Te’o hoax, I felt compelled to find the obit of Roundtree’s grandfather on the Internet. Should journalists be doing that anyway? Sure. But it’s a shame that it now seems mandatory. Sorry, Steven, for double-checking. Never doubted you.

10, Horace Grant was at the Thunder-Lakers game.

Reaction: How do we know it wasn’t twin brother Harvey? Anyone check a driver’s license?


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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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