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Sports reaction: Deer antlers, monkey hormones and Judge Judy
Published: 1/31/2013 5:11 PM
Last Modified: 1/31/2013 5:11 PM

Reacting to recent sports news:

1, Ray Lewis is alleged to have used deer antler spray.

Reaction: Starting alongside Lewis at linebacker in the Super Bowl? Donner and Blitzen.

2, Quote from a deer antler spray story: “Deer antlers are the fastest-growing substance on earth.”

Reaction: You know who says that? People who are trying to sell deer antler spray. It’s like if you want to sell plastic spikes for golf shoes, you tell everyone metal spikes are bad for golf courses.

3, The AP interviewed a golfer named Bubba about deer antler spray.

Reaction: That seems perfect. (But, to be clear, Bubba is not the golfer who admitted he used the stuff. That would be Vijay Singh.)

4, Alabama football players allegedly used deer antler spray before playing LSU in a BCS title game.

Reaction: That doesn’t necessarily deserve an asterisk. But you can asterisk the BCS title game in which Alabama beat Texas. The Longhorns win that game if Colt McCoy doesn’t get hurt in the early going. Someone should have sprayed Colt with deer antler spray and hustled him back into the game.

5, What won’t athletes put in their bodies in an attempt to be a tad bit better?

Reaction: Ex-OU football player and ex-pro wrestler Cowboy Bill Watts wrote in his autobiography that he knows of a wrestler who injected himself with monkey hormones. Spoiler warning: Charlton Heston was on our planet all along.

5, Dr. Phil interviewed the tormentor of Manti Te’o.

Reaction: If nothing else, I learned Dr. Phil’s last name (McGraw) in stories about the interview session. I remember when sports was about Dr. J instead of Dr. Phil.

6, Randy Moss says he is the greatest of all time.

Reaction: Moss is like Oklahoma weather -- good when it wants to be good.

7, Everybody on the planet is showing up in New Orleans for radio interviews at the Super Bowl host city.

Reaction: It’s fun to listen to the interviews, good or not, just to find out what product the interview subjects are being paid to endorse. You get a bunch of good questions, then, at the end, it’s apparent that the interviewer has made a deal to ask so-and-so about his new sponsorship deal with (pick a product).

8, Michigan is No. 1 in college basketball.

Reaction: Michigan's Fab Five or Houston's Phi Slama Jama best squad never to win an NCAA title?

9, When Alex Rodriguez was benched during the playoffs last year, he flirted with gals from the dugout.

Reaction: From the grave, Wilt Chamberlain says A-Rod is an underachiever.

10, Dr. Phil and Oprah landed attention-getting sports interviews.

Reaction: Will Judge Judy be a Super Bowl ref?


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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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