Mr. Picker, God bless you for being so valid in your comments about OKC's total devotion with all things OU. Why doesn't "fairness in broadcasting" apply here?

Gene:
If you want 'fairness in broadcasting' call Nancy Pelosi. She is trying to get it passed...again.
Better yet, why don't you and WP get the State to hire Hugo Chavez to be in charge of the OKC media. I hear he has a solution to biased coverage.

World Picker:
You asked: "What are we, bumpkins, with a media that needs a lot of help?"

Yes, obviously. Otherwise Tulsa would have competent sports journalists to cover OU/OSU/TU and OKC would be shut out of the market.
After all, they are only filling a void.

Seems you answered your own question, chump.
Maybe you didn't think this through before you opened your big mouth.

If you are such a neutral observer, full of knowledge and truth, how come the best you can do is an anonymous blog like this?

If you want more OSU coverage, have at it. If you want more TU coverage, have at it.
Or are you just a 'one trick pony', WP?

Jay, I mean Picker, this is the smartest thing you've written in years. I knew if I kept checking back it would happen. I just knew it!

107th verse same as the first.

Why is OKC radio popular in Tulsa?

Look at the alternative.

Why is the combined TV brodcast doing so well on Sunday?

Look at the alternative.

Why is the school that draws numerous national telecasts and 84k plus per game always on the front page and the lead on the news cast?

Look at the alternative.

If covering the team that can't draw more than 20k in its home city unless OU or OSU comes to town is a lack journalistict credibility, call me when interest doesn't dictate coverage.

If not covering a team as the lead that is never on national tv unless they play OU or can't sell out home games unless Sooner fans purchase tickest a lack of jounalistict credibility, well call me when covering 7-7 seasons versuses 11-3 seasons becomes in vogue.

Common Sense? Interest dictates coverage.

Don't tell me Tulsa cares more about TU than OU or even OSU. Sadly, TU ranks last in its own home city.

Vacation in Tulsa, home of the conference USA champ.

I will be in OKC, enjoying Big 12 championships, BCS Bowls, NBA games, Big 12 B-Ball tournaments, NCAA B-Ball mens and womens regionals, College Softball world series and International Softball Championships.

If the shoe fits Bumpkin?

OK, JDG. First off, OKC is nothing but a bunch of hick farmers and ranchers. The city just smells funny and that's not throwing barbs...its the downright truth. Second the reason there are so many Sooner fans as opposed to TU fans is TU doesn't let anyone who just fell off a tractor into school there. Also, there is an entire state of Gooners to deal with. The only reason they are fans is because the word on the front of the jersey just so happens to look the same as the one on their license plate...fans by association...too bad if you ask most of them how to spell Oklahoma you get O-? Keep going to your BCS games for the money because you haven't been bringing back any trophies! For that fact, the BCS is a monopoly (that's right like the game)...and it will go down soon enough as soon as a couple of smaller conferences hire a lawyer with enough balls to take it down and the 6 conferences who run it.

I don't live within 100 miles of either city but when it comes to football I buy the Tulsa World because i want to know about all the teams, not just OU. when it comes to big 12 baseball OKc never covers it unless the Sooners are doing good and that's not often so again I read the World, dito for Basketball.
If 84,000 people go to the OU games why is there a need for so much coverage, everyone was there.

Thank you for proving my point JDG. Fanhood for most sooner fans began in 2000. Coverage should lend itself to OU in football. That is not the question, but you you don't realize is that it is almost exclusively OU. Instead of being 60% OU and TU and OSU vying for the other coverage time. It's more like 90% OU. By the way, in case you forgot OU is NOT in Oklahoma City. It's in Norman. They are two very different cities for anyone that has ever been there. This distinction might be made easier if OU fans actually set foot on campus for more than just game day, if even that.

Arthur,
Proud OU graduate in 2000 and MBA from Tulsa in 2004. Been to every OU home games since 83 but one (2003 Texas AM). Season ticket holder with family since 83 and on my own since 2001.

Given, support dropped during the blake era but we still had over 50K in season ticket holders and on most games got over 60k.

Most who go to the games and are season ticket holders went to OU.

Being from eastern Oklahoma, and having lived in Edmond for the past 25 years, I can honestly say the ONLY difference in OKC and Tulsa is that the Tulsa and eastern Oklahoma have trees. OKC is afraid of trees. If we had trees in central Oklahoma, how in the world would that daily obnoxious wind blow?

I have been a season ticket holder in Soonerville for over 30 years, and I can only agree that the Sports Animal and both CBS affiliates (the Griffin Empire) are so very OU biased, it's ad nausium. I gotta hand to the Picker on this topic...right on the money.

Have any of you World Picker homers asked yourselves why there is so much more media coverage of OU sports in Tulsa than there is coverage of OSU and TU?
Especially in light of the fact that it is a business.

Here is what you lightweights are saying: Since there is more coverage of OU, the media is biased, and that bias is why there is more coverage of OU.
This is an example of the "World Picker Logic Void." It is sort of a black hole of stupidity.
You must be very careful, it tends to attract an extremely ignorant element of society.

Arthur: are you seriously telling us you chose a university because it was not very successful at sports and no one reported it? Or that you eschewed OU because it was successful at sports and everyone reported it?

A neutral observer thinks things through before he makes a statement he can't back up.
Seems World Picker has failed, once again, to think things through before opening his big mouth.
All sizzle, no beef...again.

Nit Picker's opinion on this has no bearing, since he may be the biggest OU homer. Even more then Al. And that is saying something.

What do you think of that, sport? By the way, being ranked 14th is pretty high for a 3 loss team. Sport.

Hey JDG, since you seem to be incredibly smart AND football savvy, perhaps you can enlighten us as to which college teams you are refering to that have ever had 7-7 or 11-3 records (besides the teams that play Hawaii, of course)? Come on now, Mr. "I've been going to OU football games since 1772."

108th verse, same as first.

Why get football facts from anyone besides an OU fan?

Look at the alternative (schooling that is).

Isn't OU almost always overrated?