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Using your head
Published: 3/5/2007 3:04 PM
Last Modified: 3/5/2007 3:04 PM

Oklahoma State's Mario Boggan caught a lot of grief for his head-butting incident of Cartier Martin.
Boggan knows he messed up, so at least give him credit for that.
Head-butting someone is never a good idea, outside of a pro wrestling ring, and no one is advocating that Boggan was right to head-butt Martin, even if Boggan was provoked.
But sometimes head-butting can be a productive thing.
Former OSU and NBA player John Starks lectured area youths during an inner city basketball camp last summer. Starks told the infamous story about the time he head-butted Reggie Miller.
Apparently, Miller kept doing things to Starks that were beyond the rules, but the refs never seemed to notice. Finally, Starks decided he had enough and he sent a message by bumping heads with Miller.
Starks got a technical foul and bad publicity out of the deal, but Starks said he never had Miller's respect until the head-butting incident. Lack of respect was never a problem after that.
Perhaps something good will come out of Boggan's head-butting ordeal also. Maybe that "something good" is that his teammates learned you have to keep your temper in check, even when you are being pushed to the limit.




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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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