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TU Notebook

By MIKE BROWN, World sports writer
Published: 9/7/2008 2:31 AM
Last Modified: 9/7/2008 3:06 AM

Living with loss: None of his former TU teammates will miss slain receiver Neal Sweeney more than Howard Twilley. They were best friends.

"We did everything together," Twilley said. "We took vacations together and went to games together. I don't know what I'm going to do this football season."

Sweeney died Friday, less than 24 hours after the businessman was shot in his east Tulsa office.

Twilley and Sweeney starred on TU's 1965 Bluebonnet Bowl team and became inseparable in the little more than three decades since Twilley ended his NFL career with the Miami Dolphins. They were longtime members of First United Methodist Church.

Jerry Rhome called Sweeney "a super person. You just can't imagine why anything like this would happen to anyone, but especially someone like Neal."

Rhome, TU's Heisman Trophy runner-up quarterback in 1964, had graduated and was playing for the Dallas Cowboys when Sweeney came from a California junior college to play at Tulsa in 1965.

"I was following the team and I wanted to know from Howard who was catching all those passes," Rhome said.

Twilley caught a school-record 134 passes that season, Sweeney caught 78 and late quarterback Billy Guy Anderson threw for 3,464 yards. TU led the nation in passing for the fourth of five straight seasons and broke 19 NCAA records.

Injury update: Senior running back Tarrion Adams played the entire first half, showing minimal effect from the right leg injury that sidelined him in the third quarter at Alabama-Birmingham.

But starting defensive end George Clinkscale did not suit and starting free safety Charles Davis was held out of the game. Josh Burris was again solid as Davis' replacement.

Adams ran six times for 36 yards in the first half, caught three passes for nine yards and played several defensive snaps.

Scoring machine: TU junior tight end Jake Collums caught a 5-yard touchdown pass from Dave Johnson in the second quarter. It was Collums' second reception of the season and both are for touchdowns. Collums has eight career receptions and five are for touchdowns.

Thunder foot: Former Union kicker Jeremy Knott hit a 47-yard field goal for North Texas to end the first half — his first at the major college level — and had a 22-yarder in the third quarter .

Knott transferred from Northeastern A&M between semesters and won his job with the Mean Green in spring drills.

Fee proposed: North Texas is the fourth-largest university in the Lone Star State, with an enrollment over 34,000 in 2007. But the Mean Green has one of the smallest and most antiquated stadiums in major college football.

In the next few days, UNT's Student Senate will consider a referendum that would impose a student fee to help fund a planned $60 million stadium to replace 56-year-old Fouts Field. By MIKE BROWN, World sports writer

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