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...fact, Winters doesn’t just look like a running back, he used to be a running back. Growing up idolizing players like Barry Sanders and Edgerrin James, the Oklahoman spent the first seven years of his football career carrying the ball as a tailback...
...devil is not going to steal O.R.U." He received a standing ovation and was renamed O.R.U.'s co-president, but George Pearsons, chairman of the school's Board of Regents, seems intent on limiting his influence. "He is the founder. He is a great icon," Pearsons told The Daily Oklahoman. "But the bottom line is, any decision is going to come down to the board." The school has hired a Washington, D.C., law firm to run an independent investigation and an audit. It suggested that the professors' case could be solved by mediation, but the ex-teachers' lawyer...
...firestorm in college football was sparked two weeks ago, when Oklahoma State head coach Mike Gundy unexpectedly utilized his post-game press conference following an impressive win by the Cowboys over Texas Tech to go ballistic on local sports columnist Jenni Carlson. Carlson had penned a column in The Oklahoman suggesting that recently demoted OSU quarterback Bobby Reid had failed to demonstrate enough toughness—citing an observed incident of Reid being fed chicken by his mother as an off-the-field parallel—as a signal-caller before his benching. In the Gundy’s eyes...
...crazy." Shorthanded, the Hornets asked members of their dance squad, dubbed the Honeybees, to help process refunds for New Orleans season-ticket holders. The bootstrapping paid off: the Hornets quickly wrapped up $7.5 million in sponsorship deals from three Oklahoma City--based energy companies, a local bank and the Oklahoman, the state's largest newspaper. Within their first month in Oklahoma City, the Hornets sold more than 10,000 season tickets, the eighth best mark in the NBA. "My expectations were not set at the highest end," says NBA commissioner David Stern, "but they've been well exceeded...
...other Bears think he handles himself like a defensive player, a high compliment in Chicago, for this is eternally a defensive team. Ditka's shutout department is run independently by a straight-talking old ramrod named Buddy Ryan, an Oklahoman partial to cowboy boots and farm hats that say HORIZON SEEDS. In an era when most coaches feel obliged to soothe the players' psyches, Ryan is a link to the past. He took one wide look at "the Refrigerator" last summer and declared the Clemson first rounder to be "a wasted draft choice." But this was not an unusual introduction...