Word: oklahomas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sport Oklahoma survives Penn State, Miami and Bowl Day as college football celebrates a tidy and singular champ...
...happen in America since the Democrats started spending their way into office [NATION, Dec. 23]. There is no sane alternative. The country was headed for total bankruptcy. In five years, when the budget is balanced, the free-enterprise machine will take off like a rocket. James A. Worrell Oklahoma City...
...Oklahoma, though more rascal than scoundrel, as personified by boyish Coach Barry Switzer, 48, who might answer to Barry Spritzer. "I'm getting too old to have a good time," he worried. "I didn't make All-Hospitality Room this year." As mussed and professorial as Paterno looks, that's how slick and worldly Switzer appears. His teams are frequently referred to as "loose," a code word for undisciplined. Paterno has accomplished one of the rarest feats in sports: replacing a legendary coach, Rip Engle (whom he served as an assistant for 16 years), and becoming a larger legend. Switzer...
...presence usually constitutes an intrusion, but the 10-1 University of Miami Hurricanes represented just a small complication. While the local team was away in New Orleans for the Sugar Bowl, its activities were so well chronicled in the Herald and News that the triangle seemed joined in Miami. Oklahoma and Miami stood 2-4 in the wire-service poll of the coaches, 3-2 in the competing view of the sporting press. Having already beaten Oklahoma, 27-14, the Hurricanes were poised to be affronted by only half a title should the Sooners defeat Penn State. Miami...
Penn State quickly scored the first touchdown against Oklahoma, showing roughly what Switzer meant when he called State "a physical, smash-mouth type of ball club" that "splatters you." The wishbone running of Freshman Quarterback Jamelle Holieway was well splattered, but then Holieway blithely dropped back and threw a 71-yd. touchdown pass to a wonderful tight end named Keith Jackson. Oklahoma's most splendid players are on the defense: Nose Guard Tony Casillas, Linebacker Brian Bosworth and Safety Sonny Brown. Penn State could not match them, and in fact had to do heroic work just to keep the Sooners...