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It was Pollard. He was a true freshman that year, as was Tyrone Jones at KU. He had a redshirt year in there somewhere. Both of them were juniors at OU in '88. My younger brother was at that Thursday night game with NC A&T back in '85. I think he was the one who mentioned that hostile...

OU played Illinois State in the 1985 NCAA tournament in Tulsa. One ISU player was a freshman on that roster. He wound up at OU four years later as a JC transfer. Can you name him? Footnote: I thought about ISU because of something I remember hearing about second hand when OU played those...

It makes me feel a bit ancient knowing that John McCullough, the first "OU star of the LNC era", will be 69 years old in October. FWIW, a more "famous" OU student from that era, Candy Loving - the 25th Anniversary Playboy Playmate, is already that age.

I still feel old when I think about OU football player Xavier Robinson being the grandson of former (one-year) OU basketball player David "Snake" Greasham. Snake graduated from high school in 1977 from Star-Spencer and came to OU that fall. Unfortunately, he only lasted that one year and wound...

I saw that one earlier. It was cool that they did the entire draft in that format. Interesting, though, to see that Johni Broome is supposed to go so late in the draft. It's also interesting to wonder why Rutgers, with two of the top five projected players, had a losing season.

My family's DVR setup died when the mega-storm in late April fried many cable systems here in Lawton. I had a few games saved, mostly wins over OSU and Kansas, not to mention many great football wins in the last 10 years and the softball national title games during the four-peat. I would be...

The OU team from my senior year started a front line of 6-9 (Al Beal), 6-8 (Terry Stotts) and 6-7 (Steve Bajema) at times, FWIW.

I think Bobby Jack was All-Big 8 in both baseball and basketball, but that was a little bit before my time. He played for John McLeod in basketball, a couple of years before Alvan Adams' debut in the fall of 1972.

OU has three wins over the "Sweet 16 field" as of now. Of course, I'm talking about Arizona, Michigan and Arkansas. I don't care a lot about the Florida-Maryland game, but I have a hard time rooting for a school that once employed Mark Turgeon (Maryland).

If the Lobos get this one done tonight, he'll be the new mayor of Albuquerque. They've never been past second round since the field was expanded many moons ago.

Bradley was one of the guys involved in that major hazing scandal at New Mexico State a couple of years ago. That's the one that got their season canceled. Brief story on the whole mess from Albuquerque's CBS-TV affiliate...

UNM. I worked there for a long time. But I'd never pull for them against OU under any circumstance.

It's been 26 hours since the bracket was released, and I'm surprised that no "national guys" have been saying that Marquette is playing New Mexico State in that 7-10 game in Cleveland. The folks in Albuquerque have gotten sick of being mistaken for NMSU, especially when the Aggies had such a...

I can't figure out how Illinois is in the Top 25. They're getting worked by Maryland right now. I can think of a certain MWC school, the one that once employed me for over a decade, that should be in there ahead of them. FWIW, the Lobos can also help OU's cause, if it's even necessary, with a...

UCF and KSU won the other two Big 12 games, FWIW. I had to see it on my laptop's "home page," because the early Big 12 games weren't even on TV. I assume the Bobby Hurley firing watch has already begun. I also hope that Indiana flops in its own head coaching search. If you've ever seen the...