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Kim English at Providence just got the boot this morning. He was a former Mizzou basketball player. I remember seeing his first Providence team get roasted by OU in Norman early in that 2023-24 season.

The shame of how late the game ended will be seen in print media in Oklahoma tomorrow. They'll devote a ton of column inches on the great "moral victory" by Poke State about 11 hours ago. In Lawton, they'll probably skip the OU-Texas wire story anyway because they don't like OU much.

I hope I'm a good luck charm for OU against Mizzou. I have been to 11 OU-MU games, and OU has won them all, dating back the 1976 season (when it was a major shocker to see OU's kiddie corps take down the eventual Big 8 champs).

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.