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BCS: Oklahoma State Moves Into 9th Spot

November 21st, 2010 · No Comments

My 10-1 Oklahoma State Cowboys moved up a spot to #9 in college football’s Bowl Championship Series after a convincing 48-14 win over the Kansas Jayhawks Saturday in Lawrence.  Next up:  Bedlam at home against the 9-2 Oklahoma Sooners who whipped the Baylor Bears, 53-24, Saturday night in Waco.  Go Pokes!

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Oregon State Coach Victimized by ‘Obama Curse’

March 7th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Craig Robinson, the 47-year-old Chicago native and brother of First Lady Michelle Obama, just completed his second season as head coach of the Oregon State University Beavers men’s basketball team.  Unfortunately, he seems to have been victimized by the “Obama Curse.” Robinson was hired to replace a coach who had lead the team to a [...]

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Kansas Defeats Minnesota in Insight Bowl — Yawn

January 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment

The Big 12 North’s Kansas Jayhawks defeated the Big Ten’s Minnesota Golden Gophers, 42-21, late yesterday afternoon in the Insight Bowl in Tempe, Ariz. Because the game was aired on NFL Network, I didn’t watch it and will not give spend much time writing about the efforts of these two unranked teams.  I will, however, [...]

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Bowl No Holiday as Cowboys Fall to Ducks, 42-31

December 31st, 2008 · No Comments

It appears I blew it when it came to predicting the outcomes of the Pacific Life Holiday Bowl played last night in San Diego. In my second annual college football bowl game predictions post, I had picked #13 Oklahoma State to defeat #17 Oregon, 29-20.  Unfortunately, the Ducks had other plans for the Cowboys of [...]

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College Football Bowl Game Predictions Offered

December 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Due to the fact that there are seven — count ‘em, seven — Big 12 Conference teams involved in college football bowl games between Dec. 29 and Jan. 8, I decided to include all of their games as well as all of the BCS bowl games in my predictions this year which appear below: Monday, [...]

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Big 12 Title Game: ‘Like deja vu all over again’

December 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Borrowing from Yogi Berra, I must say something about the Big 12 Conference Championship set to take place Saturday between the #2 Oklahoma Sooners and #20 Missouri Tigers:  “This is like deja vu all over again.” There are, of course, some obvious differences such as the fact that the 2008 title game is taking place [...]

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Oklahoma State Preparing Offer to Bill Self?

April 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Wow, was I surprised to see this! I was watching ESPN at 11:25 p.m. Central after the Kansas Jayhawks defeated the Memphis Tigers to win the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship and saw an ESPN Bottom Line message crawl from right to left across the bottom of my television: “TULSA WORLD REPORTS OKLAHOMA STATE [...]

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