Bob McCarty Writes

Could classroom disruptions on the University of Oklahoma campus last week have been “dry runs” conducted by a terrorist group? That question has been nagging at me ever since I read newspaper reports in the student-run campus newspaper, OU Daily, and in the Tulsa World.
On Wednesday afternoon, according to the news reports published Friday, two [...]

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College football fans in Texas appear to be suffering from severe cases of what might best be described as “Irritable Bowl Syndrome,” an affliction caused by a third-place finish in the latest BCS rankings.

Upset over the fact that their beloved Longhorns finished out of the running for a chance to play in the BCS Championship [...]

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Things worked out for the Oklahoma Sooners after all as they leapfrogged over the Texas Longhorns (now #3) and Florida Gators (now #4) into the #2 spot in college football’s BCS standings released this afternoon.
Four consecutive 60-plus-point performances, capped by a 61-41 defeat of the #12 Oklahoma State Cowboys last night, convinced human and computerized [...]

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Bob Stoops’ fifth-ranked Oklahoma Sooners delivered the #2 Texas Tech Red Raiders football program its worst defeat ever — that’s right, EVER! — a 65-21 drubbing Saturday night at The Gaylord Family Memorial Stadium in Norman.*  More importantly, however, the boys in Crimson ‘n’ Cream sent a strongly-worded message to the rest of the college [...]

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It appears both Rece Davis and Brian Bennett missed the opportunity to watch the Oklahoma Sooners pummel UT-Chattanooga amidst thunder and lightning — both on the field and in the skies above it — in Norman last weekend.  Had the ESPN college football prognosticators watched the nation’s fourth-ranked team as it hung 50 points on [...]

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