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OSU QB Wudtree will transfer

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Oklahoma State quarterback Keondre Wudtee announced he is officially departing the Oklahoma State program. “At the beginning of the 2018 season, the matriarch of my family was diagnosed with a medical situation that is of great concern to me,” Wudtree said. “ Due to the situation, I have decided to transfer from OSU and continue…

Watching a Super Bowl can become a bit complicated

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These days, I watch the Super Bowl more for the commercials than for the game itself. Some of them are pretty funny and very creative. Lately, though, some are way too political for my taste. I used to be a Dallas Cowboy fan but my interest has waned. The Cowboys did win a playoff game…

Super Bowl LIII features the old guard and up-and-comers

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It will be youth versus experience when the Los Angeles Rams face the New England Patriots Sunday in Super Bowl LIII in Atlanta. Sean McVay, coach of the Rams, just turned 33. Patriots’ coach Bill Belichick is 66. America only had 48 states when Belichick was born in 1952 and the NFL had only 12…

Raise for Gundy

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Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy got an annual raise and a contract rollover for 2019. Gundy’s five-year contract was extended through the 2023 season. His annual $125,000 raise makes his salary for 2019 $5.125 million. That’s one of the top 10 coaching salaries in the nation.  “I’m more energized and excited about Cowboy football than…

OSU QB may transfer

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Oklahoma State fourth-team quarterback Keondre Wudtee has entered his name into the NCAA’s transfer portal. Wudtee, a Bossier City, Louisiana, native, has been at OSU for three years and will be a junior in eligibility.  Players who submit their names to the new NCAA transfer portal don’t have to transfer but it allows them to…

TU’s tough 2019 schedule

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Two sets of Cowboys, one from down the Cimarron Turnpike in Stillwater, and the other from Laramie, Wyoming, along with conference foes UCF, Houston, Memphis and Navy will visit H.A. Chapman Stadium in the fall to face The University of Tulsa on the gridiron. Tulsa’s attractive home schedule will begin on the third week of…

NFL is ‘not for long’ for some players with Oklahoma ties

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I used to be a big Dallas Cowboy fan but I have lost interest. It’s not that I don’t root for Dallas, it’s just that they don’t have any players that draw my interest. I loved to watch former Dallas quarterback Tony Romo. He was an escape artist and he was deadly accurate with his…

OU hires Ohio State DC Grinch

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Alex Grinch, co-defensive coordinator at Ohio State, has been hired as defensive coordinator at Oklahoma by Coach Lincoln Riley. Grinch, a 2017 semi-finalist for the Broyles Award (for the best assistant coach in the nation), will be called on to fix OU’s porous defense. Grinch was the defensive coordinator and second coach at Washington State…

Tulsa names Gillespie new DC

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Tulsa football coach Philip Montgomery has promoted linebacker coach Joseph Gillespie to defensive coordinator to replace Bill Young, who is retiring. Gillespie, 47, has coached linebackers for the Hurricane the past four seasons. “I’m excited to have Joe move into the role as defensive coordinator. More than anything, Joe was a key part in our…

Collins named an All American

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Tulsa redshirt freshman Zaven Collins was named to the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) Freshman All-America team. It’s the second freshman All-America award for the linebacker from Hominy. In December, Collins was named to the USA Today Freshman All-America team. Collins was the lone representative from an American Athletic Conference school named to the…