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It can't feel good to lose, especially in front of an empty arena. But it takes a certain amount of hubris—beyond the amount we're comfortable with, at least—to celebrate a shot before it goes in, especially if that shot wouldn't even win you the game. Then it doesn't go in, and all the sympathy we would have shown Steven Pledger went out the door when he proto-Tebowed to celebrate just another missed field goal attempt. The Missouri Tigers held on and moved to 22-2 on the season. Oklahoma fell to 13-10. [ESPNU] More »
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It was an exuberant display, and you can hear the announcer really trying (and absolutely failing) to cement the moment for us: "Happy, happy, happy day!" Unfortunately, officials are reporting that 13 revelers were injured as students stormed the field and tore down the goal posts. According to Michael Authement, who heads the command post at emergency medical provider LifeNet EMS, some were trampled as they made their way to the field, others fell more than fifteen feet onto concrete. More »
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Your morning roundup for Nov. 20, the day we learned that maybe sometimes you can care too much. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors. More »
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A week after making this outstanding one-handed catch against Kansas State, Oklahoma receiver Jaz Reynolds did it again to give the Sooners a 20-10 lead over a Texas A&M defense that had given it some uncomfortable struggles in the first half. More »
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It's time for a new installment of Deadspin's college football rankings. As always, the teams are ranked according to the logic and values of college football, no matter how bizarre or contradictory they may be. More »
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It's time for a new installment of Deadspin's college football rankings. As always, the teams are ranked according to the logic and values of college football, no matter how bizarre or contradictory they may be. More »
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From the very beginning of this game it seemed like Texas was never really going to have a chance. Time and time again we watched Texas turn the ball over in between bouts of Kirk Herbstreit and Brent Musburger pimping The Longhorn Network. More »
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"A Choctaw man has filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy and his wife, Kristen, alleging that he was fired from a construction job for having worn an Oklahoma Sooner baseball T-shirt." [Tulsa World] More »
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While most of the country was being treated to a meaningless Notre Dame-USC game, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State had themselves a barn burner. Unseen by most of the country? This gem: a tag-team interception by State's Broderick Brown and Shaun Lewis. More »
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Jeffrey Landrigan was put to death last night, but not before saluting his favorite football team. He's not an OU grad though; like most Sooners fans, he never went to college. Hope his pen pals aren't still waiting for replies. [Arizona Republic] More »
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Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and internets to bring you everything you need to know to start your day. More »
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From time to time, we'll select stories — old and new, sports and otherwise, relevant and merely sublime — that we urge you to read for one reason or another. Today: Dan Jenkins on the 1971 Nebraska-Oklahoma "Game of the Century." More »
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Tommy Mason-Griffin poetically declared for the draft on Facebook: "its a official dat i am leavin skool....ask me y i aint doin anotha yr yue mite get ignored." Yeah, I think he's gotten all he can from higher education. More »
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Cautionary tale Sam Bradford will end his college career with season-ending shoulder surgery and a ticket to the NFL combine. That's the last time he takes career advice from Billy Sims. [NYTimes/MorningNews] More »
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Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and the blogosphere to bring you everything you need to know to start your day. More »
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Chuck Woodling, Lawrence Journal World & News, May 16, 2009: "Wayman Tisdale always will be remembered as a bit player in one of the ugliest incidents in the history of Kansas University's Allen Fieldhouse." [LJWorld] More »
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The Oklahoma Sooner, 12-year NBA veteran, and "smooth jazz" guitarist passed away this morning after a two-year battle with bone cancer. [Oklahoman] More »
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Cinematic legend Brian Bosworth is credited with (probably) saving the life of an unknown man when he hopped off his motorcycle to administer CPR—right after saving the lives of dozens of high school students. More »
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What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, unless what happens is punching your girlfriend, driving her to the middle of the desert and threatening to kill her with a screwdriver. That tends to get publicized. More »
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South Region: No. 2 Oklahoma (29-5) vs. No. 3 Syracuse (28-9)
When: Friday, 7:27 p.m., EDT
Where: FedExForum, Memphis, Tennessee

OKLAHOMA SOONERS

1) So we meet again The last time Oklahoma and Syracuse met on the hardwood, it was in the East regional final of the 2003 NCAA tournament. The third-seeded Orange, led by this guy named Carmelo Anthony, beat 1-seed OU 63-47 en route to the National Championship. Syracuse's 2-3 zone drove the Sooners absolutely nuts, forcing All-American guard Hollis Price into one of the worst shooting performances of his career (3-17 from the field, eight points). As a team, the guard-oriented Sooners hit just 31 percent from the field and basically made Sooner fans want to jump into a volcano with their poor shooting. But this current OU team is a bit different. This time instead of an All-American guard, OU's got an All-American big man, so they won't be necessarily be relying entirely on outside jumpers to beat the zone. That 2003 team was counting on Johnny Gilbert and Kevin Bookout's one-inch vertical to get the job done on the inside. Yeeeah. More »
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What to watch while planning your family vacation to beautiful downtown Baghdad... More »
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Your live blogger for this game will be Chris Driver, a.k.a. Jerkwheat, CEO of the vintage Deadspin spinoff DeadOn and certified archbishop of The Big Tilde. More »
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South Region: No. 2 Oklahoma (27-5) vs. No. 15 Morgan State (23-11)
When: Thursday, 9:40 p.m., EDT
Where: Sprint Center, Kansas City, Missouri

OKLAHOMA SOONERS

1) Trendy If you're an OU fan or you're planning on picking the Sooners and like me, you get caught up in trends and history then pay attention: Jeff Capel was recently asked at a press conference if he's ever seen or been a part of a team that was so dominant for the first 30 games or so of a season and then struggled to finish like this OU squad. He said, "Yeah, my senior year at Duke." (Yeah, did you know Capel played at Duke and I guess he hit this famous half court shot against a rival team or something?) That Duke team was an elite squad for most of the year, struggled at the end of the regular season and then lost in the opening round of the ACC tournament to a big underdog, just like OU. Well, how did they end up doing in the Dance? "We got a two-seed in the South and lost in the second round." Yikes. More »
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Oklahoma women's hoops star Courtney Paris is so confident that she can bring a national championship back to Norman, that she says she will pay back her entire college scholarship if she fails. More »
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Oklahoma's Blake Griffin, still suffering from a dinged noggin, will not unleash his 22 points and 13.8 rebounds per game average tonight. No! He'll be back eventually! [KUSports] More »
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Blake Griffin's MRI may have been clean, but he's still feeling the effects of the concussion he suffered last night. His status for tomorrow's clash with Kansas remains undetermined, and that probably won't change until tomorrow evening. [NewsOK] More »
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Last night the Oklahoma Sooners traveled to Texas to renew the Red River Rivalry with a number one ranking on the line, only to be rebuffed once again by the Longhorns. More »
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The Golden Eagles dispatched the suddenly terrible Fighting Irish leaving them on top of the Big East for at least a little while longer. More »
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Oklahoma's sophomore quarterback has just announced that he's forgoing the NFL draft to stay at Oklahoma. It's on again, Tebow! [NBCSports] More »
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Yes, the Longhorns and Sooners can argue for eternity about who won the Big 12 South this fall, or they can use the entirely different athletic pursuit of basketball to sort it all out. More »
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So it's finally here. The game almost no one wanted to see, but everyone can't stop talking about, for all the disputed, computer generated marbles. More »
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Not Oklahoma cornerback, Domique Franks: "I'd say he'd probably be about the fourth-best quarterback in our conference ... [behind] Sam [Bradford], Graham [Harrell] and Colt [McCoy]." [FanNation] More »
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Everyone knows recruiting for big time college football programs is a shady business, but it's instructive to occasionally be reminded what schools and players go through on the road to a letter of intent. More »
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Perhaps this young Sooner is just feeling a little extra emotion in the weeks leading up to the national championship. All we know is that she's sorry, and she'll totally sweep the floor. More »
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Billy Sims caused pain and distress to everyone in the nation during Sam Bradford's Heisman Trophy presentation, with the possible exception of two people—Sam Bradford and Billy Sims. More »
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Now that you're all hero-ed out from the SEC Championship, certainly there's enough quarterback love letters in your back pocket for Sam Bradford and Chase Daniel in the Big XII Championship in Kansas City. The Sooners are about 17-point faves, which means the live blog will be interesting by, oh, midway through the second quarter, in which case we'll go over every Top 10 quarterback and say why they should win the Heisman. Jumping significantly reduces your chance of not avoiding cancer. More »
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Missouri was a sexy team this time last year, poised to shock the college football world and play for a national championship, and then it shit the bed against Oklahoma in the Big XII Championship. Now the boot is on the other foot, with the Sooners poised to punch their own ticket to Miami and a BCS title. All they have to do is avoid a meltdown in kind. More »
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