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Gazette staff
For the Sept. 28 installment in the wacky world of Big 12 expansion (“Nine is enough”), Chicken-Fried News reported on the University of Oklahoma Board of Regents giving OU President David L. Boren the latitude to negotiate alignment options, prompting a largely anticipated move to the Pacific-12 with Oklahoma State University that ended up, um, not actually happening.

Features
Phil Bacharach
Aside from 2012 meaning the end of the world (a big shout-out to those kooky Mayans), the new year provides an opportunity to wipe the slate clean and start anew.

CFN
Gazette staff
There aren’t many people in Oklahoma who could stand to lose a cool $33 million on a gamble, but then again there aren’t many people quite like Oklahoma State University sugar daddy — er, booster — T. Boone Pickens.

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Gazette staff
On the scale of questionable business plans, the one by T. Boone Pickens — oil and gas man, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth financier and Oklahoma State University sugar daddy — isn’t too off the deep end.