When a reporter asked a flippant question about recently deceased oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens during a teleconference interview last month, Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy wasn’t having it. “Don’t hurt the real journalism world,” Gundy said. “It’s jackasses like you that cause problems, OK? They shouldn’t even let you call in.” Gundy’s response […]
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Father knows best?
Credit: Brad Gregg At least that’s if you’re comparing it to IBM’s decision to help Germany’s Nazi government in the 1930s, White Star Line daring fate to sink the “unsinkable” Titanic and some jackasses’ decision to introduce New Coke. In other words: Context is everything. Pickens in 2005 donated $165 million to OSU to build […]
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T. Boone’s death wish
Forbes reported last week that the richer-than-rich Pickens was the mastermind behind an OSU fundraiser with the potential to net the athletic department up to $350 million, but it hit a little hitch: Nobody died. While the “Gift of a Lifetime” fundraiser sounds generic, it actually proved literal, as the OSU athletics department bought $10 […]
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Be it resolved …
As always, Jan. 1 gives us a chance to do better: Lose weight. Read more. Get organized. Dig a hole and hide the body. You know the drill. Before you cobble your own New Year’s resolution on your stone of choice, you might want to get a few ideas from some of your fellow Oklahomans. […]
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Out of alignment
(Kinda like Brett Favre coming out of retirement to start for the Minnesota Vikings again!) Well, West Virginia’s number was up last week in these higher-ed high jinks. First came an Oct. 25 report from The New York Times that Mountaineers were poised to depart the disintegrating Big East for the seemingly expanding Big 12 […]