newsok.com - 11/25/2008
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Fifteen thousand empty seats for the biggest home game of the year. Sounds like a bad deal for the Oklahoma State football program. And it might be. Or it might not be. For one, the Cowboys won’t have to deal with a heavy infiltration of Sooner fans for Saturday night’s Bedlam showdown. And ...
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Oklahoma-Oklahoma St.: Plenty of Good Seats Available
The Wiz of Odds —
There could be up to 15,000 empty seats at Boone Pickens Stadium Saturday night for the showdown between Oklahoma and Oklahoma State. The reason is that Oklahoma State officials decided last spring not to make single-game tickets available for the game. To get a seat, you had to purchase a season ticket. The move was designed to lure Oklahoma fans, many of whom can't fathom a Sooner game going on without their presence, to purchase season tickets for their rival. The plan worked. Oklahoma State sold a record 39,600 season tickets, an ...
Headlinin': Leach votes Oklahoma, but he's not really a poll man
Dr. Saturday —
... be Wolverines in 2009, pending a change of heart/super-positive draft evaluation for Graham and the resolution of "family issues" for McGuffie, who's also dealing with another in a series of concussions after this kick return at Ohio State:
Brian Cook says cautious w00t, though Troy Aikman reminds young Sam that multiple concussions bad, so bad, they are LaVar Arrington, concussions ... What were we talking about?
• Real Cowboys go all in. You're a real Cowboy, aren't you? Oklahoma ...
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newsok.com 11/25/2008 — There is a misconception about our 2008 football policies that needs to be clarified. They have very little to do with 2008. As a staff, we knew the ticket policies were going to be heavily scrutinized — and criticized. We spent long meetings ...
Oklahoma State-Missouri Preview
lines-maker.com 10/11/2008 — The Oklahoma State Cowboys and the Missouri Tigers will both be gunning for a victory on Saturday when they meet at Memorial Stadium. Oddsmakers currently have the Tigers listed as 14½-point favorites versus the Cowboys, while the game's total is sitting at 77. Zac Robinson threw three ...
HOW CAN TEXAS BE NO. 1 AND OKLAHOMA STATE NO. 11?
collegefootballtalk.com 10/30/2008 — Heading into Saturday’s game, Texas was the unanimous No. 1 team in the country in the AP poll. Oklahoma State was No. 7.
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Empty seats leave Coach K steamed
newsobserver.com 11/6/2008 — Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski, fresh off a career-crowning gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, wasn't miffed that his team wasn't talking enough on defense in the early going. What bothered him were the empty seats in Cameron Indoor Stadium.
