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Sports writer covering high schools for @tennessean . Muni golf sicko. Email story ideas, tips to tpalmateer @tennessean .com 📪

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2 years
Thinking about Mike Leach a lot today so had to look this up. It remains my favorite Leach moment. #MyMyMy
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I just took a D N A test T U R N S out Im a h u n d r e d PER cent not going to use the % sign as AP style now suggests
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7 years
“It’s Gortex” @Seinfeld2000
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3 years
Kram and Darrin hoard gas amid shortage rumors
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A lot of people: OKC can't get anybody! Its hands are tied. Sam Presti: Hold my beer.
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5 years
A likely NFL talent announcing he's stepping away from football to graduate, move home and fight fires is one of the manliest decisions you'll ever hear of.
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I don't know what you should do with this information, but here it is: Jalen Hurts arrived to the postgame presser a little late. It appeared to me like he brought two red Starbursts: One for him and one for Lincoln Riley. They both unwrapped them and ate them quietly.
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Rocky and son Casen Calmus ( @casencalmus ) #Sooners
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Baylor HC Matt Rhule: "Personally, I think the Big 12 champion should go to the College Football Playoff year in and year out ... If you win this week after playing nine league games and a rematch, I think you should go have a chance."
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Caleb Kelly on his role on the defense moving forward: "Going forward, take over. This is my defense. I’m the oldest cat left. It’s no waiting for anything, no sitting behind anybody. Lord willing no injuries, just a full season playing football."
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Jalen Hurts on being named a captain:
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3 years
Not even the OU Daily saw this coming.
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Spencer Rattler's first fall practice with the #Sooners is in the books. (Photo: @OU_Football )
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Jalen Hurts to Trejan Bridges. #Sooners
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Bob Stoops’ style through the years. A thread:
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Mike Gundy: "It's a one man show." Lincoln Riley: "We will line up Rhamondre Stevenson at WR. We will hand the ball off to CeeDee Lamb."
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Jalen Hurts (1) rocking the visor in his first OU practice. #Sooners
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Lincoln Riley trying to give his defense some love. After the first half of the presser focues on offense/CFP: "Me, Jalen and CeeDee aren't answering another question until you ask these other guys (Neville Gallimore, Kenneth Murray) a question please."
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Baker Mayfield: plants a flag after a big victory. People: Why the hell did he do that? Jalen Hurts: quietly says he's unsatisfied after a good performance. People: Why the hell did he do that? I would have no idea how to react at alI if I were a college QB.
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Baker Mayfield's letter to @GovStitt demanding justice for Julius Jones.
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#Sooners Jalen Hurts on temperatures that were near 100 degrees at kickoff at the Rose Bowl tonight. "I couldn't tell. I was cool as a fan."
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The Stoopses. #Sooners
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Bill Self: We will fight hard for your eligibility Sylvio DeSousa: I will literally decapitate someone with a chair for you
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Bob Stoops' first draft pick as an XFL coach is former Oklahoma WR Jeff Badet. #Sooners
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#Sooners Lincoln Riley and Jalen Hurts enter the Rose Bowl a few feet apart. UCLA fan to Hurts: “Tua took your spot ...”
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6 years
Kyler Murray is suited up at OU’s practice. #Sooners
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Caleb Kelly's early thoughts on Bedlam next week: "I think the fans in that stadium really do hate us. That’s special, because you go in there and you get to beat somebody in their own crib and they’re really mad. That’s our goal every week."
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4 years
NEW: Trae Young agrees to make $4 million donation to Norman multi-sport facility. It will cover a little more than half the construction cost. | #Sooners
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3 years
Can't believe this kid grew up to be Scott Frost
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5 years
OU football at 125: Barry Switzer could have soured on Oklahoma after his exit in 1989, or vice versa. Yet he remains here, the straw that stirs the drink, a unique bridge between generations of #Sooners football:
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Kyler Murray’s in the building. #Sooners
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“Rudolph started it” is the worst take you’ll hear tonight
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Hurts was asked if he's more comfortable in this offense at OU or the one he ran at Alabama. Hurts: "Which one? I had like six coordinators there."
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#Sooners great Rocky Calmus decked out in crimson and cream and boots as his son @casencalmus signs as a PWO with OU.
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Kyler Murray: "I feel like I could play in the NFL, but as of now [playing Major League Baseball] is the plan." #Sooners
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Peep the first like
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I’m pumped for my first private plane flight. Taking off from Greenville SC shortly to visit a few buds in Norman.
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7 years
Baylor students chanting "Who's your daddy?"
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#Sooners CB Parnell Motley on highly-touted DB Brendan Radley-Hiles' play in spring so far: "I noticed it early. He really sits on routes. He knows where his help’s at. He’s on everything that you could possibly be. ... I believe the hype."
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Kentucky star freshman and former @PCHS_Firebirds Barion Brown ( @BarionBrown ) is in the house.
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This is my pure opinion. But listening to Joe Castilgione talk about eligibility/redshirts after this development, I'd be stunned if OU doesn't fight like hell for an extra year for its seniors: Namely one Maggie Nichols.
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"I’m trying to live a bigger, fuller life." I spoke with Holly Rowe ( @sportsiren ). She's beating cancer. And this week, she realized she's feeling better than ever. How the daughter of a former sheep herder got into sports & more: | #WCWS #Sooners
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The ABC reporter speaking live about Kobe’s daughters’ whereabouts, and obviously being unsure about it, was grossly irresponsible.
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Life comes at you fast. 1. Kyler Murray in 2017 before the Rose Bowl. 2. Kyler Murray taking questions today at the NFL combine. (📸 @bepryor )
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5 years
Not a huge surprise, but Caleb Kelly says he’s definitely returning next year. #Sooners
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OU's last four games running the football: TCU - 323 KSU - 322 TTU - 323 OSU - 353
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This has become quite the scene.
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Riley says Bridges has bounced back fine from the onside kick debacle: "He did exactly what we coached him to do ... We've practiced that onside here for a long time and I don't think we've ever done it as good as we did in that game."
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Jamar Cain is a fabulous interview. And in his words, “comes from mud.” #Sooners
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Ruffin McNeill said allowing Bob Diaco to coach in an on-field role has been "like letting a wild tiger loose." #Sooners
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@Seinfeld2000 Does this look like the face of a man who is happy with his game cube
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Grinch on the defense tonight: "Very proud. That's the word. When you're called upon — there's times we call upon the offense to save our tail — we talked about complementary football the past few weeks. It goes both ways."
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Blake Brewster missed graduation because of the Bedlam series, so the baseball team held a mini-ceremony at practice today. #Sooners
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Bob thought about cropping y’all out that’s how pissed he is
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Sold out 21 straight years, thanks to a great fan base! Some, however, could hold themselves to a higher standard!! #OUDNA
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Lincoln Riley had three years' training for the past few months. Mike Gundy had 15. The difference in how each one has handled it is stunning.
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6 years
OU’s media day coming up shortly at Hard Rock Stadium. Here is your playing field Saturday. #Sooners
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#Vols Josh Heupel is in the building. Assuming to get a look at tackle football quarterback @GeorgeMacIntyr6
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Berry Tramel is still the best
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Jalen Hurts was asked tonight what a complete game looks like in his mind. "Completer than what ya’ll have seen. What ya’ll have seen, the stuff we’ve displayed is not complete football. It’s not what we want to do. We can be better."
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Kyler Murray's talking with The Ticket ahead of accepting the Davey O'Brien Award. Says "There aren't many things I'm garbage at." Wishes he would've played soccer growing up because "I'd probably be in Europe right now."
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White America should talk less and listen more. That's my takeaway after a conversation with Nick Basquine ( @NB5ive ), who gave me an opportunity for understanding Saturday. | #Sooners
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4 years
This app is free
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Lincoln Riley said recently Bill Bedenbaugh got a new pair of practice shoes for the first time since Riley started at OU (2015). Bedenbaugh: "I’ve got stuff at home my wife buys me that still has tags on it, you know? I wear the same thing every day. I really don’t care."
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"Half the guys who have my [combine] numbers, they're working at Wal-Mart or Chuck E. Cheese." Orlando Brown ( @ZEUS__78 ) has done everything he said he would, despite the 2017 combine. Now a Pro Bowler, he's living his best life in Baltimore: | #Sooners
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Jamar Cain from OU's release: "It was just an opportunity I couldn't pass up. Once coach Riley and coach Grinch reached out I thought this was perfect for my family. In the end, when you look at it, there's only one Oklahoma and you can't turn that down." #Sooners
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Announced 17,206 attendance here. Among spectators today: Kyler Murray, Troy Aikman, Steve Spurrier. I can think of worse debuts.
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Some personal news: Some of you know tomorrow is my last day working at The Transcript. I’m moving to Nashville. Salacious reports that I have signed a lucrative record deal are mostly untrue. 1/1
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Norman North girls wearing “Moore Strong” shirts before tonight’s game against No. 1 Deer Creek. Believe a few other teams are doing this tonight too. #okpreps
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Kyler Murray was among the most affected after OU's loss to Alabama. “My goal was to be remembered here ... Make a place better than you found it. I hope I did that. I just hope everybody knows I never quit.” | #Sooners
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CeeDee Lamb said after practice today he weighs 195 pounds and is at 3.1 percent body fat. That is something else my friends. #Sooners
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Barry Switzer is here in a fur coat, ya’ll. #Sooners
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Riley: Kennedy Brooks "is good. We're lucky because it was a bad, bad play. Coach Wells was classy about it. He felt about it what I would've felt about it. We were lucky he wasn't hurt worse, because he could've been." #Sooners
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Respect Kenneth Murray for the developmental strides he made this season. Still really respect his role as a sophomore. Team captain & defensive spokesman during tough times for that defense. Repeatedly met with reporters to discuss a tough subject with grace/class. A good guy.
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Spoke a little bit with @TaylorWein , whose recruitment hit a different level this week. He was born in Edmond, OK. Brothers played at Deer Creek. He didn’t go into a ton of recruiting details but did give a shout-out to #Sooners coaches for being the first to offer him.
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Mike Gundy was asked if there was any truth to a 'social media' rumor that Boone Pickens left him a small sum of money to get a haircut. Gundy felt the question was disrespectful to Pickens and media in general and offered this:
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Donating fake money to a church seems less than genuine.
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Justin Jefferson says he donated the money given to him by Odell Beckham Jr. after the national title game to his church. ➡️
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Jalen Hurts said this: "Coulda, shoulda, woulda, so what, now what?" #Sooners
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Asked Bill Bedenbaugh if the OL’s penalties last week meant a harder practice workload. This week. Cannot overstate how bluntly he said: “Ask them.”
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Jalen Hurts seems fatigued by Jalen Hurts questions: "You know ya'll never ask me about the week's opponent?"
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Baker Mayfield has left the building. With a thousand memories behind him. #Sooners
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The anti-Mayfield signs are thick. OU fans have some solid signage though. #Sooners
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This is about as playful as Jalen Hurts has been in a Q&A with media this season, asked whether his second completion to Charleston Rambo was actually intended for him:
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Casen Calmus ( @casencalmus ) had a moment when watching his dad's college highlights. “The tackling was so pure. The form was so good." The @theBAFootball DB/WR will be a preferred walk-on at OU, where his dad is nothing short of a legend. #Sooners
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OU had 11 players make All-Big 12 Academic team: Nick Basquine Pat Fields Jeremiah Hal Connor McGinnis, Bryan Mead Tanner Mordecai Reeves Mundschau Devin Staton Drake Stoops Jon-Michael Terry Clayton Woods
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Kyler Murray goes with a "no comment" on what he's seen from Oklahoma State's defense. Moments later says Mike Yurcich reached out to him during recruitment. Murray didn't have much interest, said he doesn't like Stillwater. Bedlam.
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Lincoln Riley said everyone on the team made the trip to Florida: “I think we got everybody here.” #Sooners
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6 years
Not relevant at this point in the game, but this is a great picture of #Sooners QB Kyler Murray from @AP . Peep Holgorsen's reaction.
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Lincoln Riley said the Big 12 acknowledged the personal foul called against CeeDee Lamb last week was made in error: | #Sooners
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Interesting nugget from after practice tonight: CeeDee Lamb said he really battled the cold conditions at OSU. Just could never get his body warm enough. Said it's not the first time it's happened. I asked if he's considered long johns: "Nah, but my mom definitely would have."
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“Fortunes of war …”
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In case you're curious about how the Maven/Sports Illustrated operation is going. Someone from there called me about a job. They confirmed that I write for "The Norman" then asked what that is. "That's a city in Oklahoma? Where is that exactly?" So that's where we're at.
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By my count, Baker Mayfield, Lauren Chamberlain & Chenoweth have done social cameos w/ OU gear for its #20Deep signing class today. Smart on OU's part getting endorsements from folks with huge digital reaches. Those 3 combined have roughly 1.9 million Twitter followers alone.
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BREAKING: Kyler Murray says “I’ll be wearing black” to the Heisman ceremony. No other hints. #Sooners
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Baylor students are chanting "overrated" at the OU bench.
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Find an Oklahoma town name cooler than Lone Wolf.
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Breaking: Ensworth's baseball season is over after it had to forfeit a win due to a TSSAA pitch-count violation. In the forfeited win, Vandy commitment Connor Cobb threw a no-hitter with 16 Ks. His 121 pitches were just one over the max of 120.
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Lincoln Riley and the OU gymnastics senior class.
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Nick Basquine, signing day 2014 at Norman North. Look at that young pup. Guy came a long way.
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