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DALLAS — Each of CeeDee Lamb's three trips to the Cotton Bowl end zone was as important as the last.

DALLAS — Put your hand in the air if you thought Oklahoma would beat Texas inside the Cotton Bowl on a day Jalen Hurts wasn’t particularly good.

DALLAS — The scene was typical at midfield of the Cotton Bowl following an Oklahoma-Texas football game. The winners glistened with joy.

T. Boone Pickens, oil tycoon and Oklahoma State University alumnus and super booster has died. Pickens was 91.

Wagoner High ex Kevin Peterson was one of five free agents added by the Arizona Cardoinals on Sunday, the day after NFL rosters had to be reduced to 53 players heading into this coming week's season openers.

Bill Bedenbaugh opened the preseason with a tough task, having to replace four of Oklahoma’s five starters on the offensive line from a year ago. Lincoln Riley was asked if there had been any changes in his assistant coach.

In his final media availability before the season opener at Oregon State, Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy was still noncommittal on the quarterback position for the Cowboys.

Ry Schneider won’t have to worry about money anymore.

Chanse Sylvie couldn’t help but stand out in his blue vest. With the Oklahoma safety’s shoulders rolling out the top of his sleeves, he had to have been one of the most physically imposing employees working for Walmart this summer.

ARLINGTON, Texas — CeeDee Lamb didn’t have to absorb the criticism thrown at Oklahoma’s defense last season. But he did anyway.

For the first time in five years, Oklahoma State will head into its fall camp with uncertainty as to who will be the starting quarterback.

A year ago, it was Rodney Anderson uttering the unthinkable, saying Oklahoma’s offense wouldn’t take one step back despite losing a Heisman Trophy winning quarterback.

ARLINGTON, Texas —Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby addressed the large group of reporters at the league’s annual football media days without much news or concerns.

Seven months ago, Oklahoma State was on the verge of ending a bowl streak that dated back to 2006 and was one loss away from the program’s first losing season since Mike Gundy’s inaugural year at the helm of his alma mater in 2005.

Russell Westbrook and James Harden are together again, and Chris Paul is leaving Houston to make that reunion happen.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Chyenne Factor swung for the fences, her phenomenal freshman season and the team’s year for the ages on the line.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Samantha Show wasn’t watching as her second home run of the game flew over the center-field wall.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – There will be no history made for Oklahoma State men’s golf this year.

Damian Lillard hit a 37-footer over a lunging Paul George just after midnight, Oklahoma time, and the Thunder’s offseason of discontent officially began.

OKLAHOMA CITY — The series between the Thunder and Trail Blazers — which includes at least one more game, beginning at 9:30 tonight, inside Moda Center — is playing out on different levels.

Even though they would eventually shed the final year of Carmelo Anthony’s contract, turning it into the acquisition of Dennis Schroder, the Thunder knew the signing of Paul George to a max contract last offseason meant they’d be paying a whole lot of money in salary and the luxury tax.

Before college, Oklahoma receiver CeeDee Lamb attended a recruiting combine in the Dallas area and ran into a guy named Jalen Hurts.

STILLWATER – Tyron Johnson gave National Football League scouts something to watch Tuesday.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Surrounded by reporters, a larger than usual throng there to see him for the first time or simply starved for post All-Star break access, Markieff Morris smiled.

Russell Westbrook can tie Wilt Chamberlain’s record for the most consecutive triple doubles in NBA history at Houston tonight.

Bob Stoops has been linked to dozens of jobs over the years. 

The videos will likely return.

Jalen Hurts had gotten Alabama to the 15-yard line with his arm.

It is hard to comprehend the place the Thunder find themselves.

Apparently, it was not easy. However, in the end, Lincoln Riley, perhaps at the order of one of his bosses, or in a fit of common sense over pique or some convoluted sense of program interest, did the right thing.