On Wednesday, there was a media basketball game at the University of Oklahoma, featuring such luminaries as Al Eschbach (pictured hatless for the first time in history), Mark Rodgers, and John Helsley. James Hale also participated, which is strange, since this was supposed to be a media basketball game and it certainly seems like he’s on the payroll of the OU athletics department.
Notable for his absence was Jim Traber, who talks a good game but usually disappears when it’s time to step up to the plate (see: Knight, Robert Montgomery). It’s probably better for all involved, of course. True story, I once saw Traber play a game for the Dead Airballs, the old WWLS basketball team, against the faculty of a local high school. At one point Traber became so enraged at the officiating that he threw the ball against the wall of the gym, walked off the court, and never came back in.
Speaking of Traber, the MVP of the game was Toby Rowland. If you’ve read our comments section, you’ve seen that reader Mark has informed us that Toby has challenged Traber to a one-on-one basketball game. This. Must. Happen. Please, anyone in Oklahoma City with any type of pull who happens to read this site, do everything you can to get this going. If it means hiring Toby to WWLS, so be it. The station would be better anyway.
Anyway, the Soonersports.com writeup of the game is here, and please check out the photo gallery of the game. Yes, that picture of Eschbach is real.
You know, all kidding aside, that picture of Al is scary.
That picture scares me. Is Al really a gnome or a leprechuan?
I’m amazed you can read the “Oklahoma Basketball” logo on his shirt, what with his shorts hiked up to his armpits.
Give Traber a break, he has GOUT
You need to post the correct picture in that article.
http://aycu11.webshots.com/image/25130/2001242488019808997_fs.jpg
ROFL.
Glad I had to bail out of this game at the last minute. Of course my pic would have looked like Brad Pitt next to Al.
You must have seen the Dead Air Balls game in Mustang, when Traber berated a female ref.
you guys know trabes played in the bigs, right?
Al is wearing swimming trunks.
Check out the user comments at the end of this story in the Oklahoman…
“…Chad Stevens, the guy who does the Fowler Toyota commercials, was an extra in the movie Twister? You can see him at the drive-in movie scene. 1st on a car with a girl friend watching the movie, then running for cover he looks back at the camera.”
How about an E! network-style True Hollywood Story on Thomas Stalcup??? He must be more than we all imagine…
Wrong story - here’s the link
http://newsok.com/article/3111714/1188190829
Sports fashion memo to Al: We don’t do the shirt-tuck any more, especially taboo if one is tucking one’s shirt into one’s swimming trunks.