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OU vs. Chatanooga Betting Lines

Published by
Patrick
 on August 27, 2008

Last year, we posted a betting guide for the OU and OSU season openers. Besides giving our opinion on the point spreads, we also posted a bunch of exotic bets. Here are some highlights on the OU side of things:

+/- 5: How many Sam Bradford incomplete passes it will take before 80,000+ people scream for Keith Nichol to be put in the game.

8-1: That there is “only one” Joe John Finley.

40-1: That all non-OU graduates in attendance at the North Texas game refuse to sing “Alma Mater’s Praise,” resulting in only 1,723 people singing.

100-1: Under heavy pressure from President Boren, the Pride of Oklahoma performs classic 70s hits from Barbara Streisand.

I’m glad nobody posted this thing over at OU Insider, because if they did, we probably could have lost a lot of money from people taking the under on the Sam Bradford thing. Anyway, after the jump I have our exotic bets for the OU season opener against Chattanooga. I would have included some for OSU, too, but fortunately our OSU expert Clark Matthews never emailed them too me.

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Category: BBJ and OU Football. 42 Comments

10 Potential Replacements for the OU RUF/NEKS

Published by
Patrick
 on October 24, 2007

From NewsOK.com:

The University of Oklahoma has banned current members of the RUF/NEKS spirit group from official university events, according to a statement released today by OU spokesman Blake Rambo. A university investigation found members of the RUF/NEKS this semester had abused alcohol and hazed pledges in various ways, including “sleep deprivation, physical exhaustion, demeaning actions and the potential for physical harm.”

A few thoughts:

• A guy named Blake Rambo is the spokesman for the University of Oklahoma!?! How cool is that!

• Is the university surprised by this? These are the same guys that ride a schooner around campus and shoot rifles each time the Sooners score a touchdown. Of course they haze their pledges! If you need any more evidence, just check out their (now defunct) homepage (thank you cache) and read some bios of current and former members.

After you have some fun there, check out our 10 potential RUF/NEKS replacements for the rest of the football season after the jump:

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Category: BBJ, Basketball in OKC, OU Football, Saving Grace, Sports, The Daily Oklahoman and Wayne Coyne. 9 Comments

Oklahoma Initiative Ideas: 90-81

Published by
Patrick
 on October 1, 2007

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Last January, State Speaker Lance Cargill created some weird thing called the Oklahoma 100 Ideas Initiative. Here’s how it was described:

The 100 Ideas initiative will change the way business is done at the State Capitol. Instead of legislation originating from lobbyists, special interests and government employees, this initiative seeks ideas from the private sector and from citizens across the great state of Oklahoma. Once the initiative is complete, the top 100 ideas will be published in a book and presented to the Oklahoma State Legislature.

Since we are citizens from the “great state of Oklahoma,” we decide to contribute our own 100 ideas for the initiative. But since we’re pretty sure that Speaker Cargill and his friends won’t put any of them in his book, we figured it would be better to share them here over the next few weeks.

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Category: 100 Ideas, BBJ, Hinder, Oklahoma City Media, Oklahoma City Porn Stars, Sports, The Daily Oklahoman, The Oklahoma Gazette, The Sports Animal and Wayne Coyne. 19 Comments

The Lost Ogle Mailbag

Published by
Patrick
 on August 16, 2007

You may not have known it, but TheLostOgle.com has an email address.  Since we don’t have time to respond to the large volume of email we receive, we like to share some of the better ones in this feature that we call The Lost Ogle mailbag.

Do you have any plans for other drinking games?
John R., Edmond

Not currently. We have considered the KREF drinking game, but figured no one would read it. Clark had a good idea that involved playing strip poker with Jessica Schambach, but it ended up being just an idea, and not a drinking game, although it did involve alcohol.

I loved the wall-to-wall coverage you all provided of “Saving Grace.” What happened to it?
Ham D., Oklahoma City

It looks like the build up to ‘Saving Grace’ was a whole lot better than the actual show. I lost all interest when Grace and her partner had sex and hunted deer with handguns at the Martin Park Nature Center, and afterwards, tied a dead deer to the hood of their bronco.

What is on Audra’s shirt in that picture you posted of the Morning Animals? Does she leak? I have to know!
Dean B., Edmond

I’m not sure what that is, but thanks for pointing it out. This proves that you need to be really careful when you wear all white and work next to Mike Steely.

Which Ogle brother owns this blog?
Jim T., Norman

The lost one, obviously. Actually, the original idea for the site was GoOgle.com. As you can see, it was taken.

Did you just steal that from theinnerwebs.com?
Tony A., Oklahoma City

Maybe.

Who do you think is better looking? Curtis Fitzpatrick or Van Shea Ivan?
Bikerfox, Tulsa

I’m probably not the best person to ask.  Maybe we can get some feedback from one of our three many female readers or Bob Barry Jr.

Is Ross Dixon alive? Or does the Oklahoma News Report just recycle old footage of him for every newscast.
Gary E., Seiling

According to the OETA website, Ross was born in Muskogee in 1942. They didn’t mention a death or anything, so I assume he’s living. Also, kudos to you (and the 18 other people in this state) who watch the Oklahoma News Report.

Where can I get kid’s toys welded for free?
Clark M., The Village

I have no clue. Try a muffler shop.

Category: BBJ, Dean Blevins, Jessica Schambach, Mailbag, Oklahoma City Media, Oklahoma City Radio, Oklahoma City Weather, Saving Grace, The Lost Ogle and The Sports Animal. 18 Comments

BBJ Will Decide The News

Published by
Tony
 on July 6, 2007

I was all set to write another post complaining about Toby Keith when I heard the most astonishing thing on the Sports Animal, so I’m forced to blog about that instead.

I was delivering Meals On Wheels late this morning, and as I was driving around Craig Humphreys was droning on and on for what seemed like an hour about Barry Bonds and was giving his same old tired opinions that he must have given at least 300 times by now. I was beginning to grow concerned that the old people would not get the lunches I was delivering them, because I kept falling asleep at the wheel. Fortunately for the health of the local elderly population, Humphreys then said something that surprised me. He said, “BBJ, have you even shown any of Bonds’ chase for the home run record on Channel 4?” This came as a total shock to me, because I had been listening for a good length of time and I had no idea anyone else was on the air with Craig Humphreys.

Anyway, here is Bob Barry, Jr.’s response, paraphrased:

“Nope, I haven’t shown him in two years. And I’m proud of it. He hit number 751 the other day and I yawned. I just don’t care about him.”

I almost drove off the road when I heard this. There it is, folks. That, in a nutshell, is the sorry state of our local media. This joker is not covering Barry Bonds’ chase for Hank Aaron’s home run record simply because he doesn’t like Barry Bonds. Forget whether or not something is newsworthy, BBJ just reports on people that he cares about. It’s as if he thinks the news is his platform to promote people that are interesting to him, as opposed to a place to, you know, report the news. He’s like a 12-year old girl who’s ignoring her friend because she made her mad.

Say what you want about Barry Bonds, and I could say plenty, but he is a huge news story in the sports world. It’s probably the biggest story in baseball over the last year or so. Heaven forbid Bob Stoops ever gets on BBJ’s bad side, because we might have to let KFOR’s viewers know that the OU football season is going on.

Bob Barry Jr. has many things going for him. For instance, he seems like a nice, affable fellow. Also, he’s not Dean Blevins. He is not, however, the greatest journalist in the world. It’s a proud day for the Gaylord College of Journalism.

Category: BBJ, Oklahoma City Media, Oklahoma City Radio and The Sports Animal. 6 Comments