Lots of media: Must be OU-Texas week
OU publicist Kenny Mossman says he’s got a media crush for the game Saturday at the Cotton Bowl. Some 391 credentials approved, not counting ABC television, which will be tons more.
He’s already run out of room in the pressbox and will have to find places to squeeze in the media.
But the crush started earlier in the week. Monday night, I went out to OU’s post-practice briefing, and it was like a Southwest sportswriters convention.
Three Oklahoman writers. Two Tulsa World writers. One Norman Transcript. Several Internet reporters. And writers from the Dallas Morning News, Austin American-Statesman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Houston Chronicle and San Antonio News-Express.
That was just for Monday. The Stoops press conference on Tuesday was even worse, with the same guys back, plus more. A couple of Dallas TV stations, all the OKC and Tulsa electronic media, even Tim Cowlishaw, now star of stage and screen with ESPN’s Around the Horn and still a Dallas Morning News columnist but an OU beat writer for The Oklahoman in a previous life.
I was on a Kansas radio show yesterday, and someone asked me if this was the most exciting building up to an OU-UT game, and I said not necessarily. It’s no different than the other times when the Sooners and Longhorns came in as top-five teams.
But it’s also no less than those times. This is an electric week.
Berry Tramel can be heard Monday through Friday from 4:40-5:20 p.m. on The Sports Animal radio network, including AM-640 and FM-98.1. You can e-mail him here and follow him on Twitter @BerryTramel.
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