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AROUND CAMPUS
Restaurants cited for infractionsFive Campus Corner and OU dining venues had the most citations this year
TONY RAGLE/THE DAILY
Police dog Caesar hangs out on the lawn in front of the OU Police Station. Caesar puts his nose to work for OUPD detecting hidden hazardous devices.
NOT YOUR AVERAGE DOG
Follow your nose: Meet Caesar
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PARIS BURRISPOLICE REPORTER
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Three-year-old Caesar steps out of his police car and onto the scene. He readies his sniffer and gets to work — but not without plenty of pats on his belly.
The German shepherd is one of OUPD’s youngest four-legged explosive-detection officers.
“He has his own truck and I am his driver,” said Greg Vollmer, OUPD public safety officer and K-9 trainer.
Caesar is carrying on the legacy of his predecessor, Jackie, known as Chaki, who died earlier this month after a year-long retirement as OUPD’s first four-legged officer.
“Jackie was a turn-key dog,” Vollmer said. “She could go
into any environment with any handler and work wonders.”The black Labrador retriever spent nearly 10 of her 12
years protecting the campus community.Jackie had a good sniffer that only got better with age.“She didn’t need a handler to lead her through the search
area,” Vollmer said. “She did it on her own.”The canines continue protecting the community after
Jackie’s death, particularly during special events, said OUPD spokesperson Lt. Bruce Chan.
Football games in Norman bring more people together at one time in one location than any other event in the state, and that happens at least six times a year, Vollmer said.
“It is imperative that we make [the games] safe for our stu-dents, faculty, staff and the people who come to watch the games,” Vollmer said.
Police dog carries on after death of predecessor
SEE CAESAR PAGE 2
HEALTH
Vaccine to be available to uninsured students over age 19
ARIANNA PICKARDOnline Editor
JOEY STIPEKSpecial Projects Editor
Food stored improperly, unsanitary equipment, dried food debris in containers and rodent droppings were some of the health code violations Cleveland County Health Department inspectors found in Campus Corner restau-rants this year.
The Daily created a database using public records found at the State Health Department website to catalog the Campus Corner and OU restaurants with the greatest num-ber of health code violations from Jan. 1, 2011 to Aug. 1,
2014. The Daily then filed open records requests with the Cleveland County Health Department for detailed inspec-tion reports for the top offenders.
As of Aug. 1, there have been less than half as many health code violations reported at Campus Corner and OU restau-rants than last year, with 1,508 reported last year and 743 this year.
These five Campus Corner and OU restaurants were cited for the most health code violations for this year as of Aug. 1.
Hideaway PizzaHideaway Pizza, 577 Buchanan Ave., had the most viola-
tions this year as of Aug. 1, with 39 violations from six differ-ent inspections.
This was the second year Hideaway had the most viola-tions, with 81 last year.
BY THE NUMBERSAs of Aug. 1, there have been less than half as
many health code violations reported at Campus Corner and OU restaurants than last year.
1,508 743Health
code viola-tions reported
in 2013
Health code viola-
tions reported so far this
yearSEE HEALTH PAGE 4
GLORIA NOBLENews Reporter@glorianoble_
There are 91 student jobs hir ing anywhere from 100 to 200 students every semester, from high school tutors to babysit-ters, Mal lor y Stewar t said in a Student Success Series lecture.
Stewart, an OU Human Res ources employe e, spoke Thursday afternoon at University College, tell-ing students how to find a suitable campus-related job.
OU Student Success program, according to their website, was cre-at e d t o h e l p S o o n e r s achieve both academ-ic and personal success through different tools and workshops.
There are opportuni-ties for students to find a part-time job, whether it be on-campus or off-cam-pus, and students can apply for them through the same applicat ion process.
One application fits all, and each student can apply for an unlimited number of jobs with one applica-tion. The application is found on OU’s job website.
OU’s Student Success program offers workshops, resources
MORE INFOSome jobs on OU’s jobs website•Lunchtime musician at Oklahoma Memorial Union
•Wall climbing attendant at the Huston Huffman center
•Telephone survey interviewer at OU’s Public Opinion Learning Lab
•Video production specialists at the Center for Teaching Excellence
•Student Information Technology technician at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History
SEE JOBS PAGE 4
PAGE JONESNews Reporter
Goddard Health Center recently received a shipment of the human papillomavi-rus, or HPV, vaccine that will only be available to students 19 years or older who are not insured.
Goddard offers the vaccine
to everyone, but this ship-ment is dedicated for unin-sured students over age 19.
T h e O k l a h o m a S t a t e D e p a r t m e n t o f H e a l t h sent the shipment, which Goddard employees will ad-minister for $10, said Maggie Pool , spokespers on for Goddard Health Center.
Normally the vaccine, which is administered in a series of three shots over six months, costs anywhere from $130 to $140 per shot, in
addition to doctor and hospi-tal fees, according to cancer.org.
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Goddard Health Center sits on the northwest side of campus.
given to children during their preteen years. However, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urges men u p t o 2 1 y e a r s o l d a n d women up to 26 years old to get the shots, according to the Centers for Disease Control website’s human papilloma-virus fact sheet.
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No t o n l y d o t h e d o g s s e a r c h f o r t r o u b l e a s game-goers cheer on the Sooners, but they have a presence in the Norman community, too.
C a e s a r p a t r o l s w i t h Vollmer every time he goes out, Vollmer said. The two primarily go to day cares and schools.
Cae sar : p olic e do g by day, house dog by night
“When he gets home, I take off all his necklaces and everything, and he’s a house dog,” said Vollmer, who is not only Caesar’s handler but also his caretaker. “He’s got two other buddies that he hangs out with at the house and he’s basically a pet dog at that point.”
Caesar is always ready to greet with warmth and play-fulness those who wish to pet him.
“We try to get him out as much as possible so that he can meet the new students,” Vollmer said.
This trait is unique to Caesar. He’s been socialized particularly for this reason, unlike other police dogs Vinnie, Ambra and Gunner.
However, all of the dogs are trained and prepared for duty in the same way: they spend two hours every working day sniffing out odors they would be ex-pected to find in real-life situations.
“We make it as difficult as we possibly can,” Vollmer said. “And as reasonable, because we always try to set our dogs up for success but at the same time we want to increase their abilities at
TONY RAGLE/THE DAILY
Police dog Caesar jumps in the air to catch a tennis ball from his handler’s, Master Sgt. Greg Vollmer, hand. Caesar put his nose to work for OUPD detecting hidden hazardous devices.
a steady pace so they’re al-ways getting better.”
And Jackie did just that.“As she got older, she
got even better,” Vollmer said. “It took very little ef-fort on anybody’s part to understand her behaviors in (detecting) odor and its source.”
We try to get him [Caesar] out as much as possible so that he can
meet the new students.GREG VOLLMER,
OUPD PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICER AND K-9 TRAINER‘‘ ”
CAESAR: Police dog lives two lives as working professional, loving petContinued from page 1
TONY RAGLE/THE DAILY
Top: Police dog Caesar races across the lawn outside of OUPD’s sta-tion. Bottom: Caesar obediently poses for a photo.
For more information on Caesar, contact Bruce Chan at [email protected].
Paris Burris [email protected]
I am looking at the cover of the Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014, edition
of The Daily, and I see very little of myself in the student newspaper.
I do not fit the demo-graphic of the “traditional” 18 to 24-year-old undergrad-uate college student. My demographic is the over-40 graduate student. With sub-stantial family obligations.
And paying for college on my own dime.My college experience is vastly different from yours.I find the top story of the petition to legalize pot mildly
curious and vaguely humorous, but not of any real im-portance to me. Likewise, I am not terribly interested in President Boren’s new press secretary, because my prima-ry academic identification is with my field of study, not my university.
Howdy Week never even registered on my radar. What little free time I have available needs to be spent engaged in professional service activities that will contribute to my field of study and hopefully raise my visibility as a profes-sional. Pre-med, pre-dental, pre-anything student groups no longer apply to me. I am hip-deep in my profession already.
The article on athletic suspensions is saddening, but in the abstract. I don’t feel like any of these players have let me down personally. And while I will be disappointed if OU has a less-than-stellar football season, athletics really have no bearing on my experience as a student at OU.
My life as a student revolves around completing my graduate project (my program’s version of a thesis), build-ing my professional portfolio and juggling my substantial out-of-school responsibilities.
You see, I already have a master’s and a doctorate in education. I left a tenure-earning faculty position to come home and care for my grandmother’s husband, then my grandmother, during their final years. He had cancer, she developed dementia. I started the Master of Professional Writing program as a way to keep my sanity. My idea of a night out was having my mother come over after work so that I could go to the park or the bookstore for one whole hour to decompress.
And while the elder care aspect of my life may be some-what unique (though probably not as unique as you might think), the focus on my profession and my life outside of OU is not. Many of my fellow graduate students have spouses and children. Many have full-time jobs that may or may not support their return to school. We need fac-ulty who are engaged in research, even though that often means we teach, or are the teaching assistant for, many undergraduate classes that are not within our specialty.
If I call myself a Sooner, it is usually because I am a na-tive Oklahoman, not a student at OU. College life for me is about becoming an expert in my field, not embracing Sooner traditions. And I don’t think of my student expe-rience as better or worse than yours, though it’s certainly different. It just would be nice, every once in a while, to find something on campus that helps us non-traditional, graduate, international, insert-descriptor-of-choice-here students remember that we are a part of OU as well as a part of our academic disciplines.
And now that I am on staff here at The Daily, I just may have to do something about that.
Tammy Boyd is a professional writing master’s student.
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Cars line the sides of Asp Ave. where Campus Corner stores and restaurants sit.
Our View: We publish records like Cleveland County health code violations as a public service to better educate our readers, not to tear down the institutions implicated in the records.
Would the knowl-edge that your favor-ite Campus Corner restaurant violated the Cleveland County health code change your mind about eating at that es-tablishment? We wager it wouldn’t change your mind because many of the offenses are as minor as improper food storage and unsanitary equipment.
All that to say that our report on Campus Corner restaurants that have violated Cleveland County health codes is not intended to harm these businesses or dissuade you from eating at them. Rather, we see it as part of our duty to publish relevant information to better educate our read-ers. Especially when the information is obscure as health code records because, really, who reads those for fun?
So let us help you make the most informed deci-sion possible about where and how to spend your money when you go out for a bite to eat. The ma-jority of the reported violations are minor, such as dried food in stor-age containers and improper hand washing, which aren’t cause for uproar because the violations aren’t worthy of shutting the restaurants down. And the biggest offenders on the list might surprise you because they are also some of the most popular restaurants in Norman, such as Hideaway Pizza, Fuzzy’s Taco Shop and The Mont. In fact, even after reviewing the health code violations, many of us editors were talking about going to eat at some of the offending restaurants the same day.
When we publish articles explaining health code violations or other institutional missteps it isn’t because we want to hurt business or humiliate the organization. Instead we are giving a voice to the data and transforming otherwise boring records into meaningful, useful information. It’s our job to provide the public service of reporting the facts to
educate the public, and information about local restaurants falls into that purview.
Just because your beloved Campus Corner restau-rant might not be great at washing its dishes doesn’t mean you won’t eat there anymore, but you do de-serve to know what you’re getting yourself into by choosing to dine at that establishment. Restaurants take on the responsibility of serving food to the gen-eral public, food that must be prepared according to stringent guidelines. So while it might not seem like a big deal that a dead moth was found in the ice machine at Diamond Dawgs, it’s important to hold these establishments to a higher standard and let people know of health code violations so they can make smart future dining decisions.
Although there have been violations at our favor-ite Campus Corner restaurants, there have been
fewer offenses than last year. In fact, the 743 report-ed health code violations this year is less than half as many as the 1508 reported offenses last year, The Daily reported. So don’t condemn popular Campus Corner eateries just yet. Even though your meal might not have been prepared with 100 percent ad-herence to health code standards, it doesn’t mean it’s any less delicious or less safe than eating food prepared in your own less-than-sparkling kitchen.
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HEALTH: Five Norman restaurants have highest number of violationsContinued from page 1
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Tea Cafe sits on Campus Corner and serves Asian cuisine. Tea Cafe and many other restaurants on Campus Corner are subject to rigorous health inspections. Knowing what violations each restaurant has can help you make more informed decisions on where to get your food.
The restaurant has also had more health department in-spections than any other restaurant on campus or Campus Corner within the last two years, with 14 last year and six this year.
Certain restaurants are inspected more frequently than others based on the food process of the establishment with a facility, K.C. Ely, chief of Consumer Health Services in the Oklahoma State Department of Health, said in an email.
For example, a restaurant that sells commercially prepack-aged products would be inspected less frequently than a fa-cility that cooks from scratch, Ely said. Then there are other factors that can increase the number of inspections, such as violations that cannot be immediately corrected at the time of the inspection.
Violations at Hideaway this year included dishes dirty with food debris stored with clean dishes, hot water in the wom-en’s restroom only labeling 88 degrees when it must reach 100 degrees for proper hand washing, an employee observed touching a dirty apron then touching food without washing hands and house made pizza sauce at improper hot holding temperatures.
Hideaway Pizza has taken steps to resolve every viola-tion the health department has pointed out, Jane Harris, Hideaway Pizza spokeswoman said in a phone interview.
Hideaway Pizza officials are planning to remodel the store during its closed hours to prevent further violations. They also made a change in restaurant management, which took place Aug. 2, Harris said.
“We take our customers health and satisfaction as serious-ly as we can,” Harris said. “It is important to us that we have a quality restaurant and product. Also, to make sure everyone is enjoying their food and never have to consider any of the ramifications of the health department.”
Tea CaféTea Café, 788 Asp Ave., has been cited for 31 health code
violations this year as of Aug. 1.The most recent health code inspection report cited vio-
lations such as dirty dishes on a clean dish rack and the same tongs used for pre-cooked chicken, beef and shrimp.
The Daily reached out to Tea Café on Aug. 20, and the owner did not respond to The Daily’s request for comment.
The MontThe Mont, 1300 Classen
Blvd., has been cited for 31 health code violations this year out of four different inspections.
No violations were report-ed during the restaurant’s most recent inspection July 21, but during the previous in-spection it was cited for violations such as food stored at improper cold holding temperatures in the walk-in cooler, no paper towels at hand sinks by the patio drink station, an employee putting chicken on a grill without proper hair re-straint, floors dirty with debris and rodent droppings by the heater, a cold prep room and inside locked liquor storage.
The Daily reached out to The Mont on Aug, 21. Management from The Mont did not respond to requests for comment.
Diamond DawgsDiamond Dawgs, 753 Asp Ave., has been cited for 27 health
code violations this year out of two different inspections.
The most recent health code inspection report cited viola-tions such as no date marked on corned beef and pulled pork, grease built up in fryer cabinets, a shelf above a prep table dirty with food debris and a dead moth in the ice machine.
When The Daily reached out to the owner of Diamond Dawgs on Aug. 21, he wouldn’t speak on the record.
Fuzzy’s Taco ShopFuzzy’s Taco Shop, 752 Asp Ave., has been cited for 27
health code violations this year out of three inspections.No violations were reported during the restaurant’s most
recent inspection. Previously, Fuzzy’s was cited for an em-ployee preparing food without a proper hair net restraint, food stored directly on the floor, a mold-like substance in the drain of a soda fountain, pans of beans exposed to splash from a nearby hand sink and rodent droppings in the patio bar area.
All of the restaurant’s minor violations are corrected on site and most of the major violations involved equipment or areas of the restaurant that were inoperable or not in use at the time, such as a hand sink and the patio bar, Fuzzy’s owner Brian Bogert said.
The violations are categorized by severity starting with items that could cause foodborne illness, which require im-mediate action, Ely said. The less severe violations, such as general sanitation, operational controls, sanitation standard, operating procedures, facilities or structures, equipment de-sign or general maintenance require no greater than 90 days to correct.
If the restaurants do not correct the violations within these specified times and don’t apply for a compliance schedule
that extends beyond these specified times, the restaurants will be subject to enforcement action, Ely said.
Fuzzy’s was cited on June 6 for not having adequate hand washing facilities, but Bogert said that only applied to one of the restaurant’s four hand sinks, and the three other hand sinks were properly equipped.
The restaurant was also cited during that inspection for ro-dent droppings in the patio bar area, but Bogert explained that the patio bar was closed for the summer, so he did not believe that violation posed a risk for customers.
“Everything interior is completely free of any insects, ro-dents or anything like that, but, of course, with an exterior patio there’s always going to be some finds of that especial-ly when it is inoperable for several months out of the year,” Bogert said.
Bogert said he feels satisfied with the state of the restaurant because of the amount of food it goes through on a daily basis and because one of the health inspectors eats at the restau-rant frequently.
“We feel pretty good about the product,” Bogert said.Food safety is a priority for the safety of customers by re-
ducing infections caused by foodborne pathogens, reducing outbreaks of foodborne illness and improving food employee behaviors and food preparation practices that directly relate to foodborne illness in retail food establishments, Ely said.
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JOBS: Lectures give interview prep, job adviceContinued from page 1
At the lecture, Stewart gave students advice for fill-ing out the application, how to represent yourself in an interview and ways to im-press the interviewer.
She said students should come to an interview pre-pared by doing their re-search about the job and being able to ask questions. Most of all, she said stu-dents should be confident.
Additionally, Stewart said one should always write a thank-you letter to the in-terviewer because the extra effort could be enough to land the job.
Although 61 campus jobs are work-study programs, there are other opportuni-ties for students that have
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CORRECTION:
In the Friday, Aug. 29, edition of The Daily, an article about the new Gogh Sooners free drink cards at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art erroneously stated the cards were available to pick up during reg-ular museum hours. In reality, the cards are only available for pick up on OU home foot-ball gamedays.
Visit OUDaily. com/corrections for an ar-chive of our corrections
not qualified for the feder-al program. You can search the full list of available jobs at the jobs website.
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AT A GLANCEHealth code citations by the numbers Hideaway Pizza: 39
The Mont: 31
Tea Cafe: 31
Diamond Dawgs: 27
Fuzzy’s Taco Shop: 27
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FOOTBALL
Top 5 takeaways from SaturdayMiss the game? Here’s what you need to know
CARSON WILLIAMS & DILLON HOLLINGSWORTH • SPORTS REPORTERS
1.OU began this season with one of the
most inexperienced group of run-ning backs coach Bob Stoops has ever had. There were ques-tions about whether or not they would be reliable contrib-utors. Those questions were answered early and often against the Bulldogs, as sophomores Keith Ford and Alex Ross and fresh-man Samaje Perine com-bined to score five touch-d o w n s. P e r i n e l e d t h e way with 77 yards on the ground, but Ford led the team with 65 receiving yards and Ross had an 80-yard kick return.
NO DIP AT RUNNING BACK 2.E x p e c t a t i o n s f o r t h e
Sooners’ defense this sea-son are as high as they have
been in quite a while, and the unit got off to a great start
on Saturday. Louisiana Tech looked helpless while OU’s first team defense was on the
field. Senior linebacker Geneo Grissom and junior linebacker
Eric Striker picked up right where they left off last season, terrorizing the
line of scrimmage. Sophomore corner-back Zack Sanchez had a blocked field goal and an interception. While Louisiana Tech is in the bottom few offenses the Sooners will face this season, the OU defense looked like one that will be giving oppo-nents nightmares all season.
DEFENSE STANDS STRONG
3.This time a year ago, Trevor Knight took the field and
looked nervous in his first collegiate start. This year has been a much different story. His 253 yards with one
touchdown and one interception were not on the same level as his stellar Sugar Bowl perfor-
mance, but he did everything the team needed him to do. He made the throws he needed to
make and continued to feed the three-head-ed monster that emerged from the back-
field. Knight was tabbed to be a team cap-tain this season, and he looked like one
as he marched the offense up and down the field for 436 yards.
KNIGHT SHOWS CONFIDENCE
4.The Sooners’ depth was tested early in the game when
sophomore linebacker Jordan Evans was ejected after his hit on Louisiana Tech’s quarterback was ruled targeting. Evans was already on the field to replace junior Frank Shannon, the team’s leading tackler from 2013, who is sidelined for off-the-field issues. This forced fifth-year senior walk-on Caleb Gastelum into action, and the de-fense did not miss a beat. In Gastelum’s first play from scrimmage, he deflected a pass and almost came down with the interception. Gastelum finished the game with two tackles.
GASTELUM IS READY TO GO
5.Special teams is a part of the game that is
easy to overlook, but the Sooners brought it into the spotlight Saturday night. Sanchez’s blocked field goal in the first quarter was OU’s first blocked field goal since 2004. Ross had a big 80-yard kick return and junior wide receiver Sterling Shepard was impressive as the new punt returner. He picked up 35 yards on two returns. Senior kicker Michael Hunnicutt has built a repu-tation throughout his career as about as close to a sure thing as you can get, and he continued against the Bulldogs, nailing both of his field goals. The Sooners also blocked the extra point on Louisiana Tech’s sec-ond touchdown near the end of the game. Close games can come down to who performs bet-ter on special teams a n d t h e S o o n e r s look to be in good shape in 2014.
SPECIAL TEAMS SHOWS OFF
OU began this season with one of the most inexperienced group of run-ning backs coach Bob Stoops has ever had. There were ques-tions about whether or not they would be reliable contrib-utors. Those questions were answered early and often against the Bulldogs, as sophomores Keith Ford and Alex Ross and fresh-man Samaje Perine com-bined to score five touch-d o w n s. P e r i n e l e d t h e way with 77 yards on the ground, but Ford led the team with 65 receiving yards and Ross had an 80-yard kick return.
3. KNIGHT SHOWS CONFIDENCE
Sooners’ defense this sea-son are as high as they have
been in quite a while, and the unit got off to a great start
on Saturday. Louisiana Tech looked helpless while OU’s first team defense was on the
field. Senior linebacker Geneo Grissom and junior linebacker
Eric Striker picked up right where they left off last season, terrorizing the
line of scrimmage. Sophomore corner-back Zack Sanchez had a blocked field goal and an interception. While Louisiana Tech is in the bottom few offenses the Sooners will face this season, the OU defense looked like one that will be giving oppo-nents nightmares all season.
3.This time a year ago, Trevor Knight took the field and
looked nervous in his first collegiate start. This year has been a much different story. His 253 yards with one
touchdown and one interception were not on the same level as his stellar Sugar Bowl perfor-
mance, but he did everything the team needed him to do. He made the throws he needed to
make and continued to feed the three-head-ed monster that emerged from the back-
field. Knight was tabbed to be a team cap-tain this season, and he looked like one
as he marched the offense up and down the field for 436 yards.
KNIGHT SHOWS CONFIDENCE
The Sooners’ depth was tested early in the game when sophomore linebacker Jordan Evans was ejected after his hit on Louisiana Tech’s quarterback was ruled targeting. Evans was already on the field to replace junior Frank Shannon, the team’s leading tackler from 2013, who is sidelined for off-the-field issues. This forced fifth-year senior walk-on Caleb Gastelum into action, and the de-fense did not miss a beat. In Gastelum’s first play from scrimmage, he deflected a pass and almost came down with the interception. Gastelum finished the game with two
GASTELUM IS READY TO GO
Special teams is a part of the game that is easy to overlook, but the Sooners brought it into the spotlight Saturday night. Sanchez’s blocked field goal in the first quarter was OU’s first blocked field goal since 2004. Ross had a big 80-yard kick return and junior wide receiver Sterling Shepard was impressive as the new punt returner. He picked up 35 yards on two returns. Senior kicker Michael Hunnicutt has built a repu-tation throughout his career as about as close to a sure thing as you can get, and he continued against the Bulldogs, nailing both of his field goals. The Sooners also blocked the extra point on Louisiana Tech’s sec-ond touchdown near the end of the game. Close games can come down to who performs bet-ter on special teams a n d t h e S o o n e r s look to be in good shape in 2014.
There were plenty of questions heading into the season opener against Louisiana Tech on Saturday, so here are some of the things we learned.
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Running Back Alex Ross.
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Line Backer Eric Striker
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Quarter back Trevor Knight.
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Top: OU lines up against Lousiana Tech at the first game of Fall 2014 in Norman.Right: Sooner greets fans during Saturday’s game against Louisiana Tech. Top left: Head Coach Bob Stoops monitors the players during a warm up before OU’s game against Louisiana Tech Saturday evening.Bottom left: The Ruf-Neks line up with Boomer and Sooner to race across the field and fire fans up for the game.
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