Sooners' center of attention
OU football: Offensive lineman Jon Cooper
Cooper back on field after shattering his leg in Lubbock late last year

 
By John Helsley
Published: September 13, 2006

N ORMAN — Jon Cooper lay sprawled in pain, flat on his back on the Texas Tech turf, knowing something was terribly wrong with his right ankle.

"Then somebody, I don't remember who it was, told me, ‘Coop, don't look at your leg,' " Cooper said.

"Of course, the next thing I did was look at it, facing the wrong direction, just kind of dangling there."

Immediately, Cooper's career at Oklahoma seemed...


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