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Published: December 28, 2008
Major donors Boone Pickens, Phil Knight are polar opposites
SAN DIEGO , Calif. — Neither Boone Pickens nor Phil Knight played college football.
But you can’t have a discussion about either man without eventually turning to the sport. No donor in all of college football is as connected to his university as Knight to Oregon and Pickens to Oklahoma State .
Together, they’ve given more than half-a-billion dollars to their universities, mostly to the...
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