Berry Tramel

Serge Ibaka creates a dilemma for Scotty Brooks in this series against the Grizzlies. He’s obviously too talented not to play. But Ibaka obviously can’t guard Zach Randolph. The Thunder’s problems with Randolph continued Sunday, in Game 1 of their Western Conference semifinal. Randolph...

The Dallas Cowboys selected eight players in the NFL Draft. Six of the eight were offensive players. The Cowboys no doubt will look to free agency to shore up a defense that developed all kinds of holes. But free agency will have to wait until the NFL fixes its labor dispute. For now,...

The Big 12 dominated the first round of the 2010 NFL Draft. Three of the top four picks were Sooners and five of the top six were Big 12 players: OU’s Sam Bradford, G.K. McCoy and Trent Williams; Nebraska’s Ndamukong Suh and OSU’s Russell Okung. Later in the round, came Texas’ Earl...

These NBA playoffs are some heady days for small markets. Which frankly, is a loaded term. What is a small market? I’ve heard people refer to St. Louis as a small market. Anything not in New York, Chicago or LA could be considered a small market. But let’s be serious. Dallas, Boston,...

Quite a night for Oklahoma City. A playoff series victory over Denver in the most dramatic of fashion. Kevin Durant’s heroics. Serge Ibaka’s blocks. Kendrick Perkins even dunked. I sat on press row, right behind the scorer’s table, so I had a great seat, but that doesn’t mean I had the...

Wow. What a night in Oklahoma City. The game. The comeback. The revelry. I say we talk about it. I’ll be at Buffalo Wild Wings on Northwest Expressway at 11 a.m. today for my online chat, then like always, I’ll hang out for lunch and talk with fans. Stop by and join me. I’ll be there...

Chat with sports columnist Berry Tramel at 11 a.m. 1 Show / Hide Archive Comments The following comments are archived from the original publication of this post BKS on Apr 28, 2011 @ 7:05 pm Any news on who won the Mens Big 12 golf tourney? Seems to me that if someone other than OSU won this...

Oklahoma State will play Iowa State on a Friday night, Nov. 18, for an ESPN telecast. Which makes me think of several things. 1. It will be cold. Iowa is a beautiful place, and it can even be beautiful, if nippy, in November. But a night game? That’s a different story. The average November...

Someone on the radio said Kendrick Perkins has been a bust for this playoff series against Denver, which of course sent me to the box scores, and I was going to write about Perk’s value, even against Nene’. Which I will. But I got involved in some other stuff, all of which made me decide to...

Desmond Mason and his family moved back to Oklahoma City last autumn. Now they’ve established even more roots. Mason has joined the stately Oklahoma City Golf & Country Club. I didn’t even know Mason played golf. “I’m getting there,” Mason said. “I play a lot more than I used...

The big Thunder talk this morning is about Russell Westbrook and his ESPN anthology game: 30 for 30. Thirty points, thirty shots in the Thunder’s 104-101 loss to Denver on Monday night. I am a big Westbrook fan, and in the Wednesday Oklahoman, I’m going to write a column in defense of the...

Eight NBA playoff games were staged over the weekend. Six of the eight came down to the final possession. The Celtics beat the Knickerbockers easily, and the Hornets held off the Lakers 93-88 in a close game. The other six all were decided by three or fewer points, and all six came down to the...

We’re one full week and another weekend into the 2011 NBA playoffs. Every series except Oklahoma City-Denver and San Antonio-Memphis has played four games. Plenty of time to establish which teams have played well and which have not. Let’s rank the 16 teams, based on their performance: 1....

Four NBA playoff games were staged. Some were close games. Some were one-sided. Remarkably, all four came down to the same script: a team in the final five seconds has a 3-pointer to win or tie. Technically, that’s not true. San Antonio never got off its 3-pointer, down three at Memphis....

Bob Stoops is high on his offensive line. Which is a very good sign. Stoops generally has a good feel for his blockers, months before the season opener. Stoops was not overly optimistic about the 2009 line, despite Trent Williams anchoring the unit, but was generally positive going into the 2010...

I wrote a column about Nuggets coach George Karl in Wednesday’s paper. He’s had quite the career. And that career involved Oklahoma City from the old CBA days, as I mentioned. Wednesday afternoon, I heard from Chip Land, the managing partner of the old Oklahoma City Cavalry, and Land...

It’s Thursday — early Thursday, 12:08 a.m. — but that means it’s time for lunch at Buffalo Wild Wings on Northwest Expressway. Lots to talk about, starting and ending with the Thunder. Great performance Wednesday night, a 106-89 rout of Denver that makes this series 2-0 Thunder....

Seems like the Thunder is on a very roll right now, not just in winning playoff games against the Nuggets. The Thunder seems to be taking good shots every trip down. Oh, every once in awhile there’s a shot that’s not great for that time — an early-in-the-shot clock 3-pointer by...

Chat with sports columnist Berry Tramel at 11 a.m. 4 Show / Hide Archive Comments The following comments are archived from the original publication of this post robert weaver on Apr 22, 2011 @ 9:00 pm More Tramel. I'll vote for less Tramel.

OU still awaits its 2011 Big 12 football schedule. It seems likely that the Thanksgiving weekend games are the holdup, but if so, it’s not the Sooners dragging their feet. Bob Stoops said he wants to play Thanksgiving weekend. Stoops the other day said that with Bedlam moved from...