Creator of phony story works in Texas' IT department
OU Internet hoax: UT determines Conradt didn't use company computer to create fake article

 
By Jake Trotter
Published: July 11, 2008

There's a reason why James W. Conradt was able to lift a template off The Oklahoman 's Web site, NewsOK.com , to create a phony story about Oklahoma quarterbacks Sam Bradford and Landry Jones .

The Nebraska football fan living in Austin, Texas , is a computing services manager in the information technology department at the University of Texas .

Wednesday, the 36-year-old Conradt wrote a bogus article...


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