Post game reporting...
First we had the Dallas Morning News reporting that Jermaine Gresham did a "throat slashing" move toward Texas fans after his touchdown catch Saturday in the Red River Rivalry. The reporter had to retract the statement and issue an apology to Gresham after watching a tape of the game and seeing that Gresham was running his hand across the emblazoned "SOONER" on the front of his jersey toward OU fans in the south end zone of the Cotton Bowl. No throat gesture at all.
Now we have to put up with the Austin American-Statesman erroneously reporting that Oklahoma coaches "celebrated" a late hit that Austin English put on Texas QB Colt McCoy. The article falsely reported that all players stopped playing after an official threw a flag and a whistle was blown due to a UT false start, but that English ran over to the standing McCoy and decked him. Longhorn fans and Coach Mack Brown were up in arms over what they thought was a cheap shot.
But the video shows none of the Texas players stopped blocking, including the one assigned to block English.
The head referee who stands there to protect against late hits on the quarterback never blew the play dead, or motioned that the play was dead.
See the video for yourself:
Apparently the AAS doesn't know people record televised football games (especially THIS one), so they can see what they report is false. There was no celebration of any late hit. It looked to everyone in the stadium that play was live and English made a sack.
This is the kind of cheap shot reporting that occurs every year from the hallowed press of Texas. As bad as the Daily Oklahoman can be in its coverage, you cannot say that either it or the Tulsa World are bias in their support of OU as the Texas media is so blindly (literally) "supportive" of the Longhorns.
-- Mike
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