Muskogee, Oklahoma 2009

We made Muskogee, Oklahoma where we will stay for the night.

Workout notes 2 miles, Barton Springs; 1:09:56. The mile splits were 35:03/34:52; the 5′th lap was 8:34 (I passed three old swimmers and made an effort to get ahead of them). Compare to 22 December.

Air temperature: 65; it was relatively pleasant. There was a woman alternating kick sets (with fins) and paddle/pull buoy sets.

Football

(photos from here)

Florida beat Oklahoma 24-14 last night. The game featured a bit of everything. Though the Gators outgained the Sooners 480-363, both teams moved the ball well, and both defenses came up with big plays to stop drives.

There was plenty of hitting and good defense. Tebow was intercepted twice; once by a defensive tackle who dropped into pass defense. But the Sooners failed to convert.

In the second quarter, the game was tied 7-7. But Sooner drive (featured some strong off tackle running ended on a fourth and goal at the Gator one; a Gator defensive lineman stuffed an off tackle play when the Sooners spurned a field goal try.

Later, the Sooners drove the ball from their own 10 (with less than 2 mintues to go) only to have the drive end with an interception at the Gator 2 yard line.

The Sooners had the ball at the Gator 10 and tried for one more pass (no timeouts left); the ball bounced off of a receiver, off a defender and hit a couple of more people prior to being picked off.

Hence the action packed first half ended 7-7.

The third quarter saw a Gator touchdown drive matched my a Sooner one. A Long Sooner field goal attempt was blocked.

In the 4′th quarter the Gators hit a field goal to go up 17-14.
On a subsequent possession, Bradford hit a receiver in the hands with the ball, but while the receiver was pulling the ball in, the Gator defensive back snatched the ball away; it was one of the best defensive plays I’ve ever seen. The Gators then drove the ball and scored to go up 24-14 with 3 minutes to play and held on after that.

Travel notes When we were traveling through Southern Oklahoma, we picked up an Indian radio station in Dallas! What caught our ear was that they were reading an editorial written by a Pakistani concerning the misconceptions many Indians have about Pakistan. For a moment, I thought that we had tuned to a PBS station.