Cowboys vs. Cancer Celebrity Waiter Night

loved ones that are battling cancer and puts on events that are meant to provide meaningful experiences. All proceeds collected from Celebrity Waiter Night will be benefiting the Eddie Sutton Foundation.

Eskimo Joe’s is hosting special VIP cancer kickin’ kiddos and OSU athletes for a fundraising event night.

Cowboys vs. Cancer Celebrity Waiter Night will be held at Eskimo Joe’s on Tuesday from 6-8 p.m. Current and former OSU athletes, as well as VIP kids who are battling cancer will be greeting customers and walking around to visit with the crowd.

On the night of the event, an online auction will be commencing in which people will be able to place bets on a number of items, including apparel representing the Eddie Sutton Foundation. Oklahoma State University Cowboys vs. Cancer operates under the Eddie Sutton Foundation, fundraises for new cancer research, supports families who have

Gardening conference to be hosted this Friday and Saturday

Teachers, administrators and community leaders will learn how to begin a school or community garden at the Oklahoma School and Community Garden Conference.

The conference is partnered with Oklahoma State University Extension horticulture, gardening experts and local gardening enthusiasts.

The conference will be hosted on Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon at the Oklahoma County Extension Conference Center, 2500 NE 63rd St., in Oklahoma City.

The events on Friday will include two class sessions. The morning session will cover how to grow vegetables, herbs and flowers, while the afternoon session will cover how to establish a garden in schools and communities.

The event on Saturday is an optional self-guided tour of school and community gardens in Oklahoma City.

“For some people in today’s modern society, there is a disconnect between themselves and nature,” said Julia Laughlin, Oklahoma County OSU Extension horticulture educator. “They don’t know where their food comes from other than the grocery store. Having access to a school or community garden is beneficial to all ages. It’s healthy for the human spirit to be connected to nature, and teaching people about gardening helps make that connection.”

See Conference on page 6

This night of events will be falling on the week of Eskimo Joe’s 48th anniversary which brings in thousands of visitors for a week-long party. Front-house manager, Whitney Bruning, explains how this chain of events is typically placed around the same week to bring awareness and support to the cancer kickin’ kiddos.

“Along with other big events that we do, Celebrity Waiter Night is almost always included in the same week as our anniversary,” Bruning said. “It’s usually a packed house and gets a lot of attention.”

For more information on the event, you can visit the OSU Cowboys vs. Cancer Twitter page: https://twitter.com/osucvc. news.ed@ocolly.com

ARLINGTON, Texas – It’s common coach talk: avoid the outside noise, eliminate all distractions and don’t dwell on what the media says.

West Virginia head coach Neal Brown broke all of the coach talk rules Thursday morning, telling the media that he did, in fact, dwell on what they said.

Brown’s Mountaineers were voted 14th in the 2023 Big 12 Football Media Preseason Poll, coming in at the last spot in the enlarged conference (and it wasn’t close).

So, he addressed the ranking that he found out about while on a beach via text in his opening statement to the group of people who voted on the poll.

“Upset with the media poll, definitely do not agree with that,” Brown said. “The positive is the media (when predicting the Big 12) has not been very successful in recent years; so, I think that bodes well for us.

“My vacation was over; I went into football mode.”

Other coaches, including but not limited to Steve Sarkisian (Texas), Sonny Dykes (TCU) and Chris Klieman (Kansas State) spoke on the rankings, often downplaying them and denouncing their importance to a team.

But clearly, these rankings do matter. Brown later went on to say he brought up the last-place ranking in a team meeting on Tuesday while using more “colorful terms.” It’s a source of fuel, and early on, it lets your team lean into the “they doubted us” shtick if met with success during the season. Acting like they don’t matter is dismissive.

So, I took a dive into what Brown said. Has the media not been successful in predicting the Big 12?

Here’s a look at the last three Big 12 Football Media Preseason Polls versus how the season actually played out.

2022:

Yeah, the media missed on this one.

Following Baylor and Oklahoma State’s Big 12 Championship in 2021, the Bears were selected as the favorites, and OSU came in at third, with Oklahoma slotted at the No. 2 spot. The 1-2-3 projected teams ended up at 5-6-7. Yikes.

See Poll on page 3