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Remi Ayodele signed with Northeastern A&M Junior College in 2002 out of South Grand Prairie, Texas, then signed with OU in 2004 and played two years in the Sooners’ defensive tackle rotation. Undrafted in 2006, Ayodele bounced around in the NFL, from New England to Baltimore to Dallas but has found a home with the Saints. He talked about today’s Super Bowl matchup against the Colts and Peyton Manning....read more from The Oklahoman

(by David Ubben) Even if a player still possesses supposed intangibles, when recruiting, size is a big determining factor.

"There can be a guy that’s tough as nails, this, that and the other if he’s a linebacker and he’s a certain size, and here comes Phil Loadholt,” said Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops. "I don’t care how tough you are, you get overwhelmed. Sometimes, if you don’t have certain measurables, you get overwhelmed. The other intangibles go out the window.”....read more w/video from The Oklahoman

(by John E. Hoover) It's a busy week for Sam Bradford.

The former Oklahoma quarterback has taken a break from rehabbing his injured shoulder and his throwing program in Florida and has begun his professional career in earnest.

He's already signed various endorsement deals, including one with Gatorade that he promoted in Miami this week during the week-long lead-up to the Super Bowl....read more from the Tulsa World

(by Allen Kenney) Nothing gets college football fans as revved up in the offseason as a ballyhooed quarterback recruit. Oklahoma Sooners 2010 signee Blake Bell is one of those guys.

Recruiting services Scout, Rivals and ESPN ranked Bell between third and sixth among prep quarterbacks. That makes him the best quarterback prospect recruit OU has brought in since Rhett Bomar. Bell has all the attributes for a quarterback that scouts and fans drool over: 6-6, 215 lbs, athletic, mobile, strong arm....read more from Blatant Homerism

(by John Rhode) When Garrett Hartley’s game-winning field goal split the uprights 13 days ago, the earth readjusted itself under New Orleans. The Superdome hadn’t shaken like that since the morning of Aug. 29, 2005, when Hurricane Katrina made landfall.

"It was phenomenal in that stadium. No one left,” said Bill Hartley, father of the Saints placekicker who shifted the local carnival season into overdrive by helping the Saints clinch a spot in Super Bowl XLIV in Miami. "I could have sworn that stadium was moving. It was a good feeling.”....read more from The Oklahoman

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• Arizona promotes ex-Sooner Seth Littrell

(by Dave Sittler) HOWARD SCHNELLENBERGER and Oklahoma football seldom belong in the same sentence for Sooner fans who lived through Schnellenberger's one-year reign of error as OU's coach.

But that changed this week when OU coach Bob Stoops confirmed that he had hired Willie Martinez to fill the opening created when Chris Wilson departed to become co-defensive coordinator at Mississippi State.

Martinez and Schnellenberger are forever linked because of one of the greatest college games in history. OU's new secondary coach was a starting defensive back for Schnellenberger's 1983 national champion Miami (Fla.) team....read more from the Tulsa World

(by Logan Rogers) As another remarkable signing day for the Oklahoma Sooners gets crossed off the calender, the new class of young men looking for a chance to make their mark are receiving much attention.

None more than quarterback Blake Bell.

While the dual-threat Elite-11 signal caller does come in as the highest ranked prospect (No. 31 overall http://scout.com) in the class, earning Gatorade player of the year honors in both his junior and senior outing, and the 6'6", 215lbs Kansas native has only played the position he was recruited for since his junior year....read more from the Bleacher Report

(by Mike Tupa) Few years have had as much future significance on the legend of American sports as 1895.

Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey and George Halas all came into the world that year, starting titanic lives which would bring major impact to Major League Baseball, boxing, and pro football, respectively.

Meanwhile, the University of Oklahoma opened the curtain on a new era with its first-ever official football game....read more from the Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise

(by OU Media Relations) NORMAN, Okla. -- Want to see where the newest Sooners played their high school ball? Using GoogleMaps, we plotted out the home stadiums of all 29 Oklahoma signees from the 2010 class.

Take a virtual road trip to each player's prep stomping grounds. Click on the graphic below to view an overall map. Then, utilize the features of GoogleMaps to zoom in on specific stadiums and check them out from street level....read more w/map from SoonerSports.com

(by John E. Hoover) DOMINIQUE FRANKS has two very good reasons why he decided to skip his senior year at Oklahoma and enter the NFL draft.

One is Sam Bradford. The other is Jermaine Gresham.

Two of Franks' oldest and dearest friends at OU announced a year ago that they wanted to play another year for the Sooners....read more from the Tulsa World

(by Guerin Emig) It could be an interesting spring for Oklahoma safety Javon Harris. Or is he a running back?

Bob Stoops said this week that the Sooners are considering giving Harris a look in the backfield this spring. Not a bad thought, considering he rushed for 1,144 yards and 21 touchdowns at Lawton MacArthur in 2008....read more from the Tulsa World

(by Tim Tucker) OK, it’s official now: Oklahoma has confirmed the hiring of Willie Martinez, the deposed Georgia defensive coordinator, as its defensive backs coach.

And Bob Stoops, Oklahoma’s head coach who is known as a defensive guru, seems pretty thrilled about it.

“Willie is an outstanding coach and someone with a tremendous background in our profession,” Stoops said in a statement. “His experience is very impressive, and he will contribute a lot of very good things to our program....read more from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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• Willie Martinez picks Oklahoma over Stanford

(by AP) Former Georgia defensive coordinator Willie Martinez was all set to go to Stanford when he found something he couldn't pass up: Oklahoma's football tradition.

A former Miami defensive back and graduate assistant during the height of the Hurricanes' mid-1980s rivalry with the Sooners, Martinez was immediately sold on the chance to see what it's like on the other side of the fence.

"My intentions were going to Stanford and it wasn't until this past weekend when I was contacted by coach (Bob Stoops) and he wanted to visit," Martinez said Thursday....read more from The Oklahoma Daily

Wide receiver Kenny Stills was added to the University of Oklahoma's 2010 football recruiting class on Thursday. The school received clearance from the NCAA on Thursday in regards to Stills' eligibility.

"We're happy for Kenny that everything is in place for him to join the program," OU coach Bob Stoops said in a release. "We're disappointed that he couldn't be included with the rest of the class we announced yesterday, but the matter has been resolved and that's all that really matters....read more from The Oklahoman

(by John Shinn) Bob Stoops isn't telling why, exactly, but one cat let out of the bag Wednesday on national signing day was his proclamation that Jenks' Jarrett Lake and the Sooners had parted ways some time ago.

"We had a mutual decision between the two of us that we weren't going to proceed any longer," Stoops said, though he still believed Lake "a wonderful kid."

Of course, one wonders what the whole story might be....read more from The Norman Transcript