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‘I can never say thank you enough’

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Fifteen years ago, the world lost 10 great people. My father, Will Hancock, was one of them. I was two months old at the time; I know him not through recollection but by the stories told by those who are keenly intent on keeping his memory alive.

It may seem strange to say you miss someone you never knew, but because of other people’s accounts of my dad, I feel like I do know him: He was kind, warm, witty, bright and funny. He loved sports, music and his family. I would not feel the same connection I do to him if it weren’t for the Oklahoma State community and the people of Stillwater, who are so determined to keep his legacy going.

Every year around this time, we celebrate the Ten’s lives and their impact on the rest of us, but my family celebrates something else: the people who got us through the hardest thing we’ve ever faced. Support came from all around the state and the na-

courtesy of Karen Hancock Will Hancock holds his daughter, Andrea, when she was an infant. Will was one of the 10 victims of the plane crash of an Oklahoma State University basketball team plane in 2001 near Strasburg, Colorado, and was the OSU athletic media relations coordinator at that time.

tion when we lost my dad. In the rough days following the crash, we couldn’t have gotten through the pain without the support of those we knew and

strangers alike.

In my family’s darkest hour, the OSU community swooped in, promising us they’d be here for us in any way we

needed. They promised us that my father and everyone else we lost would never be forgotten. Fifteen years later, the oath still stands: We Will

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EDITORIAL: The Ten will never be forgotten The ribbons keep coming back.

They come when we want to be united. They come when we want to be strong. They come when we want to hold onto thoughts and feelings and people that seemed so close not too long ago.

But it’s more than remembering.

It’s not a fleeting thought, something that slips through our minds for a brief moment or minute before fading away until we are reminded.

It is ever-present.

We do not simply Remember the Ten. Kendall Durfey, Bjorn Fahlstrom, Nate Fleming, Will Hancock, Daniel Lawson, Brian Luinstra, Denver Mills, Pat Noyes, Bill Teegins and Jared Weiberg will never be forgotten.

With this special issue marking the 15th anniversary of that winter’s day in 2001, when the Oklahoma State family lost 10 members, our goal isn’t to rehash pain and sadness.

Instead, this issue is to point out the impact of the Ten, their impact on those who knew them as Dad, Son, Brother and Friend, and those who knew them as Cowboys. It is to remember their legacy and how each of them continue to touch our lives.

It is so we never forget.

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He got it.

For 15 years, Oklahoma State fans have yearned to hear that confirmation resonate across the radio waves one more time.

It was a simple call, a certification of another Cowboy 3-pointer finding its way home. The delivery

was anything but simple, full of exuberance and life. The three words energized a fan base, but if you praised the man behind the microphone, Bill Teegins would humbly evade the adoration and instead ask about your day.

That’s the kind of man he was.

Although it was a time-consuming job, he would have done it until the end of time. Teegins believed that until the day he died on a plane crash with nine other people.

“It was the game right before the Cowboys went on that fateful trip to Colorado,” said Larry Reece, OSU’s public address announcer.

“I remember Bill joking around and saying, ‘I may just give up this TV gig and just come work for the Cowboy radio network with you.’ I said, ‘Well, You’re going to take a

heck of a pay cut.’

“And he points at his chair and he said, ‘Larry, let me tell you this, calling Cowboy games is absolutely my favorite thing to do. Don’t ever let me screw this up. I want to be doing this for a long time.’”

Day-in, day-out for 11 years, Teegins balanced his duties as Channel 9’s sports director in Oklahoma City and “The Voice of the Cowboys” for OSU basketball and football games. Teegins spent hours researching for work, yet he always had time to hear about someone else’s day or ask them a sports trivia question.

His personality and self-deprecating sense of humor was what made him popular. On different occasions, he would play himself down or make fun of himself

to keep things at an even keel.

Teegins’ wife, Janis, said Bill never let the fame get to his head.

“A lot of sportscasters had big egos but Bill did not,” she said. “In fact, sometimes I teased him and said he needed one, but what you saw is what you got. What you saw on TV is how he was at home. He was very approachable. If someone saw us at a restaurant, he would strike up a conversation with them.

He truly enjoyed being a broadcaster.”

Many described Teegins as a true professional in his reporting.

Whether he was covering OSU and OU or being seen in Tulsa or Oklahoma City, Teegins was loved.

By transcending bias, a sportscaster from Minnesota was able to become everyone’s friend. Teegins

could talk to Eddie Sutton one day and Bob Stoops the next and be revered in both conversations.

“I’ve heard Eddie Sutton say many times that Bill Teegins was like a brother to him,” Reece said.

“It’s something when you can really respect the person or people that cover your team, and I know Eddie Sutton really respected Bill Teegins.”

Although he was named Oklahoma Sportscaster of the Year eight times, Teegins was concerned more with helping out colleagues like OSU’s current color commentator John Holcomb. When Holcomb applied to Channel 9 in 1995, Teegins was the first to call.

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the station had decided to go with another applicant, but Teegins told him to “hang in there.” A couple of months later, the two met at a Dallas Cowboys’ training camp in Austin where Teegins changed Holcomb’s life forever.

“He and I and John Walls, the sports director in Tulsa at the time, went out to dinner,” Holcomb said.

“While we were at dinner, Bill was talking to John Walls, and he pointed at me saying, ‘Here’s the guy you need to hire the next time you have an opening.’”

A couple of months later, Holcomb was hired on at Channel 6, where Teegins would be happy to know that Holcomb is sports director today.

Teegins not only helped out colleagues such as Holcomb, but also aspiring broadcasters like Doug Gottlieb, OSU point guard in the late ‘90s and current CBS analyst.

Gottlieb was thinking about sportscasting after graduation in 2000 but, as with all recent graduates, he heard different opinions on what he should do. Teegins and others pulled him toward broadcasting, while coach Eddie Sutton recommended coaching.

“Bill, I remember, pulled me aside and said, ‘You should really do this (broadcasting). You’d be really good at this, and I can help you in any way,’” Gottlieb said. “… He was vital. So many other people in any profession, a young guy who makes a name for himself, they sometimes get defensive.

That wasn’t Bill Teegins.”

Whether it was his family of Janis and his daughter, Amanda, or his broadcasting family, Teegins took care of them. He was the energetic spark at home and on the airwaves, which is why on that January night, everyone who knew him felt they lost something that could never be replaced.

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ing. He drove to the Stillwater airport and frantically tried to find out what happened.

“I called his phone and Pat Noyes’, and they would go straight to voicemail,” Reece said. “You just had an eerie feeling that you weren’t going to see your friends again.”

Janis, a flight attendant at the time, was at an airport in Boston when Amanda called her, informing her about the plane crash and asking Janis about Teegins’ state.

Janis called Channel 9, only to hear Teegins’ friend and colleague Kelly Ogle confirm the worst.

Teegins was 48.

When the Cowboys returned to the court after the tragedy, their first game back was against Missouri. Different sportscasters from around the Big 12 collaborated to fill in for their fallen colleague.

People like Bob Barry Sr. and Kansas’ Bob Davis got behind the mic, but it didn’t feel the same.

“Just seeing that empty seat down there,” Janis said. “I know people were sitting in for him, but that was a tough one and a tough couple of years. He was a hard one to lose.”

People who were at that game will remember the intensity of the crowd and raw emotion that flooded the newly dedicated Gallagher-Iba Arena for years.

“I will always remember there had been this debate in renovating Gallagher-Iba,” Holcomb said.

“Whether it would ever be as loud as old Gallagher where the sound just used to bounce off the ceiling.

“There was a spot in that game I will never forget. Terrance Crawford got a steal near midcourt. He took it down, dunked and got fouled, and I swear to you I thought the roof was coming off.

It was the moment that everyone who was in the stands was waiting for a moment to erupt.”

It would have been a moment Teegins would have definitely gotten excited about, though, there was no “He Got It!” after a Mo

Baker 3-pointer or “Oh, brother” to be heard after a Cowboy foul.

The energy behind the Cowboy Radio Network and Channel 9 was gone.

A thousand miles away, a sportscaster for Western Kentucky named Dave Hunziker was still dealing with the news. Hunziker had heard Teegins’ work before and knew of him through his friend, ESPN’s John Anderson.

Although Hunziker had never met Teegins, he knew the sports broadcasting community had lost a great one.

“We’re all flying around, traveling, running about getting to games,” Hunziker said. “You just felt such empathy for these people even if you didn’t know them.

We’re all one big family in college athletics, and when you look at it, you just feel a sense of tragedy.”

When Hunziker was named OSU’s new play-by-play voice in the fall of 2001, he didn’t know what kind of reception to expect.

Hunziker found out he didn’t need to be worried as the OSU family embraced him, and he grew into a fan favorite.

Although his chair had been filled, Teegins’ memory has lived on throughout the past 15 years.

One notable moment was during OSU’s Final Four run in 2004. Reece had asked Cowboy Radio producer Joe Riddle to use Teegins’ call from the 1995 Final Four if the Cowboys were to make it again.

Riddle pulled up the clip and after John Lucas III hit a 3-pointer against St. Joes to send OSU to the Final Four, fans were treated to “The Cowboys are goin’ to the Final Four” one more time.

“That was a really cool gesture,” Hunziker said. “It was the right thing to do.”

Janis and Amanda came up with ways for Teegins to live on as well with the Bill Teegins Scholarship, awarded each year to sportscasters with Oklahoma roots. Janis also wrote a book about Teegins’ life, aptly titled “He Got It!: My Life OCOLLY.COM

courtesy of Janis Tietgins Bill Teegins was known as the “The Voice of the Cowboys.” Teegins was on the plane that crashed in Strasburg, Colorado, on Jan. 27, 2001.

with Bill Teegins.” It helps not only to keep his memory around for younger broadcasters, but also for Amanda’s daughter, Tatum, she said.

“She has three grandparents, and there’s that one missing spark,” Janis said.

She isn’t able to make it to many Cowboy basketball games anymore, Janis said. Amanda and her husband, Paul Stoke, have season tickets and go to most of the games.

It isn’t the same for Janis, who used to sit up in the stands so she

could be allowed to cheer instead of sitting in press row with Teegins.

Janis will be there Wednesday, though for the 15th year without the love of her life, the humblest sportscaster around, the man behind “He Got It!” “Truthfully, for some reason football games don’t bother me,” Janis said. “But I used to wave to him down there being in Gallagher-Iba, so it still bothers me.”

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Oklahoma State guard Daniel Lawson passed the ball to teammate Andre Williams.

Williams hit a jump shot to give Lawson his first assist of the game. The shot came with 2:31 remaining and trimmed a 23-point Colorado lead down to 21. As far as its total impact on the game, it was miniscule.

The game, played Jan. 27, 2001, in Boulder, Colorado, was not a matchup many were excited for; 5,262 people showed up to watch two unranked teams play.

The Cowboys were 4-1 in conference play. The Buffaloes did not expect to win.

They definitely didn’t expect to dominate. But that’s exactly what happened as they won 81-71.

Not even a minute after his assist, Lawson grabbed a rebound. It was the last statistic of significance he would get on a basketball court. He totaled five minutes in the game.

When the game was over, the two teams were feeling different emotions. Colorado WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2016

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A memorial was created at the crash site of the fatal flight of one of the men’s basketball planes on Jan. 27, 2001, near Strasburg, Colorado. Each person honored has a note in memory of them with a photo. A marble momento engraved with Bullet and the Spirit Rider sits at center.

was elated to get the win, while OSU was disgusted with the way it played.

Hours later, both teams would be feeling the same thing. …

The OSU players and coaches fulfilled their various media obligations.

Former assistant coach Sean Sutton estimated that the Cowboys spent 30 minutes

in the locker room afterward.

Then they left.

From the Coors Events Center, they went to Jefferson County Airport, south of Boulder. They got into their predetermined groups and boarded their planes.

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student assistant Jared Weiberg, director of basketball operations Pat Noyes, athletic trainer Brian Luinstra and broadcast engineer Kendall Durfey got on a plane known as November 81 Papa Foxtrot (N81PF).

Denver Mills and Bjorn Fahlstrom were the pilots.

Mills called to request clearance to leave for Stillwater. The request was

granted, and they left. …

Sutton remembers when he first heard the news.

He had just arrived home and kissed his children. After being away, he was happy to be home where he could relax until the next Cowboys game.

But then his dad, coach Eddie Sutton, called.

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“I don’t know how to tell you this,” he said.

Then he relayed the heartbreaking news. At 5:37 p.m.

Mountain Standard Time, N81PF had crashed into some pastureland in Strasburg, Colorado, owned by Darrell Haerther.

All 10 people on the plane were “subjected to impact forces that exceeded the level of human tolerance,” according to an accident report by the National Transportation Safety Board.

The last contact with Mills happened at 5:26 p.m., when he confirmed that the flight was on the correct path.

Attempts to communicate with Mills later were met with silence.

“Nobody knows what happened to eight-one Papa Foxtrot, so I’m going to leave United 1270, Air Canada 586 and United 1184 all going to be 80 headings to stay well north of there until I find out

what’s going on,” said someone from the Denver air traffic control center, according to transcripts.

The crash was determined to have been caused by “spatial disorientation” on Mills’ part, to which a shortage in the electrical system may have contributed.

Meanwhile, back in Stillwater, having just received the news, the Suttons, along with the other assistant coaches and Harry Birdwell, were faced with telling the families of the 10 men.

It was an immensely hard thing to do.

“I remember trying to rack my brain who was on that particular plane,” Sean said.

“As the names started coming I just fell to the floor.”

Everyone was still in shock that this happened, including the players from Colorado.

Justin Harbert, a freshman guard at CU during that season, was at the movies when a friend he was with received a text message saying an

We just saw these guys. We just played them. I just shook his hand an hour ago, and I’m sitting in the movies and now their plane is crashed. ” Justin harbert

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OSU plane had crashed. He couldn’t believe it.

“We just saw these guys,” Harbert said. “We just played them. I just shook his hand an hour ago, and I’m sitting in the movies and now their plane is crashed.”

For Blair Wilson, another freshman at CU that year, the question was why. Not just why did this happen, but “Why did they leave?” he said.

“Why didn’t they just stay another night?”

Wilson was a local kid who lived about 15 miles from CU’s campus and often went home on the weekends. But that weekend, he didn’t even try.

Snow was falling heavily, he said, and made it to where many of the CU students did not want to leave their dorm rooms.

Although it was snowing, the weather did not have an impact on the crash, according to the report.

To Harbert, Wilson and the rest of their teammates, what hours before was a thrilling upset victory now seemed hollow. The airport that OSU flew out of was the same one that CU used for its road games.

The next time the Buffaloes flew, they were all afraid. Harbert even had to take Dramamine to calm his nerves.

“Reality hits home that maybe these little prop planes that we all hated flying on aren’t safe,” Wilson said.

For the rest of the season, Colorado flew commercial, and upgraded to bigger planes the next season, Wilson said.

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Those guys will always be remembered.

They’ll always be a special part of Oklahoma State basketball. They will never be forgotten. I think Oklahoma State’s done a great job. They make a point every year to make a big deal about the anniversary of when it happened and for what those 10 great men stood for.” sean sutton

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They also wore orange and black ribbons on their jerseys to honor the lives lost on the crash. …

Haerther donated part of his property to OSU in August 2001 to build a memorial.

There is a pathway that leads from the memorial to the actual site.

At the memorial site, there is an inscription that says: “WE WILL REMEMBER: This memorial is dedicated to the memory of the Ten loved ones and friends of Oklahoma State University who perished in an airplane crash at approximately 5:37 p.m. on January 27, 2001, 1032 feet west of this location.”

The Cowboy family has done everything in its power to ensure that people will Remember the Ten. “Those guys will always be remembered,” Sean said.

“They’ll always be a special part of Oklahoma State basketball. They will never be

forgotten. I think Oklahoma State’s done a great job. They make a point every year to make a big deal about the anniversary of when it happened and for what those 10 great men stood for. That’s what it means to me.”

The team went on to make the NCAA Tournament, an achievement it aspired to reach in honor of the victims.

The Cowboys played for the first time after the crash on Feb. 5, 2001, against the Missouri Tigers. They won 69-66.

Two days later, they were slated to play the Nebraska Cornhuskers in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Eddie told the Cowboys that they could fly if they wanted, but taking a bus was also an option. It would have been understandable if they weren’t ready to fly again, given the circumstances.

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Memorial Lobby a symbol of grief, love, remembrance news I The artist who created the kneeling Spirit Rider statue channeled his own hardships for the project.

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It’s a phrase set in stone, passed by thousands of people for every event in Gallagher-Iba Arena: We will remember.

It’s carved into a memorial that forever honors the 10 members of the OSU basketball family who died in a plane crash in 2001.

The plaque is displayed in the Memorial Lobby in Gallagher-Iba Arena, which also shows the names and faces of the men who died, alongside a statue of the kneeling Spirit Rider.

Western artist Harold T. Holden designed the memorial and said he channeled his own grief after he was approached for the project.

“The idea of the kneeling cowboy came when I heard that I lost my first grandson, and I fell to my knees,” Holden said. “That’s how I imagine the parents did when they lost their kids in the accident.”

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o’colly File photo The Spirit Rider memorial, designed by Harold T. Holden, sits in the south Gallagher-Iba Arena lobby. He made 50 small replicas of the Spirit Rider memorial statue, and he gave one to each of the victims’ families.

replicas made of the kneeling Spirit Rider and gave one to each of the victims’ families.

He gave one of the statues to family of Pat Noyes, the director of basketball operations at the time of the crash.

“He was OSU basketball,” said Molly Vernon, Noyes’ sister. “He lived and breathed it. There wasn’t anything he wouldn’t have done for them.”

OSU dedicated the memorial in a ceremony in Febru-

ary 2002 in GIA. Larry Reece, senior associate athletic director of development, said doing the announcements at the game following the crash was the most emotional night in the arena’s history.

“We tried to get everyone fired up for the ball game,” he said. “I remember saying, ‘Tonight remembering our fallen 10, we’ll prove once again that this is the rowdiest arena in the country.’ And OCOLLY.COM

from that moment on, our fans lifted that team up.”

Fifteen years later, members of the OSU men’s basketball team, including forward Leyton Hammonds, know the legacy.

“Every day, you walk by, especially because it’s right by our academic center,” Hammonds said. “I tend to take a look and say a quick prayer. It was a tragedy, honestly. There’s really nothing else I can say about it. Every

time I walk by, I just think about the loved ones and the basketball memories and the people that were on the plane that died. I tend to just take a little moment of silence every time I walk by.”

There is another memorial in Colorado where the plane crashed, which Reece has visited. There are still volunteers from the town that maintain the area, he said.

“Just being there where you know your friends lost their lives, it was tough, but you wanted to be there for the families,” Reece said.

“You wanted to be there to remember your friends. But that little town pretty much adopted Oklahoma State, and they have been amazing.

When you pull off the main highway to go to the memorial and you go into the convenience store in the middle of Colorado, you walk in there is a huge OSU flag up.”

Having two memorials is the best way to honor those who have died, Reece said.

“From the very beginning, Oklahoma State came together and said, ‘We are going to promise these families that we’re never, never going to forget these 10 men,’” Reece said. “And that’s one thing I’m proud of. I think we have kept that promise.”

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Cowboys set for Remember the Ten game against Baylor

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Wednesday night will be about more than basketball.

On the 15th anniversary of the 2001 plane crash that killed 10 people connected to the Oklahoma State men’s basketball team, the Cowboys will face Baylor at 8 p.m. in Gallagher-Iba Arena.

Although the game is key for OSU (10-9 overall, 2-5 Big 12) as it tries to avoid falling to .500, basketball won’t be at the forefront Wednesday, coach Travis Ford said.

“Sometimes, we think we’re living and dying with winning and losing,” Ford said. “It can put things in perspective extremely quick, as well as many other things that people go through on a daily basis that you hear about that make you realize, yeah, it’s not going to make me work any less harder than I worked, but I may not need to lose sleep over a loss.”

The Cowboys remember the Ten at one home game a year.

They faced the Bears (15-4, 5-2) for last season’s Remember the Ten game, as well.

Before the contest, Ford, who was in his first year as coach WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2016

at Eastern Kentucky in 2001, took the players to the Remember the Ten Memorial, south of Eddie Sutton Court. The memorial, featuring a kneeling cowboy and images of each member of the Ten, sits outside the doors to the Joe & Connie Mitchell Academic Enhancement Center. Some players walk by it almost every day.

Guard Jeff Newberry won’t forget the feelings that came with that short walk, he said.

“It just helps you just sit and realize what those people meant to the university, and it pumps you up for that game and to lay it all on the line for them, also,” Newberry said.

“Kind of brought tears to some guys’ eyes because I guess they knew some of the families and brought some feelings to me that made me just want to go out and play hard for those families because it was just a tragic incident.”

The Cowboys will visit the memorial again Wednesday, when former OSU coach Eddie Sutton, former players and alumni will also make the trip to Memorial Lobby.

For the current players, it will be a time to reflect but also a time to be thankful.

“It’s mostly kind of shaking because you get to think about those families and the loved ones that they lost,” forward Leyton Hammonds said. “It’s kind of like we dedicate the game to them. How hard we’re going to play, I feel like we’re going to dedicate it to them.”

Ford emphasizes the tragedy

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Oklahoma State guard Jeff Newberry takes a jump shot at the Baylor game last season. Newberry will help lead the Cowboys in their annual Remember the Ten game against Baylor at 8 p.m. Wednesday.

with the players, making sure they’re aware of the Ten and their impact on OSU basketball.

Although Wednesday represents one game to honor the Ten, the Cowboys remember year-round.

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“We always honor them one game, but they’re always honored every day as much as we can, as far as they’re always on your mind,” Ford said. “I can’t tell you how much I find myself thinking about it at times.

We want to make sure that our

players are very well aware of what these former players and coworkers and teammates, who they were and honor them as much as we can.”

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She is always right in the thick of it.

Sometimes, she’s in the emergency room providing a sense of calm that would be otherwise nonexistent to anxious families in waiting. Other times, she’s in the confines of her office exuding quiet strength while slowly helping people rebuild their lives after a severe loss.

Suzanne Burks, Oklahoma State University Director of Counseling Services, has been at the heart of three major OSU tragedies, including the Jan. 27, 2001, plane crash that killed 10 people.

“I don’t think you can experience an event like that without it having some impact on you,” Burks said. “I certainly don’t think I had any idea of the impact it would have on me. Basically, I spent the next year — at least year — dealing with that.”

The night of the plane crash, Burks was in the OSU basketball office with OSU coach Eddie Sutton, OSU assistant coaches and players, victims’ families, and other counselors. All phone calls WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2016

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were screened. Sutton took the call if it was loved ones of the 10 men who died on the plane, Burks said.

The day after the late night in the basketball office, Burks said, she began the counseling process that shaped her life in many ways. It started with visiting the nearby families of those killed.

“We were unannounced; we just showed up,” Burks said.

“Basically, we just told them who we were. We were from OSU and that we just wanted to help in any way. They were all very, very open to having us come in. I think a lot of times when something like that happens ... the families are so in shock that they don’t know the next thing to do.”

Sometimes people in grief forget how to do simple, dayto-day things such as pick up OCOLLY.COM

a prescription, Burks said.

After the plane crash, Burks helped with such practical tasks, provided information on accessing counseling and offered her cellphone number, so those grieving could reach her at any time.

“If you have that ability to sit with that kind of pain, and that’s what it is, it’s just pain, it really doesn’t even matter what you say as long as

you’re helpful,” Burks said.

“They’re so appreciative of you being there. Nobody said, ‘Who are you, and we don’t want to see OSU.’” James Halligan, the OSU President during the 2001 plane crash, said, he spent a lot of time with Burks after the tragedy. He refers to Burks as “Suz” or “Suzie.”

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other, we just embrace,” Halligan said. “We don’t have to say anything. No words are required. We can just look at each other. Our eyes meet, and we decide to embrace.”

Burks was instrumental in arranging the memorial and helping people cope with grief, ensuring people had what they needed such as water to drink, teddy bears for children and outlets to express their feelings, Halligan said.

“Tragedy brings out the best in people, and there was no one better than Suzie Burks during this time,” Halligan said.

The fence

Burks uses a fence metaphor to explain the understanding of grief. On one side of the fence are people who have experienced grief and understand how it feels, and on the other side are people who have not.

Burks is on the grief side.

Her mother died of unknown causes at a church luncheon when she was 11.

“You wonder why that happens,” Burks said. “Why does an 11-year-old’s mother just die? Why does that happen?

Looking back, I think partly to help me do what I did after that plane crash.”

Karen Hancock, OSU women’s soccer assistant coach, said after she lost her husband, Will Hancock, in the plane crash, Burks saved her life.

“At a time in my life when I didn’t know up from down ... and how I was supposed to proceed going forward in life, or if I could even do that, she really just helped me at every turn,” Hancock said. “I can’t tell you how many times that I would call her up during day or night, and she just dropped everything and was there for me. She was just really someone who was always there at a time when I really needed someone with some background and experience in grief counseling.”

When you first lose someone, Burks said, there is a hole in your heart in the shape of that person.

“It’s just huge and you can feel it, and you hurt; your heart hurts,” Burks said. “But as time passes, that hole never goes away but it gets smaller.

It’s still there, but it gets smaller.”

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A Strasburg Fire Rescue hat sits on a shelf in Suzanne Burks’ office in Counseling Services area in the Student Union. Strasburg, Colorado, was the site of the plane crash that killed 10 OSU basketball members.

a challenge and a blessing, said Cindy Washington, an OSU counselor, who also helped after the plane crash.

“People only grieve the loss of a love story, when this love story ends,” Washington said.

“It’s so powerful to hear these love stories. It’s a gift and a curse because it’s painful, but it’s amazing how connected human beings are and how much we love each other.”

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The athletic department hosts dinners every year for the families of the men who died in the plane crash, Burks said.

Over time, Burks said, she has seen a change in these dinners.

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victims, Burks senses happiness.

“Now I see them getting together and they’re smiling and they’re laughing and they’re hugging,” Burks said.

“Do they miss their loved ones? Yeah, they do. And the anniversary’s a hard time, but it’s also a happy time. Because they’ve come so far.”

Burks has also come a long way after the Jan. 27, 2001, plane crash in Colorado; the OSU women’s basketball team plane crash that killed four Nov. 17, 2011, and most recently, the homecoming parade crash Oct. 24.

“It made me certainly a more perceptive person and … more willing to ask that hard question,” Burks said. “I’ve learned that it doesn’t matter what you say as long as you express that

you care and that you’re sorry.

Everything else can come from that.”

Burks said she is close with Hancock and her family.

“Sometimes I believe I’ve gained much more out of that relationship than she has,” Burks said. “I’ve been brought in to the whole family and it’s wonderful. But I’d trade it all if I could take that crash away.”

After the homecoming parade crash, she immediately heard from friends she’s made through these tragedies, Burks said.

“The first thing they did was call and say, ‘Are you OK? Are you in the middle of this?’”

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They were helpers.

They held varying titles: father and husband. Brother and son. Friend and teammate. Their jobs included play-by-play announcer, sports information director and director of basketball operations.

But they shared a purpose: helping others.

Kendall Durfey was always there to give a supportive smile or thumbs up. Bjorn Fahlstrom was at the pilot’s side whenever he was needed. Nate Fleming and Daniel Lawson motivated their teammates with every practice. Will Hancock was almost assuredly in the players’ corner. Brian Luinstra did everything he could to get players healthy. Denver Mills flew the “fun” plane, and Pat Noyes hosted the team for card night.

Bill Teegins got it, in more ways than one. Jared Weiberg was available to join a player at the gym at any moment.

As former Oklahoma State guard Doug Gottlieb advanced through college basketball, he learned that everyone he met was there to help him.

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on Jan. 27, 2001, Gottlieb lost a support system that couldn’t easily be replaced.

“They were all helpers,” Gottlieb said. “The greatest thing you can do in basketball is help your teammates make a basket.

That’s what sports is about.

That’s what it teaches you is doing things for other people and you all look good because of it. That’s what all of those guys were. Those are the kind of guys that all they ever do is help you look good, play good, feel good about your experience in college.

“That’s what really is the heartache to the whole thing.”

Gottlieb, now an analyst with CBS Sports, graduated from OSU the year before the crash.

The Cowboys, thanks to Desmond Mason’s 18 points per game and Gottlieb’s Big 12-leading 8.62 assists per game, reached the Elite Eight in the 2000 NCAA Tournament.

It was a great era in Cowboy basketball, a season placed neatly between two Final Four appearances in 1995 and 2004.

It was when basketball — not football — dominated Stillwater.

“You get bummed out when you lose a football game,” Gottlieb said. “When we got knocked out in the NCAA Tournament, it was just devastation.”

That’s seemingly what the Cowboys experienced March 26, 2000, when they lost to Billy Donovan’s Florida Gators, ending Gottlieb’s college career and that of six other seniors.

But devastation was an exaggeration, at least on that day. It didn’t fit. It was an empty word, its meaning realized 10 months later.

‘As good as they come’

The plaque is easily seen but hidden away.

A left turn after the south Heritage Hall entrance leads to Gallagher-Iba Arena’s media workroom.

Resting on the wall is a board reading “Will Hancock Memorial Scholarship.”

It details Hancock’s infectious smile, his passion for sports and the goodness of his heart.

The Ten, in a way, live on.

Through a variety of donations and sponsorship efforts, scholarships totaling more than $300,000 have been given to students at OSU, Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Wichita State and others in honor of the Ten. The scholarships allow the legacy of the Ten to continue.

Carolyn Huffman established endowed scholarships for student athletic trainers at OSU, KU and WSU in honor of Luinstra, her late husband and the Cowboys’ former trainer.

“It was a way that he could be remembered every year,” Huffman said. “It was a way that his dedication to the sport could continue. I just thought it was a nice way that his memory could be kept alive.”

The Will Hancock Memorial Scholarship is given annually to a graduate assistant in the athletic communications department and named after Hancock, the Cowboys’ former sports information director.

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media with athletes, much in the way Hancock did.

“I didn’t know him personally, but I kind of feel like I did just from talking to so many good friends of his and seeing how much they still miss him today,” Maguire said. “From what I’ve heard, he was really good at his job, too. I’ve heard that from people at other schools that worked with him.

I’ve heard he was about as good as they come.

“I know it’s a pretty huge honor to be awarded something with his name on it.”

The scholarships can’t return loved ones lost, but they lighten the heartache of an OSU fan base that for 15 years has begged for another “Nate” chant

for Fleming or another “He got it” call from Teegins.

They inspire the next set of helpers.

“It’s a nice remembrance to his legacy,” said Janis, Teegins’ widow. “I think a lot of the kids who benefit from the scholarship always write me a nice note thanking our family, and I think, a lot of times, they study up on who he was. I think it’s a good way of keeping his memory alive. He was good at his job and his career. It gives them someone to look up to.”

Constant reminders

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other two planes OSU traveled in, but after a loss, the Beechcraft Super King Air was the perfect place to hide from frustrated coaches after a loss.

They were rarely on board, and by the time it landed in Stillwater, the coaches had already left the airport.

“Denver Mills’ plane was the plane I always used to ride on,” Gottlieb said. “Whether it was because I was perpetually in the doghouse or because there usually wasn’t coaches on that plane ‘cause it was slower.

“To a college student, like, who cares? We get back 15 minutes later. It doesn’t really matter that much to us. It was fun.”

It took until August for Gottlieb to get back to Stillwater after the crash because of his professional commitments to teams overseas and the Lakers.

He hadn’t been gone long, but his memory of the place he fell in love with had faded, his visions distorted as he became older, but the students seemingly got younger.

When Gottlieb came back, that held true for every spot on campus but the basketball office.

“When you haven’t been on a college campus, you come back and you think, ‘Oh my God, everybody looks like they’re 15,’” Gottlieb said. “I remember walking into the basketball office, talking to the coaches, and everybody looked 10 years older.”

Tragedy weighs on you, whether you’re the coach who waited at the airport for 10 men who never came home or the student who cheered them on from the stands of a newly renovated arena.

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OSU coach Eddie Sutton was forced to call 10 families to tell them that their son, husband or father was on the plane.

It weighed heavily on him.

Gottlieb and Sutton speak every couple of weeks. The Ten came up in a recent conversation.

“Man, that was a hard time,” Sutton said. “That was a hard, hard time. Those were good, good men.”

Sutton, who was unavailable for comment, didn’t seek therapy immediately. Gottlieb said the pressure of the remaining season, which saw Sutton’s Cowboys lose in the first round of the NCAA Tournament for the first time, kept the coach from helping himself.

“I think it was a major mistake to not immediately seek therapy and have everybody talk to somebody because it’s still a big wound for so many people,” Gottlieb said. “You have to be tough, you have to be strong, mentally focused, all these other things. “I do think it was, in hindsight, a mistake, that nobody pushed through and that they had to show leadership and they had to be steady, strong, instead of being vulnerable, which is what everybody really was.”

Stillwater knows better than anywhere else that tragedy, the feeling of vulnerability, never gets any easier.

Another plane crash took four lives Nov. 16, 2011. Four more died at Hall of Fame and Main on Oct. 24.

The pain is deep, but it is part of Stillwater’s fabric, a thread each Cowboy shares.

“Those are three parts of the university that make the university special,” Gottlieb said.

“Oklahoma State homecoming is an incredible, incredible weekend, and it happens at the

parade? Like, are you kidding?

What’s more special than Oklahoma State basketball and Eddie Sutton? And we have a plane crash? I mean, Kurt Budke turns the women’s program around, and I’d always thought to myself, ‘No way anyone I know is ever involved in a plane crash again. What is the statistical possibilities? None.’ And yet, sure enough, it happened again.

“I think part of it is the tragedies have all come from things that are very near and dear to people’s hearts. In order to really stay in Stillwater, you have to want to be there, and once you want to be there, you’re all-in on the experience. I think it’s befallen things that are very special about the place.”

A run to never forget

One cowboy kneels, but the others run.

Every April, OSU students, alumni, Stillwater residents and others take part in the Remember the Ten Run. That group includes the OSU men’s and women’s basketball teams.

“When you know what you’re doing it for, it’s not like a workout,” Cowboys forward Leyton Hammonds said. “You do it for the loved ones, honestly, and the people who lost their lives, so I just want to give it my all because they’re not here with us anymore, so I just feel like I’m dedicating it for them.”

The run annually awards scholarships to 10 students pursuing their master’s or doctorate in a counseling- or psychologyrelated specialty. The scholarships, given each of the past five years, are worth $500 a semester. It also raises money for University Counseling Services.

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A plaque hangs in Gallagher-Iba Arena for a scholarship named in honor of Will Hancock, a victim of the plane crash Jan. 27, 2001.

than the money, said Karen Hancock, Hancock’s widow and an assistant coach for the Cowgirl soccer team.

“It’s more of a time of celebration and reflection, and it’s just easier to be more at peace with things, I think,” Karen said. “I love that it fundraises for the counseling services program. That’s another area on campus that there’s not a whole lot of money or attention thrown that way. It’s a very important service, so I think it’s wonderful.”

Gottlieb and his family have participated in the run four times.

Each run shows him more the impact each of the Ten had.

“It’s not just 10 people that

died in a crash,” Gottlieb said.

“It’s that they were 10 individually very special people for very different reasons. I would like, if possible, for them all to be remembered, even if only for one thing, to be remembered individually because that’s how we remember them.

“Now, if you’re a student, you’re 20 years old. You were 5 at the time. It’s just a statue. It’s just a tragedy. It’s just sad. But if I told you … they were all gone at once, especially when you hear how tremendous they were as helpers in the community, I think you have a little bit stronger connection to it.”

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BRADFORD COURT APARTMENTS 304 S. JEFFERSON VERY CLOSE TO OSU/STRIP ALL ELECTRIC-NEW PAINT/CARPET SMALL BUT VERY EFFICIENT $580 PER MONTH

THREE BEDROOMS

KAY-DEE APARTMENTS 1315 W. 3RD VERY CLOSE TO OSU/GREEK AREA ALL ELECTRIC-NEW PAINT/CARPET NO W/D-PETS NEGOTIABLE $620 PER MONTH

1018 E. ELM 2-FULL BATHS/COVERED PARKING 2 LIVING AREAS-FENCED YARD CENTRALLY LOCATED-NEAR PARK 1 MILE TO OSU-PETS OK $1050 PER MONTH

TERRACE TOWNHOMES 818 N. HUSBAND 2-STORY LAYOUTS & FLATS CLOSE TO OSU-ALL ELECTRIC PETS NEGOTIABLE-NO W/D 2 BATH UNIT OPTIONAL $580 PER MONTH

LOGWOOD APARTMENTS 716 N. HUSBAND CLOSE TO CAMPUS-ALL ELECTRIC WALK IN CLOSETS-NO W/D LARGE OPEN LAYOUTS $450 PER MONTH

YELLOWROCK APARTMENTS 308 N. HUSBAND ALL ELECTRIC-VERY CLOSE TO OSU WALK IN CLOSETS-LARGE OPEN LAYOUT NEW PAINT/CARPET-NO W/D $620 PER MONTH

KAY-DEE APARTMENTS 1315 W. 3RD VERY CLOSE TO CAMPUS WALK IN CLOSET-ALL ELECTRIC NO W/D-PAID WATER $550 PER MONTH

NORTH MAIN DUPLEXES 100 N. HARTMAN 1 MILE TO OSU-LAWN CARE INCL VERY NICE AND PRIVATE PETS NEGOTIABLE-W/D HOOKUPS 1-CAR GARAGE $675 PER MONTH

240 S. LEWIS VERY LARGE UNIT-WALK IN CLOSETS WASHER/DRYER INCLUDED 5 BLOCKS TO OSU CAMPUS TOTAL ELECTRIC-PD WATER/LAWN $600 PER MONTH 811 S. HESTER SMALLER HOUSE-PETS OK FENCED YARD-WINDOW AC UNIT NEAR OSU CAMPUS $550 PER MONTH

TWO BEDROOMS LAKEVIEW APARTMENTS 2209 N. MONROE CLOSE TO BOOMER LAKE ALL ELECTRIC-LARGE LAYOUT WALK IN CLOSETS-NO W/D $460 PER MONTH LOGWOOD APARTMENTS 716 N. HUSBAND ALL ELECTRIC-CLOSE TO CAMPUS NO W/D-RECENT UPDATES $470 PER MONTH TYLER TEN APARTMENTS 1110 W. TYLER ALL ELEC-VERY CLOSE TO CAMPUS NO W/D-PETS NEGOTIABLE $460 PER MONTH FOX RUN APARTMENTS 127 N. DUCK TOTAL ELECTRIC-WOOD FLOORS ONSITE LAUNDRY-PAID WATER VERY CLOSE TO CAMPUS $500 PER MONTH

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VILLA COURT APARTMENTS 1517 W. 4TH VERY CLOSE TO CAMPUS/GREEK 2 FULL BATHS-WASHER/DRYER INCL $850 PER MONTH 410 S. LOWRY 1-CAR GARAGE-SMALLER HOME HARDWOOD FLOORS PETS OK-W/D HOOKUPS $600 PER MONTH

425 N. JARDOT 2 FULL BATHS-LARGE YARD PETS OK-1 MILE TO OSU HARDWOOD FLOORS $700 PER MONTH 917 E. 8TH OLDER HOME-CENTRALLY LOCATED PETS OK-1.5 MILE TO OSU $675 PER MONTH

236 S. LEWIS 3 FULL BATHS-1 MILE TO OSU NEW PAINT/CARPET-2 LIVING AREAS LARGE LAYOUT-LARGE BEDROOMS $1400 PER MONTH

841 W. KNAPP 1 MILE TO OSU CAMPUS 1 BATHROOM-W/D HOOKUPS HARDWOOD FLOORS $875 PER MONTH

202 N. MANNING 3 FULL BATHS-2 CAR GARAGE GRANITE COUNTERS-W/D INCLUDED PETS OK-STAINED CONCRETE FLRS NEWER CUSTOM HOME $1640 PER MONTH

2309 N. LAKEVIEW COURT 2.5 BATHROOMS-2 CAR GARAGE FENCED YARD-PETS OK 2 HEAT/AIR UNITS-HUGE LAYOUT $1050 PER MONTH 1410 E. 3RD 2-FULL BATHS 1CAR GARAGE COMPLETELY RENOVATED WOOD FLOORS-GRANITE $975 PER MONTH 21 ELMWOOD 1-CAR GARAGE LARGE FENCED YARD LESS THAN 1 MILE TO OSU-PETS OK $850 PER MONTH

1415 S. HUSBAND PLACE 3 FULL BATHS-2 KITCHENS 3-CAR COVERED PARKING SMALL SHOP IN BACK FENCED YARD-PETS OK TONS OF RECENT UPDATES-VERY NICE $1125 PER MONTH 1517 W. 4TH VERY CLOSE TO CAMPUS/GREEK AREA 2.5 BATHS-COVERED PARKING 2 STORY TOWNHOUSE-PAID WATER VERY DESIREABLE LOCATION $1425 PER MONTH

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123 S. STALLARD HUGE YARD-PETS OK CENTRALLY LOCATED-W/D INCLUDED 1.5 MILES TO OSU-STORM SHELTER NEW PAINT/CARPET $1400 PER MONTH

4519 S. HUSBAND NICE DETACHED SHOP BUILDING 4 MILES TO OSU CAMPUS LARGE FENCED YARD-RURAL SETTING $1640 PER MONTH

711 HARTWOOD FENCED YARD-2 MILES TO OSU HARDWOOD FLOORS-PETS OK $825 PER MONTH

601 E. MAPLE SMALLER HOME-REMODELED NEW PAINT/CARPET-1 MILE TO OSU CENTRALLY LOCATED-1 CAR GARAGE W/D HOOKUPS-NO DW $600 PER MONTH

1103 N. LEWIS 3 FULL BATHS-2 FULL KITCHENS 1 MILE TO OSU-COUNTRY SETTING PAID WATER-WASHER/DRYER INCL LOTS OF SPACE-2 STORY HOUSE $1500 PER MONTH

106 S. KINGS TONS OF RENOVATIONS HARDWOOD FLOORS-1 FULL BATH FENCED YARD-PETS NEGOTIABLE EXTREMELY CLOSE TO CAMPUS $1200 PER MONTH

611 N. DUCK VERY CLOSE TO CAMPUS 1-CAR GARAGE-W/D HOOKUPS WOOD FLOORS-LARGE YARD $825 PER MONTH

824 W. 8TH 1.5 BATHS-PETS OK STAINED CONCRETE FLOORS SMALLER BEDROOMS-LAWN CARE INCL VERY CLOSE TO CAMPUS-TOWNHOUSE $640 PER MONTH

FOUR BEDROOMS

FIVE BEDROOMS 6418 N. SEADOG WOOD FLOORS-4 MILES TO OSU 5 ACRES-OUTSIDE CITY LIMITS ROOM TO ROAM!!!!! $2050 PER MONTH 6821 S. THE CEDARS 2 ACRES-HUGE FENCED YARD 3 FULL BATHS-2 LVG ROOMS-2 KITCHENS TONS OF RECENT RENOVATIONS 5 MILES TO OSU CAMPUS-VERY NICE $2050 PER MONTH 116 N. MANNING BRAND NEW CUSTOM HOME 1.5 MILES TO OSU-ALL ELECTRIC LARGE FLOORPLAN-W/D INCLUDED GRANITE COUNTERS-VERY NICE STAINED CONCRETE FLOORS 3 FULL BATHROOMS-CEILING FANS $2050 PER MONTH

SIX BEDROOMS 704 N. MANNING 3 FULL BATHS-TVS INCLUDED STAINED CONCRETE-GRANITE BRAND NEW HOUSE-ALL ELECTRIC 1 MILE TO OSU-PETS OK $2250 PER MONTH 102 S. PAYNE NEW CUSTOM HOME-3 FULL BATHS TVS INCLUDED IN BEDROOMS GRANITE COUNTERS-1 MILE TO OSU NEW PAINT/NEW CARPET WASHER/DRYER INCLUDED $2250 PER MONTH 9017 W. CEDAR CREST TRAIL FULL CUSTOM HOME-5 ACRES CUSTOM INGROUND POOL 3 FULL BATHS-STAINED CONCRETE FLOORS MUST SEE!! TOTAL ELECTRIC $2850 PER MONTH

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Today’s Birthday (01/27/16). Teamwork supercharges results this year. Strategize to grow shared accounts. Group efforts succeed.

Spring eclipses flood your cash flow, altering your travel and study options. A two-year exploration and research phase begins this summer. Autumn eclipses bless your family with bounty. Save some. It’s all for family and community.

To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is an 8 -- Discover a structural problem. Meditate on it before taking action. Don’t try a new trick yet. You’re quick and accurate now. Handle responsibilities on time.

New information instigates changes. Allow yourself time to absorb the emotional impact.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is an 8 -- Haste makes waste.

Slow down to get there faster. Save time by avoiding a family argument. Back up your team, even if you don’t agree on everything. Be patient with a resister. Make no assumptions.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) -- Today is an 8 -- Make sure you know what’s required before signing on. List all the potential costs and problems. Elder generations have valuable experience. Don’t strain the budget. Get the whole gang to help. You’re surrounded by love.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) -- Today is a 9 -- There’s an abundance of work available. Increase productivity with clever tweaks. Get help from others. Don’t offer to pick up everyone’s lunch tab ... resist busting the budget. Share business with your community. Resupply locally.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Keep your goals and promises (especially around money), or amend them to reflect the current situation. Stay in communication with your team. You’re making new friends. Make sure everyone understands the rules of the game. Determination works.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 9 -- Draw up plans. Friends help you avoid a mistake. Get an elder’s feedback. Do the homework before committing resources to the project. Involve a skeptic, to check your blind spots. Neatness counts. Slow and easy does it.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Avoid reckless spending or expensive promises. Use your good sense in a clash with authority. Share your view respectfully (or not). Old assumptions get challenged. Learn something from someone who thinks differently than you.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 9 -- Your team is hot.

You’re up against a brick wall. A loved one spurs you on to leap over fences and boundaries. You can do more than you thought.

Discover more options than you knew you had.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 9 -- Learn from experts and mentors. To really delve into a subject, teach it. Avoid get-rich quick schemes. Put in the effort for what you want. You can build it. Stick to your budget. Get outdoors.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is an 8 -- Far horizons beckon. Go with a buddy or partner. Investigate new options. Gather your supplies. Shop carefully for quality and value. Plan your itinerary in detail and reserve in advance. Make it easy on yourself.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 9 -- Rest and recharge mind, body and spirit. Take time to untangle miscommunications before a bigger snarl develops. Dig into your project with renewed energy. Admit your limitations. New opportunities spark. Go for the big prize.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 9 -- Focus on a new career target. Advance your agenda by thinking fast under pressure.

Gracefully navigate romantic scheduling changes. Do the work now, and play later. Show your team your appreciation. Pump up the energy with love.

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r e m e m be r t he t en

The ten in the words of those who loved them

When I hear Remember the Ten, I like to think of every one of them. I close my eyes and think of why each of them is special to me. I think of the impact all of those guys had on my life and on the program and how we were so unified.”

Doug Gottlieb

forme ffformer oklahoma state

guard and CBS Sports analyst

It was just a regular, average, normal day that turned into anything but.”

N OW L E A S I N G F O R

Karen Hancock widow of Will Hancock

It’s important that we continue to support and honor these people. Things certainly will never be the same from the Oklahoma State standpoint. More importantly than that, things will never be the same for those family members. Those people that were very, very close to it.

We have to let them know that we still honor their loved ones and respect them. There’s only so much we can do.

We want to do everything we can do to help them, and we’ve got to do everything we can to let them know we support them.”

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Dave Hunziker, Oklahoma State broadcaster

I’m so thankful that we live in a community where they made sure that my dad and the other nine people that died, their legacy is carried on throughout everything, and as the years go by, we still make sure that we remember them.” andrea Hancock daughter of Will Hancock

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