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STUDENT CHEF SERVES UP COOKBOOK By Ben Luschen / Staff Writer Some people are naturally-born cooks. For others, like Emily Leahey, a senior who has just released her digital cookbook, the “Campus Cook Book” through Central’s Peer Health and Leadership program. According to Leahey, the culinary art take a little time to master. “I’m a walking accident,” Leahey said. “I wasn’t even allowed in the kitchen. Once I turned 17, I was able to cook, and my first dish was on my parents’ anniversary. At six in the morning I went into the kitchen to cook them chocolate chip pancakes. They wake up at 6:15 with the alarm going off because I set the kitchen on fire.” What started as a gesture of appreciation for her parents grew into an act of necessity as Leahey’s mother became bedridden for three months after a hysterectomy later that year. Through trial and error, Leahey had to quickly hone her cooking skills as she tried to feed both her father and her two brothers. “That was scary because I felt like I had to take my mom’s role, and I didn’t want to do that,” she said. Leahey, a self-professed adrenaline junkie, plays golf for UCO and is very active. For that reason, she began researching ways to integrate healthy aspects into her cooking while not sacrificing flavor – her family made sure of that. “[My brothers] wouldn’t eat if it was just healthy and it didn’t taste good,” Leahey said. “So I had to make it taste good as well.” The first thing she learned in her

Emily Nylund poses for a photo with her recently published book, “Campus Cookbook” at a house in North Edmond, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011. Photo by Garett Fisbeck, The Vista

research? Managing carbohydrates. “If you research carbs, you’ll see that they are the only thing that the brain feeds off of,” Leahey said. “As

college kids, we’re constantly studying, so we need carbs, but at the same time we overload, and when you overload on carbs it turns to

sugar and then we crash.” Leahey explained this is the reason students encounter problems. “That’s why students have really

altered sleeping habits, develop hypoglycemia, and gain weight really fast,” she said. “Trying to limit the

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UCO PRESIDENT BETZ VISITS CLASS FOR DISCUSSION ON INTERNATIONAL AWARENESS AND JOURNALISM By Cody Bromley / Editor-in-Chief

UCO President Don Betz spoke to an International Media class last Thursday about international awareness and his experience as a journalist. Photo by Jay Chilton

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May it never be said that UCO President Don Betz doesn’t make time for his students. Last week, Betz attended Dr. Terry Clark’s International Media class to both join the conversation about media abroad and share his experiences. “What you’re interested in have been my interests for most of my life,” Betz said. The course puts an emphasis not just on media abroad, but journalism, and Betz told the class how long he has been involved with journalism. “When I was very young, probably in your range, when I was living in the Middle East finishing my doctoral research and doing some other things I worked as a journalist there,” Betz said. The style Betz said he did journalism in was a “shadow type,” which he said he has always used even back when he was editor of the University of San Francisco’s newspaper The Foghorn, when he worked for the Mediterranean Press Agency in Beirut and also for the international newspaper The Daily Star. “If I had not gone the International Relations / University Administration path, I’d probably be doing a lot more of that. I just think it’s so frightfully important to the future of everything from democracy, to understanding to building global relationships in the world that you’re doing to be devising for us old guys,” Betz said. During the time with the class, Betz said that

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he has heard the death bell rung for journalism “dozens of times” but has yet to believe its time has come. “Great journalists will be here forever, because no matter how much access you have, it is so important, so centrally relevant that we interpretation, that we have context, analysis, critique,” he said. Looking at how journalism in the United States is being represented abroad, Betz applauded the work of Anthony Shadid. Last September, Shadid came and spoke to students about being a foreign correspondent with the New York Times. Earlier this year, Shadid was part of a group of journalists who went missing in Libya during the uprising against dictator Muammar Ghaddafi. “He so understands the context that he can illuminate it for you,” Betz said. Another journalist Betz admires the work of is Fareed Zakaria. What Betz told the class he enjoys about Zakaria’s show on CNN called “Fareed Zakaria GPS” is how Zakaria pushes the assumptions of the viewer. “Just when you think you understand the issue, he gives you a different perspective,” Betz said. Betz stayed around until almost noon, shaking hands and meeting the students, but even then he continued to tell students about why he thinks it is important for them to stay connected to a the world at large. “There’s never been a time when change has been this rapid or this deep.”

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MARCH OF THE ZEALOTS It’s the most consumerist time of the year. How better to celebrate this fact than to push strong religious beliefs in a public place. The “war on Christmas” is as baseless as the “war” on drugs, the “war” on poverty and perhaps even the Iraq War. Thankfully, there has yet to be a death in the “war on Christmas,” although Santa is on notice. A recent example of this war comes from Tulsa, Okla. and the annual Parade of Lights. For many years, the Public Service Company of Oklahoma (PSO) sponsored the event. However ,in 2010, PSO pulled their sponsorship from the event. Nobody would have noticed this, were it not for the fact that Republican Senator Jim Inhofe decided to make a fuss about it. For many years, Inhofe rode his white horse in the parade; in 2010 he decided that if the parade was not going to include “Christ” in the name, then it would not include him either. The fallout hit Fox News, obviously, and the “war on Christmas” moved the battlefield to Tulsa. Thanks to the anger, tens of people decided to protest. But in truth, the parade, now called the “Tulsa Holiday Parade of Lights,” was causing “outrage” for dropping part of the name many Tulsans did not even know was there. Sure the event was Christmas-themed, with Christmas music and Christmas lights; still, many Tulsans never knew that they were not attending the PSO Parade of Lights, but the PSO Christmas Parade of Lights. Now the “tens of people” have formed their own parade, “The Tulsa Christmas Parade.” And what are the people so concerned about Christ’s name being removed from the parade name using to promote the parade? Santa Claus. These Christian pissing contests are not only annoying to those on the sidelines, but the people leading the charge tend to find themselves diametrically opposed to the Bible itself. Should they need the reminder, Christmas doesn’t happen because the Bible says it does, it happens because Christians decided to make a holiday around it. Besides, the idea of Christmas, beyond the nativity story, goes further back than the Bible itself. Should you want to find Christmas in the Bible, check out Jeremiah 10:2-4. “Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.” I guess God hates Christmas trees. Time to boycott him?

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DEC. 8, 2011 Pearl Harbor: 70 Years Later

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OFF THE RECORD By Brittany Dalton Navy Region Hawaii Honor Guard seaman plays taps at sunset during the internment ceremony for Pearl Harbor survivor Lee Soucy, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011 in Honolulu. Soucy, who died last year at the age of 90, wanted to have his ashes interred inside the USS Utah, his ship that sank during the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Dec. 7, 1941. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)

By Audrey McAvoy / Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Clarence Pfundheller was standing in front of his locker on the USS Maryland when a fellow sailor told him they were being bombed by Japanese planes. “We never did call him a liar but he could stretch the truth pretty good,” Pfundheller said. “But once you seen him, you knew he wasn’t lying.” The 21-year-old Iowa native ran up to the deck that Sunday morning to man a five-inch anti-aircraft gun. Seventy years later, he remembers struggling to shoot low-flying Japanese planes as smoke from burning oil billowed through the air. “This was the worst thing about it — yeah, your eyes — it bothered you. It bothered your throat too, because there was so much of that black smoke rolling around that a lot of times you could hardly see,” he said. Now 91, Pfundheller will be returning to Pearl Harbor on Wednesday for the 70th anniversary ceremony honoring those lost in the Dec. 7, 1941 attack that brought the United States into World War II. Accompanying him will be fellow survivors, other World War II veterans, and a handful of college students eager to hear their stories. The student and veteran group will be among 3,000 people attending a ceremony the Navy and the National Park Service hoist jointly each year at a site overlooking where the USS Arizona sank in the attack. The College of the Ozarks program aims to preserve the stories of veterans — something that’s becoming increasingly urgent for Pearl Harbor survivors as the youngest are in their late 80s. Pfundheller said he enlisted in the Navy in 1939 because he kept hearing there was going to be a war and he wanted to know what to do when the fighting started. By the time Japanese fighter planes and torpedo bombers invaded the skies above Hawaii, he was well-trained. Even so, the scene was utterly chaotic. Commanders hadn’t expected Japan to strike from the air, so Pfundheller’s anti-aircraft ammunition was locked away in a gun locker. Then, when he gained access to the 3-foot-long, 75-pound shells, Pfundheller said the Japanese planes were flying too close for him to take aim. “You could see them pumping their fists and laughing at you,” he said. The Maryland’s crew scrambled to prevent their battleship from going down with the USS Oklahoma, which rolled over after being hit by multiple torpedoes. “We had to cut her lines tied up to us because it was pulling us away,” he said. Altogether, 2,390 Americans lost their lives in the attack. Twelve ships sank or were beached, and nine were damaged. The U.S. lost 164 aircraft. On the Japanese side, 64 people died, five ships sank, and 29 planes were destroyed. After the war, Pfundfeller returned to Iowa where he worked as a district feed salesman and became an elementary school custodian. He now lives in Greenfield just 12 miles from Bridgewater, the town where he was raised. Many veterans didn’t talk much about their experiences after World War II, and Pfundheller’s own children didn’t hear what he went through until he began sharing his stories at schools and libraries. “People in the Midwest where I lived — why, you just went back, got your job and went to work and nobody asked any-

thing,” he said. Today, efforts are under way to make sure stories like his are handed down to younger generations. Pfundheller and four other World War II veterans are traveling to Hawaii with 10 students from the College of the Ozarks, a Christian school in Branson, Mo. After Hawaii, the group will travel to Japan to visit Okinawa, where the U.S. and Japan fought a brutal battle in the last few months of the war, and Hiroshima, where the U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb. Heather Isringhausen, a 21-year-old senior who will be one of Pfundheller’s two student escorts, said she wanted to join the trip in part because she’s never been able to get her grandfather to tell her about his experiences serving in World War II. She wants to know what the veterans were thinking at the time, and what life was like in the 1940s. “If most of the veterans are anything like my grandpa, they probably haven’t talked much about it,” Isringhausen said. “Once they’re gone, all we’ll have left are history books and movies and different tales that people have been told and written down.” Guy Piper, who was brushing his teeth in his barracks on Ford Island when the attack began, said he was honored to go on the trip. He said programs like this make “us older people feel good.” The sailor who served in World War II and the Korean War said he would share with the students his hope that younger generations won’t have war. “When you see young men like I saw on Dec. 7 — a bunch of blood — it just stays with you. You can’t get rid of it. That’s what war is about. Just plain hell,” he said. “I’d like people to stop and think about staying away from wars.” Daniel Martinez, the National Park Service’s chief historian for Pearl Harbor, said the program fits in with the theme of this year’s events: how the legacy of Pearl Harbor will be carried on by future generations. But he lamented more survivors aren’t alive to tell their stories. “It’s a little sad because it’s coming a little late,” he said. “I wish it could have happened at the 50th anniversary when there were so many of them around.” In a reminder of how many are passing on, the ashes of two survivors who died after living until their 90s will be interred within their sunken battleships this week. Navy and National Park Service divers on Tuesday will lower Lee Soucy’s cremated remains into the USS Utah, which rolled over and sank next to Ford Island after being hit by a torpedo. Soucy died last year at the age of 90 in Plainview, Texas. He’ll be joining some 50 men who perished when the ship sank and eight survivors whose ashes were interred there after their deaths decades later. On Wednesday, divers will place Vernon Olsen’s ashes in the USS Arizona, where many of the sailors and Marines who served on the ship are still entombed. The Arizona lost 1,117 crew members during the attack. Olsen was one of the 334 who survived. Olsen died in Port Charlotte, Fla. in April at the age of 91. Dec. 7 events in Hawaii this year will feature a parade. Marching bands, military families, and dignitaries are expected to walk along Waikiki’s main drag, Kalakaua Avenue. Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, who received the Medal of Honor for his actions as a soldier in Italy in 1945, will be grand marshal.

Suspend Disbelief A few days ago, my mother bought a new computer. Having run into a spot of trouble, she called me over. New iPhone in hand, the USB cord still dangling from it, she asked me, “What’s wrong? How do you fix this?” “Hold on,” I said, one hand already raised to cut her off. “I know how to fix this, let me Google it.” That’s how we do things here in the year 2011. Leave the Encyclopedia Brittanica and the card catalog perusing to the nerds. Leave it to those stuck in the year 1978. Right? But having all the answers one web search away has us “trapped inside the box.” It’s hard to innovate when we would rather Google search “what is innovation” than do things our own way. History can teach us some valuable lessons about the present, if our history professors are to be believed. There was a time in history when men made their own rules. Firmly entrenched in conflict with the Roman empire, Carthaginian general Hannibal – not to be confused with Lecter – sought a way to invade Italy. Only one problem: he and his legion had to cross the Alps. Now, some men would have stared at the mountain range spanning the horizon, shrugged their shoulders and say, “Eh, better luck next year.” Hannibal, however, was a rare breed in history. Hannibal saw the Alps, and his response to the seemingly-impossible was to say, “We will either find a way, or make one.” And they did. Hannibal and his thousands of men crossed the Alps with a troop of 37 war elephants. You heard me right – elephants. Suddenly, not being able to listen to the latest Lady Gaga album on your phone doesn’t seem like such a problem. Suddenly, learning the process of photosynthesis doesn’t seem like quite an insurmountable obstacle. When obstacles rise up to block your way, when walls are built to keep you out – break them down. I’m not saying the answer to every problem is to parade a troop of elephants. But suspend your disbelief – the secret to life is that you can do anything you want. Although you should refrain from grand theft auto or adultery, the world is in fact your oyster. Now, if you are having problems in your marketing class, I don’t think you should command a troop of elephants. A simple meeting with your professor would probably do it. In fact, I’m pretty sure there would be serious ramifications to riding an elephant into your marketing class. Not to mention you would probably get ticketed for parking illegally in the wrong lot. Good luck appealing that one.

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COLLEGE COOKBOOK amount of carbs per single serving, that’s what’s going to help any college person.” In her book, Leahey offers many other ways for students to eat healthy while not compromising on taste. The “Campus Cook Book” features many low-calorie meal plans that give readers a good balance of protein, fiber and vitamin C. Leahey also takes a lot of joy in being creative with her recipes. “I’ll take a basic foundation recipe and then just go off with it; add things to it, take things out, kind of like putting ornaments on a Christmas tree,” she said. In making the “Campus Cook Book,” Leahey created over 200 recipes following her protein-fiber-vitamin C formula. With only so

much space available for the book, however, she was forced to cut her dishes down to just 30. According to the cook, it was a painstaking process. “It was the hardest thing ever because there were so many dishes I wanted, and then when you cut them down and forward them, there’s so much computer word spacing through transferring it actually cut the pages in half so my recipes got mixed up with one another,” she said. “I had to go in and redo those recipes, it was crazy.” Already Leahey has begun to receive positive responses from the people who have read her cookbook. “All my friends and family are just so

proud. Overall they’ve been trying the recipes with great feedback,” she said. “They love the dishes, they love the creativity, they love the flavors, so that means a lot. I feel like I’m doing the right thing.” While her road to nutrition guru status on UCO’s campus has had its fair share of obstacles, Leahey maintains that everything happens for a reason. “With struggles in life, sometimes by working through them they make you a stronger person,” she said. “It definitely made me a stronger person in my relationship with my family and also with my skills in the kitchen, learning different flavors and spices.” Leahey’s “Campus Cook Book” is available

to download for free on the Wellness Center website. She has also produced a video instructing viewers how to make Lemon Mint Coleslaw; the video can can be viewed on the Wellness Center’s YouTube Channel. Leahey hopes to make a new video by the end of the fall semester. From starting fires in the kitchen to being unexpectedly thrust into a mother-like role, it’s a wonder Leahey ever reached the title of “Campus Cook.” Through the many ups and downs of her blossoming culinary career, the one constant in Leahey’s life has been the continuous support of her mother. “She’s the reason why I feel like I even have a know-how in the kitchen,” Leahey said.

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DEC. 8, 2011

THIS CHRISTMAS MIGHT KILL YOU By Bryan Trude / Staff Writer There are plenty of reasons for people to look forward to the holiday season. A long break from the rigors of higher education, the acts of kindness and goodwill that people can

only muster for a month in winter, pretty decorations and good food among them. However, some of the trimmings and trappings of the season can be more trouble than they’re worth, like that one uncle who anyone only

hears from when he can get free stuff. While family members can be dealt with using a little misinformation, a healthy dose of dopamine, some rope and a one-way bus ticket to Albuquerque, other potential hazards

of the holiday season are a little more difficult to manage. So, before you set about stringing the lights and trimming the tree, keep in mind that pretty display may wind up killing you. For example:

#3: Natural Christmas Trees About 36 million Christmas trees are produced in the United States each year, for the explicit purpose of sitting in someone’s living room with a bunch of twinkling lights and knick-knacks hanging off it for a month. The Christmas tree industry also exerts influence on national economic policy, with the Department of Agriculture passing a Christmas Tree tax last month – which, while requested by the tree growers themselves, was withdrawn following outcry from conservatives and the public. But, while little Timmy and Tina sleep expecting to awaken to a

glittering holiday symbol loaded with gifts under it on Christmas Day, few consider the blazing inferno stick that can, and does, wait for them instead. According to the U.S. Fire Administration, about 250 trees go up in American homes annually, usually in natural trees that have been neglected or not kept watered. One electrical shortage or errant flame from a candle is enough to set a dry, withered tree ablaze, turning the house around it into a giant, 2,000 square foot Yule Log.

#2: Traditional Eggnog Besides the fact that eggnog is really, really gross – seriously, it’s like shotgunning curdled custard – consumers should be cautious when purchasing and consuming the drink. First off is concern with food allergies. Eggnog is produced using beaten eggs – hence the word “egg” in the name – sugar and milk and/or cream. People with egg allergies often experience cramps, diarrhea and vomiting when ingesting egg products. People with severe allergies, however, can experience a lifethreatening condition called anaphylaxis, in which swelling in the mouth, throat and airway can block a person’s ability to

breathe and often requires immediate medical attention. Secondly, traditional eggnog is an alcoholic drink; the concoction is mixed with rum, bourbon or other liquors. We’re not talking about a small amount either; whiskey-infused eggnog was the drink that fueled the Eggnog Riot of Christmas 1826, a drunken mutiny and riot at the West Point Military Academy that saw 70 cadets implicated, 14 of them getting courtmarshaled. Now, before a legion of college students descends on Walmart to clean them out, most commercially-sold eggnog is nonalcoholic.

#1: Glass Ornaments Cat owners and parents alike know the danger of those old glass bulbs when they fall from the tree and shatter on the ground. While spending two hours in the ER watching a nurse extract ornament shards from a screaming toddler’s foot is sure to sour anyone’s holiday cheer, the plastic shatterproof bulbs sold by many retailers today come with their own bag of troubles, courtesy of unscrupulous Chinese manufacturers. In 2009, a report was released by Utah State University and

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the U.S. Air Force detailing Chinese-made ornaments that emitted dangerous levels of 1,2-Dichloroethane fumes, otherwise known as ethylene dichloride. 1,2-Dichloroethane, used to quickly harden plastic and banned in the United States, is a highly toxic carcinogen that leads to increased cancer risk. High solubility in water and a half-life around 50 years also means the substance is difficult and expensive to clean up. In addition, the substance is corrosive and highly flammable.

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Sports Opinion

VISTA SPORTS PREDICTIONS: NFL WEEK 14 As we approach the final week of predictions this semester, a new picker approaches. In The Vista’s office, “The Coin” has been picking since week one, now filling a vacant spot in our lineup. We’ll see who’s better: our pickers or blind luck.

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#18 BRONCHOS TAKE ON ROBERT MORRIS

UCO’s Ryan Marrs (21) skates against OU’s Nic Power (19) during a hockey game between UCO and OU at Arctic Edge Arena, Friday, Dec. 2, 2011. Photo by Garett Fisbeck, The Vista

By Bryan Trude / Sports Writer The UCO men’s hockey team will close out the semester on the road, as they travel to Illinois to take on the Eagles of Robert Morris University Friday, Dec. 9 and Saturday, Dec. 10. The #18 Bronchos (13-9) enters the series on the heels of their first sweep of the Oklahoma Sooners in school history, on a combined score of 8-2 in the home-and-home series. The #11 Robert Morris Eagles (16-2) come off a road thrashing of the Indiana Hoosiers, including a 7-0 shutout. Central is led by the scoring touch of sophomore forward Donald Geary, who leads the Bronchos in goals (16) and points (27). Also prominent for the Bronchos are sophomore Anthony Knuth and freshmen Shane Khalaf and Nolan Grauer, who all share the team assist lead with 13 apiece. In goal, freshman Tory Caldwell leads with a 2.49 GAA and .93 save percentage. Freshman backup Brett Patchett has a 4.12 GAA with a .88 percentage, but has not played since October when the Bronchos took on Arizona State.

For the Eagles, playmaker Christopher Cimoch leads in points (27) off of 18 assists, a team high on pace to shatter his previous season total (32). Freshman Rock Einersen leads Robert Morris in goals with 13. Time in net has been split pretty evenly for the Eagles between sophomore Anthony Petrak and freshman Andy DiCristofaro. Both hold a .93 save percentage, while DiCristofaro’s 1.45 GAA slightly edges Petrak, whose GAA is 1.62. UCO will not return to action this semester after this series. The Bronchos will be back at Arctic Edge Friday, Jan. 6, 2012 when Central hosts #1 Penn State University. The Nittany Lions, who last week swept Rutgers by a combined score of 22-2, will take on the Liberty Flames on the road, then remain out of action until a Jan. 4 road match against Division 3 Neumann. Faceoff is at 7:30. Admission is $7, $5 for students and faculty with ID, and free for children under five.

SPORTS

DEC. 8, 2011 Central Men’s Basketball

Opinion

VIEW FROM THE SWOSU ENDS BRONCHOS’ CHEAP SEATS 3-GAME WINNING STREAK The Bronchos missed two key free throws down the stretch that ultimately ended their chances to win their fourth game in a row against SWOSU.

By Trey Hunter

Vista Sports Editor

Thunder’s Best Offense Is A Good Defense The Oklahoma City Thunder are set to begin their fourth season since moving from the Pacific Northwest to the Great Plains and expectations surrounding the team have never been so high. Everybody knows what the Thunder is all about offensively. OKC is obviously going to feature its two main scorers, Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook, with a plethora of role players. But this year, the focus should be on defense. Head coach Scott Brooks knows what his team can do with the ball in their hands, but being a defensive-minded head coach, he needs to coax his guys into playing lock-down, game changing D. He has the athletes to do so, too. Westbrook, James Harden, Thabo Sefolosha and Daequan Cook all have the skills to defend well on the perimeter and Serge Ibaka and Kendrick Perkins can dominate in the post. OKC ranked 18th in the league last year defensively, giving up 101 points per game. In 2009-2010, they were much better. They ranked 11th in the league and gave up three points less per game. That stat doesn’t sound like much, but over the course of 82 games, it makes a huge difference. Kendrick Perkins could prove to be the difference in 20112012. Although Perkins was part of the equation at the end of the season last year, it was obvious that he never took the court 100 percent healthy. He only played in 29 regular season games, 17 of them with the Thunder and 12 with the Boston Celtics. That’s not enough time to get your feet underneath you after a knee injury. That’s not even enough time for a big man to get ready for the regular season, period. The Boston Globe recently reported that Perkins has been working out and shedding weight in order to take pressure off of his knees. This could make him even more of a presence down low. If he’s able to hold some of the league’s best post players to under their average points per game, OKC can be an extremely dominant defensive team. The first test for Perkins will be on Christmas Day as the Thunder host Dwight Howard and the Orlando Magic for the first game of the season. Howard is undoubtedly the games most dominant center so it will be pivotal for Perk to get off to a good start and try and hold him to under 20 points. Two years ago, the eighth seeded Thunder took Kobe and the Lakers to six games before being ousted in the first round of the playoffs and last year they made it to the Western Conference Finals before losing to the eventual NBA champs, the Dallas Mavericks. Oklahoma City is slowly stepping in the right direction with their combination of youth and experience and it’s hard to imagine that they’re not one of the teams with a chance to make a run at a title in the lockout shortened 2011-2012 season, especially if they tidy up on the defensive end.

Trey’s final column can be found on HoopsAddict.com. He will be covering the Oklahoma City Thunder for HoopsAddict’s website as part of their basketball media outlet.

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UCO’s Tyler Phillips (11) during a college basketball game between UCO and USAO at Hamilton Field house, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2011. Photo by Garett Fisbeck, The Vista

Bronchosports.com Crucial free throw misses down the stretch helped spell Central Oklahoma’s demise here Tuesday night as the Bronchos fell to Southwestern Oklahoma 75-67. UCO trailed by eight points (67-59) with 3:05 left to play before going on a 7-0 run to make it 67-66 with 1:31 remaining, but the Bronchos made just 1-of-5 free throws in the final 47.7 seconds and SWOSU clinched the win by scoring the final six points. UCO fell to 7-4 with the loss, while the Bulldogs improved to 6-1. “We played well in stretches, but made too many mistakes and missed some big free throws at the end,” UCO coach Terry Evans said. “I thought we battled hard to give ourselves a chance and we just came up a little short.” Tyler Phillips led the Bronchos with 14 points and six assists, with Brent Friday adding 13 points and a game-high 10 rebounds and Shane Carroll11 points. UCO looked doomed after falling behind 67-59 with just over three minutes left, but Carroll hit two free throws, Phillips followed a SWOSU turnover with a 3-pointer from the wing and Carroll converted a fast-break layup off a nice Friday pass to close the gap to 67-66 at the 1:31 mark. Cortez Colbert rebounded a SWOSU miss at 1:00 and the Bronchos had a chance to take the lead 12 seconds later when Friday was fouled driving to the basket, but he missed both

free throws. The Bulldogs scored at 0:40 to go up 69-66 and UCO had an opportunity to tie it with 28 seconds left after Phillips was hammered while putting up a long 3-point shot. He made the first foul shot and then missed the next two to leave UCO in a 69-67 hole. The Bronchos wouldn’t score again as SWOSU got two free throws at 0:23, two more at 0:14 and a breakaway layup just before the final buzzer to complete a home-and-home sweep between the long old rivals. UCO led most of the first half after using a 9-0 run to break away from an early 10-10 tie, with Carroll scoring five of those points to stake the Bronchos to a 19-10 lead nine minutes into the game. It was still an eight-point lead at 27-19 following Josh Davis’ layup at the 6:52 mark, but SWOSU came back to tie it at 29-all with 3:30 left. It was deadlocked again at 31 and 33 before Friday’s driving layup with 37 seconds remaining gave the Bronchos a 35-33 halftime lead. UCO was clinging to a 45-42 lead seven minutes into the second half when the Bulldogs surged in front to stay, hitting four 3-pointers during an 18-3 run to open up a 10-point lead at 58-48 with 8:21 left. The Bronchos go back on the road Saturday, traveling to Russellville, Ark. to take on Arkansas Tech.

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THE ROLLERCOASTER CONTINUES Bronchosports.com Turnover-prone Central Oklahoma couldn’t overcome its own miscues in a mistake-filled second half and dropped an 80-73 decision to Southwestern Oklahoma here Tuesday night. The Bronchos were poised to take control after opening up a 10-point lead early in the second half, but instead starting making repeated turnovers and the Bulldogs took advantage. UCO threw the ball away on five straight possessions during one stretch and in six of seven during another as SWOSU outscored the Bronchos 34-11 in turning a 51-41 deficit at the 15:35 mark into a 75-62 lead with 3:00 left to play. Central got within 79-73 with 37 seconds remaining, but there would be no miracle comeback. The Bronchos fell to 7-3 with the loss, while the Bulldogs improved to 4-1 in ending a 10-game losing streak in the series. “We didn’t start well and did a good job coming back from that, but everything kind of fell apart for us in the second half,” UCO head coach Guy Hardaker said. “We did a terrible job of protecting the ball and just made a lot of careless turnovers that really hurt us.” The Bronchos committed 17 of their season-high 28 turnovers in the second half, with 16 of those coming in the final 15 minutes. Paiten Taylor led UCO with 17 points and 11 rebounds, while Heather Davis added 15 points and four assists and Jill Bryan 14 points and four assists.

The injury-plagued Bronchos were playing their first game without senior starter Kasey Tweed, who went out with a knee injury in practice last week. UCO lost returning starters Courtney Allen and Alyssa Fuxa and key reserve Tarrington Oakes to pre-season injury. The Bronchos got off to a slow start and trailed by 10 (2313) midway through the opening half before turning to its pressure defense, forcing 10 turnovers the rest of the way to come back and take a 42-35 lead into the break. UCO drew even at 27-all on Britney Morgan’s 3-pointer from the corner, then grabbed its first lead seconds later when Bryan got a steal and fed Morgan for a fast-break layup that made it 29-27 at the 6:18 mark. It was tied 33-33 with 2:55 left when the Bronchos went on a quick 9-0 run. Davis scored five of those points and came up with a steal and assist on a Rachel New layup that ended the spurt to give UCO a 42-33 lead with 45 seconds remaining. SWOSU got the final bucket of the half to get within seven at intermission and scored the first four points of the second half to make it 42-39, but Bryan nailed a 3-pointer and Taylor scored four points in an 8-2 run that upped the lead to 10 at 51-41 with 15:35. UCO’s turnover woes started soon after and the Bulldogs slowly whittled away at their deficit before gaining control down the stretch. The Bronchos return to Edmond to host Southeastern Oklahoma Saturday at 2 p.m.