Bill Self decided to stay at Kansas.

Not a big shocker, but you have to applaud Oklahoma State for going after the best. KU's athletic director, Lew Perkins, noted how professional the Pokes were about the whole affair, and Self totally left the possibility of coaching OSU open ... down the road.

Just not now.

If it were my job to find a new coach, I'd go hard and heavy after Bruce Pearl. He coaches an exciting brand of basketball, and he wouldn't have to change the color of his sport coat.

Tennessee is a great school, but it's a football school. Pearl could be the man in Stillwater. But if Pearl weren't interested -- and given the megabucks he could get in north-central Oklahoma, I think he'd be crazy not to listen -- I'd go hard and heavy after Drake's Keno Davis.

Davis is not only the son of a coaching legend, he's also a sharp, young, hip sort of guy who happened to work the unthinkable at Drake. He took his team to the NCAA tourney for the first time since 1971.

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For those of you who thought the trek from Seattle to Oklahoma City would be smooth sailing from here on out, think again. Today, it was revealed in subpoenaed e-mails that Clay Bennett communicated his intention as early as 2007 to move the NBA's Sonics from the Emerald City to OKC.

Considering Bennett had vowed to commissioner David Stern that his intention to stay in Seattle was genuine, if an arena deal could be reached in time, this could be seen as a major, major breach of trust. Bennett could be slapped with a hefty fine or worse: Stern could sway the Board of Governors to vote against the team's relocation.

David Stern is the most powerful commissioner in sports. You do not cross this man. He is not vengeful, though. I'm not saying that; however, he is what I would call super-righteous.

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The one NBA owner who has already vowed to vote against the Sonics' relocation is Dallas' Mark Cuban. He went so far as to say that Oklahoma City's inclusion in a Western Conference division would create a Dust Bowl division.

Incredibly insulting from the owner of a team most Oklahomans have rooted for the past 28 years. However, those days are over for me. I'll root for the Hornets, the Rockets or whoever is playing the Mavs. For a billionaire to be so brilliant and thoughtless at the same time is probably not the biggest shock in the world.

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Malcolm Kelly was one of several University of Oklahoma football players who had terrible NFL pro-day outings in Norman this week. Kelly's 40-yard-dash time will likely push him into the late part of the first round of this year's draft or worse.

Kelly might find himself taken in the third or fourth round.

The contention is that is 4.68 time is not fast enough to expect he would be able to create separation in the NFL. Given Kelly's ability to disappear against great teams while he played for the Sooners, perhaps the problem all along wasn't play-calling or the quarterback.

Perhaps Malcolm just wasn't as talented as he seemed, the type of player who could feast against Middle Tennessee State and completely disappear against West Virginia. To be fair, Kelly ranted to reporters that the "thigh bruise" he had at the end of last season was actually a "thigh tear," insinuating that OU's coaches put him at risk.

Drama. No wonder the Cincinnati Bengals have shown interest in the guy.

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Lastly, the only part of the hockey season I watch religiously gets under way tonight, as the Dallas Stars hope to avoid a first-round ouster against the defending Stanley Cup champs, the Anaheim Ducks.

My expectation level is not high.

But I suspect a first-round exit ends Dave Tippett's tenure with the organization.