Yesterday, the University of Oklahoma announced that local sports broadcaster and all-around good guy Toby Rowland will be the new voice of Sooner athletics. I like this move for several reasons.
1. Toby is a cool dude. Back in the day when I started HornetsCentral.com, Toby was cool enough to have me on his radio show a couple of times to promote the site. He even contributed – for free – some columns about the team in our fan forum. Of course, he did all this because the co-founder of the site used to be an intern at Channel 9, but still, it was a cool thing for him to try and help us out. Also, he didn't flip out a few years ago when his employer wouldn't release him from his contract and prevented him from being the Thunder sideline announcer.