I feel I should comment about Berry Tramel. When I was covering TU for the Oklahoman, Berry was terrific to work for. He gave me great assignments. He was the sports editor my first 2 years there in 2000-2001. He was pushing for expanding coverage for TU and in the Tulsa area, and the Oklahoman covered more Tulsa stuff then than any other time I know of. After he quit being the sports editor there to just write, which he prefers, coverage for TU slowly started to go down. By the my last year there in 2006, it has whittled down to next-to-nothing.
Berry was at the press conference Monday. He didn't have to be. He could have watched the online feed. He lives in OKC.