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  1. If EXPECT A MIRACLE is ever taken off the court....TheEagleman will cease to be a fan of not only ORU basketball but ORU period...it would be a travesty because it truly is what OR was all about...I had the opportunity to speak with OR several times as sports editor of the Oracle for a year and as a sports writer for another year....oh, he wanted to win...but it wasn't all about the winning...it was more about the witness to the city and the nation of sports fans who might watch our games on TV or read about us in the newspaper or a magazine....Oral was so pleased when we would be mentioned in Sports Illustrated or some other national magazine....not because he was proud but because his University and the Lord were being raised up....TheEagleman still recalls OR walking on stage when chapels were held at Mabee Center and waiving a copy of Sports Illustrated that had ORU ranked 4th in the nation....he put on his reading glasses and read the entire article....and another time in a chapel right before ORU was to play SW Louisiana in our first nationally televised game he reminded all the students about the witness we would provide to the nation about what ORU was all about....ah, those were good times and spoke about how the man viewed basketball as just another way of reaching a nation of lost souls.....EXPECT A MIRACLE says it all, my friends.....
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  2. The other day, I was reading a chapel transcript from 1975--Dr. Buskirk's first ORU sermon. At the end, Brother Bob mentioned that there was a basketball game the next night. And Oral said, "You know, speaking of that, the only contact we have with our city in that way is by the game...these people that come out here who are not part of us, per se. And you students, as you participate and you send your love, it isn't that we're just having a game, and you know that. It isn't that you're just sitting up there in a body and you're supporting your team and all of that. It's far more than that. We're loving those people who are filling these seats out here. Do you believe that?" Just some insight into how OR viewed ORU basketball...
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