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Oklahoma State frequently plays games on the biggest stages. The Cowboys have hosted ESPN’s College Gameday in Stillwater on five occasions. MEDIA SERVICES AND POLICIES

Thank you for your coverage of the Oklahoma State PLAYER INTERVIEW AVAILABILITY Approved passes will be mailed out up until the week of Cowboys and Big 12 football. Please let us know if we can All interviews with Oklahoma State student-athletes the game. Credentials and parking passes that are applied assist your efforts at any time during the football season. should be coordinated through the athletics communica- for the week of the game will not be mailed out, rather, they The following is a list of policies and procedures that are in tions office. During the season, OSU players are available will be held at the media will call window at Boone Pickens place. Please contact the OSU athletics communications after practice on Tuesdays. Telephone interviews may Stadium for pickup on game day. office with any questions or concerns. be arranged by contacting Sean Maguire in the athletics Gavin Lang ([email protected]) and Sean Ma- communications office ([email protected]). All CREDENTIAL TYPES guire ([email protected]) serve as the athletics interview requests should be made at least 24 hours in --- MEDIA --- communications contacts for Oklahoma State football. advance. OSU’s first-year players (true freshmen and This credential is for writers. It includes press box ac- The OSU athletics communications office is located in transfers) are not available for interviews. cess and a press box seat, as well as access to postgame the southwest corner of Gallagher-Iba Arena on the second interview rooms. It does not allow sideline access until floor of the Athletics Center in room 220. The primary office COACH INTERVIEW AVAILABILITY postgame. The media pass is also good for visiting radio number is 405-744-7714. Interviews with coach Mike Gundy should also be ar- network/television crew members who do not require ranged through the athletics communications office. Gundy sideline access. FTP SITE is available at OSU’s weekly media luncheon on Mondays Oklahoma State Athletics provides broadcast-quality during the season. Telephone interviews with the head --- PHOTO --- video highlights for media use on its FTP site. The site is coach can be arranged by contacting Gavin Lang (gavin. This credential includes sideline access, interview room password protected. To register for FTP services, please [email protected]). As with the student-athletes, interview access, as well as access to the press box and the field contact Greg Bartlett ([email protected]). requests should be made at least 24 hours in advance. level photo work room. Photo credential holders will not For highlights of Cowboy games, or to obtain practice have a reserved seat in the press box. For sideline access, footage, contact the OSU athletics communications office, BIG 12 CONFERENCE CALL photographers must pick up a game-day vest in the press or C.J. Lickert, Oklahoma State’s video and technical direc- Head coach Mike Gundy is available via teleconference box with ID required. Vests should be returned in the field tor ([email protected]). on Mondays as part of the Big 12 Conference call. Contact level photo work room, which can be accessed through the the Big 12 Conference communications staff for more tunnel in the southwest corner of the stadium. MONDAY MEDIA LUNCHEONS information. Each game week during the football season, OSU hosts MEDIA PARKING ON GAMEDAY a media luncheon in the south club level of Boone Pickens SEASON MEDIA CREDENTIALS Media parking is located in the garage just north of Stadium. Contact the athletics communications office for Season credentials for Oklahoma State must be the intersection of Monroe and Hall of Fame. The street more details. OSU does not normally host a luncheon dur- requested through OSU’s official website. To begin the address is 509 North Monroe, Stillwater, OK, 74078. ing open weeks of the season. process, visit www.okstate.com/media. Only media cover- From Sixth Street (Highway 51), the primary east-west Mike Gundy’s portion of the news conference is avail- ing the Cowboys on a consistent basis and on assignment passage through Stillwater, turn north on Monroe Street able live at www.okstate.com and is archived as well. It is will be considered for season credentials. A lost season and proceed through the OSU campus through Hall of also available on the OSU FTP site on Monday afternoons. credential will, unfortunately, result in credentials being Fame Avenue to the garage. issued on a game-by-game basis as available. From Hall of Fame Avenue, which loops around the MEDIA LUNCHEON PARKING & ENTRY The deadline for requesting season credentials is north side of campus, turn north on Monroe. From highway Parking for OSU’s Monday media luncheon is in Lot 10, Thursday, August 10. No season credentials will be 412, the toll road from Tulsa, take the first Stillwater exit immediately west of Boone Pickens Stadium. Members of awarded after that date. from the turnpike. At the turnpike gate, go straight through the media should enter the stadium through the loading the toll booth to Washington Street and take a right at the dock area located at the southeast corner of the stadium. SINGLE-GAME MEDIA CREDENTIALS intersection of Washington and McElroy, followed by the first left. Credentials for individual games should be requested A NOTE ABOUT PARKING ON CAMPUS A shuttle will be available to transport media from the at least one week in advance in order to ensure enough Monroe Street garage to the media entrance at the stadium Members of the media who visit the OSU campus regu- time to mail out the credential and parking pass. Those larly for media functions should obtain on-campus vendor beginning three hours prior to kickoff and it will continue to requests should also be made at www.okstate.com/media. parking permits by stopping by Parking Services, located operate for an hour after the game. Credentials will only be granted to media on assignment on the northeast corner of the intersection of Monroe Street and to those who cover the Cowboys or their opponent on and Hall of Fame Avenue. UPLINK TRUCK PARKING a regular basis. Media outlets looking to park an uplink truck should notify Gavin Lang no later than Monday the week of the game. Uplink trucks will park on the concrete walkway between the Sherman E. Smith Indoor Training Center and the turf field immediately to the south of it. Uplink trucks that have made arrangements will be parked in that area on a first-come, first-served basis.

MEDIA CREDENTIAL PICKUP ON GAMEDAY The will call window for media credentials is located on the south side of Boone Pickens Stadium next to Gate 1 (adjacent to the media entrance). The window will open three hours prior to kickoff and will remain open until kickoff. Media arriving after kickoff should call the Boone Pickens Stadium press box at 405-744-7740 for assis- tance.

ENTERING THE STADIUM ON GAMEDAY Working members of the media who arrive before the main stadium gates open an hour-and-a-half prior to kickoff should enter Boone Pickens Stadium from Gate 1 located

Gavin Lang Sean Maguire Stephen Howard Ryan Cameron Wade McWhorter Roxanne Cantrell Associate A.D./Communications Assistant Director Associate Director Assistant Director Assistant Director Unit Assistant Football Football Men’s Basketball, Women’s Golf Women’s Basketball, Men’s Golf Soccer, Baseball Football Credentials [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 405-744-3875 405-744-6963 405-744-7756 405-744-4854 405-744-7853 405-744-7714

Meagan Bordayo Emily Lingenfelter Brock Busick Andy Cheng Jimmy Crowther Graduate Assistant Graduate Assistant Student Assistant Student Assistant Student Assistant Social Media Wrestling Cross Country/Track and Field, Equestrian Softball Men’s Tennis, Women’s Tennis [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 405-744-7714 405-744-7714 405-744-7714 405-744-7714 405-744-7714

on the south side of the stadium. Once you enter from SIDELINE POLICIES tunnel. OSU will provide an escort to that location as well. Gate 1, elevators to the press and broadcast levels are Photographers are the only members of the media Members of the media should not approach OSU players located to your right. permitted on the sidelines during games. or coaches for comments on the field. The OSU locker If you arrive after the main stadium gates open, we ask Because of the tight sidelines at OSU, shooting areas room is closed. that you please enter from the loading dock entrance at the for each game are designated on a field map that is southeast corner of the stadium. From there, you’d make distributed with vests. The designated areas allow space PRACTICE AVAILABILITY the first left to access the elevator to the press box. for working media as well as OSU and visiting spirit groups Oklahoma State’s football practices are primarily closed to co-exist. The OSU athletics communications office will to the public and media with limited exceptions (media will PRESS BOX INFO have a photo marshal on the field to assist the media in be notified in advance of those dates). The first portion of The press box is located at the southeast corner of their game-day efforts. the workouts (generally the first 15-20 minutes) is at times the stadium on the suite level and opens three-and-a-half open to photographers. Again, media will be notified in hours prior to kickoff. The media meal is served two hours The bench areas on both sidelines are off-limits to prior to kick. media. While passing through from one end of the field to advance of those opportunities. Mike Gundy’s postgame news conference will be the other, members of the media should walk behind the Members of the media planning to shoot practice available in the press box through the in-house television bench areas without stopping in that space. should contact the OSU athletics communications office in network for those on tight deadlines. Quotes will also be Members of the media should not approach Cowboy advance to confirm arrangements and practice times. provided from the visiting players and coaches, key OSU players or coaches until the designated time for interview players and coordinators. availability after the game. PRACTICE LOCATION The Cowboys practice in the Sherman Smith Training VISITING RADIO PHOTO WORK ROOM Center, which is just across Hall of Fame Avenue from The visiting radio booth is located on the roof (upper The photo work room at Boone Pickens Stadium is lo- Boone Pickens Stadium. The facility has four fields – two concourse) of Boone Pickens Stadium on the south side cated on the field level and can be accessed by taking the outdoor grass fields, an outdoor turf field and an indoor turf of the field. Only the official radio network of the visiting southwest tunnel (the same tunnel used by Bullet to enter field. school will have access to the booth. OSU radio rights the stadium) and turning left. The work room is equipped holder, Learfield, provides an ISDN line, a POTS line and with Internet access, drinks and flip cards. A photo vest, COLLEGEPRESSBOX.COM two Ethernet drops in the visitors’ booth as well as a dry which can only be obtained in the press box, must be Collegepressbox.com is the official media website for pair in the visitors’ locker room. Contact the athletics com- visible for admittance into that area. This is this location Big 12 Conference football. Access and download weekly munications office for more information. where we respectfully ask all photographers to return their game notes, quotes, statistics, media guides, headshots, FIELD ACCESS vests after the game. logos and more for the conference and each of its member schools. Login information will be distributed to accredited To access the field at Boone Pickens Stadium, use the GAMEDAY INTERVIEW AREAS ramp located in the east end zone (Gallagher-Iba Arena media or you can apply for a password by sending an side) of the stadium. Media credentials do not permit field The visiting team locker room and interview room are e-mail to [email protected]. access until postgame. Photographers with assigned vests located in the Athletics Center, in the east end zone of are the only members of the media allowed on the field Boone Pickens Stadium. To access the interview area, before and during the game. To obtain a field access vest, enter the Heritage Hall museum off of the east plaza of the photographers should report to the press box before the stadium (east end zone). game and sign in. Interviews with Cowboy coaches and players take place in the west end zone theater room, just up the northwest

DIRECTIONS TO CAMPUS

From the south (Oklahoma City) From the east (Tulsa) - Take Interstate 35 North to State Highway 51 (Exit 174). - Take Interstate 244 West to the Cimarron Turnpike (U.S. Highway 412 West). - Take State Highway 51 East approximately 15 miles into Stillwater. - After paying a second toll, do not exit on Perkins Road. Instead, continue on to Boomer - Take a left on Western Avenue and follow it as it turns east and into Hall of Fame Road, which later turns into Main Street. Avenue. - Turn right on Hall of Fame Avenue.

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John Holcomb is in his 15th season as Hugo KMMY 96.5 FM the radio analyst for OSU football, and Hugo KTLQ 1350 AM The Learfield IMG College suite of services includes licens- his 12th season as the analyst for OSU McAlester KTMC 105.1 FM men’s basketball on the Cowboy Sports ing and multimedia sponsorship management; publishing, Oklahoma City KXXY 96.1 HD2 Network. Holcomb was named the Okla- broadcasting, digital and social media; ticket sales and homa Sportscaster of the Year in 2001, Oklahoma City KGHM 1340 AM professional concessions expertise; branding; campus- 2002 and again in 2011 by the National Sportscasters and Oklahoma City KTOK 1000 AM wide business and sponsorship development; and venue Sportswriters Association. Holcomb is Sports Director of Ponca City KQSN 104.7 FM technology systems. the News on 6 Sports team and co-hosts the “Oklahoma Sallisaw KXMX 105.1 FM Sports Blitz” statewide on Sunday nights. 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The 40-year veteran of Woodward KMZE 92.1 FM cesses, and do what is right and honest in every endeavor. television, radio, and print coverage of sports in Oklahoma and, especially Oklahoma State, has written two books on Oklahoma State athletics, More Than A Championship, The company enjoys giving back to the intercollegiate with Mike Gundy after the 2011 Big 12 Championship in athletics industry and seeks out involvement within vari- football and 100 Things Oklahoma State Fans Need to ous organizations, events and platforms that are vital to Know or Do Before They Die. Allen is a former walk-on collegiate athletics’ development overall. Learfield IMG at Oklahoma State and his son also played football at College takes this position seriously and proudly support Oklahoma State for Gundy. His wife and daughter are also organizations including NACDA (National Association of graduates of Oklahoma State. 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