Editor's note: Oklahoma football coach Lincoln Riley tells The Oklahoman's Ryan Aber why he loves sports and the role it played in his childhood.
Probably the one thing from my youth that I remember most, I started basketball in third grade and the game was pretty new to me. I’d gotten into baseball and machine pitch and all that, and we’re going good with that but basketball was pretty new.
My first year, as a third grader, I wasn’t that great a player. I was OK, but a couple of my buddies made an all-star team and I didn’t.