Boone Pickens will be memorialized Wednesday at Gallagher-Iba Arena by people who knew him much better and will miss him more than did I. But I did know him and I will miss him.
Pickens was a reporter’s friend. He didn’t practice secrecy. Didn’t believe that the masses should be excluded from information. He liked the media, which is a rare thing in and out of sports these days.
Over the years, I chatted often with Pickens, either at events or via phone. I’d call him about some issue or another. On occasion, he’d call me, just wanting to get an OSU update from a non-Stillwater perspective.