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VIDEO: T. Boone Pickens is disappointed in you, Sports Illustrated

The billionaire released a statement on SI’s recent Oklahoma State report.

Brett Deering

T. Boone Pickens loves his Oklahoma State Cowboys. He’s donated so much money to the school that the Cowboys’ football stadium is named after him. So when Sports Illustrated published the first report in a damning series on OSU’s football team, Pickens was disappointed.

In a video statement, the oil magnate expressed just how disappointed he is. Pickens notes that the “sensational allegations go back a decade” and that “there have been wholesale changes at the school in recent years.”

The Oklahoma State alum said Sports Illustrated’s reporters didn’t ask the right question: “What’s going on at OSU today?”

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