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Lehman emerging as OU's defensive star

By Pete Thamel
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, October 10, 2002

NORMAN, Okla. -- Every season, the Oklahoma-Texas game defines football in the Southwest. To become a hero in the Red River Rivalry means a lifetime of adulation, for no game reverberates louder from the Panhandle to South Padre. Last season, OU linebacker Teddy Lehman became an accidental icon courtesy of one the rivalry's defining plays -- Roy Williams' Superman dive into Texas quarterback Chris Simms. While blitzing Simms, Lehman looked up and saw the fluttering ball "staring" him in th ...

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