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Brown left searching for answers -- again

By Gene Wojciechowski
ESPN The Magazine

Saturday, October 9, 2004

DALLAS -- Napoleon had Waterloo. Nixon had Watergate. Janet's bra had Justin. And Mack Brown has Oklahoma. The weight of Bevo and everyone who can make a Hook 'Em sign continues to perch on Brown's shoulders -- shoulders that seem to sag a tiny bit more as he makes the familiar postgame walk to the Cotton Bowl press tent. Tradition calls for the losing coach of the Red River Shootout to make the first appearance in that interview tent. Brown knows the drill all too well, what with this being t ...

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