How Dominique Whaley came to be a Sooner
(Following is an excellent story from Tulsa World reporter John Hoover).
COPPERAS COVE, Texas – As the setting sun painted a golden glow across Central Texas, Christiana Spalding was having too much fun to notice that the air conditioning in her apartment had gone out again.
This grandmother of 14 sat proudly between three boxes of photographs, with a thick photo album on her lap, reliving the memories of all her babies. One in particular, a fuzzy-headed Dominique Whaley captured her attention. He sits smiling, dressed in red and white with a football in his lap and a red helmet to the side. He is but 10 months old.
“He was always such a good baby, a good boy,” she says. Now, Whaley is a good running back, a good football player. A good Oklahoma Sooner.
He’ll be a key player on Saturday as No. 3 OU clashes with No. 11 Texas in the Cotton Bowl.
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