T. Boone Pickens alma mater finally has its national football championship.It just didnt come the way the oil tycoon expected. The American Football Coaches Association has named Oklahoma State its 1945 national champion.The AFCA, which made the announcement Thursday, said several schools requested that it establish a group of coaches to select winners from 1922, when the association was founded, to 1949, the year before its coaches poll was first published. Oklahoma State is the first school to be retroactively named national champion. Pickens, a 1951 graduate who has donated more than $500 million to the school and whose name is on the football stadium, was thrilled to hear the news.I was a big fan of that team, Pickens said in a statement. They had some real heroes on it. Those were great years for our athletic teams, including basketball and wrestling. Im glad the football team is finally getting the recognition they earned on the field.Army was The Associated Press national champion in 1945. Oklahoma A&M, as Oklahoma State was called as back then, finished No. 5 in the final AP poll that year. Coach Jim Lookabaughs Aggies won all nine of their games, by an average of 23.2 points.After gathering all the pertinent information and doing our due diligence, it is the pleasure of our Blue Ribbon Commission of coaches to officially recognize Oklahoma States 1945 championship season with the AFCA Coaches Trophy, AFCA executive director Todd Berry said in a statement.The programs Bob Fenimore was a consensus All-American who led the nation in rushing and total offense, and Neill Armstrong was an AP All-American. The roster included seven World War II veterans. The team capped its perfect season by defeating St. Marys 33-13 in the Sugar Bowl.We may have been the best team in the country that year, Armstrong told the AFCA last year. We had a couple of All-Americans and a group of veterans who kept us in check. In practice, we scrimmaged every day. As hard as those scrimmages were, its a wonder that we had anything left for the games, but those scrimmages toughened us and made us better. We had a lot of older guys who had fought in the war and understood that you dont win anything unless you do it as a team.Oklahomas 1950 squad had been the AFCAs first champion.---Follow Cliff Brunt on Twitter (at)CliffBruntAP . Vapormax España . -- Jakob Silfverberg is making himself right at home with the Anaheim Ducks, scoring four goals in his first four games. Vapormax Flyknit 3 Hombre . -- PGA TOUR Canada member Steve Saunders took a three-stroke lead Saturday in the Web. http://www.vapormaxbaratas.com/ . -- If this was Aaron Gordons final home game at Arizona, and it almost certainly was, then he went out in style. Nike Air Max Plus Tn Hombre .Y. -- Sabres forward Drew Stafford has witnessed plenty of turmoil during his eight seasons in Buffalo. Vapormax Flyknit 3 Mujer . Instead of dwelling on the negative, Oates focused on what was good about the clubs recent play. It worked. DALLAS -- The Dallas Mavericks have re-signed summer league standout Jonathan Gibson because of backcourt injuries. He had been cut just before the season began.Forward Quincy Acy was waived Friday to make room.Backup point guard J.J. Barea has a muscle tear in his lower left leg, and starter Deron Williams has been slowed by a calf problem. Dallas also is without guard Devin Harris because of a left foot injuury.ddddddddddddGibson was not drafted in 2010 and played last season in China. He averaged nearly 19 points in the summer league and was invited to preseason camp. He averaged 7.1 points and 3.0 assists in seven preseason games.Acy averaged 2.2 points and 1.3 rebounds in six games. ' ' '