January 26, 2006

Oil Tycoon Gives $165-Million for Athletics Facilities at Oklahoma State

By Caroline Preston

Boone Pickens, the oil and investment executive, has donated $165-million to support athletics at Oklahoma State University, in Stillwater. The gift is the largest single donation to a college athletics program in U.S. history, university officials said.

Mr. Pickens graduated from the university in 1951 with a degree in geology. He is the founder of Mesa Petroleum, an oil and gas company, and of BP Capital Management, an investment firm in Dallas.

The university will use the

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