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Bob Stoops just won a national championship. In Texas. Coaching a Texas team. Yeah, that Bob Stoops—the longtime Oklahoma coach who led the Sooners to a national championship in 2000, dominating the Texas Longhorns and just about everyone else they played en route to an undefeated season.This past weekend, that same Bob Stoops coached the Arlington Renegades to the championship of the XFL, which, with eight teams representing eight cities, is at least technically a national football league. Unlike in 2000, Stoops’s Arlington squad was neither dominant nor undefeated. The Renegades finished the regular season with four wins and six losses. Their only victories came against the league’s basement-dwellers—the Vegas Vipers, the Orlando Guardians (which Arlington beat twice), and the San Antonio Brahmas. But Stoops’s…

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