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 . Cheap Air Jordan 11 . - Derek Wolfe says hes finally healthy after suffering a seizure in November that doctors now believe was related to the spinal cord injury he suffered in the preseason. Discount Air Jordan 11 . Its 1987 and a Brazilian playmaker, known as Mirandinha, is being paraded around St James Park to the passionate Newcastle fans. http://www.cheapairjordan11.net/ . -- The boos poured down on Tom Brady and the New England Patriots at the end of a horrible first half. Jordan 11 Retro Cheap . -- Team after team passed on Andre Ellington in the draft. Air Jordan 11 Cheap Sale . Louis Blues. Shane Hnidy joins Brian Munz for the broadcast on TSN 1290 Radio at 7pm ct. Jenson Button admits he would have loved to drive for Ferrari at some point in his Formula One career, which looks likely to be finished after 17 seasons.Button is taking a one-year sabbatical from the sport in 2017 but admitted during the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix that it felt like the final race and that he currently has no desire to return in 2018. His career, which started in 2000, included stints with Williams, Benetton, Renault, BAR, Honda, Brawn -- where he won his world championship -- before finishing at McLaren.Button says he ticked off two of the three ambitions he had when entering F1 and that he once turned down an opportunity to have a stint with the iconic Italian team.If it was the right situation, yeah of course I would have loved to drive for Ferrari, Button told Eddie Jordan in an interview on the Top Gear website. There were three teams that I wanted to drive for in F1 when I arrived, and they were Williams, Ferrari and McLarren, and Ive driven for two of them.ddddddddddddThere was an opportunity at one point, but I thought [McLaren] was the best place to be.Button leaves the sport with the third-most starts in the history of Formula One. He is being replaced by Stoffel Vandoorne at McLaren but thinks the man with the most potential for future world championships is further up the grid at Red Bull.When asked which of the new generation of drivers he is tipping for future success, Button replied: Ricky Bobby - Daniel Ricciardo. Max is an amazing talent, and he will, Im sure, be fighting for the World Championship one day, but I love the way that Daniel Ricciardo has upped his game this year.Hes the older driver, more experienced driver, but he hasnt cracked under pressure, and I really like that about him. And hes a good guy as well. ' ' '