Greg Swaim

[DxCowboy]

Received news Greg has passed away after a long battle.

Agree or disagree with him, I’ll always appreciate his passion for OSU bb.

RIP Greg

 

[aggiejet]

Loyal and True

RIP Peace Cowboy

 

[SanditeCowboy]

That’s sad news.


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[Spider Rico]

RIP my friend!

 

[Osucowboys344]

RIP

 

[Duke Silver]

During the Sutton era was as good as it got.

 

[DxCowboy]

During the Sutton era was as good as it got.

I still remember how much he hyped up the visit from JamesOn and how many people showed up on a weekday afternoon for that.

Funny story I’ll never forget. I went to big 12 bb media days in KC one year and helped line up guests while Greg did his show on radio row. So we’d cut into RA’s show for interviews from time to time.

Well I got Bobby Knight lined up to go on. Now Coach Knight had a very imposing presence, to say the least.

So we let RA’s producer know we’ve got Knight ready to go, I give him a headset to put on, & RA proceeded to blather on for like 3 minutes. You could visibly see Knight getting mad and our mics were hot, and he finally blurts out ‘what is this shit?!’ RA hears this and finally pitches to Greg, who’s now got a fuming Bobby Knoght standing over the table.

Poor Greg, Knigh’s intimidating enough without someone pissing him off right before your interview.

 

[MustangPokeFan]

That’s very sad news, I was unaware that he was ill! God bless his soul!

 

[Poke Skywalker]

Sorry to hear this. I knew he had posted on X a while back that he was in hospice but didn’t really know what led up to that. I know he had a wife, grown sons, and grandkids. Prayers for his family.

I remember during my college years, early 2000s, listening in the car and between classes to RA in the morning for football/recruiting, then to Swaim in the early afternoon for basketball/recruiting news. Of course that was during some exciting times for basketball so probably the height of his radio show.

 

[Outlaw from Lawton]

Prayers to his family he will be missed.

 

[CptnQuirk]

I got my start on OSU social media on his website. Then someone there told me about OrangePower and I didn’t go to his board as often. That was 18 years ago. Condolences to his family.

 

[SlurrrPup]

That’s very sad news, I was unaware that he was ill! God bless his soul!

His posts in early November had him expecting to make it to January.

Here is the January post when he was getting ready to go into hospice.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1752151917986189564

 

[Bleed Orange]

Wow, very sad. I worked with Greg at the OSU Foundation (in IT!) and always found him interesting. He had a passion for OSU for sure, though. RIP, Greg.

 

[orangecrush]

So sad to see. He had a passion for OSU sports, specially basketball. He was the reason I signed up at Orangepower back in 02 or 03. Now both are gone.

RIP Greg.

 

[wrenhal]

For any and all that are interested. This is from his family on Facebook.

Family and friends, we would like to share with you that Greg’s Celebration of Life will be Monday, December 16th @ 10:30am at The Stillwater Church of Christ. The church is providing lunch afterwards for family and close friends. Please message Sean or Paula if you plan on attending lunch.

Address is
821 N. Duck, Stillwater, Oklahoma.

Thank you to everyone who has reached out. The family is grateful for the support more than you know.

We understand if you are not able to attend his Celebration of Life. If you feel like sharing, please comment under this post your favorite memory or story you have of Greg. If you would like to mail a card with a story/memory/picture, please message a family member for the address. We would love to have these memories to look back on.

In lieu of flowers, we would like donations to go to the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
—Swaim Family

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