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From Ducks to Dimes: The Mason Fine Story
Before he broke records at North Texas, Mason Fine was a small-town kid in Oklahoma throwing wobblers in the front yard. Persistence turned him into one of college football’s most unlikely stars.
(Photo: Photos by UNT Athletics and courtesy of Mason Fine)
Mason Fine’s dream was to be a high school quarterback. The problem? He couldn’t throw a spiral.
Fine grew up in Peggs, Okla., a small town with a population around 600 which was roughly an hour east of Tulsa. He gravitated towards basketball and baseball in elementary school, starring as a pitcher and shortstop on the diamond and as a combo guard on the hardwood.
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