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GARTH BROOKS' entrance into the world of country music wasn't as easy as it looked. A four-sport schoolboy star growing up in Oklahoma, he earned a track and field scholarship to Oklahoma State University, where he graduated with a degree in advertising in 1985. At that point, he left behind his life as a jock, decided against entering the button-down world, and headed for Nashville to follow in ...more


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