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Baylor's Shawn Oakman gets literary (and scarier?)

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If Baylor defensive end Shawn Oakman wasn’t scary enough, the 6-foot-9, 275-pounder is now quoting spooky poems just hours before kickoff.

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

— Shawn oakman (@PA2BU) October 3, 2015

The quote comes, of course, from Edgar Allen Poe’s classic poem "The Raven".