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Tramel: Former OU star Ryan Minor thinking of his daughters as he fights Stage IV cancer

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The same thing that would scare you, scares Ryan Minor.

Whoever thought of Ryan Minor being scared? To Oklahomans, he’s been a Marlboro Man for three decades, a tough, stoic, rugged, active western Oklahoman.

But now Minor is scared. Scared that daughters Regan, 16, and Finley, 9, might be fatherless.

Minor discovered in September that he has Stage IV colon cancer, which has spread to his liver, and he’s been told he’s not a candidate for surgery, because the tumor is too big.

“It’s tough,” Minor said this week from his home in Salisbury, Maryland.