Commentary
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To the Enid News & Eagle sports editor: Really, dude?
I live in Oklahoma, and I love Oklahoma, but I have come to terms with the fact that it is not always the most...
Presidential candidates to invade your ‘deep dreams’
As the holiday season moves its slow thighs into our work weeks, we begin to enter the doldrums of seasonal productivity. Annual ad budgets...
Grantland’s end deals blow to traditional sports writing
Good sports writing didn’t die on Oct. 30, but it surely took a heartrending blow.
ESPN shuttered its Grantland website just weeks ago, ending a...
Sooners aren’t causing your ‘transgenerational trauma’
Jumping the Shark is an idiom "used to describe the moment in the evolution of a television show when it begins a decline in...
A somber Sunday Funday: Requiem for Paris
Requiem for Paris
by James Coburn
In Paris, crossing the Seine
On a bridge of stone,
Footsteps beckon our arrival.
The Seine reflects
A cityscape lit by windows
Framing candle light spinning
Fervent...
On Syrian refugees, politics preempt Christian duties
Gov. Mary Fallin loves to shout from the rooftops about her faith in God. But she and her fellow Republicans aren’t the only ones...
By ‘averages,’ Texans are smarter, thinner and richer
Oklahoma football fans, like me, are always disappointed when the team from our flagship state university loses to its Texas counterpart. Of course, we...
With Pope forgiving abortions, one woman recalls pain
The Catholic Holy Year of Mercy begins on Dec. 8 and runs through Nov. 20, 2016. There’s a logo, an official prayer, and — oh yeah...
A teacher’s tale: Joy, tragedy and weirdness
(Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from A Teacher's Tale, a new book chronicling author John Thompson's experiences teaching in inner-city Oklahoma City...
Thunder: Small sample size stats can be fun
While the OKC metro hunkers down under its mattresses for a long winter without Thunder Forward Kevin Durant — seriously people, relax, it’s just a...
