Sports
SmartFootball: Only criticize if you can find the ‘Mike’
I don’t like having to claim I know more about sports than people think I do, but I do. Sorry.
I know I look like...
OU football promo puts worst foot forward
I was born into an OU family. My soul is steeped in Crimson and Cream. Once, I taught a class of oblivious South Carolinian...
OKC Energy bound for playoffs in second season
When I was 7 years old, my parents took me, my older brother, and likely a neighborhood kid or two, to the Will Rogers...
Sooners homer wearing Eagles green on Sundays
In the interest of full disclosure, let me just say I’m a lifelong Sooner fan. I’m a homer. I wear crimson-colored contacts in case...
Wrestlers to trade BLOWs this weekend
The Farmer's Public Market is "blowing" up this weekend, with Balthazar’s Ladies and Lords of Wrestling (BLOW) unleashing its season-opening title belt at 4 p.m....
Q&A: Bob Funk Jr. — ‘Soccer can unify a community ‘
Bob Funk Jr. is perhaps best known as the owner of Oklahoma City's Energy FC. Before that, Funk Jr. was the owner of another...
OSU football v. cupcakes: ‘These games need to stop’
Missouri State, Grambling State, Savannah State, Lamar, Missouri State, Central Arkansas.
What do all those schools have in common? They are all FCS (formally Division...
Oklahoma sports approach October critical mass
October: College football gets serious. OKC sees it first-ever homegrown professional soccer playoff game. NBA training camp begins with high expectations.
Sooner nation meets the...
Hey, chawbacon: Hunter Thompson hated sportswriters
“I have explained many times that I am, by Profession, a Gambler — not some jock-sniffing nerd or a hired human squawk-box with the...
‘Put the ball into the net’ — Energy FC one win from finals
I don't know if goalie Evan Newton has a significant other, but he most assuredly deserved to get laid following Sunday's dramatic win over the Colorado Springs...