Thursday, May 2, 2024

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pickleball

OKC pickleball tournament highlights growing sport

With terms like kitchen, dill, pickle, slice, server and punch, one might think a dinner party is on the schedule in Oklahoma City this...
Deadspin sucks

Deadspin sucks (and other Deadspin-style headlines)

Let me be clear, I don't think Deadspin sucks. But if I were working for the successful Gawker-media sports site — which I used to read...
Evander Holyfield

Evander Holyfield at OKC school: ‘Everyone who is successful has a support group’

When U.S. Grant students filed into their auditorium Thursday morning for a guest speaker, some were not sure who they were preparing to see. Backstage, five-time world heavyweight...
OU basketball

OU basketball trying to show hoops can still be on top

My fondest sports memory as an underclassman at the University of Oklahoma had absolutely nothing to do with football. It involved a 1995 OU men’s...
OU football

Antiquated work schedules ruin 3 p.m. OU football game

The OU Sooners make their inaugural college football playoff appearance today at 3 p.m. central time, and a fair number of 9 to 5ers are annoyed...
Oklahoma Hall of Fame

KD’s Oklahoma Hall of Fame induction looks like begging

When I was elected to the Oklahoma Senate in 2006, a long-time legislator warned me, "A lot of people are gonna act like they...
Enid News

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...
Grantland

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...
transgenerational trauma

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...
small sample size

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...

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