Sports
Clark Matthews
If football is a game of inches, basketball is a game of millimeters. The difference in swishing a perfect jump shot and having the same shot swatted into press row is predicated on any number of small things.

Sports
Clark Matthews
There are many things the Oklahoma City Thunder know they can expect on a nightly basis. Whenever they lace up, Russell Westbrook will be unstoppable going to the basket. If Kevin Durant does not score at least 25 points, it is an anomaly.

Letters to the Editor
Travis Ray Nance
“As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion …” —The first phrase of the Treaty of Tripoli, as submitted by President John Adams, ratified unanimously by the U.S. Senate in 1797.