Sports
Royce Young
It’s Friday night in Oklahoma City. Sheridan Avenue is dark. Sidewalks down Reno are mostly empty. Traffic is light all over.

Letters to the Editor
R. Cass
I must agree with Roy Williams (“Point: Revise outmoded liquor laws”) that discussions about such hot-button topics as expanding the sale of wine and beer into grocery stores are healthy to a free-market economy and should always be welcomed.

Features
Gazette staff
If there’s good in everything, then the recent recession was a blessing, according to 20-year real estate veteran Greg Rand.

Restaurant Reviews
Doug Hill
Swadley’s Bar-B-Q’s original theme song plays when you open swadleys.com. Complete with manly man vocals, mustang snorting and spaghetti Western whistling, the lyrics in part tout their catering: “If there’s a crowd you need to please / We’ll grab our meat and haul our buns.”

Restaurant Reviews
Joshua Boydston
There’s a lot of stock put into image with sushi joint In the Raw. From the highly marketable and perfectly suited name, to the refined-but-fun interior and the elegantly simple sashimi, it’s an attractive, stylish place.

OKG7 things to do
Gazette staff
There’s that children’s book with the kids behaving badly and learning life lessons ... yes, The Hunger Games, but add songs and you have Piggy Nation. At 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sooner Theatre at 101 E. Main in Norman debuts the musical based on Oklahoma author Richard Rosser’s work, featuring a young cast of 20 and with 3 p.m. matinees Saturday and Sunday. Tickets are $10. Call 321-9600 or visit soonertheatre.com.

Friday-Sunday

CFN
Gazette staff
Hey, Sooner Nation: There’s a guy in Michigan you might want to put on your Christmas card mailing list this year. Kyle Meinke, who covers football for annarbor.com, was the only voter in the Associated Press Top 25 football preseason poll to give the first-place nod to the University of Oklahoma.