Somewhere among the rows hats adorned with college logos, the next trend in sporting headgear will start here, inside Top of the World Hats’ giant warehouse in Norman. It’s what would happen if “Fashion Emergency” and ESPN got married. Top of the World holds licenses to make hats for more than 300 universities. It also […]
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Fans should prepare to pucker up and smooch for big screen at Thunder games
You have to have some serious pull. You have to be celebrity-big. A Ford Truck Man. A movie star. You gotta be known. If you’re not, and most folks interested in going to an Oklahoma City Thunder basketball game don’t have their own nickname or get the opportunity to call the shots, every shot, every […]
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Thunder players tell what they really think of new home
Maybe when you’re from Fort Madison, Iowa, and you travel down the road to Iowa City to go to college, maybe, just possibly, you’re not the best barometer to decide if a city is “cool” or not. OTHER END BEING HONEST CHILL AND CALM But Ryan Bowen, the 10-year NBA veteran, who managed to hide […]
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Athletes on Twitter pull back the curtain
Just for a second, before thinking about the fact that some athlete’s civil liberties are getting trampled, and before we get the American Civil Liberties Union on speed dial, maybe we should be grateful. Twitter may be taking over the world, but the newest rage is coaches banning it. Stifling a football player’s thoughts? Making […]
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Athletes on Twitter pull back the curtain
Just for a second, before thinking about the fact that some athlete’s civil liberties are getting trampled, and before we get the American Civil Liberties Union on speed dial, maybe we should be grateful. Twitter may be taking over the world, but the newest rage is coaches banning it. Stifling a football player’s thoughts? Making […]
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Talented OU recruiter Stoops has never been to Sooner football game
He’s from Ohio, went to school at the University of Iowa and now is at the University of Oklahoma. Nationally known. Locally admired. A name synonymous with the university. TWO STOOPS STOOPS ON BASS OHIO NATIVE ‘ARE YOU RELATED?’ It’s a good thing Anthony Stoops carries I.D. It’s a better thing that he carries a […]
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Fat’ Jack Ross considers himself stockbroker for sports bettors
Golf shirt, flip-flops, a cell phone, and “Fat” Jack Ross is ready for work. A quick meeting at the casino, then off to Vegas in the afternoon before heading to Florida next week to meet with some clients and then finalize more syndication for a radio show in the fall. LUCK BE A NORMAN LANDLORD […]
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Lemma’s formula is little Quiz Bowl, all rock ‘n’ roll
Lemma is two full-time musicians, a doctoral student and an abstract geometry researcher. It’s a mathematical formula ” a puzzle worth solving. Together, the band ” Blake Lennon, Jeff Wesner, Aaron Newman and Luke Mullenix ” is a foursome of academi-nerds who seem to be more than the average metro act, playing locally, but dreaming […]
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Lemma’s formula is little Quiz Bowl, all rock ‘n’ roll
Lemma is two full-time musicians, a doctoral student and an abstract geometry researcher. It’s a mathematical formula ” a puzzle worth solving. Together, the band ” Blake Lennon, Jeff Wesner, Aaron Newman and Luke Mullenix ” is a foursome of academi-nerds who seem to be more than the average metro act, playing locally, but dreaming […]