Chicken-Fried News

It will take some time to decide if President-elect Barack Obama will know how to run the country, but the prez-in-waiting knows football. Before Oklahoma and Florida universities stepped on the field, Obama was asked by New York Times political reporter John Harwood who would win the national championship between the Sooners and the Gators. […]

You’re not going crazy. That coffee wasn’t laced with something stronger. “Gandhi” did, in fact, take a nice stroll through Oklahoma recently. Or, at least, an Irishman masquerading as Gandhi. Dermot Butterly, inspired by the words and actions of the famous Indian peace activist, has been making a trek across the U.S. He started in […]

It probably had to happen sooner or later in the buckle of the Bible Belt ” a faith-based prison. That’s what’s on tap for Madill to consider, according to a recent story out of Ardmore’s KXII-TV Channel 12. According to the story, Correction Concepts Inc. recently approached the town with the idea of building a […]

Mammoths and other critters making a land run in prehistoric Oklahoma got quite the surprise, according to a recent story in USA Today. A report from the journal Science stated that soil samples taken from Oklahoma and other states found concentrations of “nanodiamonds” ” kind of like the speck in the ring Bucky bought his […]

The stories about behind-the-scenes battles between university football programs are as wild as they are numerous. Money exchanged and sex engaged usually accompany the rumors that fly around high school football studs. Most are dismissed as propaganda spread by the university that lost out on the recruit. But after a story in The New York […]

You don’t have $400 to buy nosebleed seats from a ticket broker for Thursday’s BCS Championship Game? For about 20 clams, you can watch Oklahoma play Florida in 3D thanks to a live broadcast presented by the 3ality Digital company. Where, you might ask? Central Oklahoma football fans will have to travel northeast to Stillwater […]

One month after getting the unceremonious boot as Thunder head honcho, P.J. Carlesimo recently commented on his 13-game regular season tenure in Oklahoma City. The coach got the old heave-ho in the midst of a home-and-away series with the New Orleans Hornets on Nov. 21. (Remember them?) Carlesimo kept his family in Seattle during his […]

The drums are echoing tonight about Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Tulsa, according to a recent story in The Oklahoman. Inhofe’s various trips Africa totaled $187,000, according to the story. The senator visited the continent on the average of twice a year ” making at least 20 trips ” since 1999, all on taxpayer-financed trips. The […]

Beverly Wallace is known around her rural neighborhood as the “Bat Whisperer.” At her home between Sapulpa and Glenpool, Wallace dedicates her time to feeding, rehabilitating and generally caring for her nocturnal mammal friends, according to a recent article in the World. Her home even acts as the staging ground for a nonprofit sanctuary, licensed […]

Just in time for the annual holiday credit card statements, another little prize will be showing up in Bartlesville mailboxes. The B’Ville council reportedly announced that utility customers were undercharged from December 2007 through March 2008 and it’s now time to correct that error. The city apparently uses separate systems to tally summer and winter […]