Oklahoma’s tough-as-nails forward Leah Rush apparently is not a touchy, feely kind of girl. Just ask Baylor’s Jessica Morrow. Late in the Big 12 Conference tournament semifinal game with Oklahoma leading by nine, Rush and Morrow battled for a rebound and after Rush gained control of the ball, Morrow got handsy with Rush’s gets-checked-with-a-mammography part […]
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Oklahoma athletic legend’s widow sold burial rights to Pennsylvania town
When Oklahoman and American Indian sports hero Jim Thorpe passed away in 1953, the governor of Oklahoma refused to build him a $25,000 memorial. His remains are now in a distant Pennsylvania town renamed Jim Thorpe, Penn. ” a place he had never visited. When Hollywood’s Thorpe biopic starring Burt Lancaster came out, Thorpe […]
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Gore tells University of Oklahoma audience he is no longer in love with political process
Former Vice President Al Gore denied he’s running for president again, at a March appearance at the University of Oklahoma. Former Senate colleague David Boren, now OU president, said, “Well, I am going to get shot if I don’t ask this one question,” Boren said. “But “¦ do you think you might ever enter […]
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Belly dancing offers health benefits, makes OKC comeback
Though in her 60s, Soraya al Musri of Aalim Dance Academy Inc. in Oklahoma City hasn’t stopped belly dancing. “As long as a woman has got the dedication or desire to do this and put her heart and soul into it, she can be beautiful in her own way, because it comes from the […]
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Oklahoma legislators argue about illegal alien bill
Rep. Randy Terrill, R-Moore, said he was extremely happy with a vote that would withhold state health, welfare and educational services to those who could not prove their legal citizenship status. “I’m ecstatic,” he told reporters as they walked past him in the halls of the Oklahoma House of Representatives following the vote, ignoring […]
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Silencing the minority
Will Ralph Nader run for president if the Democrats don’t nominate the right candidate? Will we, the people of Oklahoma, be allowed to vote for Nader or any other third-party candidate in the next presidential election? Probably not. We didn’t get to vote for any third-party candidates in 2004. No Nader for us. […]
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Noted author has iPod-related auto mishap in Tulsa
New York Times best-selling novelist William Bernhardt found himself in a stranger-than-fiction scenario on his home turf of Tulsa recently. According to a Tulsa World report, the novelist of several legal thrillers was pulled over the morning of Feb. 23 by police after his vehicle hit the curb twice, and then twice more before finally […]
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Oklahoma Hall of Fame ignores Luper and Sequoyah
Only a few days remain to submit nominations for the 2007 Oklahoma Hall of Fame, sponsored by the Oklahoma Heritage Foundation. Last year, Oklahoma Gazette pointed out some omissions from the hall of fame including Woody Guthrie. The Okemah native was inducted back in November. There are still a few names yet to […]
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University of Oklahoma geophysicist doesn’t share Gore’s global warming views
Former Vice President Al Gore was at the University of Oklahoma in March to discuss global warming. And so was one of his sharpest critics. OU geophysicist David Deming is known for his criticism of the media over global warming. MEDIA FRENZY In a statement in December before the U.S. Senate Committee […]
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Male breast cancer changes life of University of Oklahoma professor
An estimated 1,690 American men were diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005. University of Oklahoma journalism professor Jack Willis was one of them. As faculty adviser for OU’s campus newspaper, Willis planned to work until he was 70. But cancer has a way of changing things. TERRIBLE TREATMENT “It’s one of those things […]