Open tryouts will be Sunday at Soccer City, 4520 Old Farm Road. Registration begins 7 a.m., with tryouts immediately after. Fee is $25 per person. Must be age 18 or older. The league is based in San Antonio, Texas, and now has 11 teams in three states: Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma. For more information, […]
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Sports hall inductees announced
Inductees include political icon and OU quarterback J.C. Watts, rodeo champ Roy Cooper, Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett and All-American footballer Leslie Claudis O’Neal, with posthumous inductions of four-time basketball All-Star Darrell Porter and Amateur Athletic Union basketballer and Olympic coach Gerald Tucker. “This year’s inductees are respected citizens and athletes; a remarkable group of […]
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Sweet and salty
In the Thunder’s loss to the Trail Blazers on Dec. 4 (a game in which he had 33 points, seven rebounds, one steal and two blocks), Durant experienced, as he almost certainly does each night, the wrath of the Portland faithful. Usually, the gentle giant takes it all in stride, but some dope in the […]
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Most Fabulous Protest
Fans of the arts — and of the biblical parody — say a conservative Christian group is targeting the play and threatening to have the producers and actors arrested on opening night. “This is a tongue-in-cheek look at ‘Adam and Steve’ in the Garden of Eden,” said J.D. Bergner, a concerned member of the theater […]
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Buddy system
During an American Hockey League meeting in which teams shared ideas and best practices, Stacie Rathbun, sales support coordinator for the Barons, learned about San Antonio Rampage’s similar project at a local childrens’ treatment center. “It was just like, we have to do this,” said Rathbun. The Barons and Rathbun (who championed the project) felt […]
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Kickin’ it
It was an eye-opening experience. “After you saw all these athletic facilities and the shape that a lot of these fields were in, it was just very bothersome, knowing that it was happening in our city.” McLaughlin spoke with Keith Sinor, the athletic director for the Oklahoma City Public Schools, who was on that trip. […]
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Oklahoma’s public defenders
I remember when public airwaves were made available for public good, to inform us about what was going on in the world, not to tell us what we were supposed to think about it. The celebrity culture of broadcasting has changed this, combing news and editorial comment (My Two Cents, et al.), along with the […]
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Killing the messenger
At the recent Cowboys’ home opener against Lamar University, an effigy of SI writer Thayer Evans — the primary reporter behind the five-part series — was hoisted outside the stadium. At this point, you’re probably thinking, “Oh, that’s cute. What, did they put him in a dress or something? Maybe some sort of compromising position?” […]
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Doubting Pokes
T. Boone Pickens OSU uber-booster T. Boone Pickens, who was not implicated, said he was “disappointed” in the magazine’s reporting, which details allegations of players and recruits receiving improper payments, academic misconduct, drug abuse and inappropriate sexual conduct between football recruits and members of OSU’s hostess program, Orange Pride. “Many of the sensational allegations go […]
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Big lessons, little packages
It’s also the home for Touchstone Youth Project, a local youth mentoring program that pairs underserved kids ages 8 to 18 with a mentor for the school year. Steven Charles, Touchstone’s executive director, said people often don’t realize it’s a mentoring program — although he admits he’s not crazy about the word mentor because he […]