Fields & Futures’ annual Bowtie Ball benefits school athletics programs in Oklahoma City.
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Local students face changes on first day of school year after budget cuts
Students go back to school and face cuts to academics, fine arts and athletics programs.
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Chicken-Fried News: Letting go
District officials agree that selling Capitol Hill High School’s Redskins athletic gear to raise money is a great idea.
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The Olympic spirit?
Credit: Brad Gregg Granted, the city up the turnpike would be the smallest to host the ancient games in the modern era. Its BOK Center and new baseball stadium are certainly nifty, but the infrastructure and hotel accommodations seem mighty limited for an international event as huge as the Summer Olympics. But, hey, Tulsa […]
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Outlaw attitude
By day, Oklahoma City bail bondsman Tom Trepagnier is responsible for making sure local outlaws follow the rules. On the weekends, he lets them run free. Trepagnier, who owns Trep’s 2Blondes Bail Bonds, has invested his time and money into the minor-league football franchise Oklahoma City Bounty Hunters. “Football has always been a love,” he […]
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Missing the point
Oklahoma City Public Schools, specifically inner-city high schools, will never be able to compete against schools in Edmond, Moore, Norman, Mid-Del and others because the most important product — a quality education — is perceived as subpar by the residents in those districts. Take, for example, the John Marshall effect. The boundaries that include John […]
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Friday night frustration
In 2010, U.S. Grant lost to Del City 49-0, a trouncing that OKC school officials say could have been averted under a new proposal. Credit: Mark Hancock The 19-year-old University of Central Oklahoma football walk-on told coaches that if they wanted him off the team, they’d have to cut him — he would not quit […]
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Death of a Sooner
Burleson said Box just smiled at the joke. “I am hurting,” Box told him. Burleson, a self-described “friend of the family,” relayed the anecdote at Box’s memorial service May 27 at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Enid, where he serves as senior pastor. “I know that some of you have heard or read about his prescription […]