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Chicken-Fried News: Mummas beware

Gazette staffJuly 31, 2019August 18, 2023

It has been a turbulent offseason for Oklahoma City Thunder fans, but a man claiming to be from Virginia left a pair of unhinged voicemails on the team’s main answering service, threatening violence against members of the organization and that he might bomb the entire city — as if that doesn’t strike enough of a […]

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Chicken-Fried News: 2018 takeout

Gazette staff and Ingvard AshbyJanuary 4, 2019June 22, 2024

Fallin away The queen is dead; long live the king. Mary Fallin’s eight-year reign of terror over the state is over, and her successor Kevin Stitt is a political outsider who campaigned on his version of “drain the swamp” but has surrounded himself with insiders during his transition to the Governor’s Mansion. Oh, Gov. Fallin, […]

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Chicken-Fried News: ’Melo Jazz reprise

Gazette staffNovember 14, 2018June 21, 2024

Oklahoma City Thunder received an early visit from the Ghost of Christmas Past last week when Carmelo Anthony arrived in town for the rival Houston Rockets game, and it gave them a glimpse of how their present might be, if not for a shrewd offseason move by general manager Sam Presti. Oklahoma City fans gave […]

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Chicken-Fried News: Breaking the NBA bank

Gazette staffJuly 18, 2018August 16, 2023

Although it was only a select few in attendance for the July 1 party where Paul George announced that he was returning to Oklahoma City Thunder, most of the city might’ve said they were there to see George and Russell Westbrook smoke cigars and watch Nas perform. Gamble Thunder general manager Sam Presti’s trade for […]