When NBC’s extreme obstacle course competition American Ninja Warrior returns to film at the state Capitol in April, may we suggest that the show’s producers consider upping the difficulty by requiring competitors to complete a site-specific challenge? Rather than merely having them run across a spinning log or scale the infamous warped wall, why not […]
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Chicken-Fried News: U.S. exports
Announcing his campaign for president in 2015, Donald Trump declared, “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. … They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.” Accepting the dubious logic that countries are responsible for “sending” immigrants, this still begs the question of whom, exactly, […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Stoops stands
We figure most University of Oklahoma fans are more than happy since Lincoln Riley took over for Bob Stoops. After all, Riley has successfully groomed consecutive Heisman Trophy winners and made Norman the place to be for highly sought-after graduate transfer Jalen Hurts. Riley has fulfilled mid-tenure Stoops’ legacy of appearing in (and losing) big […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Local noose
A Lawton news station is grappling with some controversy, and surprisingly enough, it has nothing to do with claims of “fake news.” KSWO 7 meteorologist Mandy Bailey was playing a brainteaser the station calls Mind Mixer, a game in which their talent draws a puzzle for people to solve. Bailey wrote the word “There” with […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Home to roost
The old political promise of “a chicken in every pot” seems more tenable when you consider the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations estimates the world’s chicken population is about 22.8 billion, or roughly three chickens for every human being on the planet. According to some concerned residents, far too many of those […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Courtroom infestation
Bedbugs are notoriously hard to eliminate when an infestation becomes apparent. They can live for more than a year without food, during which time they can reproduce more than four generations of new pests. In order to clear an infestation, you have to kill every bedbug; that’s why most people just move or take out […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Bus(ted) fleet
Oklahoma City Public Schools faces quite a number of challenges. There are teacher shortages, big class sizes, outdated facilities, upcoming school closures — Chicken-Fried News could keep going, but we would be here all week. As if there were not enough challenges to overcome, the district also has an ongoing issue with buses. Since 2003, […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Triggered
A Tulsa man is giving Glocks to the homeless. Don’t worry; it’s not what you think. Ray Neal — or as he’s known across social media, BiggestRayRay — isn’t actually giving away guns. By his own admission, giving firearms away to people is “likely a bad idea.” Instead, he created a grassroots movement called Glocks […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Running dead
It wasn’t bad enough that Facebook influenced the 2016 election by prioritizing hoax conspiracy news over fact-checking articles; a Facebook group is trying to influence the Edmond mayoral race by advocating the election of elected mayor Charles Lamb, who died in early December. Lamb passed away at age 72 a week after declaring his re-election […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Sleep tight
NBA players’ ghost stories about The Skirvin Hilton Oklahoma City, 1 Park Ave., are the basis of a recently announced movie starring Boston Celtic Kyrie Irving and produced by Imagine Entertainment. The hotel, opened in 1911, has been the setting for several disturbing stories in the past century. Some stories, like the mysterious death of […]