The Oklahoma City and Putnam City public school districts announced that both would be suspending extracurricular programs due to heightened spread of COVID-19 infections, and, as has come to be expected in 2020, the adults lost their minds. Predictably, social media and local news immediately exploded with the typical choruses of, “Get them back to […]
football
Posted inNews
Chicken-Fried News: Talkin’ trash
The historically heated rivalry between Texas and Oklahoma football teams began fuming early at this year’s Red River Showdown, requiring officials to intervene and call unsportstmanlike conduct penalties on both sides a half hour before kickoff. Associated Press (AP) reporter Schuyler Dixon wrote that a few players “got too close and started jawing at each […]
Posted inNews
Chicken-Fried News: Murray bills
There comes a time in every young man’s life when he faces a familiar choice: become a millionaire first-round baseball prospect or play quarterback for one of college football’s most storied programs. Oh, we neglected to mention that by “every young man,” what we really mean is, “pretty much only Kyler Murray.” Earlier this month, […]
Posted inNews
Chicken-Fried News: Picking winners
Seven months ago, Baker Mayfield was brazenly planting a University of Oklahoma (OU) flag onto the Ohio State University football field, making himself an enemy of the Buckeye State. Now the OU Heisman Trophy winner is returning to Ohio as Cleveland’s next great hope. Mayfield was drafted No. 1 overall by the Cleveland Browns in […]
Posted inNews
Cover Story: Chicken-Fried News predictions for 2018
CFN looks back on 2017 and makes predictions about what Okies will get up to in 2018.
Posted inNews
Chicken-Fried News: Amen’s game
A coach-led prayer at a high school football team has a First Amendment group in protest.
Posted inArts & Culture
Oklahoma hasn’t missed a beat under Lincoln Riley, 34, the youngest coach in the country.
Oklahoma hasn’t missed a beat under Lincoln Riley, 34, the youngest coach in the country.
Posted inMusic
Tulsa singer-songwriter Dan Martin brings his one-man set to Norman
Martin turned his focus to songwriting after a short career in football.
Posted inNews
“If we aren’t willing to confront that we have suffering right under our noses, we are doing a huge disservice to our fellow citizens,” Mélon said.
“If we aren’t willing to confront that we have suffering right under our noses, we are doing a huge disservice to our fellow citizens,” Mélon said.
Posted inArts & Culture
Packer Land merges the worlds of crafts, fine art and football
Artist Michael Litzau grew up as a Green Bay Packers fan in Wisconsin.