Sooners football coach Bob Stoops is having a rough time, but he isn’t worried.
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Metro Briefs: The Eastern Flyer rail line to finally connect OKC, Tulsa
A privately operated passenger rail line between the Tulsa and Oklahoma City metros will begin in the spring, and OKC city officials have expressed a desire to see the train reach downtown.
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Outrage easier to evoke on sports than other school issues
The Douglass High School playoff controversy shows it can be easier to draw attention to inequality on the football field than in the classroom.
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Chicken-Fried News: Boomer! Macarooner!
This year’s OU football team has wheels, and we’re not talking about speed. In an unprecedentedly trendy maneuver, the OU athletics department has employed a food truck — you know, a restaurant for hipsters — to serve its athletes with choice cuisine. The new dining option comes as a result of a new NCAA rule […]
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Women’s football league tryouts are Sunday
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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Kings of leon sing about Okie ties
In a recent feature on the making of “Last Mile Home,” the band’s contribution to the film, the Grammy-winning alt-rockers detailed the song’s inspiration. “We’ve been offered movies that they’ve spent $300 million to make. We’ve said no to it, just because we had no connection to the movie,” bassist Jared Followill told The Huffington […]
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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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Ready for some blonde football?
Underwood, born and raised in Checotah, is the new crooner on Sundays for NBC’s NFL football. You know the tune. The catchy bit just before the muscled-up men hit the field. Ball tune notables include legend Hank Williams Jr., who sang the Monday Night Football theme song for years. Also, Pink tried her vocals for […]