Credit: Brad Gregg When OSU linebacker Alex Elkins knocked the ball from Texas running back Joe Bergeron’s hands prior to Bergeron crossing the goal line, it looked as if the Cowboys had narrowly preserved a victory. Officials, however, signaled a touchdown. Replay failed to provide sufficient evidence to overturn the call. Things got weirder on […]
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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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Diamonds in the rough
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US” lang=”EN-US”> Adrian Fisher thought he’d rid himself of the football bug. Several years removed from a successful playing career at Langston University, the 31-year-old Fisher had a job and had long since given up the idea of returning to the gridiron. Then he ran into a couple of friends at a gym […]
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Smag 7: Super Bowl snacks
Dan McGuiness1003 S.W. 19th, Moore 703-3367 Satisfy everyone in the watch party with menu items from boiled shrimp to sausage and cheese trays. You can’t go wrong with the blackened chicken fingers with an extra crispy crust, which are dusted with a Cajun spice just before being cooked. Get $10 beer buckets while you enjoy […]
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No respect
While CFN can barely recall any details of the 21-0 affair (there was a basketball game between Grambling State and Alcorn State that was far more compelling), we’re pretty confident that OSU could’ve, y’know, at least, kicked a field goal against Alabama or something. Four voters saw fit to grant OSU — whose record is […]
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Bud light
Bud Wilkinson engineered a 47-game winning streak as the legendary football coach at the University of Oklahoma. Now, more than 50 years later, 47 of his personal letters to his son are bound together in Jay Wilkinson’s new book, “Dear Jay, Love Dad: Bud Wilkinson’s Letters to His Son.” Bud Wilkinson penned dozens of letters […]
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In the ’zona
No, it’s not a disaster of biblical proportions. It’s a New Year’s miracle. The BCS-bound Oklahoma State Cowboys and the Insight Bowl-relegated University of Oklahoma Sooners play just four days apart in Arizona suburbs, and on a holiday weekend, no less! With the sting of Bedlam behind us (I tip my cap in congratulations to […]
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‘Shock and applause’
Shock because she dared stare in the face of convention, and applause because the Gazette didn’t succumb to the masses and deny her position because it’s a guaranteed unpopular one. Moreover, I’m delighted it received front-page status. This position is one that I have shared for almost two decades, sans a short stretch where I […]
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‘Shock and applause’
Shock because she dared stare in the face of convention, and applause because the Gazette didn’t succumb to the masses and deny her position because it’s a guaranteed unpopular one. Moreover, I’m delighted it received front-page status. This position is one that I have shared for almost two decades, sans a short stretch where I […]