Timothy McVeigh was a white nationalist, Turner Diaries-reading terrorist. He used a Ryder truck full of ammonium nitrate to kill 168 men, women and children on April 19, 1995, at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. As we approach the 24th anniversary of this massacre of our neighbors, friends and family, […]
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Family matters
If Steven Adams can be neatly distilled into just five seconds, then it would absolutely start at the 5:47 mark in the fourth quarter of an Oklahoma City Thunder home game against the Toronto Raptors on December 27, 2017. Coming off a pick and roll, Russell Westbrook passed to the hard-charging, seven-foot Kiwi wrecking machine […]
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Chicken-Fried News: New Where-land?
Oklahoma City Thunder basketball star Steven Adams appeared on ESPN’s The Jump and talked about food and New Zealand.
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Chicken-Fried News: Mustache fever
OKC Thunder players Steven Adams, Nick Collison and Andre Roberson recently visited Auckland, New Zealand, to hold a basketball camp and brought some interesting T-shirts.
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Chicken-Fried News: Mural mania
New Zealand artist Graham Hoete painted a huge mural of fellow Kiwi and OKC Thunder player Steven Adams in Film Row.
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The Devil’s Rock
The structure is “The Devil’s Rock” of this New Zealand fantasy’s title. Inside, they meet a representative of their Nazi enemy, Col. Meyer (Matthew Sunderland) who warns them of the shrieking woman’s voice they hear. Halfway into the film, when we finally see why: She’s hot! See, the imprisoned woman looks just like Capt. Grogan’s […]
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The other white
Instead, a region of New Zealand called Marlborough has lent its name to a style of Sauvignon Blanc that focuses on grapefruit. Baskets of grapefruit. Freshly squeezed grapefruit juice. Over-the-top-acidic grapefruit. “Marlborough became synonymous with a style of Sauvignon Blanc that accentuated a single component of the varietal,” said Chris Alton, Kobrand ambassador to New […]