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With less than 15 minutes before kickoff, the visiting Baylor crowd does not fill their parcel of seats “? there’s maybe 25 or 30 rows — and it appears the empty ones should be the rest of the band”¦ The football team and cheerleaders out number the fans who traveled from Waco”¦ After gaining a […]

Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry announced today an in initiative to bring National Guard troops back to the state for the Christmas holidays.   Called “Operation Holiday Homecoming,” Henry joined military and veterans affairs leaders to make the announcement and encourage Oklahomans to donate to the American Legion of Oklahoma fund. The funds would enable 45th […]

At 9:16 a.m. Oklahoma time on Nov. 16, 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt signed the proclamation that declared Oklahoma a state of the union. What may not be so well-known is that Roosevelt signed the proclamation while wincing in mental anguish over doing so. According to historians, Roosevelt had trepidation over the state’s constitution when it […]

Even before Oklahoma officially became a state on Nov. 16, 1907, teams from the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University were battling it out for gridiron supremacy. In fact, the first-ever meeting between the then-fledgling rivals occurred on the banks of Cottonwood Creek, near the state’s original capital city of Guthrie, on Nov. 5, […]

To try and curb the overcrowding prison population in Oklahoma, a proposal has been put on the table to provide more bed space. State Sen. Richard Lerblance, D-Hartshorne, said he will introduce legislation which, if funded, would add more than 3,800 beds to the state’s prison system.   “If we have laws which increase time […]

Nov. 6, 2006, was just another day for the tattoo artists at Oklahoma City’s Mystical Illusions. Five days after Senate Bill 806 made Oklahoma the final state in the country to legalize tattooing within its borders, Jody Benner and his team of tattooists prepared to open their doors as the first licensed tattoo studio in […]

DENVER ” I could get used to this World Series champions stuff. It’s seriously cool. Used to be, I began each spring with renewed optimism, maintained high hopes through the dog days of summer and eventually got some sort of reality check about mid-September. That’s usually about the time my Boston Red Sox went into […]

Steve Davis gets it. In this sports-crazed world, where fans pay outrageous ticket prices and line up around the block to get a close-up glimpse of their favorite players ” the bottom line is not lost on the former University of Oklahoma quarterback. “The fans are important. Without them, college athletics and professional sports would, […]

Ever since reports surfaced that the Oklahoma Ethics Commission has engaged in an investigation of Republican Party campaign contributions during the 2004 election, Oklahoma Speaker of the House Lance Cargill and House Republican leadership have come under fire from inside and outside of the party. Tension came to the forefront at the House Republican caucus […]