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OKC Lightning women’s football team racking up impressive record
Like the Oklahoma City Dolls three decades ago, the Oklahoma City Lightning gives local women the opportunity to play football. Having appeared in two world championships and earning a 38-6 record in its six-year history, The Lightning kicks off its next season April 21 against Dallas. “Oklahoma loves a winner. You keep winning, eventually you […]
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Mid-week giveaway means another Hornet overtime game
Another mid-week game at the Ford Center with Desmond Mason giveaways, overtime and injuries. Fortunately, the Hornets again won their overtime game which keeps them in the playoff hunt, beating the Los Angeles Clippers 103-100. After last week’s injury fest, the casualty rolling on the floor was the referee, Jess Kersey who was sent […]
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Former OU, NFL player traded football for ministry
Willie Franklin was thrilled with the opportunity to play football at the University of Oklahoma and for the Baltimore Colts in the Seventies, but something was still missing from his life. “I found myself hungry to learn about the Bible and Christianity,” explained Franklin, who became a Christian at age 23. When Franklin returned to […]
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Oklahoma Spring Game features psychedelic grass
The ESPN commentators estimated more than 40,000 Sooner football fans showed up to watch the team play the Spring Game at Owen Field. With the out-of-season cold snap, fans were wearing the same winter-weather gear as the team’s Big XII Conference Championship game. (That was the last game of the season, right?) The biggest development […]
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Hornets beat Sonics, ho-hum
When the entertainment highlight of a professional basketball game is the announcers showing off a Desmond Mason bobblehead or the sideline reporters’ third-quarter interview with a beekeeper, the on-court action must not be very exciting. But with the team playing to stay in the playoff chase, Wednesday’s Ford Center game should have been riveting. Hornets starters […]
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OKC 1955 high school football game paved way for integrated schools
On Nov. 3, 1955, with a crowd of more than 8,000, Douglass faced off against Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City’s first integrated high school sporting event. The long-awaited matchup served to bridge the chasm that had widened due to segregation laws that were a product of the time. Black athletes had made substantial strides on […]
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Five stages of voter grief
If the 2006 election cycle has proven anything, it is that Oklahoma voters are sick and tired of the status quo and that they are tired of the wicked nature of political attack ads. So much so, it appears as though the electorate has begun to recognize that the experiment in self-government we call democracy […]
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Doctors not fleeing Oklahoma, stats show
One of the reasons given for so-called “tort reform” is the claim doctors are heading out of Oklahoma because of skyrocketing insurance costs due to frivolous lawsuits. However, few numbers show evidence of this mass exodus. Some reports show just the opposite. MORE DOCTORS According to the Oklahoma State Board of Medical Licensure & Supervision, […]