Although baseball is still referred to as “America’s pastime,” the metrics surrounding the game’s star power are reaching crisis levels. Last year, ESPN released its ranking of the 100 most popular athletes in the world, and it did not include a single baseball player. (Russell Westbrook checked in at No. 34.) The proverbial “hot stove” […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Mayor Mayfield
With LeBron James off in Los Angeles, where he’s trying to mold a cast of cartoon characters on a new team and starring in Space Jam 2, the city of Cleveland was looking for a new unofficial mayor. Sure, Corey Kluber and Francisco Lindor are leading the Cleveland Indians back to the Major League Baseball […]
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Letters to the Editor: Nov. 15, 2017
How many? After the December 14, 2012 Newtown, Connecticut, tragedy in which 20 precious children and six brave teachers were murdered by a 20-year-old carrying a high-powered rifle and two handguns, I wrote a letter to the editor of our local newspaper. I wrote that the time was right for common-sense measures such as reinstating […]
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Gameday Couture makes a splash outside Shark Tank
Gameday Couture offers feminine, team-spirit fashion choices.
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Concussion misses its mark
Though Concussion touches on a topic that still makes headlines, it leaves out important parts of the story to focus on its lead star.
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Tulsa native hopes to break new ground as NFL agent
Nicole Lynn says she could be the first African-American woman to represent a player on an active NFL roster.
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Chicken-Fried News: Profitable repentance
Coburn’s famous Waste Book might have had something to do with the NFL finally dropping its nonprofit status.
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Chicken-Fried News: Defensive advice
According to Tennessee Titans center Gabe Ikard, OU coach Bob Stoops has been giving players good advice about domestic violence for years.
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Chicken-Fried News: Welker doesn’t even know Molly
Remember when Wes Welker was handing out $100 bills at the Kentucky Derby a few months back and you were thinking to yourself, “How messed up was this guy?”
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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. […]