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*Kevin Durant got in trouble with his grandmama after she heard him swearing on the basketball court during the Oklahoma City Thunder game Monday night. She scolded him via text message, telling him that people watching can see and hear him. “Kev kev stop cussing so much they be showing u when u do,” the [...]
*Today is the 17th anniversary of a heart wrenching tragedy that claimed the lives of 168 people, including 19 children. The devastating event is remembered today and every year on April 19th with a memorial service at the site where it all took place. The bombing of the Oklahoma City Alfred P. Murrah Federal building [...]
*While the NBA is on strike it looks like the players are having a hard time staying out of trouble. Memphis Grizzlies forward Zach Randolph (pictured) is in a situation after police searched his Oregon home to investigate the alleged assault of a drug dealer. The victim told police he came to the home of [...]
*As far as the Western Conference finals of the NBA, it’s a done deal. The aging, but experienced Dallas Mavericks defeated the young, athletic not as experienced Oklahoma City Thunder Wednesday night 100-96 to advance to the Finals. The Mavs will most likely play the Miami Heat which has a 3 games to 1 lead [...]
*Number 41 for Dallas, Dirk Nowitzki, scored 40 points, Jason Kidd hit the go-ahead 3-pointer with 40 seconds left in overtime and the Mavericks rallied from a 15-point deficit in the final 5 minutes of regulation to stun the Oklahoma City Thunder 112-105 on Monday night and take a 3-1 lead in the Western Conference [...]
*Saturday night in Oklahoma City, Dirk Nowitzki didn’t play the hero role like he did in game one, but the Dallas Mavericks still built a huge early lead before hanging on for a 93-87 victory over the Thunder in Game 3 of the NBA Western Conference finals. The Mavericks, who tied with the Miami Heat [...]
OKC outlasts Memphis in Triple Overtime *Trading comebacks and clutch shots, the Oklahoma City Thunder and Memphis Grizzlies looked as if they might play all night. In the end, though, Kevin Durant and the Thunder refused to let another overtime playoff game slip away and now the series is tied 2-2. Durant scored six of [...]
Wade and Heat Beat Celtics 99-90 *Dwyane Wade scored 38 points on 14 of 21 shooting, James Jones set a Miami postseason record with 25 points off the bench, and the Heat beat the Celtics 99-90 on Sunday to open their Eastern Conference semifinal series. “It’s a big game. It’s Game 1, at home,” Wade [...]
*The Valentine’s Day Dance dominated everything. It was all the entire seventh grade talked about. The banners along the hallways of Oklahoma City’s F.D. Moon Jr. High told the tale: school administrators decreed that for the first time, to the collective chagrin of eight and ninth graders, the annual dance could be attended by us [...]
*I was fascinated with Santa’s sleigh. With four mechanical reindeer “pulling” it, the thing looked like a parade Float, though this inquisitive six year-old suspected that under all that customized design was a flatbed truck equipped with a driver. The sleigh held about twenty people, who sat out in the brisk December air in [...]
*”She’s here,” Joel said on a crisp and sunny fall Saturday morning while sliding from behind the wheel of his grandmother’s brand new 1966 Dodge Dart. “She got here late last night. Y’all can see her this evening if y’all still want to.” Of course, we wanted to see her. Andre and I agreed that [...]
*It all started about noon, as our plane pushed away from the passenger dock at Denver International, en route to Oklahoma City. That’s when I noticed that the man in the aisle seat across from me and one row back seemed to be paying an inordinate amount of attention to me. It wasn’t obvious. [...]
*May 2007, Friday, noon in the hellish humidity of downtown Oklahoma City. In my hometown from Los Angeles for a funeral the day before, I am strolling an area of restaurants and bars called Bricktown when I spot her coming my way. Forty-something, about 5’7 and cinnamon hued, she is in a business suit, tastefully [...]
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