Entries Tagged as ‘news and notes…’

June 21, 2010

To my dad – thank you. Always.

Father’s Day. For me a day to appreciate not only the dad that raised me, but also his indelible influence on not only my personality, character and morality but also my passion for sports. So when I began to think about what I could ‘give’ my dad on this Hallmark holiday, I came up with [...]

May 22, 2010

It’s a Twitterview! KDThunderUp – new name, same great q & a sessions

Kevin Durant – or the new @KDthunderup – might have changed his Twitter name, but definitely not his personality or style. Today while on a flight, Durant took the time to answer fan questions and here they are in a makeshift twitterview. These twitterviews – at least to me – show his personality, character and [...]

April 21, 2010

From Swish Appeal – Jene Morris: A social media mastermind in the making?

If you were ever walking around the streets of San Diego in the last year and ran across a 5’9″ basketball player and self-described “eccentric”, tweeting away on her Blackberry, stopping to snap a quick picture to add to her website while humming along to John Mayer, you just might have crossed the path of Jene [...]

April 6, 2010

From college to the pros – rooting allegiances

Yesterday, when the St. Louis Rams dropped quarterback Marc Bulger on his 33rd birthday (what a gift, front office), my first thoughts were about former Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford. After his stellar pro day and knowing the fact that the Rams having first pick in the 2010 NFL draft, it seems a virtual lock that this [...]

February 27, 2010

Thunder trounces Timberwolves, 109-92

The Oklahoma City Thunder played host to the Minnesota Timberwolves in the Ford Center, just less than a week since their last meeting. Last Sunday, the game between the two went down to the wire, with Oklahoma City pulling off a 109-107 road win. After their trip to Minnesota, OKC dropped their next two games [...]

February 15, 2010

Olympic overview – results to remember – Week 1

The 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games is officially underway after the first full weekend of competition has been etched in the books. Here you will find updates on the United States athletes’ performances as well as other stories from the Olympics that are noteworthy (or at least to me).   View the vancouver2010.com medals’ table Friday, February 19, 2010: [...]

February 13, 2010

OSU Cowgirls vs. Texas Tech Red Raiders – in-game coverage

Today in Gallagher-Iba Arena marks a meeting of two teams coming off of two vastly different games and outcomes. Oklahoma State is looking rebound from the home loss to Oklahoma last Saturday and Texas Tech is hoping to have built some momentum with their upset win over Texas A&M in Lubbock just three days ago. Starting [...]

February 8, 2010

Okie Blog Awards!

A couple weeks ago I begged for someone – anyone – to nominate me for an Okie Blog Award. I thought it would be fun to see my name at least be in the nominated blogs listing. Everyone needs a little validation now and again, and I am – admittedly so – no different in [...]

January 14, 2010

I am Twitterific! (at least I think so…)

Lamar Advertising Company of Oklahoma City (@LamarOKC) has begun what I think of as an ingenious campaign strategy to advertise both for themselves and for the Oklahoma City twitter community. Periodically throughout the day, the folks at Lamar will reproduce tweets that have been sent from their followers onto their large digital billboards located across the Oklahoma [...]

November 25, 2009

Orange Colored Glasses Vol. III – Denver vs. G-Men – a Turkey Day pigskin preview

The freelantz resident Bronco-lover and the author of Orange Colored Glasses, John Krischel ( @mtokBronco ) took off the big game week to recover from Denver’s loss to Washingon and to mentally prepare for what happened last week against San Diego. And now – he’s back and ready to tackle his Thanksgiving Day game thoughts. The wailing and gnashing [...]