Jenni Carlson

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Big 12 Football: Halloween Spectacular! October 31, 2012 | Comment on this article

Ran across a great bit on USA Today’s “Game On!” blog — babies dressed up for Halloween as college football coaches. Interestingly, there are several coaches who’ve inspired Halloween garb who are from the Big 12. And hey, these folks don’t even have any youngsters dressed up as Bob Stoops or Mike... Read More

OKC Thunder: Wanna see James Harden in a Rockets jersey?

October 29, 2012 Houston wasted no time in promoting its newest star. The above ad appears today not only on the Rockets’ website but also on the front page of the Houston Chronicle’s website. Someone in the Rockets’ promotion department did a nice job photoshopping that Rockets jersey on James, but the fine folks in... Read More

OU Football: Norman is all abuzz October 27, 2012 Had a chance to go on ESPN Radio’s late-night show with my friend Amy Lawrence. If you were in the Oklahoma City metro about a decade ago, you know that Amy worked in these parts, doing a show for KREF AM-1400 in Norman. Now, she mans — or should it be womans? — the overnight show for ESPN. I’m definitely... Read More

Power Lunch Chat with Jenni Carlson September 20, 2012 Power Lunch Chat with Jenni Carlson 2 Show / Hide Archive Comments The following comments are archived from the original publication of this post Buzz Candler, OU Alum on Oct 27, 2012 @ 2:38 pm Read More

OU Football: Talking Sooners and Wildcats September 19, 2012 I had a chance to go on WIBW-AM 580 in Topeka earlier this week to talk about Saturday’s showdown between Oklahoma and Kansas State. It’s always interesting to me to hear what questions media from other places have for us here. In talking with Jake Lebahn and Mark Elliott, the question that was most... Read More

OU Football: The Collin Klein Dilemma

September 17, 2012 I’m working on a column for tomorrow’s edition of The Oklahoman about Kansas State quarterback Collin Klein and the dilemma that he will pose to Oklahoma on Saturday. If you think he’s just a running quarterback, be sure to check it out. But until you get your paper in the morning or you’re able to read... Read More

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OU Football: Are the Sooners elite? September 11, 2012 I received lots of interesting feedback on my Sunday column about Oklahoma not playing like one of the country’s elite teams. When I wrote it, I figured it would generate conversation. You can hardly write anything about the Sooners without creating debate, but say they aren’t playing well? That’s sure to... Read More

Life of Riley: More wisdom from former Sooner September 10, 2012 Every Sunday, we do a feature called Collected Wisdom. We talk to sports personalities who we believe have some wisdom to share, then we share it with you. Because our state is so rich in interesting athletes, coaches and the like, we are never at a shortage for possible subjects. You could almost pull a name out... Read More

Inspiration still abounds with Matt Allen

September 05, 2012 A year ago this month, I had the honor of writing about Matt Allen. Perhaps you remember his story. The Edmond resident started battling brain cancer three years ago, and yet despite numerous surgeries and treatments and triumphs and setbacks, he continued to live his life to the fullest. That included being a... Read More

Thunder: A new kind of Thunder Madness

September 04, 2012 Check this out, Thunder fans. Reding Farm in Chickasha has taken the fall-corn-field-maze to a new level. They’ve done a Thunder themed maze this year complete with the team’s logo and mascot, Rumble. (I have to admit, I had to look at Rumble for a minute to figure out who it was. For a second, the... Read More

Power Lunch Chat with Jenni Carlson August 31, 2012 Power Lunch Chat with Jenni Carlson 1 Show / Hide Archive Comments The following comments are archived from the original publication of this post Nick on Sep 04, 2012 @ 3:26 pm Read More

MLB: Oklahoman living his baseball dream

August 31, 2012 Kyle Thompson has been living in a cave for more than five months. The MLB Fan Cave, that is. Last winter, I first wrote about the Edmond resident and his quest to be one of the fans invited to inhabit Major League Baseball’s immersive fan experience. The Fan Cave is a modified space in New York City that’s... Read More

Celebrating a Deserving Pioneer in OKC August 30, 2012 You might recognize the name Kent Meyers. He’s a longtime Oklahoma resident, an attorney at Crowe & Dunlevy and one of the hosts the local TV show “The Verdict”. But 60 years ago, he was a batboy for the Oklahoma City Indians. This factoid came up because former Indian pitcher Bill Greason... Read More

High Schools: A Familiar Name Continues to Make a Name for Herself August 29, 2012 If you pay attention to our high school sports coverage at all, the name Elyse Hight is a familiar one. (And if you don’t pay attention to it, what’s wrong with you? Yeesh … ) Hight’s name is familiar because we’ve written all sorts of stories about her in the past few years. That’s because, well,... Read More

OSU Football: Who would want to be a college football scheduler? August 28, 2012 I’ve added a job to the list of gigs that I never want to have. College football scheduler. I had that realization last week when I talked with Dave Martin about why Oklahoma State scheduled Savannah State. He is the athletic department employee charged with setting up the Cowboys’ non-conference football... Read More

OSU Football: More Savannah State candor August 27, 2012 I had a chance to chat with Savannah State football coach Steve Davenport last week. We talked about the Tigers’ game this week at Oklahoma State, and if you saw some of his comments in Monday’s paper, you know that the coach didn’t pull any punches. He was honest. Brutally honest. His program has been... Read More

Augusta National: Cause for celebration? August 21, 2012 The Augusta National Golf Club has invited two women to be members. Finally. The home of The Masters has long been derided for hosting one of golf’s most prestigious tournaments but for shutting women out of its membership. That changed Monday when the club extended membership to former U.S. Secretary of... Read More

OU football: Is compliance fun? It is on Twitter August 21, 2012 There are plenty of Oklahoma football players on Twitter. But they aren’t the only ones related to the program using the social networking site. OU’s compliance office has a Twitter account (@OUCompliance), and even though what the folks there do is serious business, they have some fun on Twitter. Football... Read More

Thunder: Even putting shirts on chairs is a big deal

June 09, 2012 Kelli Dupuy sent out the all-call at 9:54 a.m. The director of marketing and development for Sunbeam Family Services needed volunteers to help place shirts on the chairs at The Peake before Game 1 and 2 of the NBA Finals. The Thunder and her group work together on all sorts of different projects, so when... Read More

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