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The Thunder bounced back well enough with a 55-27 regular season and a 3rd seed in the West, but they were behind the 67-15 Spurs and the record-setting 73-9 Warriors, the defending NBA Champions. The path to the championship would go through the both of those great teams. After dispatching the Mavericks in five games, it would be the Spurs up next, and the Thunder was up to the task by winning in six games and sending Tim Duncan into retirement after 19 stellar seasons, ...

The 2007 NBA draft was judged to be a two-man draft by most basketball experts. The Portland Trailblazers had the top pick and the choice was stark: Ohio State’s 7-foot Center Greg Oden or Texas’s 6’10” Forward Kevin Durant. Oden, a powerful post player, led the Buckeyes to the NCAA Championship Game along with Mike Conley Jr. in his only season where they lost to Florida; Durant, a long and lanky pure scorer with unlimited range, was the consensus National Player of the Year in his lone season. ...

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Tuesday, June 8
Championship Series Game 1
This Series marks the first time in CWS history that both finalists came out of the Elimination Bracket, Both teams had to play a total of six games each just to make it this far, which was a positive for Oklahoma because they had a chance to warm their bats up, and by this time, the Bash Sisters and their bats were red hot. Florida State continue to show the moxie that they displayed all tournament long.
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The Oklahoma City Zoo is located only 2.5 miles from my childhood home. It was one of the top zoos in the nation, but it was surrounded by little else; only the little-know Softball Hall of Fame Museum and a main “stadium” surrounded by adjoining softball fields. I had been by there a few times before graduating from high school, but I never gave it a second thought. As a young adult I spent a few summers playing softball with a few games at the complex, where they had ...

As I have stated before, I was born and raised on the (North) East side of Oklahoma City. It was middle class, relatively crime-free and pretty much all Black, with very few exceptions. In the mid-1970s, there wasn’t much to do in Oklahoma City in general as far as tourism but especially on the East Side, but as a teenager, what did I care? There were plenty of fun things to keep an active and curious mind occupied on a daily basis. I knew of other places through reading or television, but I never ...