By Sheridan on 9/27/2007 8:25 PM

If football is a sport of quick hits and flashy uniforms, baseball is the sport of slow shifts and tradition. What other sport features so many teams who still wear uniforms from the early 20th century, and they're not throwbacks? Part of the tradition is also in the voices that call the games. For most Oklahomans, that meant Jack Buck and the Cardinals on KMOX at night and to a lesser degree Eric Nadel and the Texas Rangers. For me, though, it's been Skip Caray and the Braves on TBS. S ... Read More »

By Sheridan on 9/12/2007 1:41 PM

We've been hearing and reading a lot about merit pay for teachers in Oklahoma. Sounds like a good idea, but isn't it a little ironic that in a self-determination, bootstraps state like Oklahoma, we want to blame teachers instead of parents for poor school performance? Who wants to bet that teachers in schools from hardscrabble areas will be feeling the wrath of performance evaluations, while teachers in high-income districts will be pulling down handsome merit-paychecks? I have an idea. ... Read More »

By Sheridan on 8/31/2007 8:27 PM

I'm stuck at my computer trying to listen to the Ike, Lawton game and the link is not connecting me to the game's stream. What gives? I understand Ike is working on a big upset, storming back from 14-0 to go to 24-14.

By Sheridan on 8/17/2007 3:59 PM

As we speak, rains from Tropical Depression Erin are targeting our area for the weekend, meaning a break (and probably a permanent break) in the 100 degree days. But that's not the main story. The big story is Hurricane Dean, that looks to be a Category 4 or 5 juggernaut that should skip through Yucatan into northern Mexico. Check out Frank Strait's Accuweather blog at Read More »