Death of the Zombie Sonics

Started on December 10; finished on December 12. Sorry to have been absent in my blogging duties since late August. I’ve got my reasons. I fully intend to complete the 100 Years of Oklahoma Presidential Elections but that project has proven rather time intensive...

NBA Lockout Resolved But Thunder Goes Back To Seattle?

The Seattle ThunderSonics? With the good news that the NBA owners’ lockout of the players has been resolved, a couple of Canadian guys, J.E. Skeets and Tas Melas, were in Oklahoma City to interview locals about the news that, as part of the deal, the Thunder...

What A Great Thunder Team — What Great Thunder Fans

After midnight, around 1:00 a.m., Thursday, May 26, 2011 … … with credit and much thanks to Exodus195 for the above great video after the team returned to Oklahoma City following their/our loss to Dallas in game 5 of the Western Conference Finals on May...

OKC Thunder: Is 2010-2011 the Year of the Perfect Storm?

Well, here we are, Oklahoma City, mid-March 2011, as we approach the end of the 3rd season of the Oklahoma City Thunder. And what a year it’s been. When I made the March 8 projections shown below the Thunder were 39-23 and had 20 regular season games left to...

Still Running 121 Years After The Run

Exactly 121 years earlier, on April 22, 1889, a lot of running was going on as trains and wagons and horses furiously carried our ancestors to an empty place on the plains near a meandering stream called the North Canadian. By April 22, 2010, the stream had been...