Shakedown (Breakdown, Takedown?)

Remember that nutty Housnitch woman, who managed (with Dem Congressman Chris Bell’s help) to con the Bill White campaign out of $5,000 earlier in the mayoral campaign?

Well, according to city council runoff candidate Ronald Green, she tried to shake a $2,500 “consulting” fee out of his campaign, and then posted some negative information on her little scandal sheet when he refused to play:

With city elections little more than a week away, Ronald Green is

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Happy Thanksgiving

Gobble Gobble

Here’s wishing a Happy Thanksgiving to all of you faithful readers.

It’s been a nice lazy week in OK so far of visiting with family and friends, and poking around in the country (including a visit to the bison herd north of town), and eating foods that would horrify Dr. Atkins, and overdoing the sports news consumption (you blog readers couldn’t tell, could you?) and such.

And now, I’m going to unplug from the

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The TCU Horned Whiny Babies

Now that Southern Miss ended TCU’s cinderella season, the Horned Frogs have turned into a bunch of whiny crybabies:

TCU was unable to land a spot in the Bowl Championship Series. Now it appears the Horned Frogs may turn down the next best thing.

The school is planning to decline an expected invitation to the GMAC Bowl because of academic considerations, athletic director Eric Hyman told The Washington Post on Wednesday night.

TCU had its sights sets on a

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Sloan The Grump

Jerry Sloan is his same cheery self:

When the Rockets signed Scott Padgett, coach Jeff Van Gundy said that in addition to the skills Padgett would bring, the Rockets specifically valued Padgett’s four seasons playing for Jerry Sloan.

“What I liked most was he had been in a situation where he had been coached tremendously and tremendously hard both in college with coach (Rick) Pitino and in Utah with Jerry Sloan,” Van Gundy said. “So you were getting a

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