Back When . . . Cowboys Were Real, Good, and One of Us

With the July death of Shirley Webster, queen of the Webster ranch and Shoat Webster’s great love, perhaps the greatest of great steer ropers, Shoat once again loomed as large as life in the old mind of a little boy who had revered his very name. Shoat and his...

Don’t be Dangerous When It Comes to Others’ Lives

When Baker Mayfield woke up on the morning of November 11, 2018, “feeling real dangerous” during his first season as quarterback of the Cleveland Browns, it was a good thing. A very good thing. The resultant 28-16 victory over the Atlanta Falcons prompted Kevin Patra,...

Guardians: Words Matter in History of People or Person

Reaction to renaming the Cleveland Baseball Team the Guardians comes down to which side of history a person lands: the personal or something broader, more inclusive. Does your personal history with the team matter most? Or, are you more concerned about the history of...

UT President Jay Hartzell Comes from ‘Best-Man’ Stock

As the red dirt shakes and quakes beneath the Oklahoma heart of the Big 12 Conference, its tremors running from Norman to Austin, Texas, the college athletic universe, in particular football, awaits the playing out of what could be seismic change. An account first in...
Still a Soft Spot in My Heart for Clark Hardware

Still a Soft Spot in My Heart for Clark Hardware

Photo Courtesy of Juanita Clark   Richard Clark Hands Over Keys to the Lucky Winner of Two Cars A couple of blocks from the downtown hub of my life, the one that occupied my late afternoons in the 1950s—a newspaper, of course—stood a different sort of business...