Don’t Screen Football Media and Fans from the Game

Don’t Screen Football Media and Fans from the Game

Photo by Glen Carrie on Unsplash Could my concern about the Brave New and Bad World being foisted off on the sporting media and their voracious publics have been ahead of the curve? That would be a first. This past November I mentioned, tangentially, in a post—Access?...
When a Hometown Boy ‘Goes’ Home as an Old Author

When a Hometown Boy ‘Goes’ Home as an Old Author

Photo Courtesy of Sherry Wilson Using a safe and approved mode in a pandemic period of the 21st Century, I Zoomed back to Nowata, Oklahoma, this week to discuss with Nowata High School junior and senior English students a book they could understand immediately and...
Unidentified Rubber Worker is Not Unknown to Akron

Unidentified Rubber Worker is Not Unknown to Akron

Photo from Akron Stories website Though perhaps a reach, when they unveiled the Rubber Worker Statue in downtown Akron, I kept thinking a word was missing. I’ve thought this for the more than 20 years, since the University of Akron Press published Wheels of Fortune:...

Assessing Browns Schedule is Like a Rorschach Test

After the Browns received high marks for their offseason transactional work—as high as A+—the league schedule-makers put a shot across Cleveland’s bow. Take heed: The Super Bowl may not be as close as it appears through rose-colored Browns glasses. Right there on the...

Haslams Had to Change Before the Browns Could Rise

With the Cleveland triumvirate of General Manager Andrew Berry, Chief Strategy Officer Paul DePodesta, and Coach Kevin Stefanski rightfully receiving kudos for the quality of the Browns 2020 turnaround and subsequent free-agency and draft build up from there, it’s...
Missing BFF Bucky Buck and His Mama Bonnie Lee

Missing BFF Bucky Buck and His Mama Bonnie Lee

Bucky Buck and His Mother Bonnie Lee Thaxton, Together in Prayerful Contemplation May can be an unkind month, one when the tiny flowers that dot Oklahoma’s prairies die too soon. Osage writer John Joseph Mathews once suggested that their fallen petals looked as if the...