Minus the multitude of people who participated in the program and caused it to run out of money in its first week, “Cash for Clunkers” is universally panned. For good reason, too–it’s easy to say “Cash for Clunkers” in a derisively sarcastic manner.
Honestly, I have yet to [...]
On Tuesday, the NBA released the 2009/10 schedule and answered many of the questions we have been asking.
When does J.J. Redick come to town?
This is the most pressing question to every true NBA fan in Oklahoma City. When will former Duke star and the guy who [...]
It’s hard to believe that it has been sixteen years since one of my boyhood idols, former OSU great Robin Ventura, decided to charge the mound to fight one of my other boyhood idols, Nolan Ryan, and got his ass kicked by an old man.
Happy Anniversary, I guess.
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Last week, the story that will not go away jumped back into the headlines. With news that the names of two high-profile sluggers who had failed “confidential” drug testing performed by Major League Baseball were leaked to the press, the term steroids was again a front page story.
For [...]
This should be the time of the year where I take a break from writing about Thunder basketball. The operative word there is “should.” In the past couple of weeks, though, there has been more news about the team than comes about even during the [...]
Last night, some cast members of TNT’s hit show Saving Grace took questions from fans. The chat was very boring. The show’s star, Oscar winner Holly Hunter, didn’t answer too many questions. She basically sat and watched while the rest of the cast talked.
Overall, this [...]
Remember that high school sweetheart you had? The girl who taught you that you could love and you never wanted to be apart from. Then, you got accepted to different colleges and broke up the Summer before freshman year on amicable terms because you both knew that the [...]
Meet Robert Peterson. Peterson is the chief of police in the town of Maysville, OK who was recently arrested for domestic violence complaint in Purcell. This was the second time since 2007 that Police Chief Peterson has been charged with domestic abuse against the same [...]
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Back when I graduated from college and was rediculously angry about the Bush/Gore election, I was an extremely angry liberal who tried to paint all conservatives as fire breathing morons. While many of our more conservative readers probably can’t tell, I’ve mellowed a [...]
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Back when I graduated from college and was rediculously angry about the Bush/Gore election, I was an extremely angry liberal who tried to paint all conservatives as fire breathing morons. While many of our more conservative readers probably can’t tell, I’ve mellowed a [...]
Perhaps she’s still gun shy in the aftermath of Gundygate — or maybe she really is just a terrible journalist —but Jenni Carlson’s recent profile of OU’s new tennis coach left out some important information. The information regarded boogers.
When John Roddick powered [...]
Nevada senator John Ensign has had a tough time recently. When first running for the office of U.S. Senator in the wake of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, then Representative Ensign had this to say when calling for Bill Clinton to resign:
I came to that conclusion recently, [...]
(Editors note: Ladies, don’t say I never did anything for you.)
To put this in terms that Oklahomans can understand, this portion of the Summer is the NBA’s version of “recruiting season.” The NBA Draft was a couple of weeks ago, free agency just officially began, and teams [...]
When the Supersonics fired their former general manager, Rick Sund, I remember being very excited about the prospect of SamPresti being the guy in charge of basketball operations when the team moved here. The guy, who graduated high school only one year before I did, was a [...]
Eight years ago this month, my wife and I, fresh out of college, naively chose to spend our lives in holy matrimony. Little did we know that heterosexual marriage was rapidly becoming a thing of the past.
It started when Governor Howard Dean of Vermont signed the nation’s first [...]
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(As I have done the past three years–see here, here, and here–tonight I will let you have a peek into my basketball obsessive mind as I watch the NBA Draft. Before you go to the comments section to point [...]
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Does anyone remember the McCain Brothers? I don’t, because I never watched “Good Morning Oklahoma” on 5-Alive. However, running across this mash up of promos done for the show has been the highlight of my morning. It’s a virtual who’s who of posthumous [...]
This may come as a surprise to you, but I love basketball. And even back when I hated the NBA, I still watched the NBA draft religiously. Now that the league has improved and we have a local interest, my obsession has only increased.
The sad thing is [...]
Last week, I posted information about a casting call by MTV’s The Real World, that included Oklahoma City in its list of recruiting sites. Thanks to an observant reader, I have learned there’s a chance that my heading for that article might have been less tongue-in-cheek than [...]
Last week, Patrick chose a song to commemorate his vacation. This week, I selected this one in honor of mine. I thought about asking you to guess where I’m headed, but to head off the “Habana Inn” jokes, I’m just going to tell [...]
For the past few weeks, the discussion for the Thunder has been almost entirely related to the NBA Draft. I plan to take a break from that this week except to briefly discuss UConn giant Hasheem Thabeet.
I have made it no secret that the Thunder drafting him [...]
Some time around 1996, Saturday Night Live did a spoof of MTV’s The Real World in which two of the house residents were from Oklahoma. Mike Myers played a bumpkin dressed in cowboy attire from Tulsa while David Spade was a cowboy clad bumpkin from Oklahoma City. Norm McDonald [...]
Barring any trades, the Thunder have two picks in the June 25th draft. The first, slotted at #3, has already been discussed on this website, and since then, depending on who you believe the options have been narrowed to:
Ricky Rubio (6′4″ PG, DKV Joventut-Spain)
James Harden [...]
Barring any trades, the Thunder have two picks in the June 25th draft. The first, slotted at #3, has already been discussed on this website, and since then, depending on who you believe the options have been narrowed to:
Ricky Rubio (6′4″ PG, DKV Joventut-Spain)
James Harden [...]
I feel awful for Blake Griffin. If you looked at the fourteen teams that had the opportunity to win the lottery and tried to pick the worst scenario for the Sooner superstar, 99% of fans would have selected the Clippers winning (the other [...]
Before I get started, this mock draft makes me giddy.
I have a confession to make, I didn’t watch the lottery broadcast. My softball team had a game at 8:00 and it takes a commute to get to the fields, so I found out about all the [...]
Remember J.C. Watts?
He was a U.S. representative for our state, the token black guy in the Republican party (before Michael Steele), and back in the day he was the quarterback for the University of Oklahoma. After only two terms past his original term limit promise, J.C. walked [...]
According to various internet sources, KWTV 9 sports director Dean Blevins is reporting there is an 11.9 percent chance that the Oklahoma City Thunder will win tonight’s NBA draft lottery. This is down from early season estimates that ranged from 15.2 to 25 percent.
Blevins also reported that [...]
Last night was the two hour season five finale of Lost, a show with a fervent cult following. I am a member of that cult. So, I was sweating when I tuned into what, I assume, was supposed to be a clip show to [...]
In less than a week, the Thunder will know their fate for this year’s draft. The results of the NBA’s draft lottery will be unveiled on May 19th, but in the meantime, the focus will be on who the team sends to represent it on the made [...]
My son has a fetish.
If something is the color yellow, he wants it. Be it a yellow ball in the vending machine at Golden Corral, the yellow crayon they bring him with his kid’s meal at Poblano Grill, or the lemon flavored candy in his [...]
My name is Clark Matthews, and I am addicted to the Lifetime Movie Network.
It feels good to get that off my chest. The obsession began the way all addictions begin. I experimented once thinking I could quit whenever I wanted.
One evening while watching manly UFC highlights on Spike TV, [...]
In one of the comments to our initial announcement of Mommy Blog Week, a request was made for pointers on raising a newborn. Since Patrick’s advice could be boiled down to three words, “Don’t do it,” I figured I should probably take on the task. So below, [...]
From Mean Girls:
Karen: I’m kinda psychic. I have a fifth sense.
Cady: What do you mean?
Karen: It’s like I have ESPN or something. My breasts can always tell when it’s going to rain.
Cady: Really? That’s amazing.
Karen: Well… they can tell when it’s raining
My son [...]
(edit: The following article was written by the lovely Mrs. Matthews.)
So I have a confession to make: I came to the “Lost” party really late (as in, refused to watch the pilot episode until Thanksgiving of 2008 out of principle
What principle? I couldn’t really tell you now, [...]
If the ClarkPupp has one going for him, it’s a healthy ego. Back when he was still small enough to carry in to restaurants in his car seat, he already knew the effect he had on the ladies. Anytime we ate out, he would look around until [...]
My kid is great. He’s rediculously funny, gets his looks from his mom, and can be very sweet. The overriding feature of him right now, though, is that he is two. Basically everything you can read and everything you are told by experts (meaning parents of older [...]
Mrs. Matthews is, quite possibly, the pickiest eater since Mikey from the Life cereal commercials. She’s not even very excited by sweets. If need be, she could live on a diet of Cheerios and pizza. As you can probably reason from this, food is hardly important [...]
My son has recently become very concerned about distance. It all started with an episode of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. Goofy or Donald or one of the other Disney characters were playing with Pluto’s bouncy ball and managed to bounce it so high that it landed on the [...]
The slate of Thunder games in Oklahoma City is over and now the city gets to experience its first off-season with long term consequences. Back when I was the “HornetsCentral GM”, I wrote about the off season in which the Hornets drafted Hildric Simstrong, signed [...]
At the age of 15, Gary England (center) forged his birth certificate and joined the Navy in hopes of seeing the world and learning about meteorology. During basic training, his unique abilities were discovered and a cunning admiral introduced him to Rip (left) and Curly (right) in [...]
Governor Henry has until 11:59PM Wednesday night to decide whether to veto House Bill 1326. While scientists all over the state, as well as the Chamber of Commerce for both of the cities in the state that count, have been advocating that he do just that, [...]
The first season of Thunder basketball is a wrap and it would be a mistake to label it as anything other than a success. Sure, the 23-59 record was tough to watch unfolding, but people did. In an economic situation that witnessed something like 75% of the [...]
With only five games remaining in the season, the Thunder have hit a new stage. Not the wins and losses have mattered much since the 1-13 start basically ended any hope of the team competing for the playoffs, but after a long and trying year, these last weeks will feature [...]
President Pro Tempore of the Oklahoma Senate Glenn Coffee lives exactly 13 miles from the State Capitol building where he does the work he was elected to handle. Thanks to such close proximity, Coffee gets to sleep in his own bed when the legislature is in session, [...]
WARNING: Do not watch the video above unless you have a strong stomach.
I am an amateur General Manager. Normally, when I make a half-baked roster suggestion, I have no hope that it will ever occur. When I suggested on a message board last [...]
This is the final installment of Cashapalooza. For those of you hoping this is an April Fools’ prank, sadly it is not. For the rest of you who are glad to see this feature end, we’ll have a new installment of ideas for spending the Federal Stimulus money [...]
Recently, I read Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs (which I highly recommend) and there was a passage in the book where Chuck Klosterman assails the concept of probability:
Life is chock-full of lies, but the biggest lie is math. That’s particularly clear in the discipline of probability, a field [...]
The stimulus bill that awarded Oklahoma $2.5 billion in federal money was passed over a month ago, and to date, it seems like all the money we’ve received has gone for things like health care. While helping sick, indigent people is a worthy cause, let’s face it, it’s boring. [...]
A little over a week ago, we started a series about what Oklahoma could do with the $2.5 billion headed this way after the passing of the stimulus bill. Due to an incredibly busy week of Ogle-worthy stories and the ongoing Ogle Madness II, this series was [...]
For anyone who missed it, Saturday Night Live recently incorporated Senator Tom Coburn (played by Will Forte) into a skit involving The Rock as Barack Obama. I don’t want to spoil the ending for you, but let’s just say it was as if SNL took my fantasy and acted it out.
Enjoy [...]
You want to know the difference between liberals and conservatives? When George W. Bush was elected President, liberals threatened to move to Canada. Now that Barack Obama has been elected, conservatives are threatening to go all Chuck Norris on the federal government. Who’s leading the charge? Chuck [...]
Before the trade deadline, most Oklahomans knew only that Switzerland produces good chocolate, helpful pocketknives, secretive banks, and hot blondes. Little did we know that the country could also provide difference making basketball players.
An afterthought dealt by the Bulls after their “blockbuster” trade which [...]
As people who rarely pay attention to what goes on at the Capitol, we have been shocked recently. While we elect representatives and senators to tackle important issue, what they really seem to spend their time doing is making toothless resolutions condemning evolution theorists, or [...]
“The Ewing Theory” is an idea created by an ESPN columnist-who-shall-not-be-named. CWSNBN noticed that the New York Knicks relied heavily on their star center Patrick Ewing for years with little success attached to this philosophy. Then, when Ewing went down with an injury, the team [...]
Thanks to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 that was finally passed by congress a couple of weeks ago, our state is on the verge of receiving approximately $2.5 billion in federal money. Because we are such good guys here at TheLostOgle.com, we came up [...]
This might surprise some people, but I attend a weekly bible study on Monday nights. Two weeks ago, the study involved us reading a couple of chapters from Leviticus which, for those who are un-churched, is filled with the laws of the Ancient Jewish society. Among the [...]
On Tuesday, the New York Knicks and their former star point guard finally ended their standoff and agreed to a buyout of Stephon Marbury’s contract. Since training camp, the Knicks have payed Marbury, who also answers to the nickname “Starbury”, approximately $20MM this season. In return for this [...]
On Saturday afternoon, the world was right for all the Sooner fans who recognize the existence of the OU basketball team. After UConn, the number one team in the nation lost earlier in the week, followed by North Carolina, the number three team in the nation being upset earlier [...]
So, the trading deadline has come and gone. The Thunder, who possess the contracts of five players with expiring contracts, during an economic climate in which teams were desperate to get their hands on expiring contracts, were only able to pull off two deals–neither of which used those [...]
First it was deja’vu one way, then another.
When the Hornets were in town, there was a trade near the deadline of the first season in which the Hornets were going to acquire a shot blocking center, Steven Hunter, from the Philadelphia 76ers for draft picks. The deal [...]
On the plus side, the first view you’re seeing of the Thunder’s new mascot “Rumble the Bison” on this website is after the unveil. For that, Clay Bennett’s management team deserves some kudos that they did not earn in trying to keep [...]
So, Russell Westbrook failed to make the cut for the dunk contest. Sure, maybe Earl Watson and his 27.8% success rate from downtown wasn’t called on to participate in the 3 point competition. And Kevin Durant was snubbed as an all-star reserve. [...]
Yesterday, when I wrote 800 words on why Travis Ford’s verbal abuse of Obi Muonelo had lost him the respect of his team, I had it wrong. Now, I think he saw this kid in the stand and was calling him a “f***ing idiot.”
Here’s a pointer. [...]
(I apologize in advance for duplicating the subject matter that Patrick posted on earlier today, but since I had most of it written yesterday, I didn’t want to let it go to waste.)
As some of you may have heard, Oklahoma State’s new basketball coach has a [...]
Tornadoes in February? What are you doing visiting this site? You should be paying attention to Lord Gary.
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