Rather than look at today’s version of a flu pandemic, which involves hundreds of cases at most, I wanted to find out what it was like to live during the influenza outbreak of 1918 when 50 million people around the world died. Toward that end, a visit to the National Archives produced a letter written [...]
Letter Reveals Much About 1918 Flu Pandemic
May 1st, 2009 · 6 Comments
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Report on Oil and Natural Gas Industry Misses Mark
April 13th, 2009 · No Comments
By Bob McCarty One might think an accomplished journalist like Armen Keteyian capable of providing objective coverage of the oil and gas industry. Unfortunately, the chief investigative reporter — and former sports reporter — appears to have allowed personal bias and/or professional ignorance to get in the way of the facts in his report that [...]
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Kansas Defeats Minnesota in Insight Bowl — Yawn
January 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment
The Big 12 North’s Kansas Jayhawks defeated the Big Ten’s Minnesota Golden Gophers, 42-21, late yesterday afternoon in the Insight Bowl in Tempe, Ariz. Because the game was aired on NFL Network, I didn’t watch it and will not give spend much time writing about the efforts of these two unranked teams. I will, however, [...]
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Bowl No Holiday as Cowboys Fall to Ducks, 42-31
December 31st, 2008 · No Comments
It appears I blew it when it came to predicting the outcomes of the Pacific Life Holiday Bowl played last night in San Diego. In my second annual college football bowl game predictions post, I had picked #13 Oklahoma State to defeat #17 Oregon, 29-20. Unfortunately, the Ducks had other plans for the Cowboys of [...]
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College Football Bowl Game Predictions Offered
December 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Due to the fact that there are seven — count ‘em, seven — Big 12 Conference teams involved in college football bowl games between Dec. 29 and Jan. 8, I decided to include all of their games as well as all of the BCS bowl games in my predictions this year which appear below: Monday, [...]
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Oklahoma State Preparing Offer to Bill Self?
April 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Wow, was I surprised to see this! I was watching ESPN at 11:25 p.m. Central after the Kansas Jayhawks defeated the Memphis Tigers to win the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship and saw an ESPN Bottom Line message crawl from right to left across the bottom of my television: “TULSA WORLD REPORTS OKLAHOMA STATE [...]
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Kansas Jayhawks Win NCAA Championship!
April 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment
The Kansas Jayhawks staged an incredible comeback and tied the game on a three-pointer by Mario Chalmers in regulation. During the next five minutes, they simply overpowered the Memphis Tigers to win 75-68 in overtime. The victory marks the first Division I title under head coach Bill Self. See also Oklahoma State Preparing Offer to [...]
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