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Dokken says he continues to be inspired by loyal fans, including a sizable number of U.S. military personnel. At a recent show in Oklahoma, Dokken spotted a U.S. Marine in the front row. "This guy was standing right down in the front row in full Marine uniform and he stuck out because he was in full Marine uniform, so I grabbed him and had him brought backstage. He said 'I just got back from Iraq. I just got back. I survived it and I wanted to see Dokken...
...latest firestorm in college football was sparked two weeks ago, when Oklahoma State head coach Mike Gundy unexpectedly utilized his post-game press conference following an impressive win by the Cowboys over Texas Tech to go ballistic on local sports columnist Jenni Carlson. Carlson had penned a column in The Oklahoman suggesting that recently demoted OSU quarterback Bobby Reid had failed to demonstrate enough toughness—citing an observed incident of Reid being fed chicken by his mother as an off-the-field parallel—as a signal-caller before his benching. In the Gundy?...
...among us who hasn’t, at one point or another, longed for the sights, sounds and 60,000 fan-filled stadiums of big-time college football. Hell, driving back from the Harvard-Lehigh football game on Saturday night, the radio announcement of my hometown Colorado Buffaloes upsetting Oklahoma made me realize just how much I was missing while tucked away in the New England obscurity that is Division I-AA, non-postseason eligible football...
...last Wednesday trying to stop the federal government from building bike paths. He wanted to redirect the $12 million allotted for them to shoring up U.S. bridges following the collapse of a highway bridge in Minneapolis that killed 13 people. The amendment failed 80-18. Undeterred, Coburn, an Oklahoma Republican, immediately introduced his second amendment of the day: a motion to suspend all earmarks - or pet projects often attached in secret to funding bills - until structural integrity of all U.S. bridges can be verified. There were $2 billion in earmarks in the bill, which, if passed, will fund the Transportation...
...licensing exam?" To improve their odds, IUON nursing students attend classes in St. Kitts for three semesters but finish their clinical studies at one of six partner schools in the U.S. Ross pays these cash-strapped schools tuition plus an undisclosed fee. Dr. James Utterback, president of Oklahoma's Seminole State College, was one of Ross's first partners. "We benefit from the extra funds and added diversity on our campus," Utterback says. Seminole doesn't have enough teachers to enroll IUON'S students fully, but it can accommodate a few for a semester's worth of instruction...