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April 24, 2009
On April 14, 2009, BERNARD TURNER, originally of Sparrows Point, MD passed away in Oklahoma City, OK after a long illness. Survived by wife, Cheryl, three step-children, five grandchildren, aunts, uncles, cousins and friends. Services will be held in Oklahoma City, OK on April 24, 2009.
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By From Sun news services | December 9, 2008
Dwyane Wade scored 41 points, 10 in the final 8 1/2 minutes, to help the Miami Heat rally in the fourth quarter and beat the visiting Charlotte Bobcats, 100-96, last night. Mario Chalmers scored 15 and Shawn Marion added 13 points for the Heat (12-9), which extended its winning streak to four - its longest in nearly two years. Jason Richardson scored 24 for Charlotte (7-14) but missed two free throws that would have tied the game with 32.3 seconds remaining. Emeka Okafor added 19 points and 12 rebounds for the Bobcats, who lost to Miami for only the second time in the teams' past eight meetings.
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By From Sun news services | November 13, 2008
This was, remember, Game 6 of 82, an early step in a long journey. Yet there was Caron Butler, near center court, animatedly pulling off his jersey and waving it at the final horn, celebrating a victory as though it truly meant a lot to him. Moments earlier, as Butler and fellow All-Star Antawn Jamison were combining for 20 fourth-quarter points, there were their Washington Wizards teammates, up out of their sideline seats, hopping and high-fiving as...
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By FROM SUN NEWS SERVICES | November 3, 2008
Radcliffe runs down NYC Marathon title No. 3 running Paula Radcliffe defended her title at the New York City Marathon yesterday to become the second woman to win the race three times. Marilson Gomes dos Santos of Brazil won the men's race for the second time in three years, passing Abderrahim Goumri of Morocco with about a mile left. Unlike Radcliffe's tight victories in 2004 and 2007, the world-record holder from Great Britain pulled away from Ludmila Petrova in the 22nd mile to win comfortably in 2 hours, 23 minutes, 56 seconds.
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By DAVID STEELE | July 6, 2008
The two news items from early and late Wednesday weren't exactly related, but they were more than coincidental. In the morning: a front-page story in The Sun about how The Relic on Howard Street (aka 1st Mariner Arena) still makes a decent profit. At night: a settlement that allows the NBA's SuperSonics to move from Seattle to Oklahoma City. Two items, both bad news for Baltimore. At least for those of us here who feel the NBA void, now at 35 years and counting. Or who, if nothing else, wonder whether we'll ever see a halfway-decent arena of any size here in our lifetime.
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By Kathleen Parker | February 14, 2008
OKLAHOMA CITY -- If anyone still doubts the correlation between obese America and our fast-food culture, consider Oklahoma City, where the mayor has asked residents to join him on a diet. The city best known to many Americans as the site of Timothy McVeigh's horrific act of terrorism in 1995 is also the fast-food axis of the nation and the eighth-fattest, with an obesity rate of 25 percent. Mayor Mick Cornett is hoping to change that. On New Year's Eve, he challenged citizens to lose 1 million pounds and launched an interactive Web site where people can sign on and track their weight loss (thiscityisgoingonadiet.
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By Joy Tipping | December 23, 2007
ARCADIA, Okla. -- You can see the big, glowing thing from a couple of miles away on historic Route 66, and as you approach from the east, you wonder what it is: A rocket ship at an amusement park? Surely not out here in the middle of nowhere. A giant, glowing Q-tip, like they used to have at the Johnson & Johnson factories? Nope, wrong shape. You get closer, and it becomes clear. It's an enormous soda bottle, 66 feet tall (in homage to Route 66), complete with a straw. When the bottle is lighted at night, it changes colors, morphing from soft grape to lemon yellow to cherry red. If ever there was an instance of advertising matching substance, this is it. The store behind the bottle, Pops, which opened in August, sells nearly 500 kinds of soda pop, along with soda-fountain-type food, shakes, souvenirs and gasoline.
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By Jamison Hensley | November 19, 2006
Brian Billick's endless attempts to reconnect with his players over the years have taken him from the Las Vegas strip to an IHOP restaurant in Oklahoma City. Yet it wasn't until three weeks ago in a cramped, dingy locker room in New Orleans that Billick truly felt he bonded with his team again. Falcons@Ravens Today, 1 p.m., Ch. 45, 1090 AM, 97.9 FM Line: Ravens by 4
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By Michael Hill | September 10, 2006
It started within hours, maybe minutes, of the time that the two planes hit the World Trade Center, the feeling among ordinary Americans that something must be done: Blood must be donated, food must be collected, money must be given. Within days it was clear that there were not enough injured to need all the blood, and that donated food was rotting in New York firehouses. But the impetus continued unabated. There were all sorts of offers, from free bicycles to free college tuition for all children who lost a parent, no matter if these were children of wealth or poverty.
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July 19, 2006
Good morning --Seattle SuperSonics -- If you move to Oklahoma City, please change the name. Having the Utah Jazz is bad enough.