Look for Sooner Schooner to ride westward
— Mike’s Blog–
United Airlines began direct service between Oklahoma City and San Francisco this week. When United announced this plan months ago, they said it was to provide a link between growing activities at the University of Oklahoma and similar activities in the Bay Area.
They were talking about the bio-science research at the OU Health Sciences Center and its connections with researchers in California.
Or so we thought at the time.
This week, two days after the first non-stop flight left OKC for SFO, OU President David Boren made public statements from which we can extrapolate that ties between the OU athletic department and similar activities on the Pacific Rim may be in the offing.
Greatest Sooner suffers stroke, condition serious
Lee Roy Selmon, who many consider the greatest Sooner to play football on Owen Field, has suffered a stroke and is hospitalized in serious condition at a Tampa, Florida hospital. A Tampa, Florida television station reported Selmon, 56, had died, but officials at his…