GEORGE W COVEY 1927-2003

Today would have been my father's 81st birthday. In 1986, I won tickets to the MLB All Star Game at the Astrodome in Houston TX. We went to the team hotel before the game and got lots of autographs, including Lefty Gomez. Here are photographs of Dad outside the Dome before the game and the roof of the Dome from the inside.

DANICA PATRICK

In recognition of Danica Patrick's first victory, here are photos of Danica and me at the IRL race at the Texas Motor Speedway in July 2007 and Danica's car after the race.

OSU BASKETBALL IN THE NEWS

It has been an interesting week to be a fan of the Oklahoma State University basketball team. First, on April 17, we got our new coach, Travis Ford. He played at Missouri for 1 year and then finished his playing career at Kentucky. He began his coaching career at Campbellsville University (NAIA), moved to Eastern Kentucky University and most recently has been at the University of Massachusetts. Here is a link to the official announcement at the okstate.com website:

http://www.okstate.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=1463&SPID=145&DB_OEM_ID=200&ATCLID=1441900

Then today, I was driving through Pawnee Oklahoma, the home of Keiton Page of the Oklahoma State Champion Pawnee Black Bears. Keiton has signed to play for OSU next year. As I drove by the high school gym, there was Keiton and his father/coach. I pulled over and Coach Page very graciously and enthusiastically spoke with Kelly and me for quite some time about his son's future at OSU playing for our new coach. Coach Page said that Coach Ford had talked to Keiton and was very encouraging regarding his future at OSU! Apparently, Coach Ford sees a lot of similarities between himself and Keiton. They are both small, played at small-town schools, were/are great shooters, got scholarships to big-time schools, met with a lot of scepticism as to whether they can play big-time basketball, but most importantly, they both made their teams better. It will be a lot of fun to watch our new coach and new recruit next season.

Coach Page told us that the school basketball team does not play at the high school gym, but rather at the Pawnee Nation fitness center, so we made the short drive there and took these photos.

Finally, we went to a really good place, "Pawnee Prints," and bought a couple of t-shirts of the state champion Black Bears basketball team.


To read my earlier entry about Keiton Page and see some interesting photos, videos and scans, go to my post for March 17, 2008, or click this link to the post. http://khcsportsphotos.blogspot.com/2008/03/keiton-page.html

OKC DOUGLASS HIGH SCHOOL

OKLAHOMA CITY'S "MAPS" PROJECTS HAVE BUILT OUR BRICKTOWN BALLPARK AND FORD CENTER (FUTURE HOME OF THE NBA'S SONICS?). MAPS HAS ALSO RENOVATED AND BUILT NEW HIGH SCHOOL BUILDINGS AND STADIUMS. PICTURED HERE ARE DOUGLASS HIGH SCHOOL'S OLD AND NEW MOSES F MILLER STADIUM.

2002 WINTER OLYMPICS TORCH RUN

BECAUSE THE "TORCH RUN" FOR THE 2008 SUMMER OLYMPICS IN CHINA HAS GOTTEN SO MUCH PUBLICITY, I HAVE POSTED PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE TORCH RUN FOR THE 2002 WINTER OLYMPICS IN SALT LAKE CITY, AS IT PASSED THROUGH OKLAHOMA CITY AT THE WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM/COWBOY HALL OF FAME. THE MAN ON THE HORSE IS DOUG SAUTER, COACH OF THE OKC BLAZERS HOCKEY TEAM.

EL RENO OK HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS SITES

I HAD A CASE IN EL RENO OKLAHOMA TODAY, SO I POSTED THESE PHOTOS I HAD PREVIOUSLY TAKEN OF THE EL RENO INDIANS FOOTBALL STADIUM, BASEBALL STADIUM AND BASKETBALL FIELDHOUSE.

EL RENO OKLAHOMA: http://www.elreno.org/default.asp

1st NCAA BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP

ON THE LEFT IS IS A POSTCARD OF PATTEN GYMNASIUM AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY IN EVANSTON ILLINOIS. THE GYM WAS TORN DOWN IN 1940. WIKIPEDIA STATES THAT THIS WAS THE HOME OF THE FIRST NCAA BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP IN 1939. OREGON BEAT OHIO STATE 46-33. ON THE RIGHT IS A PHOTO FROM WIKIPEDIA OF SAN ANTONIO'S ALAMODOME, HOME OF THE 2008 NCAA BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP.

LINK TO WIKIPEDIA: 1939 BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_NCAA_Men%27s_Division_I_Basketball_Tournament

SEAN SUTTON

ON APRIL 1, 2008, SEAN SUTTON "RESIGNED" AS HEAD BASKETBALL COACH AT OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY. COACH SEAN PLAYED AT OSU FOR HIS FATHER, EDDIE SUTTON, WAS AN ASSISTANT COACH AT OSU AND THEN WAS HEAD COACH FOR 2 YEARS. THESE ARE SOME PHOTOS I TOOK IN RECENT YEARS.

OSU'S OFFICIAL SITE: http://www.okstate.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=1463&SPID=145&DB_OEM_ID=200&ATCLID=1430759

NEWSOK.COM: http://newsok.com/article/3224045/1207150440

VIDEO OF PRESS CONFERENCE: http://www.newsok.tv/?titleID=1483902005