Antoine Griezmann admitted Barcelona were "gutted" after crashing out of the Champions League on Wednesday, as a 1-1 draw at Paris Saint-Germain saw the Catalan giant lose 5-2 on aggregate.
GARYÂ â West Side seniors Paris and Parion Roberson are twins, but from their perspective, they couldn t be more different.
First off, they re fraternal twins, so it s not hard to distinguish one from the other. Paris stands 5-foot-11, while Parion is 6-3. When we were in middle school, people used to just think we were best friends. They didn t know we were twins, Parion said. And since I m taller, one of my friends actually thought I had flunked.
Parion couldn t help but laugh as he reflected on the incredulous looks some of his peers and teachers had when they discovered that he s not only related to Paris, but that they share the same birthday, Aug. 28, 2002.
Minnesota United coach Adrian Heath played 18 professional seasons in England and Europe. He starred for Everton's memorable teams in the 1980s that won an F.A. Cup at sold-out Wembley Stadium. But he never had the chance to do what his young midfielder Hassani Dotson might. Dotson is one of 20 players named Thursday by the U.S. Under-23 men's national team to play in Concacaf Olympic .
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Cleveland County Health Department employees bag up test kits at a COVID-19 mobile testing site at Griffin Community Park in April. Kyle Phillips / The Transcript
It was Valentineâs day of 2020 when Mike Potter, a local emergency response coordinator for the Cleveland County Health Department, approached his boss about beginning the preparation for the certainty that COVID-19 would eventually hit Oklahoma.
By that time, Oklahoma had yet to report a case of the novel coronavirus, but Potter was already on high alert. He approached Jackie Kanak, the regional director of the Cleveland County Health Department, on that Valentineâs day about the pandemic hitting the state.
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Before service in World War II, before being a Texas Longhorn, before being a New York Yankee (football) and a New York Giant â the first and legendary coach of the Dallas Cowboys, Tom Landry, flew planes all around our area as a part of his United States Army Air Forces training at then Eastern Oklahoma A&M College at Wilburton.
By the end of his sophomore college football season, still stuck on the jayvee squad, Landry was looking beyond Austin to uncertain horizons, which he would be able to see from above, in a cockpit of a Flying Fortress of his own. In February 1944, the call-up came and he found himself hopscotching the country from Wichita Falls to San Antonio, to receive escalating levels of training, then to Eastern Oklahoma State College for actual flight lessons.