Tag: sports

  • OU Football zine

    Growing up in a football and OU obsessed town, I stubbornly avoided getting involved with and liking football.  I didn’t even apply to go to the University of Oklahoma, knowing I needed to get out of town for college.  For me, moving three blocks down the road for university, would be knowingly putting myself in…

  • Sneaking Out

    “You feel like you’re getting burned, but I promise, you’re not.  This plan is fool proof and I have done it before.”  Sam was trying to talk me into sneaking out of my house and meeting him for the biggest party of the school year – our senior year.  I was pretty sure – 99% sure –…

  • Running

    Running was the only sport I ever wanted to try.  I thought running would help get noticed, at least to a certain degree.  I had anxiety about starting conversations so I often thought if I could win at something, maybe people would want to talk to me; that they would want to get to know me.  Otherwise, I really didn’t…