Tulsa World Sports Writer Mike Brown's athletic claim to fame is a game-winning, two-run single in the championship game of the 12-and-under city playoffs. Brown graduated from OU in 1975. The Sooner football team was 47-9-1 during his five years in Norman. Brown joined the Tulsa World in 1979. Since then, he's covered high school and collegiate sports. He also covered the Tulsa Talons of the Arena Football League team.
Tulsa World Sports Writer Barry Lewis joined the newspaper in September 1993. A University of Tulsa graduate, he covered high school sports for the Tulsa Tribune from 1983 to 1992 and has been in charge of the World's high school coverage since 2004. He remembers well the excitement of attending his first high school football game, Edison at Booker T. Washington, before a capacity crowd at S.E. Williams Stadium in 1973. He also has reported on Tulsa Drillers baseball at both newspapers for more than 20 years.
