By SCOTT CHERRY Restaurant Critic on Apr 30, 2012, at 12:05 PM Updated on 4/30 at 12:05 PM
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Two highly anticipated restaurant openings are getting closer.
McNellie’s South City, 7031 S. Zurich Ave., could open ...
All wines at Romano’s Macaroni Grill, 6603 S. Memorial Drive, will be half price throughout the remainder of the summer.
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I was doing some spring cleaning over the weekend, going through some old boxes in the closet, and I ran across the Tulsa World's preseason football tabloid for 1973.
The tabloid usually ran 70-plus pages and covered all of college football, with particular emphasis, of course, on TU, OU, OSU and Arkansas.
I was a young sports writer then, and I wrote about 95 percent of the tabloid for six years. When a new coach was hired, I always wrote a full-page feature on him, and in 1973 I had three -- F.A. Dry at TU, Barry Switzer at OU and Jim Stanley at OSU.
Anyway, I was glancing through the articles and in Switzer's this statement jumped out at me: "Switzer was hired in February. The Board of Regents approved a four-year contract at $24,000 a year."
I'm sure there were perks, but still, $24,000 a year? Imagine what the remainder of the staff was paid. Imagine what they are thinking when they see coaching salaries today.
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