Editor's Notebook

When OU’s 47-game football winning streak came to an end in 1957 with a loss to Notre Dame, Daily Oklahoman sports columnist Volney Meece penned this for his lead paragraph.

“I knew it had to happen but why in my lifetime?”

Pretty funny back then and it kind of fits for the 2025 softball season.

I knew Oklahoma couldn’t keep winning softball national championships back-to-back but at the same time I hoped.

Not to be this year.

All Gasso has done at OU since she arrived is win 1,565 softball games, coach 84 All-Americans, make 17 trips to the WCWS and win eight titles to become the GOAT coach of the sport.

Times were not that easy in the beginning when she had to literally pick up trash at Reaves Park prior to practice.

Now she plays in the Taj Mahal – Love’s Field.

OU wasn’t on the map for the west coast talent that went to UCLA, Washington or Arizona.

She’s changed all that and now OU is THE destination softball school.

She’s turned OU into one of the Blue Bloods of the sport.

Thanks, Patty.

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Tuesday afternoon when the first report of a fire at Mid-America Technology Center came through, I hoped for little damage and no one to be hurt.

Both were the case thankfully.

But my next thought was about the chamber of commerce banquet scheduled for Thursday night.

There was a report of considerable smoke and I thought Oh no what about the banquet.

Fortunately, the fire wasn’t close to the spanking new facility where the chamber officials will gather around 5:30 p.m. for the annual awards ceremony.

There were some adult training classes going on but there were no students in the building where the fire occurred.

That part of campus was evacuated to be on the safe side.