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With figurative egg sliding down his face, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft tried to explain why he let All-Pro wide receiver Wes Welker get away. That was unusual since the Patriots rarely offer any rationale for their decisions.

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Kids love Clifford the Big Red Dog. Otherwise, how else would Norman Bridwell’s character of books and cartoons have survived long enough to celebrate a 50th anniversary?

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Continental Resources CEO Harold Hamm should be happy he’s worth so much money: $11.3 billion, according to Forbes. But with great wealth comes the potential for great, big, costly divorces.

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Kids will be kids, as they say, but even the most adorable youngsters eventually need to learn how to eat with utensils and function without pooping themselves. That seems to be the subtext behind the Obama administration’s admonition to Oklahoma regarding the notion that somehow the redder-than-red state won’t have to abide by that mean ol’ Affordable Care Act.

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Three Oklahomans might wind up caged in the wake of a nationwide undercover investigation of pigeon-racing (yes, pigeon-racing) by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

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In Miranda Lambert’s “Mama’s Broken Heart” video, the country star portrays someone ravaged by torment, who eventually dabbles in mind-altering substances, cuts her own hair and deviously inspects a kitchen knife. Basically, it’s about being crazy.

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The species is characterized by any number of traits: flannel shirts, ample beards, tattoos, the scent of freshly smoked clove cigarettes. They tend to gravitate toward hole-in-the-wall bars or trendy pizzerias, where they brandish obscure beers and discuss their love of indie bands, environmentalism and Ron Paul.

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What’s another session of the state Legislature without a bill centered on the sanctity of marriage? This time, it’s House Speaker T.W. Shannon, R-Lawton, who carries the matrimonial torch with House Bill 1908.

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Oil and gas execs in Oklahoma are having a rough patch (not oil) these last few weeks.

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The Internet flew into one of those Internet tizzies last week when a photo surfaced of Barry Switzer sporting a fur coat at the University of Oklahoma Sooners’ spring practice.

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For all of you perturbed by the dizzying number of languages you might encounter these days, fear not! Language-loving lawmakers have your back.

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Way back on Oct. 13, 2004, Oklahoma Gazette reported from the set of Sex Machine, a microbudget indie film shot in the Oklahoma City metro. Its director and co-writer, then local graphic designer Christopher Sharpe, had no visions of making anything other than a good time.

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In a Men’s Health rundown of 2013’s hottest celebrity couples, Oklahoma’s own Blake Shelton and wife Miranda Lambert nabbed the No. 7 spot on a list of 20.

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Aubrey McClendon, soon-to-be-outgoing CEO of Chesapeake Energy, is no longer one of the wealthiest people on the planet. Rest easy, however; he’s still very, very, very rich — just not in the billionaire stratosphere. At least that’s according to the latest Forbes list of human beings with the most moolah in the entire universe.

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The Flaming Lips’ new album, The Terror, arrives April 2.