Oklahoma Scene

Blake Griffin with the clutch Kim Kardashian joke on her wedding day

Blake Griffin 1, Kim Kardashian 0.

Gov. Mary Fallin declined $54 million in healthcare aid

I think she got this one right.

Under pressure from conservatives, the Republican governor declined a $54 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in April, two months after she had initially accepted the money to help the state set up an exchange mandated under Mr. Obama’s signature health care law. The action, she said at the time, would allow the state to bypass a federal exchange while setting up a network governed chiefly by the private sector.

It was hard to reject such a large sum of money, Mrs. Fallin said in an interview this week with editors and reporters at The Washington Times. But the former congresswoman who became her state’s first female chief executive in January, said she was deeply skeptical that the administration would grant the promised flexibility in setting up exchanges.

“You just told us you want us to have some leeway to develop innovative systems, but yet you’re tying our hands,” she said, recounting an early meeting with administration officials on implementing the new law. “In the end, they’re going to have specific things we have to meet.”

But it isn’t like we don’t need the funds.

In the midst of a lockou, Oklahoma City Thunder has released it’s preseason schedule

Optimistic much?

The Thunder announced Thursday that they will face New Orleans on Oct. 17 in Wichita and Denver on Oct. 21 in Tulsa as part of a 7-game preseason schedule. The only two preseason games played in Oklahoma City will be Oct. 14 against Charlotte and Oct. 27 against San Antonio.

The Thunder are also scheduled to visit Utah in their preseason opener Oct. 12, defending champion Dallas on Oct. 16 and Phoenix on Oct. 25.

Everyone who knows anything about this lockout has said it could last much longer than the NFL lockout.

Former Oklahoma State basketball coach Sean Sutton has had his record expunged

Don’t lie to me, and tell me you saw this coming.

The drug case against former Oklahoma State basketball coach Sean Sutton has been dismissed by a judge and his record has been expunged.

Sutton’s attorney, Trace Morgan, confirmed Friday that Payne County Associate District Judge Stephen Kistler had granted Sutton’s motion to speed up his deferred sentence.

Admit it: You’re just as surprised as I am.

God Bless Ozzy Osbourne in Oklahoma City

Yep, you read the headline correctly.

That’s the title of a new documentary about hard-rock legend Ozzy Osbourne, formerly lead singer vocalist of Black Sabbath, more recently an MTV laughingstock. For three years, Ozzy was followed by directors Mike Fleiss and Mike Piscitelli to capture his life story. The only thing more remarkable that his career has lasted so many decades is that he’s still alive. Hopefully, the doc will detail all of that.
Narrated by Ozzy’s son, Jack, who also co-produced the film, “God Bless” also features interviews with Paul McCartney, Tommy Lee, Sharon Osbourne and more.

Anyway, Oklahoma City has exactly one chance to see this on the big screen: 7:30 p.m. Monday at AMC Quail Springs Mall 24. For more information and tickets, visit FathomEvents.com.

14 school sites were closed in Tulsa

Old news, and not good news, but relevant news all the same.

“We had over 300 teachers displaced in different buildings as part of project schoolhouse. so the convocation was an opportunity to give them a jumpstart,” Millard House, Deputy Superintendent, said.

The district closed 14 school sites, shuffled students and teachers, and re-drew district boundary lines at the end of last school year.