By Bobby Ross Jr. My Top 10 bylines of 2013: 10. Oh, Brothers!: For Rockies pitcher with 0.28 ERA, there’s a higher calling. LOS ANGELES — Rex Brothers portrays himself as “just a normal dude.” Except that he’s standing in the visitors’ clubhouse at Dodger Stadium as he makes this claim — a few hours before pitching yet another scoreless inning for the Colorado … Continue reading 2013 in review: My Top 10 bylines of the year
By Bobby Ross Jr. My Top 10 bylines of 2012: 10. I’m going to Disney church! KISSIMMEE, Fla. — At a hotel a mile west of Walt Disney World’s main gate on U.S. Highway 192, aspiring princesses and little boys with Mickey Mouse ears fill up on scrambled eggs and cereal on a Sunday morning. In a banquet room next to the breakfast buffet, children … Continue reading 2012 in review: My Top 10 bylines of the year
By Bobby Ross Jr. My Top 10 bylines of 2011: 10. Funding on the decline for children’s homes across the nation. DUNCAN, S.C. – Southeastern Children’s Home cares for neglected and abused children on a 50-acre campus overlooking the Smoky Mountains. Boys row out in a boat to catch bass and bream in a spring-fed pond. A beekeeper teaches girls how to cultivate honey. The … Continue reading 2011 in review: My Top 10 bylines of the year
By Bobby Ross Jr. My Top 10 bylines of 2010: 10. Ohio church’s message: Families matter to God. CINCINNATI – Look around you Sunday morning. Is there a mom drowning in a sea of credit-card debt? A dad who can’t seem to quit clicking Internet porn? A teen dealing with a hangover or worried about a potential pregnancy? In the 21st century, the Christian family … Continue reading 2010 in review: My Top 10 bylines of the year
By Bobby Ross Jr., Dec. 31, 2009 Ten years ago, I spent the last night of the millennium on Y2K duty at The Oklahoman, Oklahoma City’s major metropolitan daily. For the next day’s front page, I wrote: As the planet Earth’s calendars rolled, hour by hour around the globe, to a neatly even Jan. 1, 2000, a computer bug known as Y2K was supposed to wreak havoc … Continue reading The 2000s in review: My top 10 stories of the decade
By Bobby Ross Jr. The 1990s: I graduated from Oklahoma Christian University, married the love of my life and welcomed my three gifts from God into the world. Oh, and I got paid to write newspaper stories. With full knowledge that I’m probably leaving out a few important ones, my Top 10 stories of the decade: 10. Garth Brooks: 1992 My wife, Tamie, and … Continue reading The 1990s in review: My Top 10 stories of the decade
Faith. Family. Fastballs. 