J.R.'s Family Bar-B-Q

Here's hoping the weekend is going well for all. We've had a really nice past few days at J.R.'s Family BBQ in Norman plus our on line orders have been steady. We will have the BIGGEST announcement we've ever had regarding our site this Friday so please keep that in mind. We are still offering FREE SHIPPING on cases of sauce and ketchup and one can even mix and match them if one chooses. Sharing a case with a friend or fellow fan is smart and easy as 12, 18 oz plastic bottles is only $47.80 and we pick up the shipping to selected areas. more »

 But now it's kickoff time for some BBQ'ed weekend ramblings.

Here's hoping that every one is having a great weekend. It's really nice weekend here in Norman, Oklahoma and college football fever is in the air. I attended a couple of functions with the Sooner football coaches this week and their summer is essentially over as practice starts next Wednesday, the day I return from Long Island, and they will hit it hard until National Signing Day in early February 2010. My goal is to attend every OU game, home and away, and I have already made travel arrangements to travel from Lincoln, Nebraska to Sheffield, England in November among other "interesting" road trips. These trips serve as "great escapes" and help me keep my sanity (no jokes please.) At least that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

 Today's Special.....BBQ'ed Random Thoughts....  more »

My wife Jan and I watched UFC 100 with one of the Oklahoma Sooner football coaches and his family in our home here in Norman Saturday night. Here are my observations and not from a MMA "expert" or even a  fanatic but simply from a sports fan who enjoys the UFC and respects the athletes who compete in the octagon. more »

Happy New Year to all! Thanks to those of you who emailed us happy Birthday wishes as they are appreciated. However, as The King would say, "One can't grieve forever" as we move on with random thoughts. more »

Former WWE Champion Brock Lesnar won the UFC Heavyweight Title Saturday night in Las Vegas with a 2nd round TKO over UFC legend Randy Couture. Perhaps now MMA purists will acknowledge Lesnar's athletic abilities and not hold his tenure in the entertainment world of the WWE against him. But somehow I doubt it....at least not for now.  more »

Here's hoping everyone has a great weekend. My Sooners are off this weekend as they prepare to face Texas Tech on ABC's National Game of the Week next Saturday night in Norman of which I will attend before taking a 6 a.m. flight to Boston for the Survivor Series on Sunday morning. Random thoughts....we have plenty... more »

Another beautiful day here in Oklahoma as I prepare to head out EARLY Tuesday morning for Houston and then on to Laredo for the Friday Night Smackdown taping featuring a big time main event between HHH vs. The Undertaker. That's a helluva, free, TV main event in anyone's book and should encourage fans to find MyNetworkTV this Friday night to see it. There is no doubt in my mind that these two will have a superb match and let's hope that their presence encourages the rest of us involved with the program to raise our game too. I may have to have an extra cup of coffee before heading down the ramp.    more »

Bloggin' my BBQ'ed brains out....random thoughts that hopefully won't get me fired. more »

After coming to terms and reconciling with Randy Couture earlier today, the UFC announced Tuesday afternoon, as we reported here last week, that the Couture-Brock Lesnar fight would take place on Saturday November 15. The fight will not be held in Portland as previously thought but in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. This provocative fight will be five, 5 minute rounds and reportedly for the UFC heavyweight title that Couture never lost before he and UFC management had issues and Couture left the organization.   Informed sources have told me that Couture wants to have three more fights in the UFC and then retire. Couture will give up approximately 50 pounds to Lesnar come fight time which makes the 5 rounder especially intriguing. Couture is a master at capitalizing on a fighter's mistakes and is a supreme strategist. However, if Lesnar continues to improve as he did between the Mir and Herring fights it will be extremely difficult for anyone who is giving up that much weight and is over a decade older to defeat the former WWE and NCAA wrestling champion. I applaud the UFC for getting this alleged, internally personal matter resolved as it relates to Randy Couture and UFC honchos.  The fans should always come first which should be a no brainer business wise but in personality driven businesses like MMA, etc it isn't always that simple.           

Sources close to the MMA world indicate that a November fight between Brock Lesnar and Randy Couture could be finalized as early as Tuesday of next week. If a deal can be reached, the fight would likely take place in Portland's Rose Garden.  Sources also say that in a perfect world that the legendary Couture would like to have three more fights before he retires and those fights would all be for the UFC. Lesnar vs. Couture would be an extremely intriguing match up if contracts can be worked out.  One would assume that getting a deal done quickly after the Labor Day holiday would allow both fighters to officially begin their preparation within a few days.  It will also be interesting to see where the betting line starts and ends for this one if it does happen.  This match blows away the previously discussed Lesnar-Kongo fight and should do huge business on PPV.