So I admit I was pretty excited when my boss, sports editor Mike Sherman, gave me the OK to travel to Muleshoe to report on a profile of Lincoln Riley, Oklahoma’s new offensive coordinator.
The story will run in The Oklahoman this Sunday.
I contacted Marilyn Riley, Lincoln’s mother, to gauge her interest in meeting with me if I traveled to Muleshoe, and she couldn’t have been nicer about it.
Of course she’d be happy to meet, she told me, and she even offered to jot down some names and phone numbers of people I might want to talk to once I get here.