Here are my predictions for 2022.
The Oklahoma football team will have a better defense with Brent Venables as head coach.
TU and Coach Phillip Montgomery will be invited to a bowl game.
Coach Mike Gundy and Oklahoma State will be at or near the top of the Big 12 Conference in football.
OU, ORU and TU will make the NCAA Basketball Tournament (OSU is ineligible).
The expansion of Yale Avenue between 81st and 91st streets won’t be finished on time.
Joe Biden’s approval ratings will stay low – really low.
Republicans will recapture control of the U.S. House and Senate. Nancy Pelosi will no longer be Speaker of the House and Chuck Schumer will no longer be Senate Majority Leader.
Former Tulsa County District Attorney Tim Harris will win a seat on the Tulsa School Board.
Gov. Kevin Stitt will be re-elected and Republicans will retain control of both houses of the Legislature.
The Chinese coronavirus will fade but government health officials will continue to exaggerate the threat.
New York City will still be locked down with a new mayor.
Taxes will go up in California, Oregon, Washington and New York. People will continue to flee to Texas and Florida.
Biden continue to break the law with his open borders and his bureaucrats will continue to claim that they borders are not “open” while millions of illegal aliens flood through our southern border.
Abortion will still be legal in Oklahoma.
The “medical marijuana” business will prosper as dozens of new dispensaries open and huge marijuana farms continue to pop up in rural Oklahoma.
Oklahoma will vote on making recreational marijuana legal and it will pass as a constitutional amendment.
Oklahoma’s tribal casinos will grow in size, customers and destructive impact on the morality and financial well-being of the state.
The McGirt decision will be overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Hunter Biden will continue to paint and China and Ukraine will buy his “masterpieces” for immorally high prices.
Former President Donald Trump will announce that he is running in 2024.
Gasoline prices will hit $4 a gallon.
Inflation will be in the double digits.
Mortgage rates will rise.
The stock markets will lose value.
Iran will threaten Israel with nuclear weapons.
The Tulsa “Gay Pride” parade will grow.
More students who graduate from Tulsa Public Schools will have to take remedial courses in college – even in junior colleges.
USC will go 6-6 with Lincoln Riley as head coach.
The Kansas City Chiefs will win the Super Bowl.
Businesses will go under because they can’t get people to work.
The national minimum wage will rise to $15 an hour.
The national debt will go so high that the U.S. dollar will be devalued.
Taxes will go up substantially for middle-class Americans.
Airlines will continue to make passengers wear masks.
North Korea will continue to test rockets with capability to deliver nuclear weapons.
China will try to take over Taiwan.
Citizens in Australia will stage a revolt against oppressive government action concerning the coronavirus.
The Pope will embrace birth control.
Another mainline American Christian denomination will approve homosexual clergy.
Circulation the Tulsa World and the Oklahoman will drop.
People will threaten CNN with lawsuits for defamation.
The world will not get warmer.
Electric cars will not get more popular.
America will no longer be energy independent.
America’s big cities will continue to have increases in violent crime, rioting and looting.
Liberal reporters will dominate the media in Tulsa.
Joe Biden’s cognitive skills will continue to decline and Kamala Harris will become even less popular.
The OU girls’ softball team will win the national championship.
New cars will be scarce and prices will skyrocket for new and used cars.
Tornadoes will be a problem in Oklahoma.
Some university will offer Mike Gundy a lot of money to switch schools.
OU will make the College Football Playoff. Texas will not make the CFP.
The City of Tulsa won’t move fast on any road improvement project.
Church attendance will not reach 2019 levels.
Joe Biden will announce he is not running for a second term.
Russia will attack Ukraine.
Young people will finally start turn back their Christian faith.