Ryan Fogle

Architect with @Populous and founder of @RideOKC

[Ryan Fogle @RDFogle]

Congratulations to OU Athletics. Can’t wait to get this built and ready to host a playoff game!

[Oklahoma Football @OU_Football]

A place to celebrate our yesterdays and write the story of our tomorrows » https://t.co/WVBBOVfUkP

[30 for 30 @30for30]

To better understand the community they play for, every Oklahoma City Thunder player visits the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum dedicated to those affected by the April 19, 1995 bombing.

📺 Watch E60's "The Oklahoma Standard" April 26 at 11 AM ET on ESPN and the ESPN App.

[Enes Kanter FREEDOM @EnesFreedom]

To my Oklahoma family;
this piece comes straight from the heart.

I hope you’ll take a moment to read it and feel what I felt.
Thank you for allowing me to be a small part of it.

I came to @okcthunder to play basketball. I left carrying 168 lives.

When I was traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder, I was thinking about basketball, nothing more.

I didn’t know that before I ever stepped on the court, this place would show me something that would stay with me far longer than any game.

Like any player, my mind was on the game. A new team, a new city, a new opportunity. I expected the usual routine when I landed in Oklahoma City. Physicals, practices, meetings, and a jersey waiting in a locker.

But before any of that, Sam Presti pulled me aside and told me there was somewhere we needed to go.

He didn’t explain much, and I didn’t think to ask. I was focused on the next step in my career.

What I didn’t understand was that, before I could represent the place I was about to play for, I needed to understand it.

So instead of heading to the facility, he took me to the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum.

I walked in without knowing what I was about to see, and within minutes, everything slowed down.

There are 168 chairs at the memorial, each one representing a life lost on April 19, 1995. They are arranged in quiet rows, each engraved with a name, each standing where a person once stood in that building. Then you notice something that is impossible to process the first time you see it. Some of the chairs are smaller.

They belong to children.

There is no speech that prepares you for that, no headline that captures it. You simply stand there, and the silence carries a kind of weight that is hard to describe but impossible to ignore.

As you walk through the memorial, you pass between two gates marked 9:01 and 9:03. At first, they seem like simple numbers, but then you understand what they hold. One marks the last minute before the attack. The other marks the first minute after. And in between those two gates is 9:02, the moment when everything changed.

That minute does not feel like history when you are standing there. It feels present.

The reflecting pool stretches across what used to be a city street, its surface calm and still. When you look into it, you do not just see water. You see yourself standing in a place where unimaginable loss occurred, and for a moment, everything else in your life becomes quieter.

Nearby stands the Survivor Tree, an American elm that was damaged in the blast but endured. It is not untouched. Its scars are part of what it represents. But it is still standing, and in that, it carries a kind of strength that does not need to be explained.

We did not speak much while we were inside. It did not feel like a place for conversation. Some places ask for words. This one asks for reflection.

When we stepped outside, Sam Presti looked me in the eye and said, “This is what this state has been through.”

Then he said something I will never forget.

“Every time you step on that court, you are not just playing in front of fans. You are playing for a state that carries this with it. Give them everything you have. They deserve that.”

In that moment, basketball felt different.

Not smaller, but clearer.

Because what I had just seen was not only about what was lost. It was about what remained. A state that had experienced unimaginable pain and still chose to come together, to rebuild, and to move forward without losing its humanity.

From that day on, every time I stepped on the court, I carried that with me.

On the nights when I was tired, when I was hurt, when I was dealing with challenges that felt heavy in the moment, I would think about those chairs, about that minute, about the people behind those names. And I was reminded that what I was going through did not compare to what this state had endured.
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[The Oklahoman @TheOklahoman_]

Oklahoma City Council approves controversial resolution to ban new bike lanes https://t.co/dnwAe0cawa

[Oklahoma Sooners @OU_Athletics]

This is The Palace Project. This is Home. 🏟️

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[Ryan Fogle @RDFogle]

@caydenmc Great time of year to be in upstate NY.

[Ryan Fogle @RDFogle]

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[George Stoia III @GeorgeStoia]

In next week's agenda for the OU Board of Regents...

Approval for the design of the West side stadium project, which will include: "47 suites; 64 loge boxes with seating for 280 persons; approximately 4,000 new club seats; and 6 club/lounge spaces for patrons."

[Ryan Fogle @RDFogle]

@NathanPoppe Eeesh. Once you see hostile design you start to notice it everywhere. The benches in the Civic Center complex have dividers so you can’t lay down or grind skateboards.

[Ryan Fogle @RDFogle]

@BNBehrens Good call on the Sputnik.

[Ryan Fogle @RDFogle]

Thank you OKC. Forever 2 wheels.

[Ride OKC @RideOKC]

🧵After 7 incredible years of connecting people to Oklahoma City’s hidden gems on two wheels, it’s time to close this chapter. Ride OKC was inspired by a bike tour my wife, Ashley, & I took early in our relationship. We turned that spark into something bigger than we imagined.

[caitlin whitley 🇵🇸 @caitlinwhitley_]

the people who come to HP commission and protest small multifamily infill and solar panels

[Ryan Fogle @RDFogle]

@CrownAndJoke I resisted it but have become a big fan, mostly bc I can hold a baby and read at the same time.

[Ryan Fogle @RDFogle]

@seanw_m Parking garage in Oklahoma City 😑

[Ryan Fogle @RDFogle]

@architext14 Same design used to cool a motorcycle engine.

[Ryan Fogle @RDFogle]

What a beaut! Business in the front, party in the back. Rohttps://okcmod.com/2015/09/living-the-modern-dream-herb-greenes-cunningham-house/

[Ryan Fogle @RDFogle]

@NathanPoppe Sheridan at Celestial

[Ryan Fogle @RDFogle]

These are my neighbors! They ride rain or shine.

[Nathan Poppe @NathanPoppe]

🚨 PHOTO HELP 🚨 Last year, I sat down with some young riders who pedaled to school together most mornings. I'm looking to photograph a youthful rider/riders in Oklahoma City who are passionate about their two wheels. Anyone come to mind?

[Ryan Fogle @RDFogle]

@NathanPoppe Urban cycling P.E. class @JohnRexSchool