Congratulations to Stidham basketball coaches Dane Yandell and Erin Gray and the Lady Redhawks for another successful season. The Stidham basketball program has been a dynasty for years under Yandell ...

Checotah senior’s Bailey Todd and Montana Warrior were all smiles after being named the 2021-22 Checotah Basketball Queen and King. Rodney Haltom | SPORTS EDITOR

The L.A. Rams defeated the Cincinnati Bengals 23-20 in one of the greatest games of its long history. The Bengals led 20-16 after the third quarter but the Rams defense held them scoreless in the four...

The Classes 4A-2A and A-B state tournaments, set for the first and second week of March at State Fair Arena, will be five-day tournaments instead of three due to changes brought on by the Covid pandem...

The Checotah Wildcats forced overtime and dominated the Roland Rangers in the extra period to win 57-50. Freshman Maddox Bridges hit five free throws in overtime to seal the win. Senior Montana Warri...

Elevation below normal, water 45 and murky. For current elevation conditions go to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers website at https://www.swt-wc.usace.army.mil/ EUFA.lakepage.html. Largemouth, smallm...

Eufaula’s standout defensive lineman Johnny Burton has made his choice of universities to play for in Langston University. The 6’3”, 270-pound defensive lineman was also named the Eufaula Indian Journ...

Eufaula Ironheads senior Khelil Deere made his choice of who he will play for at the collegiate level picking the Norsemen of Northeastern Oklahoma A&M University. Deere is by far the most athletic pl...

Encouragement is a wonderful message to pass on to our youth of today. Nothing to me is more disheartening or ill felt than hearing adults in the stands yell at student-athletes on the basketball cour...

Wagoner Public Schools honored former head basketball coach and athletic director Joe Gordon by naming the court after the successful coach. The high school basketball court is located inside the Robe...

As seen in the McIntosh County Democrat April 13, 1944 Tom Johnson, Checotah football coach and athletic director, was accepted last week for service in the U. S. navy, which he will enter as an appre...

OKLAHOMA CITY – With just over two weeks until the start of the 2022 NCAA Division I Softball season, USA Softball has announced the Top 50 “Watch List” for the 2022 USA Softball Collegiate Player of ...

Sometimes referred to as the Jackie Robinson of professional bull riding, Myrtis Dightman made history in 1964 when he became the first African-American to compete in the National Finals Rodeo and he ...

Checotah head coach Jason Dowdy has had a lot of success as the Wildcats’ head basketball coach. With each year Dowdy floors a competitive team and this year is no different. But what makes this year...

As seen in MCD June 29, 1922 The recruiting officers who spent last week in Checotah accomplished their work Saturday night when they announced that they secured 35 young men from our city to make up ...

As published in McIntosh County Democrat on Feb. 2, 1950 Back in 1913, Checotah’s basketball team, captained by George Stidham, played Okmulgee High School three games in one afternoon. In those days,...

To determine the best places for loving America’s favorite sport, WalletHub compared more than 240 U.S. cities with at least one college or professional football team based on 21 key metrics. The data...

The All American Red Heads were one of the first professional women’s basketball teams. In 1936, almost 50 years after women’s basketball began, C. M. “Ole” Olson (who also founded Oson’s Terrible Sw...

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There is no doubt that the position of being a coach is much more than a job. Coaches are counselors, father or mother figures and teachers of life lessons in addition to being a coach and educator. T...