RODNEY HALTOM I SPORTS EDITOR Checotah senior forward Vanessa Henson will lead the Lady Wildcats to their third consecutive district championship this season.

The Checotah Wildcats (5-6) saw their season come to an end Friday night as No.2 ranked Holland Hall Dutchmen (9-0) shutout the Wildcats 52-0 in the Class 3A playoffs at Hardesty Field on Friday nigh...

The Eufaula Ironheads’ win streak improved to eight after defeating Antlers for the second time in three weeks 32-12. The Class 2A matchup ended Antlers’ playoff hopes. The game started off poorly fo...

In front of electrifying crowds inside AT&T Stadium, five women became the first in history to claim the coveted title of Women’s Rodeo World Champion and took home a minimum of $60,000 each. The sev...

Jason Newton and his father Larry came home with two great looking elk during a recent hunt. COURTESY

Pat Schlapper had nothing but good fortune on Friday the 13th when he caught the heaviest limit of the week for a come-from-behind win in the TNT Fireworks B.A.S.S. Nation Championship on Pickwick Lak...

Michael Otis harvested this good-looking 11-point buck. COURTESY

Eufaula:Elevation normal, water 58 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 and ...

Tim Coppick of Eufaula harvested this giant 12-point buck with his bow in the Texanna area. TIM COPPICK | COURTESY

Any quail hunter can tell you there’s nothing that compares to the heart-pounding moment when a covey of birds thunders into the air from underfoot. Unfortunately, it’s an adrenaline rush that fewer o...

The No.18 ranked Oklahoma Sooners (6-2, 5-2) dominated the Oklahoma State Cowboys 41-13 Saturday at Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. OU went 75 yards on six plays on their opening drive to se...

On the biggest stage in professional bull riding, Jose Vitor Leme (Ribas do Rio Pardon, Brazil) clinched the 2020 PBR (Professional Bull Riders) World Championship inside AT&T Stadium Saturday night w...

The most highly anticipated day of the year for many thousands of Oklahoma hunters arrives this Saturday, Nov. 21, as the state’s deer gun hunting season officially begins a half-hour before sunrise. ...

Chief Joe Bunch loves to hear “Amazing Grace” sung in his native Cherokee language. “It’s beautiful, it’s gorgeous:’ he said with emotion. “It’s tremendous.” As chief of the United Keetoowah Band of C...

The Eufaula Ironheads (7-2, 6-0 district) made school history again in 2020 by winning their third consecutive Class 2A-6 District Championship. A big part of the Ironheads’ success is the stout defe...

The Tulsa Golden Hurricane held SMU scoreless in the second half to score 28 unanswered points to defeat conference foe SMU 28-24. The first half was a lackluster performance for Tulsa as they turned ...

If there was a team that a coach may not want to play at this time, it would be the Checotah Wildcats. The Wildcats (5-5) dominated the Inola Longhorns (4-6) in the opening round of the Class 3A foot...

McIntosh County has a long history of producing championship caliber cowboys. You might recognize names such as Duvall, Berry, Meier, Saltsman, Cravens and Jenkins. Now you can another name to that l...

Elevation normal, water 58 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 and spotted b...

Oklahoma’s 16- day deer gun season, the most popular in terms of participation, will run Nov. 21 through Dec. 6. And a familiar phrase is back this year for all to consider: “Hunters in the Know … Tak...