History was made Saturday at the Kentucky Derby as 65-1 shot Country House was declared the winner after Maximum Security was disqualified. Maximum Security led the entire race, only to become the fir...

Class 4A Regional in Grove. Caden Walker went 2-for-5 with two RBIs and Daylen Warrior had one hit and two RBIs.   Checotah fell earlier to Grove 5-4.  The Wildcats tried to rally but came up short in...

University of Clemson head football coach two-time national champ Dabo Swinney signed a 10-year, $93 million deal, the school announced Friday. That smashes the 10-year, $75 million deal Texas A&M gav...

Seasoned fisherman Zachary Sutterfield of Durant harvested the biggest fish of his life when he decided to take a trip to Lake Texoma. Sutterfield landed a huge Alligator Gar while bowfishing. Game wa...

With the 145th Kentucky Derby around the corner, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released a pair of reports, one showcasing fun facts about the first leg of the Triple Crown and another a...

Wagoner’s Ashton Bartholomew was a two-event  Class 4A regional champion Saturday at the regional track meet for 4A and 3A at Checotah High School. Jesse Fair of Wagoner won the discus with a 133-4 1...

Checotah will be well represented at the State golf tournament after Ashlyn Willia ms and Lynzey Forsblom made the cut. It’s Williams fourth consecutive state tournament appearance. “I could not be m...

The Arizona Cardinals chose Sooner quarterback Kyler Murray with the first selection in the 2019 Draft. The choice made history as the University of Oklahoma became the first school to have quarterbac...

The Checotah Wildcats managed to hold on to a 8-6 win over Stigler in eight innings to win the Bi-District Championship on Friday at Stigler. It was a tough matchup for both teams that were evenly mat...

The Sooners will now open up the season against Houston on Sunday night.  Because of TV purposes, the game has been pushed back from Aug. 31 to Sept. 1 and will kick off at 6:30 p.m. CT, OU announced ...

Melissa Eldredge of Oklahoma City University reeled in Sooner Athletic Conference women’s golf player of the year. The Stars boasted of three all-conference selections with Eldredge, Natalie Gough and...

The Oklahoma Basketball Coaches Association has named Tim Bart, Varryl Franklin, A.D. Burtschi, Kevin Harrington, and Jim Petree as the 2019 Hall of Fame class. Induction is 11 a.m. June 1 at the Chic...

Eastern Oklahoma State College has named Al Davis as the head coach of the Mountaineer women’s basketball team. “I would like to thank President Stephen E. Smith, Athletic Director Matt Parker, and ev...

  CBS Sports and PBR (Professional Bull Riders) have reached a long-term rights extension, keeping CBS Sports as the exclusive television home of PBR through 2028. The new agreement increases the numb...

On May 2, 1890 – The Oklahoma Territory was organized. 1942 – Admiral Chester J. Nimitz, convinced that the Japanese would attack Midway Island, visited the island to review its readiness. 1945 –Germa...

The National Qualifier tournament on Lake Eufaula brought in 110 boats for the 2019 Crappie Masters Saturday. Dillon Hackler and Beau Wilkins won the event with a weight of 11.65 pounds for the grand...

Are you interested in a career as a game warden or perhaps a fisheries or wildlife biologist? The Oklahoma Wildlife Department Youth Camp is an excellent opportunity for youth to explore possible futu...

Area athletes punch ticket to state Checotah and Eufaula do it again. Both schools have developed several athletes that will take part in the state golf tournament and track meet. For some it’s their ...

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The University of Oklahoma Lady Sooners won the 2019 National Championship with the second-highest score in NCAA Championship history Saturday evening in Fort Worth, Texas. The Sooners posted a score ...