B: Sports
VIAN BASKETBALL
By DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR
June 12, 2025
Sometimes things just seem to fall into place for someone, and that was the case for Randy Ragland. After being the Meeker Bulldogs basketball coach for the last five years, going 9-14 last season and...
B: Sports
By DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR
June 12, 2025
Three Sallisaw Black Diamonds — Luke Pack, Kase Adams and Kadyn Lloyd — along with Vian Wolverines baseball player Draighton Fletcher and four Gore Pirates baseball players — James Brasuell, Keeton Ro...
Columns & Opinions, Sports
THE DIAMOND MINE
By DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR
June 12, 2025
The Oklahoma City Thunder are facing familiar territory in the 2025 National Basketball Association Finals. Just as they were in the Western Conference Finals against the Denver Nuggets, the Thunder a...
B: Sports
MUDLROW BASEBALL
By DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR
June 12, 2025
Muldrow graduating senior Jonah Claborn will get to play one more baseball game as a Bulldog. Claborn will play for the East Team in the 2025 Native American All-State Baseball Game, which will take p...
Sports
June 12, 2025
EUFAULA: June 6. Elevation is seven feet below normal and rising. The water temperature is 77 degrees and murky. Largemouth, smallmouth and spotted bass fair on crankbaits, jerk baits and plastic bait...
B: Sports
SALLISAW ATHLETICS
By DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR
June 12, 2025
When Sallisaw Black Diamonds assistant football and wrestling coach Scott Mayfield threw his hat into the ring to become the new Sallisaw Lady Diamonds wrestling coach and the new high school cross co...
Sports
OSU FOOTBALL
By SEAN MAGUIRE OKSTATE.COM
June 10, 2025
STILLWATER — Former Oklahoma State wide receiver Dez Bryant has been added to the ballot for induction into the College Football Hall of Fame, the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame...
B: Sports
SALLISAW FOOTBALL
By DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR
June 10, 2025
Two of the four Sallisaw Black Diamonds football trainers received honors from the 2024 Texas Christian University Trainers Camp, which took place Nov. 9 at TCU’s Amon G. Carter Stadium in Fort Worth,...
B: Sports
SALLISAW SOCCER
By DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR
June 10, 2025
BRISTOW — Three Sallisaw soccer players — Kyra Taylor, Brian Castor and Wyatt Allen — and three Sallisaw soccer coaches — Sinue Rodriguez, Kiah Smith and Andrew Miller — took part in the 2025 Oklahoma...
B: Sports
June 10, 2025
Campers threw the baseball around during Day 1 of the two-day Sallisaw Baseball Camp, which took place Tuesday morning on “The Turf of Dreams.” The two-day camp ended this morning.
B: Sports
COLLEGE SOFTBALL
By DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR
June 10, 2025
Former Vian Lady Wolverines softball player and current Eastern Oklahoma State College Lady Mountaineer freshman Maisie Wells was one of 19 members of the EOSC softball team to be named a National Fas...
Sports
UA BASEBALL
By JACKSON LEICHTER AND OLIVER GRIGG ARKANSASRAZORBACKS.COM
June 10, 2025
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The OmaHogs are back! Arkansas is headed back to Omaha, Neb., for the Men’s College World Series for the 12th time in program history and the first time since 2022 after an 11-4 v...
Sports
KILGORE'S CORNER
June 5, 2025
It’s time for a road trip to your nearest blueberry farm, so grab your kids or grandkids and hit the fields for blueberry picking. The agritourism industry is ripe with beauty. Farms and ranches acros...
B: Sports
SALLISAW SOCCER
By DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR
June 5, 2025
Three Sallisaw soccer players and the entire Black Diamonds coaching staff will get one more set of high school matches for the 2025 season. Sallisaw Lady Diamonds player Kyra Taylor, the Sallisaw Bla...
B: Sports
GORE SOFTBALL
By DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR
June 5, 2025
For the last couple of school years, Webbers Falls softball coach Kera Carter has been as close to home as possible, with her hometown of Gore just across the Arkansas River. Now, Carter is getting to...
Sports
COLLEGE TRACK
By DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR
June 5, 2025
EMPORIA , Kan. — Former Muldrow Bulldogs and current Emporia State University track athlete Trenden Collins was named to the MIAA Conference Academic Honor Roll. Collins, who just completed his sophom...
Columns & Opinions, Sports
THE DIAMOND MINE
By DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR
June 5, 2025
If you are a sports junkie, you likely are on Cloud 9 right now. This week, we started three championship series, highlighted by the 2025 National Basketball Association Finals between the Oklahoma Ci...
Sports
By CHAD DAY B.A.S.S. COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER
June 5, 2025
Multiple patterns could be at play during the Lowrance Bassmaster Elite at Lake Tenkiller, but which ones perform best will be determined by potentially high water levels and current generation, accor...
B: Sports
By DAVID SEELEY SPORTS EDITOR
June 5, 2025
The second annual Smith Wrestling Camp will take place today and Saturday at Sallisaw High School’s Paul Post Field House. Day 1 will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. today, then Day 2’s session will go from ...
Sports
June 5, 2025
EUFAULA: June 1. Elevation is 10 feet above normal and falling. The water temperature is 74 degrees and murky. Blue, channel and flathead catfish fair on chicken liver, cut bait, dough bait, grubs, ho...
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Ollie’s Bargain Center coming to Sallisaw
By Lynn Adams Staff Writer
June 12, 2025
The City of Sallisaw will be working with a budget of almost $91 million for the fiscal year that ends June 30, 2026, after city commissioners at their monthly meeting Monday adopted a budget for the ...
A: Main, Main, News
By Amie Cato-Remer Editor
June 12, 2025
A man wanted in connection with an armed robbery and domestic battery in Fort Smith, Ark. is now in custody after being apprehended last week across the state line in Oklahoma. Kenneth M. Byrd, 28, of...
A: Main
By Amie Cato-Remer Editor
June 12, 2025
A Sallisaw man has reportedly died nearly four weeks after a serious motorcycle crash on Highway 82 near South Indian Road in Keys. The collision, which occurred on the evening of May 2, has now been ...
News
June 12, 2025
A high-flying crew, hoisted by a crane, on Wednesday completed installation of signage drawing attention to 7Brew Drive Thru Coffee, Taco Bell and Whataburger, located on South Kerr Boulevard in Salli...
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It's Friday the 13th
By Lynn Adams Staff Writer
June 12, 2025
Are you superstitious? No? Are you sure? Do you knock on wood or never open an umbrella indoors or never walk under a ladder or avoid breaking a mirror or avoid stepping on a crack in the sidewalk or ...
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