SPIRO — The Roland Lady Rangers opened their 2025 fast-pitch softball season with a 13-2 road District 3A-6 romp of the host Spiro Lady Bulldogs on Tuesday evening. The Lady Rangers (1-0 overall, 1-0 ...

Cherokee Nation will host its fifth annual Controlled Deer Hunts in 2025 at the Cherokee Nation Sequoyah Hunting Preserve in Sequoyah County. As in previous years, participants will be selected throug...

In the District 4A-6 fast-pitch softball game between the visiting Muldrow Lady Bulldogs and the host Sallisaw Lady Diamonds on Tuesday evening at Sallisaw High School’s “Turf of Dreams,” it came down...

One big inning by the visiting Checotah Lady Wildcats doomed the Sallisaw Lady Diamonds in their home and season opener of the 2025 fast-pitch softball season Monday evening on “The Turf of Dreams,” t...

Some patrons driving by Vian High School’s St. John Stadium during June and early July might have wondered if the new turf for the football field was going to be all in place come time for the Wolveri...

IDABEL — The Muldrow Lady Bulldogs opened the season Monday afternoon by splitting a pair of games in the road District 4A-6 three-way with the host Idabel Lady Warriors and the Broken Bow Lady Savage...

Former Muldrow Bulldog Trenden Collins, now a junior, is expected to be one of the top receivers for the Emporia State University Hornets this 2025 football season. Collins, who caught 76 passes for 7...

As high school football practice for the 2025 season gets underway on Monday, the local coaches have a lot of things they would like to see their players get done during the first week, which will see...

There’s one thing you can count on, at least usually, when high school football practice begins, as it will on Monday. Mother Nature will bring the heat. All high school’s football coaches have had pr...

Just about, if not all, high school football coaches and players have been waiting for Aug. 11 to arrive — which it will on Monday, the first day of organized practice for this upcoming 2025 season. “...

Roland cheerleader Madi Whisenant got the good news early last week that she was going to be among the lucky senior cheerleaders to be named to the East All-State Cheerleading Squad after a previously...

Sallisaw football coach Brandon Tyler was recognized during Thursday night’s All-State Football Game for getting 204 coaching victories, which have come at three Sequoyah County schools — Vian, Gore a...

Three cheers for Robbi Martin! The Sallisaw High School cheer coach is used to encouraging students to cheer others, but now they can focus energetic spirit on her. Why? Martin was one of six inductee...

Sallisaw wrestler Cole Mayfield was all stoked up about wrestling in the 2025 Oklahoma Coaches Association All-State Wrestling Dual on Wednesday night in Catoosa. The three-time state champion represe...

Hello, August! I knew you would get here, but you always come way too fast. Nonetheless, August has arrived, which means, for your beloved sports editor, it’s time to start prepping for the two specia...

For the third consecutive year, Liberty golfer Jagger Jiles, age 9, will play in the United States Kids World Championship, which will take place beginning Thursday and ending Saturday in Pinehurst, N...

The full impact of being inducted into the Oklahoma Coaches Association Hall of Fame didn’t hit Sallisaw’s Virgil Terry until he arrived for the banquet Saturday night at the Marriott Southern Hills B...

There is one more bit of business for Sallisaw graduating senior wrestler Cole Mayfield has to tend to before beginning his college career with the University of Central Oklahoma Bronchos. Mayfield wi...

BAREBACK BRONC RIDING — 1. Cooper Mullican, 71 points. BULL RIDING — 1. Landon Linder, 80 points. TIE-DOWN ROPING — 1. Britt Driggers, 9.7 seconds; 2. Jace Woods, 10.9; 3. Derek Goff, 11.0; 4.Jarvis D...

For one Sallisaw Black Diamonds senior football player, he will have one more prep game to play. Sallisaw senior offensive lineman Quaid Girdner was named to the All-State East Team, and he and his ot...