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US soccer fans are looking toward the 2026 World Cup

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Some people may think it’s a bit early to be getting excited about the 2026 World Cup soccer tournament coming to the United States, but not soccer enthusiasts. FIFA announced last week, the host cities for the World Cup, and I’m already considering what cities I will travel to, in order to see games in…

Oklahoma’s No. 1 softball team sweeps Texas for the title

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OKLAHOMA CITY – The Oklahoma Sooners capped an extraordinary, record-setting season with a two-game sweep of Texas to win the Women’s College World Series for the second year in a row. OU (59-3) has now won six national championships, including four of the last seven. Only UCLA (12) and Arizona (8) have won more. The…

College World Series for OU

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BLACKSBURG, Virginia – Oklahoma blasted five runs to race past No. 7 Virginia Tech Sunday 11-2 to earn a ticket to the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska. OU (42-22) will open against Texas A&M at 1 p.m. Friday on ESPN. OU will make the College World Series for the 11th time and the first…

Victory Field in Indianapolis is an impressive stadium

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INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana– Every time I visit a new minor league baseball stadium, I can’t help but compare it to the Tulsa Drillers ONEOK Field, and Victory Field in Indianapolis measures up quite well. Victory Field is home to the Indianapolis Indians, the Triple-A team of the Pittsburgh Pirates. On the night I was there last…

It’s OU vs. Texas for WCWS title

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Fans won’t have to wait until October to enjoy a Red River Rivalry that will decide a national championship. No. 1 Oklahoma clobbered UCLA 15-0 Monday to earn a trip to the Women’s College World Series to face Texas, who beat Oklahoma State 5-0 and 6-5 also on Monday. OU started Monday with a 7-3…

Losses to UT doom Oklahoma State

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The seventh-national seeded Oklahoma State softball team fell to Texas, 5-0, and 6-5 on Monday at Hall of Fame Stadium. The Cowgirls finished the season with a 48-14 record. OSU came into the day needing just one win in two possible games to secure a spot in the WCWS championship series against Bedlam rival and…

OU to face Va. Tech

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Oklahoma’s Peyton Graham hit a game-tying two-run homer in the eighth inning as Oklahoma beat Florida 5-4 in Gainesville, Florida, Monday night to win the NCAA Gainesville Regional after a weather delay of more than five-and-a-half hours. What did Graham do during the record-setting rain delay? “I took a nap for about an hour and…

Arkansas eliminates Oklahoma State

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Oklahoma State fell one win shy of advancing to a Super Regional as the No. 7 national seed Cowboys dropped a 7-3 game to Arkansas in the NCAA Stillwater Regional final Monday night. The Cowboys end the season with a 42-22 mark. The 42 wins is OSU’s highest total since they had 43 in 2016….

King’s Island’s 50th anniversary

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MASON, OHIO – Kings Island amusement park has had a very pop culture existence. It was featured on family sitcoms in the early 1970s, and later was the location of one of Evel Knievel’s motorcycle jumps. Now celebrating its 50th Anniversary, this park has become one of my favorite amusement parks in the country. Recently,…

An Osage County tom struts on a wooded hilltop

Officials search for a cause of decline of wild turkeys

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Predation, habitat loss, and bad weather all are suspects in the decline of Oklahoma’s wild turkeys, but the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation is looking inward as well—at turkey DNA. The state’s first late-start hunting season, with a reduced bag limit, ended May 16 with about 100 DNA samples among the harvest. They will go…