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While Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook and the rest of the Oklahoma City Thunder play hard to get into the NBA playoffs, the Thunder Girls are already in their own championship tourney. The 2010 Dance Team Bracket pits each NBA team’s dance team against another in a March Madness-style competition. Fans vote for their favorite team […]

With spring, it’s time to develop that stellar tennis game you’ve always had  inside you. No doubt you’ve already dug the secondhand racket out of the closet. But where to play? Check out the metro’s pay-to-play complexes and public parks. The latter have the benefit of being free, but space can be limited, especially if […]

Local hockey fans, rejoice. Oklahoma City is about to become a hockey town once again, courtesy of the Edmonton Oilers and Prodigal Hockey. The Oilers, one of the National Hockey League’s most storied franchises, made the news official last week when they announced the American Hockey League Board of Governors voted to approve the move […]

America’s pastime presents a hefty math problem. Baseball is a sport of numbers that’s often distilled into equations offering insight through statistics and percentages reflecting team achievements and player progress. Fastball rising‘He has been overlooked’Tribal pride The numbers don’t challenge All-Star pitcher and Bethany native Allie Reynolds, who today would have celebrated his 93rd birthday. […]

OKC Charity Fight NightThursdayCoca-Cola Bricktown Events Center425 E. Californiawww.okccharityfightnight.com James “Buster” Douglas took part in one of the most significant events in boxing history when he toppled the seemingly invincible Mike Tyson with a 10th-round knockout on Feb. 11, 1990. The image of Tyson fumbling with his mouthpiece as he struggled to his feet lives […]

Save the Speedway Noon “? 4 p.m. Saturday Forest Building Supplies 300 N. May www.statefairspeedway.com Money will be pouring into the Oklahoma State Fair Park from tax dollars being purposed through MAPS 3, and a hotel and motel tax intended to upgrade the existing facilities. When longtime race fan and mechanic Erich Petersen pulled up […]

You have to have some serious pull. You have to be celebrity-big. A Ford Truck Man. A movie star. You gotta be known. If you’re not, and most folks interested in going to an Oklahoma City Thunder basketball game don’t have their own nickname or get the opportunity to call the shots, every shot, every […]

Warren Spahn Award Gala Tuesday, Jan 25, 7 p.m. Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame & Jim Thorpe Museum, 4040 N. Lincoln. individual tickets, $150 605-2375, www.okcspahnawards.com. The Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame Museum, Bricktown Rotary and the Jim Thorpe Association will host the Warren Spahn Award Gala Tuesday to honor the careers of three Oklahoma […]

Barely two weeks into January, a quick check of the Oklahoma City Blazers’ Web site is all one needs as a reminder to the long, cold, lonely winter local hockey fans find themselves suffering through these days. The site is blank, other than a brief note from DeBray Ayala, the defunct team’s former general manager, […]

Who knew that karate, an ancient martial art that teaches self-defense, is based in peace? Its philosophy, which is to build a more peaceful world, begins with the student. Daryl Arrowood, a fourth-degree black belt, started the Oklahoma Youth Karate Club Inc. to give at-risk and disadvantaged youth the opportunity to learn martial arts. The […]