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The Oklahoma City-based Tornado Alley Rollergirls roller derby league is going through some changes. The Victory Dolls has left TARG fold to form its own entity, amending its title to the Oklahoma Victory Dolls, effectively createing an autonomous league with the stated purpose of competing at the national level with other leagues around the country. […]

The list of accomplishments Tommy McDonald realized as a college and professional football player is nothing less. Not only did he play his way into the College Football Hall of Fame during his days at the University of Oklahoma, but as an encore, McDonald fashioned a career in the National Football League splendid enough to […]

  A new outdoor 11-on-11 league is giving pro football a shot. It’s dubbed the United Football League, and officials are scouting out 13 potential franchise cities to host the first eight teams. As fate has it, Oklahoma City is one of them. Officials already have been in town, talking to business owners, seeing who […]

Love’s Travel Stops and Country Stores announced Nov. 21 they would donate the fuel for Operation Holiday Homecoming.   Gov. Brad Henry announced Nov. 9 the Operation Holiday Homecoming initiative to bring the National Guard’s 45th Infantry Brigade troops back to the state for the Christmas holidays.   The initiative needs to collect $600,000 to […]

At no point in recent memory has any college football season produced so many jaw-dropping upsets, so much overall pandemonium in the polls and such a level of mass paranoia among high-profile programs hoping simply to survive another volatile week on the endangered species list. Whatever happened to the good ol’ days when two or […]

A year ago, attorney John Albert was facing the greatest challenge of his life. His law license suspended, Albert needed to convince a panel of his peers that alcohol and cocaine no longer controlled him. If he didn’t, his downward spiral from hotshot attorney might have continued, even as friends and colleagues tried to help. […]

One of the more unusual additions to the metro’s yoga scene is Laughter Yoga, whose low-impact sessions of light stretching with gaggles of giggling are free, open to whoever shows up. “It’s people getting together as a group and laughing for no reason,” teacher Christopher Slater said. “We don’t use any jokes or comedy. We […]

If the topic ” whether wrongful convictions are “isolated events or system failures” ” of the Oklahoma Bar Association’s annual convention Nov. 8 wasn’t enough to spark interest, the people slated to speak sure were. The talk centered the case of Dennis Fritz and Ron Williamson, who were convicted of the 1982 murder of Debra […]

In his 21st full season on the PGA Tour, Scott Verplank has had a year to remember. Not only did the former Oklahoma State standout win the Byron Nelson, but he ended the year with 10 top-10 finishes and a career-best $3.1 million in earnings. Things really didn’t begin to click for the 43-year-old Dallas […]

Oklahoma City University recently established a varsity women’s wrestling program ” the first such program in the state. Just two years ago, OCU didn’t have a male or female wrestling program, but it lured coach Archie Randall away from his championship high school program in El Reno to develop both. The men’s team started last […]