Category Archives: Sports

Midget Stars Ready for 39th Chili Bowl

The stars of the 2024 Xtreme Outlaw Midget Series presented by Toyota roster are ready to race on the biggest stage in Midget racing Monday–Saturday, Jan. 12–18, in the 39th annual Chili Bowl Nationals presented by NOS Energy Drink.

Since 1987, the SageNet Center in Tulsa, OK, has played host to the world’s biggest indoor Midget racing event, producing a library of iconic moments and immortalizing some of motorsports’ biggest stars with the presentation of the Golden Driller trophy.

Chili Bowl Photo: Jacy Norgaard
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Thunder Hosts Tulsa Youth Camps

The Oklahoma City Thunder announced in a release today the opening of registrations for its winter Thunder Youth Basketball camps, presented by Simple Modern.  

Two camps will take place in Tulsa and include one Crossover Camp for kids ages 12–16, and one Hustle Camp for kids ages 6-14. Crossover Camps are 4-hour sessions that focus on sharpening intermediate to advanced dribbling, defense, and shooting skills. Hustle Camps focus on technical fundamentals and development drills to improve skill sets within defense, ball-handling, shooting, layups, and more.  Each participant will receive a jersey (Crossover Camp) or T-shirt (Hustle Camp), basketball, Simple Modern water bottle, and a ticket to a select 24-25 Thunder home game. 

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Hunting Seasons Begin Sept. 1

Oklahoma’s first major hunting season of the fall opens with Dove hunting. If you’ve never tried dove hunting, it’s very easy to get started. A shotgun, an ample supply of shells, a place to go and a state hunting license is all most people really need to have a great day.

Dove are found from one side of the state to the other. Recently harvested grain fields and cattle watering ponds on private land can be excellent places to hunt dove. Additionally, excellent hunting can be found on Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation’s (ODWC) wildlife management areas.

Hunters get into the field for some fast wing-shooting action and some fine table fare. (Photo: Heather Del Moral/ODWC)
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Catfish from Tackle to Table in Oklahoma

The Oklahhoma Department of Wildlife Conservation reminds today that it’s time for summer fishing action and catfish are the popular catch. A fish fry favorite, catfish are abundant across Oklahoma and easy to catch come summertime! Catfish fishing techniques vary depending on the type of catfish you’re targeting and the environment in which you are fishing.

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The Opening Olympic Ceremony 2024

This morning, I saw clips from the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. The imagery was, let’s say, astonishing. It presented, among other things, a grotesque parody of Da Vinci’s Last Supper. In the place of Christ sat a stout woman with half-exposed breasts; one of the apostles was a homosexual man with testicles hanging out of a tight latex outfit; the rest of the apostles were replaced by transgender individuals and other figures who have surgically or otherwise rejected the task of being a man or a woman. Among this group, there was also a young girl – a sign of childlike innocence and purity.

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