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JOE MUSSATTO The Oklahoman Oklahoma City Jan. 26—The Thunder’s second unit built a 10-point lead in the fourth quarter and the starters held on for a 125-122 win against the Trail Blazers on Monday night in Portland.

JACOB UNRUH The Oklahoman Oklahoma City Jan. 26—Oklahoma State was without its superstar, but still got a bounce-back win.

A pair of former Cowley College basketball players, Michael Massey and Mike Abasolo, have gone on to establish themselves as highly successful basketball coaches in the state of Kansas. The two recently had an opportunity to coach against one another and reminisce about their time at Cowley.

One of my New Year resolutions was to not write about someone’s passing so often. It seemed like this space was becoming a sports obituary section. But I’ve broken my resolution once and now I am about to do so again.

For the second time this season, both Ponca City varsity basketball teams won the consolation championship in tournaments in which they were involved. Saturday the Ponca City Lady Cats defeated Trinity Christian of Texas, 60-38 to capture the consolation title in the Union-Jenks Invitational at Tulsa Union High School.

Quarterbacks Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes, who one day will convene in Canton, first have a score to settle in Tampa: Super Bowl LV. The two faces of the NFL, bookends of an era, cleared their final hurdles Sunday by leading their respective teams — the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Kansas City Chiefs — back to the main event.

ARKANSAS CITY, Kansas – The No. 13 ranked Northern Oklahoma College Mavericks picked up a huge road win Saturday night at No. 24 Cowley County 101-91. In Saturday’s opener, the Lady Mavs lost to Cowley 86-44 . Saturday’s game was a rematch of games played Wednesday in Tonkawa.

Thursday was not a good day for Ponca City’s varsity basketball teams. They both lost in the opening rounds of tournaments, and the games were not close.

TONKAWA -- The Northern Oklahoma College Mavericks and Lady Mavs opened the 2021 season Wednesday night splitting two games against Cowley College at Foster-Piper Fieldhouse. The No.

Always a threat to capture the conference title, the Cowley College volleyball team was recently picked second out of 11 teams in the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference Eastern Division pre-season selections. The Lady Tigers were picked behind only Johnson County.