Sports

The 2020-2021 basketball season for Ponca City High School teams will officially get underway Thursday in a tournament in Ada. All sports activities, including practices were suspended by Ponca City Public Schools at the beginning of December due to COVID-19 protocols and, along with other winter sports, basketball was put on hold.

Jan. 3—In three distinct acts, coach Lon Kruger’s Sooner men appeared to prove, at the very least, how capable they might be.

Jan. 3—Although Cade Cunningham wasn’t on the court during the final minutes of overtime, he galvanized the Oklahoma State men’s basketball team into action against Texas Tech.

Jan. 3—Al Horford squared up from the top of the arc and drained a 3-pointer that gave the Thunder an eight-point lead with 50 seconds left.

Jan. 1—The Big 12’s interceptions leader is NFL bound.

OU’s 55-20 Cotton Bowl rout of Florida on Wednesday night was a many splendored thing, with only a few nits to pick. The Sooner report card reflects a dominating performance: Power formations: A.

A lot of attention has been drawn by Oklahoma State players who either opted out of the bowl game — or didn’t play the second half of the Cheez-It Bowl — along with players electing not to take advantage of the extra year of eligibility granted by the NCAA due to the pandemic.

Chad Henne had led his first NFL drive in two years to the 1-yard line on an afternoon in Denver earlier this season, when the seconddown play call echoed into his helmet. A read-option.

Los Angeles Times His 36th birthday Wednesday was another opportunity for LeBron James to celebrate a wonderful NBA life. He has been in the league for 18 years, entertaining the masses and reaching milestones along the way.

Most aspiring journalists get a stint at writing obituaries, it goes with the territory. Some youngsters in the profession look askance at that opportunity, but as my first boss patiently explained to me “It is the most important task a newspaper person can perform. Obituaries have a very high readership and it is necessary to get them right. For many people, their obituary is the only time a story will be written about them.”