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After losing its star defensive end as a first round NFL draft pick, the Kansas State defensive line didn’t rebuild: it reloaded. Through four games, the Wildcat mostly three-man front has 14 sacks and 36 tackles for loss — the latter stat is sixth in the country per game.

Stillwater 14, Bartlesville 10 Choctaw 77, NW Classen 0 Lawton vs. Deer Creek, Friday Woodland 52, Oklahoma Union 6 Pawnee 46, Chouteau-Mazie 8 Tonkawa vs. Morrison, Friday Blackwell 24, Hennessey 22 Millwood 49, Newkirk 14

Chandler Prater does a little bit of everything: captures boards, creates plays for teammates and scores. But her favorite is defense, which is what OSU women’s basketball coach Jacie Hoyt said was the focus and the mindset of this year’s newlook team.

Oct. 11—Oklahoma’s bye week also marks the midway point of the regular season, so let’s hand out some awards for the Sooners’ biggest impact players so far.

Oct. 11—Keegan Shoemaker.

PHOENIX — Nine Dodgers stood frozen in disbelief. Around them, 40,000-plus people at Chase Field erupted in cheers.

Area smaller school football teams have a full schedule of games Thursday night. The games are on Thursday due to Fall Break.

Oct. 10—There wasn’t a quarterback-centric brigade of questions thrown at Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy during his weekly media availability Monday afternoon.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Back in 1988, Sports Illustrated’s Steve Wulf wrote a brilliant piece on the nature of the nemesis in sports and its origins in Greek mythology. I don’t remember whether I clipped or tore it out, but I found it compelling enough to keep (somewhere) and every so often it resurfaces in my mind … not to mention via Google into SI’s Vault.