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MUSKOGEE -- The Ponca City Lady Cats swept a softball doubleheader Saturday at Muskogee with 6-5 and 12-11 victories. The wins were the first of the season for the Lady Cats and were all-important district victories.

Mitchell’s seventh Top-10 finish of the 2020 season netted him $11,376.62 and 59.5 world points, propelling him from No. 19 to No. 14 in the world. The Texan now trails the No. 1 spot by 605 points.

Baylor coach Dave Aranda could see a weight being lifted off the shoulders of his players during a meeting Tuesday night, when word began to filter out that the Big 12 Conference would attempt to play football this fall.

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Mike Muscala made a 3-pointer with 5.2 seconds and the Oklahoma City Thunder overcame a 22-point deficit in the fourth quarter to beat the Miami Heat 116-115 on Wednesday night.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Dodgers reliever Joe Kelly had his suspension for throwing pitches near the heads of Houston hitters reduced to five games on appeal. Kelly was originally penalized eight games by Major League Baseball on July 29, a day after throwing a 96 mph fastball near the head of Houston’s Alex Bregman and two curveballs that brushed back Carlos Correa.

Back in April, not long after the pandemic canceled the NCAA basketball tournament, the idea of moving the 2020 college football to the spring of 2021 was already being tossed around. A last resort is what it was called by conference commissioners and athletic directors.

All Times Eastern (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) (Seeding in parentheses; home team listed last) EASTERN CONFERENCE FIRST ROUND At Toronto (1)Philadelphia vs. (8)Montreal Wednesday, Aug.

Zach Johnson had quick success after a long road to the PGA Tour. He won as a rookie and reached the Tour Championship in Atlanta, where one of the perks was attending a ceremony to watch Jay Haas accept the Payne Stewart Award.

The Ponca City Lady Cats softball team opened the 2020 season with a pair of losses Monday. In games played at the West Middle School softball field, the Lady Cats lost first to Chandler 6-0 and then latter in the day were beaten 9-6 by Blackwell.

A long time ago I wrote about the late Yogi Berra, specifically about the sayings that have been attributed to him. Yogi had a way of saying things that seemed funny at first, but when you considered them at length, there was a grain of solid philosophy imbedded within. The most famous example was “It ain’t over until its over.”