Like much of the rest of society, life on the football practice field in the Covid-19 era is anything but normal.

The Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association at its regular monthly meeting on Wednesday took no action in its agenda item on discussing  a change of course of fall sports as scheduled.

Dear OSSAA, Oklahoma superintendents and athletic directors:

Looking around the area as prep fastpitch, barring any issues with the elephant in the diamond that has already sent one program home as the season beckons:

BROKEN ARROW — With one shot, Jason Davis ended nine years of Muskogee frustration.

Volleyball will be the first test of the COVID-19 era with long-standing impact.

What Celeste Wood did in a rocket test in Shawnee, Kan., in June doesn’t surprise anyone.

Though in and of itself rests no trophy it holds, Sequoyah High School had returned to a familiar plateau of success a year ago in May when it wrestled our “School of the Year” nod away from Fort Gibson, which had let the dust settle on it for six consecutive years.

A decision to shut down athletics at Sequoyah High School for the first nine weeks of the fall semester has brought turmoil.

OKLAHOMA CITY — It was one of those moments basketball players close their eyes and imagine.

The Muskogee Public Schools Athletic Department has fully transitioned to digital ticketing for high school, junior high, and Rougher Youth Sports Academy (RYSA) athletic events for the 2020-2021 school year. Tickets and passes went on sale Monday and continue at www.muskogeeathletics.com/ht…

The Cherokee Nation in response to COVID-19 has withdrawn Sequoyah High School and underclasses from fall sports athletic competition for the first nine weeks of the school year.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Ashley Stonebarger will likely remember Saturday forever.

Playing where he'll play college ball at the University of Central Oklahoma, Fort Gibson's Conner Calavan scored 11 points as the East beat the West 89-84 in the Large School game of the Oklahoma Basketball Coaches All-State Games in Edmond.

His team denied a chance to defend its American Legion state championship due to the call of the Oklahoma state commander and the national office, Three Rivers Bandits coach Mike Whitten has only a next-door neighbor to measure himself against.

Finally ... Fort Gibson.

Davien Williams and Jimmie Coleman arrived in Shawnee and hit a football field Thursday for the first time in a while.

The curiosity of some reporters was piqued when the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association announced a media teleconference to update everyone on the status of fall sports. With the last OSSAA event being a discussion with school administrators on Monday, what became of Thursday’s …

EDMOND – No one knew what to expect from the Checotah Wildcats playing in their first state tournament game.

Haskell is back in the hunt for a boys basketball coach.

Yes, there’s been NASCAR. Yes, there’s been PGA. 

Hornets shine, team falls

Fastpitch softball has been its own petri dish for coronavirus this summer.

Wagoner repeats in dramatic fashion 

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OKLAHOMA CITY — Her team came out twice for warm-ups without her.

Darian Davis didn’t need a pandemic to put a pothole in his offseason road.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Finally, Boynton can celebrate. 

Two streaks will continue after the Heartland All-Star Classic baseball tourney wraps up today.

Ask Fort Gibson coach Greg Whiteley about Deven Woodworth’s role for the Tigers in 2020, and the answer is quick and to the point.

This was supposed to be Muskogee’s football team camp week.

SKIATOOK — It’s been a long wait, but Bobby Jefferson and the Muskogee Roughers were finally dealt a winning hand here Saturday at Skiatook High School’s Johnson Activity Center.

When a team accustomed to playing football through Thanksgiving stumbles to 4-6, there’s usually an array of issues that cause it.

WARNER — Warner’s deep stable of running backs rolled up a season-high 488 yards on the ground here Friday night, making its first home playoff game since 1998 a  footloose and fancy free 40-6 romp over the Yale Bulldogs in the opening round of the Class A tournament.