Sports

Special Olympics Oklahoma (SOOK) honored Oklahoma State University President Kayse Shrum as the 2023 recipient of the Barry Switzer Award of Excellence Thursday during the eighth annual Gold Medal Gala at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa.

The Oklahoma City Thunder is hosting Thunder Fan Fest, Sunday Oct. 8 from 5:308:30 p.m.

A Tuttle, Oklahoma, mother is sounding a cautionary alarm about the dangers of stroke in adolescents after her son collapsed at a summer wrestling camp. Valorie Champion beamed as members of the OSU wrestling team, along with team coach John Smith, visited her son’s physical therapy session Thursday at INTEGRIS Health Jim Thorpe Rehabilitation Center in Yukon, but she didn’t forget her mission to talk about stroke in young people.

The Oklahoma City Thunder will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month through a host of community activities and outreach events. Community outreach activities include featuring Spanish-language books, and books written by Hispanic authors through the Thunder’s Reading Timeout and Rolling Thunder Book Bus programs, presented by American Fidelity Assurance Company.

Frederick Lady Bombers charge on 2023 season. Fall fastpitch girls’ softball is always a hectic schedule, but the Lady Bombers regular season is drawing near. The last five games of the regular season are at home, so get out to see and support these ladies of the diamond.

Fast and furious is a good way to describe the fall fast-pitch softball season. Twentyfi ve plus regular season games in forty-two days. That’s an average of over 4 games a week. The Lady Bombers are two-thirds of the way through the season and the next 19 days will be the telltale as to whether or not the post-season is on the horizon for this year’s diamond crew. District games dominate the schedule from here on out. The 3A district includes Frederick, Lone Grove, Davis, Kingston, Comanche, and Marietta. Frederick has a 6-9 record and although they are winless in district games, they still have several games against teams that have struggled in district. A very real opportunity to make up ground that would allow the Bombers to fly into the post season.