Kings trainer Visram becomes first female staffer on bench in NHL

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Aisha Visram is believed to have become the first woman to work on the bench of an NHL regular-season game in any capacity when she served as athletic trainer for the Los Angeles Kings in their 6-2 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday night.

Area teams maintain rankings, Red Tornadoes back in top 20

Several area teams maintained their positions in the OSSAA Top 20 this week. As expected, Clinton boy’s basketball returned to the top 25, coming in at 18th in Class 4ALast week the Red Tornadoes (7-3) knocked off 4A No. 17 Weatherford 65-53, before making noise in the Weatherford Classic.

Lady Dawgs picked 11th in GAC poll

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – The Great American Conference released the league’s preseason softball poll Wednesday, as voted on by the GAC’s 12 head coaches.Southwestern Oklahoma State University is slated for an 11th-place finish in the 2022 campaign.

Hawks trade Cam Reddish to NY Knicks

ATLANTA (AP) — The struggling Atlanta Hawks (17-23) have traded forward Cam Reddish to the New York Knicks for a protected 2022 firstround draft pick.Atlanta confirmed the move on Thursday.

Carmella Jefferson

Carmella Jefferson was recognized for scoring 1,000 career points before the boy’s game versus woodward Monday.

Caden Powell

Caden Powell scored his 1,000th career point Monday. Head coach Lucian Bliss presented Powell with a plaque Monday.

Shanahan, Quinn bring painful past to 49ers-Cowboys meeting

(AP) –Kyle Shanahan and Dan Quinn will always share the painful memory of coaching in the Super Bowl together with Atlanta five years ago when the Falcons couldn’t hold a 25-point lead in the second half of a loss to New England.

Texts, pictures lead to 1st doping case under new US law

DENVER (AP) — Nigeria’s top Olympic medal hopeful was thrilled. The drugs her doctor sent were working.“Eric my body feel so good,” Blessing Okagbare said in a text not long after running the 100 meters in a personalbest 10.63 seconds. “Whatever you did is working so well.

Shaun White all but wraps up spot in his 5th Olympic Games

Shaun White all but wraps up spot in his 5th OlympicsLAAX, Switzerland (AP) — Shaun White all but wrapped up a spot in his fifth Olympics on Thursday when he qualified for the finals of a contest in Switzerland and his nearest American pursuer failed to move on.

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Canaan Read attempts a jump shot during Arapaho-Butler’s junior varsity game with Mt. View-Gotebo Tuesday. Johnny Galvan calls out a play during Arapaho-Butler’s junior varsity game with Mt.View-Gotebo Tuesday. Arapaho-Butler’s Kamden Scott drives to the hoop during a junior varsity game Tuesday.