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Due to the ice storm affecting the LeFlore County area, the following basketball matchups have been postponed or canceled for Tuesday.

A couple of changes came through for the basketball schedule for the evening due to icy road conditions. The only originally scheduled game, Panama vs. Pocola, was canceled. Spiro vs. Muldrow for Tuesday was initially moved up to Monday, but was postponed to Thursday.

Poteau's basketball teams earned a sweep for a second night in a row on the road. Britlee Reed led Poteau's girls (7-8) with 10 points. On the boys side, Poteau's Wyatt Gamble led the Pirates (7-9) with 15 points to counter Spiro's Brycen Graham scoring 14.

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A couple of changes have come into the Thursday, Jan. 26, basketball schedule due to the lingering possibility of ice on roads tonight.

Due to a mix of pouring rain turning into ice and snow on Tuesday, a handful of basketball games have been postponed. Here are the postponements: 

Pocola's boys basketball team earned its second straight LeFlore County Tournament championship, and Howe's girls earned their eighth LCT title in nine years. The two teams did it in blowout fashion, albeit in different ways.

LeFlore was the only lower seed winning a winners bracket quarterfinal on Tuesday in the LeFlore County Basketball Tournament, although the No. 5 seed Savages had taken down a No. 4 seed, Spiro. No. 6 seed Poteau boys had a path to victory against No. 3 seed Wister, but it eluded them in the end.

Carl Albert State College's men's wrestling team earned fourth in the NJCAA Coaches Dual at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M in Miami on Wednesday and Thursday.

Talihina's boys and Spiro's girls hung on in the clutch to win the LeFlore County Junior High Basketball Tournament on Saturday in Panama. Here are the scores from the final day.

The top two seeds held in the LeFlore County Junior High Basketball Tournament boys semifinals as No. 1 Talihina will face No. 2 Pocola in the final on Saturday. Here are the Friday results, followed by the Saturday slate.

In the LeFlore County Junior High Basketball Tournament girls semifinals, two lower-seeded teams prevailed with No. 8 Spiro and No. 6 Hodgen making the final. Here are the scores from Thursday action.

Here are the scores from the first day of the LeFlore County Junior High Basketball Tournament on Monday.

Poteau's girls basketball team earned its first win of the season while taking down Haskell 50-33 in its Henryetta Knights Basketball Tournament first-round game on Thursday. 

A year after sweeping the LeFlore County Basketball Tournament championships, Pocola's teams were awarded the top seeds for the LCT as seeding was decided on Wednesday.

Dak Prescott threw for 282 yards and two touchdowns to Dalton Schultz as the Dallas Cowboys beat the banged-up and resting Tennessee Titans 27-13 on Thursday night in Nashville, Tenn., for their sixth win in seven games.

After rebuilding Florida State’s program over the past few years, coach Mike Norvell will take a moment to savor the No. 13 Seminoles’ 35-32 victory over Oklahoma in the Cheez-It Bowl on Thursday in Orlando, Fla. Then, he said, it’s time to get back to work.

Pelé, the Brazilian king of soccer who won a record three World Cups and became one of the most commanding sports figures of the last century, died Thursday. He was 82.

Pocola's basketball teams lost their first two games in Christmas week tournaments, proceeding to seventh-place games in each one.

Arkansas coach Sam Pittman admitted he was exhausted after more than four hours of football. Who could blame him after the Razorbacks and Kansas combined for 108 points?

I really want to focus on snow angels, but I was shaken by the meltdown in which Southwest Airlines was embroiled during this Christmas season.

Braelon Allen ran for 116 yards and a touchdown and Wisconsin withstood Oklahoma State's second-half push in the Guaranteed Rate Bowl for a 24-17 victory Tuesday night at Chase Field, the home of Major League Baseball's Arizona Diamondbacks.

National Football League Hall of Famer Franco Harris of the Pittsburgh Steelers has died at 72, Pittsburgh-area news agencies are reporting.

While they are only nine and eight games into their college basketball seasons, respectively, Spiro High School graduate Tylor Perry and Jalei Oglesby of Howe are among the top 100 scorers in each of their divisions.

About 11 months after Howe and Pocola faced off in an epic LeFlore County Tournament girls final in Talihina that Pocola won 66-65 in overtime and eight months since Pocola beat Howe 40-36 in the Class 2A state championship game, the two teams that are ranked near the top of 2A meet in anoth…

Pocola and Howe's girls advanced on the winners side of the Choctaw Nation Invitational Tournament in Talihina with wins on Thursday. Here are the scores for Round 1.

Howe’s girls and Talihina’s boys topped the seeding for the LeFlore County Junior High Basketball Tournament, as it was seeded on Wednesday.

Wister's boys made a big run in the second quarter, and Keota's girls broke away in the third during championship games of the Nadine Carpenter Classic in LeFlore on Saturday.

Poteau's boys basketball team earned its first win of the season on Friday. Kord Fenton hit the go-ahead 3-pointer with a minute and a half left.