Sports

The silver anniversary of the Smoke on the Water Drag Boat Races drew interest from coast to coast as the Outlaw-style event continues to gain popularity after two and a half decades.“It went really well. We had good weather and didn't have a whole lot of issues.

Missing the sounds and thrills of boat racing on Lake El Reno?Well, you won't have to wait until next July to hear engines humming, waves crashing and side-by-side racing.

With his pit area near the fishing pier at Lake El Reno, Matt Miller has a front row seat of sorts for most passes during the Smoke on the Water Drag Boat Races.Yet when he has his head down working on his boat or being shuttled back and forth between races, the veteran El Reno driver is always...

Opponents on the Class B level know that Calumet High School senior Kaleb Thiessen has the skills to play at the next level.Now the rest of the state and perspective college coaches do as well.Thiessen was one of two Canadian County small-school players picked to compete in last week’s 2025 High...

Dressed as an astronaut, El Reno resident Cody Shropshire runs around the edge of the infield at the Bricktown Ballpark during a fan-involved race.Shropshire was one of many El Reno residents attending the Oklahoma City Comets game to cheer on EHS graduate Rhett Kouba during a recent Triple A game.

Bri Michalicka can’t wait to see her team together on the field at the same time, even though her El Reno High School softball program kicked off preseason drills last week.Michalicka moved the first four days of team practices to one-on-one instruction sessions since she had only six available...

El Reno’s Brecken Haglund recently competed in the Sub-Regional qualifier at Lincoln Golf Course in Oklahoma City.He advanced to the Regional Finals in Frisco, Texas, set for Oct. 5.

El Reno High School’s softball program held a youth skills camp last week at the Ashbrook North Complex.More than 50 campers took part in the three-day event.The Indians open preseason workouts Tuesday.

The year is 2000 and the calendar flipped to a new century, the final Peanuts comic strip appeared in newspapers worldwide and a small drag boat race started on the waters of Fort Cobb Lake.

While the end result was a winning campaign, El Reno High School head baseball coach Keith Hill said the short summer season was more about an inner look than the outward product.“About like anything else, I saw some really good things and not so good.