How a city celebrating the Thunder’s NBA title, with Olympic softball and canoe slalom on the way, has used sports to change its identity.

Softball returned to the Games for the first time since the Beijing Olympics in 2008. But it's not on the program for Paris in 2024. The six-team tournament featured defending Olympic champion Japan ...

Exclusive to Sports Illustrated, here is what OKC mayor David Holt wrote to then L.A. mayor Eric Garcetti in 2018 about staging events in Oklahoma.

Softball made its long-awaited return to the Olympic stage at Tokyo in 2021. After making history as the first women-only Olympic sport in 1996, softball was featured in the Games until 2008. Cat ...

The 2028 Summer Olympics are just three years away, but fans of softball and canoe slalom can go ahead and mark their calendars for the two events to be held in OKC. The LA28 committee unveiled the ...

It’s no secret that NiJaree Canady is a trailblazer in college softball and women’s sports in general. On the diamond, she’s coming off one heck of a season with the Texas Tech Raiders, where she ...