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The newly hired football coach at Newkirk has Ponca City ties.

Two Ponca City Wildcat baseball players are among those who have received special honors for the 2020 season.

NEW YORK (AP) — Baseball players appeared likely to propose more regularseason games this year while holding to their demand for full prorated salaries, people familiar with their deliberations told The Associated Press.

With several renovations and upgrades made to Cowley College’s Ed Hargrove Softball Field over the past few years, the final touches were put on the facility with a state-of-the-art scoreboard having been recently installed.

During the past week the world of sports lost another icon when former Oklahoma State basketball coach Eddie Sutton passed away. Once I heard the news, I didn’t wonder long about the topic of my next column.

“How is Madison Birnbaum doing these days?” you might ask.

By DAVID MILLER david@poncacitynews.com

I do a lot of reading these days and I read with interest the fact that Major League Baseball is coming up with a proposal to play an 82-game season, starting at least with no fans in the stands. The image of no fans in the stands doesn’t really compute with me, as fan participation is a big part of the Major League experience for me, but at least some games will be played.

Padraig Harrington was planning to bring a 150-strong traveling party with him to the Ryder Cup, giving the people closest to the European captain something of an inside experience of one of the great events in golf.