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The Douglass Trojans will begin the defense of the Class 4A state football championship on national television in September. The Trojans have been invited to play in the Kirk Herbstreit Kickoff Classic, which will be held on Labor Day, Sept. 5, at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The event will feature four... Read More

Edmond North camp featuring a lot of new faces May 31, 2011 Will there be name tags available at Edmond North for the three-day camp that begins Wednesday? I kid, well, kind of. However, there are going to be a lot of new faces in some of the familiar places when the 15 teams get together. This is a big ‘get’ for Edmond North as this camp continues to get bigger and... Read More

Jim Thorpe Football game rosters May 30, 2011 Jim Thorpe Football Rosters Here are the rosters for the Jim Thorpe football game at 7 p.m. on Friday at Mustang. Read More

Jarion Tudman, Jared Benway make Edmond North dangerous May 29, 2011 Concluded my spring football two-week tour with a stop at the Edmond North Navy-White scrimmage Friday night. Forgot just how many good players are coming back for Jeremy Dombek. I’ve spent a good time thinking about how big it is that RB Jared Benway will be back after his leg injuries, but he’s just one cog... Read More

George Kittle, Norman offense will be fun to watch May 28, 2011 Slowly making the rounds for spring football. We’re just about done and one of my final stops was Wednesday evening at Norman to watch the Tigers’ Orange-White scrimmage. If you wanted to see how good running back Donovan Roberts looks, well, you were out of luck. Roberts had less than five carries. However,... Read More

All-state slowpitch softball rosters May 27, 2011 All-state slowpitch softball rosters Here are the rosters for the Oklahoma Slowpitch Softball Coaches Association’s all-state games June 18 at the University of Oklahoma Softball Complex. Large West Nicole Nelson, Blanchard; Logan Huey, Purcell; Peyton Watson, Little Axe; Kendra Pierce, Westmoore; Bailey... Read More

Lawton's D.J. Ward adds Oklahoma State, Oregon State to offer list May 27, 2011 Take everything I said here, and let’s just add to it. Lawton junior-to-be defensive end D.J. Ward added offers from Oregon State and Oklahoma State on Friday. Ward has picked up four offers from big-time programs in the last four days. Texas Tech on Tuesday, Oklahoma on Thursday and now the Cowboys and Beavers... Read More

Mustang announces hiring of Scott Selby as baseball coach May 27, 2011 After 15 years as a college head coach, Scott Selby is returning to the high school ranks. Selby is leaving Southwestern Oklahoma State in Weatherford to become the new baseball coach at Mustang High School. “Scott Selby is a home run hire for Mustang High School and our baseball program. He has built top... Read More

Dillan Dansby returns for Carl Albert May 26, 2011 It was a good battle for as long as it lasted last year between Taylor Hawkins and Dillan Dansby for the starting quarterback spot at Carl Albert. Dansby earned the nod and Hawkins became one of the leaders on defense. However, Hawkins was thrust back into the role when Dansby went down. The Titan offense was... Read More

Lawton's D.J. Ward picks up Oklahoma offer May 26, 2011 It’s rare for Oklahoma to make an offer to a football recruit that’s not for the upcoming year and is also an in-state product. But that’s the type of talent Lawton defensive end D.J. Ward has. Ward, who will only be a junior in the fall, picked up an offer from OU on Thursday to give him six total and... Read More

Guthrie, others schools the day after the tornadoes

May 25, 2011 Guthrie superintendent Terry Simpson summed it up best: “It’s about what is to be expected.” What can you really say the day after something like Tuesday’s tornadoes? It appears Guthrie was one of the places that got hit the hardest Tuesday, and Simpson said there was no way at all to accurately assess... Read More

Heritage Hall's Markus Wakefield gets Colorado State offer

May 25, 2011 Colorado State representatives were one of several teams to show up at Heritage Hall’s spring football practices. Now it’s clear why. Chargers lineman Markus Wakefield picked up his first offer as the Rams offered Wakefield on Wednesday night, Wakefield told The Oklahoman. Wakefield, a force on both sides... Read More

Arizona offers PC North's Daniel Burton May 24, 2011 It seems Arizona coach Mike Stoops is looking hard at Oklahoma offensive linemen. Highly regarded prospects like Blake Belcher of Guthrie and Cayman Bundage of Douglass have already been offered by the Wildcats, and now you can add Putnam City North’s Daniel Burton to the list. Burton, 6-foot-4, 275 pounds,... Read More

Norman North's Wade Standley brings fresh energy

May 24, 2011 Every team is different. Each coach brings their own personal touch to the program. And though I truly believe Lance Manning is the right man at Edmond Santa Fe, perhaps it was time for Manning to leave Norman North. Manning never once coached like it, but I always found it strange he stayed in Edmond instead of... Read More

All-State soccer rosters May 23, 2011 Here are the rosters for the all-state soccer games to be held over a three-day period from June 9-11 at Putnam City North. The 4A games are Thursday, June 9, with the girls at 6 p.m. and the boys at 8. The 5A games are Friday, June 10, with the girls at 6 and the boys at 8. The 6A games are Saturday, June 11, with... Read More

Choctaw's Kevin Jarvis excels in the bench press May 23, 2011 Putnam City running back Casey Curtis wasn’t the only recruit to have an impressive showing at the OkVarsity.com combine Saturday at Yukon. Nobody showed their strength more than Choctaw’s Kevin Jarvis. The Yellowjackets defensive lineman smoked the field in the bench press with 31 repetitions at 185 pounds.... Read More

Edmond Santa Fe hosting girls basketball camp May 23, 2011 The Edmond Santa Fe Lady Wolves Championship Basketball Camp is set for May 31-June 3 at Edmond Santa Fe. Camp for girls in kindergarten through fourth grade will be from 9 a.m. to noon. Campers in fifth through eighth grade will attend the 1 to 4 p.m. session. T-shirts will be provided to all campers and... Read More

Oklahoma offers Tulsa Washington hoop star Juwan Parker

May 23, 2011 Tulsa Washington’s Juwan Parker continues to show why he’s regarded as the state’s top basketball prospect in the 2013 class. Parker told The Oklahoman on Monday night that he received a scholarship offer from new Oklahoma coach Lon Kruger. The OU offer is Parker’s fifth, along with Oklahoma State, Tulsa,... Read More

Shontrell Scott leads crazy comeback for West in Little All-City game May 23, 2011 Who says all-star games are just exhibitions? That was easily the strangest boys basketball game I’ve seen in my life. No doubt about it. In the Little All-City game Monday night, the West trailed by more than 20 points in the third quarter. I don’t have an exact number because I stopped my running score,... Read More

Norman's George Kittle gets Air Force offer May 22, 2011 Just because Norman running back Donovan Roberts has committed to Arkansas, that doesn’t mean the recruiting trail is going to end for the Tigers. Offensive lineman Foster Hare continues to get looked at by college coaches, while wide receiver/defensive back George Kittle picked up his first offer. Kittle,... Read More

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Ryan Aber

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Ryan Aber has worked for The Oklahoman since 2006, covering high schools, the Oklahoma City RedHawks, the Oklahoma City Barons and OU football recruiting. An Oklahoma City native, Aber graduated from Northeastern State. Before joining The Oklahoman, Aber worked for the Muskogee Phoenix, Southwest Times-Record in Fort Smith, Ark., and the Morning News of Northwest Arkansas.

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Jason Kersey became The Oklahoman's OU football beat writer in May 2012 after a year covering high school sports and OSU recruiting. Before joining the newspaper in November 2006 as a part-time results clerk, he covered high school football for the Newcastle Pacer. During his time with The Oklahoman, he has also coordinated Thunder coverage, worked on the copy desk and covered several NFL games, including Super Bowl XLV. A Noble High School and OU graduate, he lives in Norman.

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Jacob Unruh is a graduate of Northeastern State University. He was born in Cherokee and raised near Vera where he attended Caney Valley High School.During his tenure at NSU, Unruh wrote for The Northeastern (NSU's student newspaper), the Tahlequah Daily Press and the Tulsa World. From there, Unruh spent three years at the Lawton Constitution covering prep sports and Oklahoma football before joining The Oklahoman sports staff.

Scott Wright

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A lifelong resident of the Oklahoma City metro area, Scott Wright has been on The Oklahoman staff since 2005, covering a little bit of everything on the state's sports scene.

He has been a beat writer for football and basketball at Oklahoma and Oklahoma State, writing about athletes like Blake Griffin, Sam Bradford, Adrian Peterson, Dez Bryant and Brandon Pettigrew before they moved on to outstanding professional careers.

He also has covered small college athletics, minor league sports and NASCAR. Currently, he specializes in high school sports, football and basketball recruiting, and coverage of the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association.