Jesse Teel, 4, was bitten by a venomous pygmy rattlesnake on his foot as he played at his home in Okemah, News9 reported. Pygmy rattlesnake bites are rarely fatal for adults. But bites in children, and other vulnerable individuals, can be extremely dangerous, meaning medical attention is required immediately. It is currently the tail end of rattlesnake season in the U.S. The snakes are most active in the warm weather as they are cold blooded....

Major Corey Britt was relieved of his role as senior company officer at Station 34 in Oklahoma City, according to the NBC-affiliated KFOR channel citing firefighters with knowledge of the situation. Fire Chief Richard Kelley told reporters: “We don’t transport patients,” in response to questions about the disciplinary hearing, which took place at Oklahoma City Fire Department headquarters earlier this week. “That’s not our job.” Kelley said Britt, who has worked as a firefighter for 25 years, will keep his same rank and pay but will face “internal corrective measures....

MORE: Top 25 scores, updates | Who to root for: Notre Dame or FSU? Knight was injured on a scramble with 8:44 left in the first quarter. He appeared to injure either his left arm or shoulder. Redshirt freshman Cody Thomas replaced Knight, who exited for the locker room. UPDATE: Knight returned on the Sooners’ next drive. 

While the school did not elaborate on the circumstances that led to his suspension, its release included an apology from Mixon, who said, “I regret that I did not respond appropriately to parking attendants and understand and accept the consequences.” MORE: Top remaining CFP-defining games Stoops and Oklahoma president David Boren had previously said Mixon would be under a zero-tolerance policy after surveillance footage revealed he punched a woman inside a Norman bar prior to the 2014 season....

Oklahoma star Buddy Hield was on the receiving end of an obscene chant as he stepped to the free throw line in the first half Saturday. (Note: As you may expect, the video below includes a group of people cursing in unison.) MORE: Best college basketball players at every number When the No. 1 Sooners took the floor in the second half, Hield went to work. He hit seven of his eight 3-pointers in the final 20 minutes, finishing with 32 points as Oklahoma escaped the Pete Maravich Assembly Center with a 77-75 come-from-behind win....

Hurts finished 17 of 24 through the air for 415 passing yards and three touchdowns, adding 70 rushing yards and another score on the ground against Texas Tech in the Sooners’ Big 12 opener. Afterward, the Heisman-contending quarterback hit the gym for your typical post-game workout. Check out some of his workout from Hurts’ Instagram post below: MORE: Hurts opens Heisman Trophy lead with stat-stuffed Big 12 debut This isn’t the first time this season the former Alabama quarterback has hit the weight room right after a game....

Out of the voices of support for Hubbard came new accusations against Gundy of racist behavior against black players. Wide receiver LC Greenwood, who entered the NCAA transfer portal in January, wrote in a since-deleted post on Twitter that Gundy would call him a “hood rat” and “thug” and threaten him over his clothing choices. Others backed the claim and added stories of their own. Former Oklahoma State linebacker Patrick Macon wrote that Gundy would tell him and defensive back Kanion Williams they were in danger of being sent back to South Dallas....

The wing-back featured from start to finish for Leonid Slutsky’s side in their 3-2 loss to Nottingham Forest on Saturday as they recorded their sixth league defeat of the season. The loss means they are just five places above the drop zone having gathered just 16 points from 14 outings. And the Nigeria international has taken to the social media to charge the Tigers to go for the maximum points when Garry Monk’s men come visiting....

The reasoning? Budget cuts. MORE: Portraits of Team USA athletes “We don’t think it’s going to be critical (to have air conditioning) there,” said Rio 2016 spokesman Mario Andrada. According to Andrada, up to 2 billion reals ($520 million) need to be cut from Brazil’s Olympic budget of 7.4 billion reals ($1.9 billion). MORE: Rio’s filthy Olympic water even dirtier than expected Included in the budget are operating costs for the Games, along with income from the International Olympic Committee, marketing, tickets sales and local sponsorships....

Gamers everywhere noticed an interesting trend during the beginning of the 2021 Olympic opening ceremony: Famous tracks from certain video games were being played. Among them, songs from “Ace Combat,” “Sonic the Hedgehog” and “Final Fantasy”: One song in particular, though, is an interesting one and it has a bit of a darker and relevant meaning. MORE: Watch the Olympics live with fuboTV (7-day trial) “Song of the Ancients” from the “NieR” soundtrack tells the plot of the video game: the story of a black book that caused a plague on mankind, virtually ending all life on Earth as we know it, with its opponent, the white book, restoring order....

Rockets general manager Daryl Morey is asking for an “impact player” in talks about the disgruntled big man, but he would settle for a lottery pick, according to Yahoo!’s sources. The report contradicts an ESPN.com report that said the Rockets were unwilling to grant Asik’s trade request. Asik has wanted out since Houston signed Dwight Howard last July. The team shopped him around the league once the Howard deal went through....

A television camera affixed to the top of the goal at Kentucky’s Rupp Arena showed everyone how LSU center Kavell Bigby-Williams scored the game-winning tip-in to beat the No. 5 Wildcats by knocking the ball into the goal as it rested on the rim from teammate Skylar Mays’ original attempt at the decisive basket. Bigby-Williams’ goal was not a legal play, but neither was it reviewable under NCAA basketball’s instant-replay rules....

Of course, Memorial Day is solemn. But it is also an opportunity to reflect upon, appreciate and be thankful for the freedom that we enjoy every day in the United States of America. We honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice by prospering, enjoying our liberty and preserving the American way of life. With Memorial Day coming up, I decided to have a true patriot, Pete Hegseth, on this week’s episode of my podcast, “Newt’s World....

Actually, lots of improbable things happened, and they all added up to a 3-2 Cardinals victory that wrapped up the NLDS and sent the Dodgers home for the winter. Let’s take a look at a few examples. The improbable parade started a few hours before the game, when the Dodgers released their starting lineup for Game 4. It did not include Yasiel Puig. Now, whatever you might think about Don Mattingly’s decision to sit Puig, who was riding a skid of seven strikeouts in eight at-bats—but had tripled and scored L....

“What are we doing this for?” he asked. “Sir,” Chronicle political editor Susan Yoachum explained, “you’re going to be on the Internet.” At first it looked like just another big-city newspaper strike. But before the San Francisco dispute ended with a tentative settlement over the weekend, it introduced a new weapon in publishing showdowns: the cyberstrike. For nearly two weeks, management and striking editorial staffers at the Chronicle and the Examiner took to the Internet to supplement erratically distributed print copies of their papers....

It is also, paradoxically, his most humane and compassionate book. Father and son are genuinely affectionate toward each other. Each would give his life if it meant the other could live. This is as far as McCarthy has ever gone to acknowledge the goodness in people. And in the light of that relationship, the question that the novel implicitly poses–how much can you subtract from human existence before it ceases to be human?...

He got their applause and arguably deserved it-for after trying in vain to finesse the Bosnian tragedy for the better part of three years, Clinton at last was taking action to prevent further tragedy in Bosnia. His televised speech earlier in the week made much the same argument to the American public-but beyond his carefully worded promise to end U.S. involvement in “about a year,” Clinton did not answer the crucial question of how he expects to get out....

Had that day arrived in 1998 or 2008 rather than 2018, there would have general managers offering their least-favorite children to the Suns in exchange for Ayton’s draft rights. He would have been viewed as the next in a line of franchise-foundation big men, a succession traveling through time from George Mikan to Bill Russell to Wilt Chamberlain to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to Shaquille O’Neal and Tim Duncan. Instead, in the modern era of basketball analysis, he had internet draft experts fussing about his “block rate....

“Words can’t really define it. No words, really. We came up short,” Parker said following Duke’s upset loss to Mercer in the 2014 NCAA Tournament round of 64. “We can say a lot of stuff that we didn’t have, but we just didn’t take advantage of what we did.” This likely was the end of his Duke basketball career, his college basketball career, after one season and first-team All-America status....

The more she talked, the less she resembled the child I’d read about who had lived through torment that most of us never experience in our worst nightmares. She entered the juvenile system five years ago. She had been sexually abused by an uncle, her father and her father’s friend. Her divorced mother, an attractive woman who is borderline retarded, is now seeing a man whose children may be be taken from him by the state....