Oklahoman wins Miss America crown
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Lauren Nelson, an aspiring Broadway star, was crowned Miss America on Monday night, the second year in a row that a Miss Oklahoma has won the crown.
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Cristie Kerr rallied from a two-shot deficit in the final eight holes yesterday to beat Annika Sorenstam by two shots and win the John Q. Hammons Hotel Classic in Broken Arrow, Okla.
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AUSTRALIA&#39;S Lauren Jackson played with a heavy heart but managed to score 18 points as Seattle Storm defeated Minnesota 64-54 to reach the WNBA&#39;s Western Conference basketball finals.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (Sports Network) - J.P. Batista scored a  career-high 20 points off the bench, Adam Morrison had 19, and  No. 12 Gonzaga held on for a 78-75 victory over third-ranked  and previously undefeated Oklahoma State in the All-College  Classic.
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The United States won the women's  basketball gold medal at the Olympics on Saturday.
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The morning after her big win, Lauren Nelson, the brand-new Miss America, said she felt different the moment she woke up. "I looked over on my bedside table and I had the Miss America crown sitting next to me," Nelson told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
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Sporting updated hairdos and red carpet-worthy fashion, a crop of 52 newly made-over aspiring beauty queens was trimmed to a final field of 16 as they competed for the top tiara Saturday in the Miss America Pageant.
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Chicago - She won early and often, and often by overwhelming margins. She won on four continents - in Australia, Sweden and Japan and in six of the 50 United States.
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KELLY HOLMES&#39; last-minute gamble was rewarded with a glorious gold medal last night as she stormed to the Olympic 800m title in Athens.
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Paul Hamm etched his name into the  record books as he became the first American man to win the  Olympic gymnastics all-round crown Wednesday.
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He was chosen today as one of five finalists for college football&#39;s most prestigious individual title. Joining Smith for Saturday&#39;s award ceremony in New York will be Oklahoma teammates Jason White and Adrian
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Toby Keith didn't have to go to Nashville to become a country music superstar. Nashville came to Oklahoma. Keith &#151; who won two American Music Awards on Sunday night &#151; has never strayed too far from his Sooner State roots, working long days in oil fields, playing semiprofessional football and raising racehorses.
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OKLAHOMA CITY  &#151; Having already helped police target sexual predators online, Miss America Lauren Nelson now is teaming with a security software company to help educate parents and children about dangers on the Internet.
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ABC-TV has pulled the plug on Miss America, leaving the famous beauty pageant without a network television sponsor for the first time in 50 years.
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Tatana Kucharova, an 18-year-old student from the Czech Republic, won the Miss World 2006 beauty contest on Saturday.
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Oklahoma City, OK (Sports Network) - JP Batista scored a career-high 20 points off the bench, Adam Morrison had 19, and No. 12 Gonzaga held on for a 78-75 victory over third-ranked and previously undefeated Oklahoma State in the All-College Classic.
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ATHENS, Greece - Otis Harris of Edwards finished second and Jeremy Wariner won the gold today as Americans swept the medals in the 400 meters at the Summer Olympics.