Who were the winners and who were the losers from the sporting weekend? Wynne Gray and Chris Rattue make their picks.

Steven Adams' dreams of reaching his first NBA Finals will come down to a winner-takes-all thriller tomorrow afternoon (NZT).

A 33-year-old Oklahoma man has been charged with killing his stepfather by giving him an atomic wedgie, that caused the victim to suffocate in his own underwear.

The shooting by an elderly white police reservist of an unarmed black suspect has raised questions about the use of volunteer officers to supplement full-time police.

Politicians in the state of Oklahoma have come up with a new and largely untested way to execute death row prisoners – asphyxiation with nitrogen.

A US congressman was replaced by a robot body double after he was secretly executed, and the results of a recent vote should be thrown out, his opponent has claimed.

James Robinson finds Oklahoma people are good-natured and big on basketball and memorials.

Kevin Pilley survives a deadly all-American sport.