Tulsa, Oklahoma Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Professional sports=== {| class="wikitable" |- " ! Club !! Sport !! League !! Venue |- | [[FC Tulsa]] | [[Association football|Men's Soccer]] | [[USL Championship]] | [[ONEOK Field]] |- | [[Tulsa Oilers]] | [[Ice hockey]] | [[ECHL]] | [[BOK Center]] |- | [[Tulsa Oilers (IFL)|Tulsa Oilers]] | [[Indoor American football|Indoor football]] | [[Indoor Football League|IFL]] | [[BOK Center]] |- | [[Tulsa Drillers]] | [[Baseball]] | [[Texas League]] | [[ONEOK Field]] |- | [[Tulsa Athletic]] | [[Association football|Men's soccer]] | [[National Premier Soccer League]] | Hicks Park |- | [[Tulsa Rugby Football Club]] | [[Rugby Union]] | [[Division II Rugby]] | 37th Riverside Field |} Tulsa's [[Double-A (baseball)|Class AA]] [[Texas League]] baseball team is called the [[Tulsa Drillers]]; famous former Drillers include [[Sammy Sosa]], [[Matt Holliday]], and [[Iván Rodríguez]]. In 2008, Tulsa funded $39.2 million to build a new ballpark in the Greenwood District near downtown for the Drillers. The ground breaking was held on December 19, 2008. ONEOK bought the naming rights for {{Nowrap|$10 million}} for the next 25 years. The first game at ONEOK Field was held on April 8, 2010. Country music star [[Tim McGraw]] threw out the first pitch.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/local/country-music-star-is-on-deck/article_d3540dbd-6b4d-53c4-98a5-001048558d3f.html|title=Country music star is on deck|last=Writer|first=P.J. LASSEK World Staff|work=Tulsa World|access-date=April 26, 2018|language=en}}</ref> The 19,199-seat [[BOK Center]] is the centerpiece of the Vision 2025 projects and was completed in August 2008; the BOK Center was in the top ten among indoor arenas worldwide in ticket sales for the first quarter of 2009 when it was the home for the city's [[Tulsa Shock]] [[Women's National Basketball Association|WNBA]], [[Tulsa Talons|Tulsa Talons arena football]], and [[Tulsa Oilers|Tulsa Oilers ice hockey]] teams; as of 2022, the Oilers are the sole remaining tenant.<ref name="In The Loop, 2nd Quarter 2007">{{cite web|year=2007 |url=http://www.tulsadowntown.org/imgUL/In%20the%20Loop,%202nd%20quarter,%202007.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070614044129/http://www.tulsadowntown.org/imgUL/In%20the%20Loop%2C%202nd%20quarter%2C%202007.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 14, 2007 |title=In The Loop, 2nd Quarter 2007 |publisher=Tulsa Downtown Unlimited |page=3 |access-date=May 3, 2007 }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page