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CHL: Thunder's rival won't compete this season

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Published July 8, 2009 at 2:26 p.m.

The Oklahoma City Blazers, rival to the Wichita Thunder in the Central Hockey League, will not play the upcoming season, the league confirmed Wednesday ...

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Morning showers dampen Thursday in Wichita area

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Published July 2, 2009 at 8:08 a.m.

WICHITA - Showers rolled through the Wichita area early Thursday morning, dampening soil and sending rumbles of thunder through the predawn darkness ... Skies should gradually become partly cloudy as the day continues, with temperatures climbing into the low 90s in Wichita. Southerly winds will be gusty, surging from the teens into the mid-20s ... Another chance of showers arrives later tongiht, when lows tonight will sink to the upper 60s, forecasters say. Friday will be sunny and hot - with

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Thunder's Bilodeau to return

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Published March 27, 2009 at 4:03 p.m.

Brent Bilodeau will return as the coach of the Wichita Thunder next season, general manager Joel Lomurno said ... Bilodeau, who just completed his rookie season, has a year left on his contract, but Lomurno had not publicly committed to the coach until Friday ... The Thunder was 20-41-3 this season. For more, see Saturday's Eagle ...

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Intrust Bank Arena management contract unusual, but not necessarily bad

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Published March 22, 2009 at 2:44 a.m.

Sedgwick County's hands-off deal with SMG to manage the Intrust Bank Arena downtown is rare for a publicly owned arena, several public officials say ... So is a deal in which SMG -- not Sedgwick County taxpayers -- will cover any operating losses at the arena, those officials say, because many publicly owned facilities require taxpayer subsidies ... "I would take the deal Sedgwick County got," said Vic Miller, county commission chairman for Shawnee County, where taxpayers subsidize SMG's

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Wichita Thunder Retire Jersey Of Former Player Battling Cancer

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Published March 20, 2009 at 10:48 p.m.

It was a team effort Friday by Wichita Thunder players and fans to surprise a former player and coach in a big way ...

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Details of Intrust Bank Arena contract with Thunder are a secret

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Published March 20, 2009 at 10:25 a.m.

Intrust Bank Arena landed its first tenant Thursday with the announcement of a 10 ½-year lease with the Wichita Thunder hockey team ... Financial terms of the Thunder's lease with arena manager SMG, the company that Sedgwick County officials chose to run the arena, remained a secret after a Thursday afternoon news conference to announce the deal ... It was a secret even to Sedgwick County officials, who said that the arena's manager will have little accountability to the taxpayers who paid for

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Thunder to sign multiyear deal with Intrust Bank Arena

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Published March 18, 2009 at 1:29 p.m.

The Wichita Thunder will sign a multiyear contract to be the anchor tenant at the Intrust Bank Arena next year, the hockey club announced Wednesday ...

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Thunder agrees to deal with Intrust Bank Arena

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Published March 18, 2009 at 4:09 p.m.

The Wichita Thunder hockey team, as expected, will be an anchor tenant in the new Intrust Bank Arena after its scheduled January 2010 opening, the arena's marketing firm announced this morning ... SMG, the Thunder and Sedgwick County officials will hold a news conference Thursday to talk about the multi-year deal ... The Thunder has played in the Kansas Coliseum since its 1992 inception ...

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