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1 One state lawmaker from nearby Atoka County is still working to reduce the penalties for cockfighting.

2 The reemergence of cockfighting as an issue in the Oklahoma Capitol is frustrating opponents who, until recently, considered the matter long settled.

3 Actually, it housed the family rooster, or cockerel; Romany were traditionally keen on cockfighting as a sport.

4 Human cockfighting makes us mean and desensitizes us.”

5 Prior to the law, cockfighting had been illegal in the 50 states but not in territories.

6 It’s a menacing, dreamlike tableau: two identical knife-wielding men, poised for an attack inside a cockfighting ring.

7 He fought them when he was a teenager, back in the ’80s when there was an active scene, and before cockfighting became a felony in Indiana.

8 Yabuta said his program, which helps local and federal law enforcement collaborate in the fight against illegal drugs, is concerned about cockfighting because it’s wrapped up in organized crime and has links to drug-trafficking.

9 He said it’s easy to understand why some elected officials in Oklahoma, even sheriffs, might look the other way when it comes to cockfighting.

10 Every week, he told me, his department signed off on shipments of game fowl — labeled “brood fowl” — that were most likely destined for cockfighting pits.

11 Critics dismiss mixed martial arts as nothing more than human cockfighting.

12 “Have you ever heard of a ‘sport’ called cockfighting?”

13 The week kicked off satisfyingly with the by far the best thing to come out that match between the domestic abuser  and the cockfighting enthusiast marriage equality opponent — Uncle Denzel.

14 Police in Hawaii have vowed to step up enforcement after one of the most serious mass shootings in that state's history happened last year at a cockfight where five people were shot, including two who died.

15 But as underground goes, cockfighting culture isn’t terribly buried.

16 Gaslights illuminated a large brick chamber centered around a sunken stage of the sort used for rat-baiting and cockfighting.

17 A proposal to weaken cockfighting penalties cleared the Oklahoma House.

18 “I saw this special on TV about cockfighting. It’s the exact same thing.”

19 Sports history meets social history in "The Big Scrum" as John J. Miller examines the early years of an all-too-deadly pastime and why only presidential intervention may have saved football from the fate of cockfighting.

20 He said before the ban, rural Oklahoma counties were peppered with cockfighting arenas set up in large barns with stadium-style seating, overhead lights and even concession stands.

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