Jamba Juice Company, a leading healthy, active lifestyle brand, launched their “Team Up for a Healthy America” campaign bringing together national partners in a united commitment to help raise awareness of our Nation’s obesity epidemic. Reinforcing their vision to inspire and simplify healthy living, the Jamba Juice “Team Up” campaign is intended to show America how pledging to make simple changes to eat more healthy and become more active can lead to an overall improved lifestyle. Starting today and continuing through November, people across the nation looking for ways to enhance their exercise and diet routines, can log onto www.teamupandpl...

Members of the Tulsa Shock spent Wednesday afternoon working up a sweat, and it wasn't on a basketball court.Elizabeth Cambage, Kayla Pedersen, Jennifer Lacy and Marion Jones teamed with several season-ticket holders and their children to help Up With Trees clean a Tulsa park as part of the WNBA's Green Week. "We don't get a lot of opportunities like this to rub elbows with our biggest fans, so it's kind of a double whammy to get to do that and help the environment by doing what we can," Jones said. Up With Trees is a nonprofit organization dedicated to planting, preserving and promoting Tulsa's urban forest. The Shock offered its services, a...

A strange text message from her mother on May 22 was the first indication to Amber Cox, chief operating officer of the Phoenix Mercury, that something was not right.There was a "car destroyed" near the Flying J, a gas station about a mile from their Missouri home, her mother texted. And "we did not know it (a tornado) hit one mile north of us."Cox, 37, grew up 30 miles away from Joplin, the "big city" to her 6,000-person hometown of Monett, Mo. Her family still lives in Monett, and tornado warnings were not unusual."We would have those warnings on a regular basis, but nothing of this magnitude," Cox said. "It's Midwestern protocol this time o...