2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup
The tournament served as the Oceanian qualifiers to the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, with the champions qualifying for the World Cup in France. The champions also qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics women's football tournament in Japan.


2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup
New Zealand were the defending champions. They won the tournament for their fourth consecutive and sixth overall OFC Women's Nations Cup title.


2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup, Format
The draw for the tournament was held on 21 March 2018 at the OFC Headquarters in Auckland, New Zealand. In both the qualifying stage and final tournament, the hosts (Fiji and New Caledonia) were assigned to position A1 in the draw, while the remaining teams were drawn into the other positions without any seeding.


2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup, Qualification
For the first time, the OFC Women's Nations Cup is a compulsory tournament, so all 11 OFC member national teams have entered the tournament.


2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup, Qualification
Note: New Caledonia and Tahiti are not members of the International Olympic Committee and thus not eligible to qualify for the Olympic Football Tournament.


2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup, Venues
The host nation of the final tournament was New Caledonia. The matches were played at four venues.


2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup, Group stage
The top two teams of each group advance to the semi-finals.


2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup, Knockout stage, Final
Winners qualified for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup and 2020 Summer Olympics.


2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup, Goalscorers
There were 108 goals scored in 16 matches, for an average of 6.75 goals per match.


2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup, Awards
The Golden Ball Award was awarded to the most outstanding player of the tournament. The Golden Boot Award was awarded to the top scorer of the tournament. The Golden Glove Award was awarded to the best goalkeeper of the tournament. The Fair Play Award was awarded to the team with the best disciplinary record at the tournament.


2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup, Qualification for international tournaments, Qualified teams for FIFA Women's World Cup
The following team from OFC qualified for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup.


2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup, Qualification for international tournaments, Qualified teams for Summer Olympics
The following team from OFC qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympic women's football tournament.


2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup qualification
The 2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup qualification tournament was a football competition that took place from 24 to 30 August 2018 in Lautoka, Fiji to determine the final women's national team which joined the seven automatically qualified teams in the 2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup final tournament in New Caledonia.


2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup qualification, Teams
On 31 October 2017, the OFC announced its executive's decision on the teams to compete in the tournament. For the first time, the OFC Women's Nations Cup is a compulsory tournament, so all 11 OFC member national teams entered the tournament. The four lowest-ranked teams, based on previous regional performances of all women's national teams, entered the qualification tournament while the remaining teams were given a bye to the final tournament.


2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup qualification, Format
The four lowest-ranked teams based on previous regional performances of all women’s national teams (American Samoa, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and Fiji) entered the qualification tournament, which was played in a single round-robin format in Fiji.


2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup qualification, Format
The winner advanced to the 2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup, held from 18 November to 1 December 2018 in New Caledonia, joining the other seven teams which received a bye into the group stage. The Nations Cup serves as the Oceanian qualifiers to the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, with the champions qualifying for the final tournament in France, as well as the 2020 Summer Olympics women's football tournament in Japan, as long as they are a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).


2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup qualification, Draw
The draw for the qualification tournament was held on 21 March 2018 at the OFC Headquarters in Auckland, New Zealand. The hosts Fiji were assigned to position 1 and were exempted from the draw, while the remaining teams were drawn into the other positions without any seeding in order to determine the match schedule.


2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup qualification, Draw
The draw for the match schedule resulted in the following positions:


2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup qualification, Draw
Note: Bolded team qualified for the 2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup.


2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup qualification, Venue
The qualification tournament was held at Churchill Park in Lautoka, Fiji. The tournament was originally scheduled to be held in Pago Pago, American Samoa from 27 August to 4 September 2018, but in March 2018 the venue was changed to Fiji. The qualification tournament in Fiji was originally scheduled to take place from 25–31 August 2018, but was later adjusted to 24–30 August.


2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup qualification, Schedule
The match schedule was revealed on 6 July 2018. The schedule of qualification is as follows:


2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup qualification, Goalscorers
There were 12 goals scored in 6 matches, for an average of 2 goals per match.


2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup squads
The 2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup is an international football tournament being held in New Caledonia from 18 November to 1 December 2018. The eight national teams involved in the tournament were required to register a squad of up to 23 players, including two goalkeepers. Only players in these squads are eligible to take part in the tournament.


2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup squads
The position listed for each player is per the official squad list published by the OFC. The age listed for each player is on 18 November 2018, the first day of the tournament. The numbers of caps and goals listed for each player do not include any matches played after the start of tournament. The nationality for each club reflects the national association (not the league) to which the club is affiliated. A flag is included for coaches that are of a different nationality than their own national team.


2018 OKC Energy FC season
The 2018 OKC Energy FC season was the club's fifth season of existence, and their fifth consecutive season in the United Soccer League, the second tier of American soccer. Energy FC also played in the U.S. Open Cup. The season covered the period from November 5, 2017 to the beginning of the 2019 USL season.


2018 OKC Energy FC season
The 2018 season was the first for OKC under new head coach Steve Cooke, who had previously been the interim head coach of Colorado Rapids. Cooke became just the second head coach in club history; Jimmy Nielsen had been in charge for the previous four seasons.


2018 OKC Energy FC season
Energy FC finished tenth place in the Western Conference, missing the playoffs for just the second time in club history and the first time since 2014. OKC took points from 16 of their last 21 matches, after losing 10 of their first 13 games, but still finished 10 points outside the final playoff spot. In the U.S. Open Cup, Energy FC was knocked out by amateur club NTX Rayados, who play in the North Texas Premier Soccer Association. It marked the first season in club history in which OKC did not win at least one game in the cup.


2018 OKC Energy FC season, Competitions, USL, Match results
In August 2017, the USL announced that the 2018 season would span 34 games, the longest regular season the league had ever run. The expansion was spurred by the addition of six new clubs for the 2018 season: Atlanta United 2, Fresno FC, Indy Eleven, Las Vegas Lights, Nashville SC, and North Carolina FC.


2018 OKC Energy FC season, Competitions, USL, Match results
On January 12, 2018, the league announced home openers for every club. Energy FC opened their home slate with the season's first fixture of the Black Gold Derby against Tulsa Roughnecks, the second time in four years that Energy FC and Tulsa faced off in the season opener. The teams had previously faced off to open the 2015 season.


2018 OKC Energy FC season, Competitions, USL, Match results
The schedule for the remainder of the 2018 season was released on January 19. Energy FC played three times against both Colorado Springs Switchbacks and Tulsa. They faced every other Western Conference team twice.


2018 Oakland Athletics season
The 2018 Oakland Athletics season was the 118th season for the Oakland Athletics franchise, all as members of the American League, and their 51st season in Oakland (all at Oakland Coliseum). The A's were managed by Bob Melvin in his eighth year as manager of the A's. They played their home games at Oakland Coliseum as members of Major League Baseball's American League West Division.


2018 Oakland Athletics season
The A's began the season on March 29 against the Los Angeles Angels and finished the season on September 30 against the Angels as well. On September 24, they clinched their first playoff berth since 2014. They went on to lose to the New York Yankees in the Wild Card Game, 7–2. Their 97 wins were the most of any Athletics team since 2002.


2018 Oakland Athletics season, Offseason
The Oakland Athletics made a move to acquire outfielder Stephen Piscotty from the St. Louis Cardinals for Yairo Muñoz on December 14, 2017. The trade allowed Piscotty to be closer to his mother who was suffering from ALS. His mother died on May 6, 2018.


2018 Oakland Raiders season
The 2018 season was the Oakland Raiders' 49th in the National Football League, their 59th overall, their 24th since their return to Oakland, and their first under head coach Jon Gruden since his rehiring by the organization (fifth overall). The Raiders finished the season with a 4–12 record, failing to improve upon their previous season's record of 6–10, and their worst since 2014.


2018 Oakland Raiders season
With a loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in Week 13, the Raiders were eliminated from playoff contention for the second consecutive season. With their week 15 loss to the Bengals, the Raiders failed to improve their record from the previous season. The loss also secured their spot at last in the AFC West.


2018 Oakland Raiders season
On December 10, the Raiders fired general manager Reggie McKenzie who had been with the Raiders since 2012.


2018 Oakland Raiders season, Stadium issues
Although the league approved the Raiders' eventual relocation to Las Vegas on March 27, 2017, the team maintained its lease at the Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum and used the stadium for the 2018 season while the team's new stadium in Las Vegas was under construction.


2018 Oakland Raiders season, Stadium issues
Initially in April 2017, the operators of the Coliseum stated they would be unwilling to sign a lease extension for the team to play at the stadium while their new venue in Las Vegas was being built; however by September of that year, the Coliseum operators expressed willingness to negotiate, but insisted on concessions to compensate for the million-dollar deficit the Coliseum runs by hosting Raiders games.


2018 Oakland Raiders season, Stadium issues
Owner Mark Davis stated he preferred to stay in Oakland for the 2019 season but was considering other options, including Las Vegas's Sam Boyd Stadium, Berkeley's California Memorial Stadium, Mackay Stadium in Reno, Nevada; the San Francisco 49ers's Levi's Stadium and even the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, a venue thought to have been ruled out in 2014. Davis acknowledged that if fans failed to support the team similarly to the 1996 Houston Oilers, it could hasten the relocation. Team management also indicated they would relocate after 2018 if there were any lawsuits filed against the team; the city of Oakland sued the Raiders and all other teams in the league on December 11, 2018, however the Raiders remained in Oakland for the final year despite the lawsuit.


2018 Oakland Raiders season, Offseason, Coaching changes
On January 6, 2018, the Raiders hired their former head coach, Jon Gruden, who returned to the Raiders and coaching from ESPN's Monday Night Football. Gruden received a 10-year, $100-million contract to return to the Raiders. Gruden last coached in the NFL in 2008 with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and last coached the Raiders in 2001.


2018 Oakland Raiders season, Offseason, Coaching changes
At the press conference announcing the hiring of Gruden on January 9, Gruden announced that Los Angeles Rams quarterbacks coach Greg Olson had been hired as offensive coordinator, though Gruden would call plays, while former Cincinnati Bengals defensive coordinator Paul Guenther was hired as the new defensive coordinator. Gruden also announced that former Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Dallas Cowboys special teams coordinator Rich Bisaccia was hired to serve as special teams coordinator. On January 29, the Raiders named Brian Callahan, son of their former head coach Bill Callahan, as the new quarterbacks coach.


2018 Oakland Raiders season, Offseason, Khalil Mack holdout and trade to Chicago
On September 1, 2018, the Raiders traded defensive star Khalil Mack along with their 2020 2nd round pick to the Chicago Bears for two first round picks (RB Josh Jacobs and CB Damon Arnette), a 2019 6th round pick, and a 2020 3rd round pick, after he had held out of training camp.


2018 Oakland Raiders season, Offseason, Trades
6th round pick (2019 draft)(Traded to the New York Jets in the 2019 offseason)


2018 Oakland Raiders season, Preseason
The Raiders' preseason opponents and schedule were released on April 11.


2018 Oakland Raiders season, Regular season, Schedule and results
On January 11, the NFL announced that the Raiders will play host to the Seattle Seahawks in a London Game in London, England. The game site, originally slated for Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, was later moved to Wembley Stadium. This marked the fourth time in five seasons in which the Raiders played a game outside the United States, as well as their second visit to London (the other being 2014).


2018 Oakland Raiders season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. Los Angeles Rams
During the game, tight end Jared Cook set a new franchise record for most receiving yards in a game by a Raiders tight end finishing the night with 180 yards on nine catches. The previous record was held by Todd Christensen with 173 yards on November 20, 1986 against the San Diego Chargers. He was one of only six tight ends to ever record over 180 yards receiving since 1999. Quarterback Derek Carr threw three interceptions in a game for his second time in his career, the previous time was against the Kansas City Chiefs in 2015.


2018 Oakland Raiders season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: vs. Indianapolis Colts
This game was the first game for the Raiders without wide receiver Amari Cooper, as the Dallas Cowboys traded their 2019 1st round draft pick in exchange for Cooper the week before the game.


2018 Oakland mayoral election
The 2018 Oakland mayoral election was held on November 6, 2018 to elect the mayor of Oakland, California. Incumbent mayor Libby Schaaf was reelected. The election was held using instant-runoff voting, but Schaaf received a majority of votes in the first round, so no additional rounds were necessary. Municipal elections in California are officially non-partisan.


2018 Oaxaca earthquake
The 2018 Oaxaca earthquake occurred on February 16, 2018 at 17:39 local time (23:39 UTC) in the Sierra Madre del Sur mountains in Oaxaca state in Southern Mexico. It had a magnitude of 7.2 on the moment magnitude scale and a maximum felt intensity of VII (very strong) on the Mercalli intensity scale. The hypocenter was located at a depth of 24.6 km and approximately 37 km northeast of Pinotepa de Don Luis. There were only two reports of injuries from the earthquake, but later a military helicopter surveying the damage crashed and killed 14 people. There were also 15 people injured.


2018 Oaxaca earthquake, Tectonic summary
Oaxaca lies on the destructive plate boundary where the Cocos Plate is being subducted beneath the North American Plate. In the region of this earthquake, the Cocos Plate moves approximately northeastward at a rate of 60 mm/yr. The earthquake occurred as a result of thrust faulting at a shallow depth. The depth and focal mechanism solutions of the event are consistent with its occurrence on the subduction zone interface between these plates, approximately 90 km northeast of the Middle America Trench.


2018 Oaxaca earthquake, Tectonic summary
Historically, several significant earthquakes have occurred along the southern coast of Mexico. In 1932, a M 8.4 megathrust earthquake struck in the region of Jalisco, several hundred kilometers to the northwest of the Oaxaca event. On October 9, 1995, a M 8.0 earthquake struck in the Colima-Jalisco region, resulting in at least 49 fatalities and leaving 1,000 people homeless. The deadliest nearby earthquake occurred on September 19, 1985, in the Michoacán region 500 km to the northwest of the February 16th event.


2018 Oaxaca earthquake, Tectonic summary
This M 8.0 earthquake resulted in at least 9,500 fatalities, injured about 30,000 people, and left 100,000 people homeless. In 2003, a M 7.6 earthquake in Colima, Mexico, resulted in 29 fatalities, destroyed more than 2,000 homes and left more than 10,000 people homeless. In March 2012, a M 7.4 earthquake 60 km to the northwest of the February 16, 2018 event killed 2 and injured 11 in the Oaxaca region. The hypocenter of the M 8.2 earthquake off the shore of Chiapas in September 2017 was located 440 km southwest of this earthquake.


2018 Oaxaca earthquake, Tectonic summary
The Chiapas event caused at least 78 fatalities and 250 injuries in Oaxaca, and a further 16 deaths in Chiapas. Eleven days later, a M 7.1 earthquake struck closer to Mexico City, 230 km northeast of today’s earthquake, resulting in over 300 fatalities and significant damage in Mexico City and the surrounding region.


2018 Oaxaca earthquake, Tectonic summary
A second quake, registering 5.9, struck Oaxaca on February 19, 2018, around 12:57 AM local time. The quake, believed to be an aftershock, had an epicenter about 69 miles southwest of Oaxaca City; its impact was registered in Mexico City. No deaths were reported from this quake.


2018 Oaxaca earthquake, Helicopter crash
Alejandro Murat Hinojosa, the Governor of Oaxaca, was in Tuxtepec at the time the earthquake struck and immediately left to survey the damage in Pinotepa Nacional with Alfonso Navarrete Prida, who had become the Secretary of the Interior the month before. The Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk military helicopter in which Murat and Navarrete, along with the state head of civil protection and one other person, were traveling, crashed in Santiago Jamiltepec while attempting to land nearby when the pilot lost control of the aircraft. The helicopter crashed on two cars that were parked in a field, where a family was spending the night outside after the earthquake. A total of 14 people, all of them on the ground, were killed, and 15 others were injured. All four people on board the helicopter survived unharmed.


2018 Oceania Badminton Championships
The XIII 2018 Oceania Badminton Championships is the continental badminton championships in Oceania sanctioned by the Badminton Oceania, and Badminton World Federation. This championship is organized by Badminton New Zealand, and will be the 13th edition of the Oceania Badminton Championships. It is being held in Hamilton, New Zealand from 6 to 11 February 2018. The team event will start on 6 February, and will be the qualification stage for the 2018 Thomas & Uber Cup finals to be played in Thailand, while the individual event will start on February 8.


2018 Oceania Badminton Championships, Venue
The tournament will be held at the Eastlink Badminton Stadium, Hamilton East, Hamilton, New Zealand.


2018 Oceania Badminton Championships, Individual event
The individual event of the 2018 Oceania Badminton Championships were held from 8 to 11 February, at the Eastlink Badminton Stadium, in Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand. Australia had secured four titles in the women's singles and three doubles event, with Sawan Serasinghe and Setyana Mapasa winning two doubles titles each, and the men's singles title goes to New Zealand.


2018 Oceania Badminton Championships, Individual event
The three doubles event present all the Australian pair. Serasinghe who was teamed-up with Matthew Chau beat their compatriot Robin Middleton and Ross Smith in the final with the score 21–17, 23–21. Mapasa claimed the women's doubles title after beat Renuga Veeran and Leanne Choo with the score 21–14, 22–20. In the mixed doubles event Mapasa and Serasinghe again became the champion defeat Chau and Choo 21–19, 21–18. The women's singles final also present the Australian players, and Wendy Chen claimed the title after beat Louisa Ma 21–7, 21–14. Abhinav Manota of New Zealand broke the Australian stranglehold on the Oceania championships by winning the men's singles gold medal. Manota beat Remi Rossi of Tahiti in the straight games 21–12, 21–14 in the final.


2018 Oceania Badminton Championships, Team event
The 2018 Oceania Team Championships officially crowns the best male and female national teams in Oceania and at the same time works as the qualification event towards the 2018 Thomas & Uber Cup finals. 4 teams both in the men's and women's team have entered the tournament. Australia men's and women's team were clinched the Oceania Team titles, and qualified for the 2018 Thomas & Uber Cup finals, after topping the standings both in the men's and women's team. New Zealand men's and women's team were placing second both in the men's and women's team, while Tahiti men's team and Fiji women's team were in the third place.


2018 Oceania Badminton Championships, Team event, Seeds
The seeding, which is based on BWF world rankings, for both the men's and women's competition is the same:


2018 Oceania Judo Championships
The 2018 Oceania Judo Championships was the ninth edition of the Oceania Judo Championships, organised by the Oceania Judo Union. It took place in Nouméa, New Caledonia from 6–8 April 2018.


2018 Oceania Judo Championships, Participating nations
There was a total of 59 participants from 11 nations.


2018 Oceania Men's Handball Challenge Trophy
The 2018 Men's Oceania Handball Challenge Trophy is to be held at the L'Arene du Sud, New Caledonia between 10 and 15 June 2018.


2018 Oceania Men's Handball Challenge Trophy
This is the sixth ever championship. The competition participants were defending champions Tahiti, Australia, Cook Islands, New Zealand, hosts New Caledonia and Fiji.


2018 Oceania Men's Handball Challenge Trophy
Australia won their fourth title beating defending champions Tahiti. Hosts New Caledonia were third followed by New Zealand, Fiji and the Cook Islands.


2018 Oceania Rugby Under 20 Championship
The 2018 Oceania Rugby Under 20s, was the fourth edition of the Oceania Rugby Junior Championship. Tonga played in the tournament for the first time, replacing Samoa from the previous year and joining  Fiji, New Zealand and hosts Australia at Bond University on the Gold Coast.


2018 Oceania Rugby Under 20 Championship
The Oceania Championship was played over three rounds in nine days, with New Zealand defeating Australia by 43–28 in the last match of the round-robin tournament to take the title.


2018 Oceania Rugby Under 20 Championship, Teams
The teams for the 2018 Oceania Rugby Under 20 tournaments were:


2018 Oceania Rugby Under 20 Championship, Trophy
The Oceania Trophy was played at Lotopa, near Apia in Samoa, as a two-match series between Samoa and Tonga.


2018 Oceania Rugby Under 20 Championship, Trophy, Standings
Classification:Teams standings are calculated as follows:Most log points accumulated from all matchesMost log points accumulated in matches between tied teamsHighest difference between points scored for and against accumulated from all matchesMost points scored accumulated from all matches


2018 Oceania Sevens Championship
The 2018 Oceania Sevens Championship was the eleventh Oceania Sevens in men's rugby sevens. It was held at ANZ Stadium in Suva, Fiji on 9–10 November. Host nation Fiji won the tournament, defeating New Zealand by 17–12 in the final.


2018 Oceania Sevens Championship
Tonga finished fifth and, as the highest-placed side without core status on the World Rugby Sevens Series, won berths to the Sydney Sevens and Hamilton Sevens for 2019. Tonga also joined the sixth-placed Cook Islands as Oceania's representatives for the 2019 Hong Kong Sevens qualifying tournament for the 2020 World Series.


2018 Oceania Sevens Championship, Teams
Participating nations for the 2018 tournament was almost the same as the previous year with Niue replacing American Samoa in the teams being entered:


2018 Oceania Sevens Championship, Pool stage
The draw for the pool stage was done by a random order with the top four seeds being set as the top team in each of the four pools with the remaining spots in the draw being done by bands (5-8th, 9-12th).


2018 Oceania Swimming Championships
The 2018 Oceania Swimming Championships was held from 25 to 30 June 2018 at the Taurama Aquatic Centre in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. It was the twelfth edition of the biennial championships as well as the first to be held in Port Moresby. The tournament featured competition in swimming and open water swimming.


2018 Oceania Swimming Championships, Participating nations
A total of sixteen teams have confirmed participation for the 2018 Oceania Swimming Championships:


2018 Oceania Table Tennis Championships
The 2018 Oceania Table Tennis Championships was held in Gold Coast, Australia, from 15–19 March 2018. The competition took place in two venues: the Gold Coast Table Tennis Association, and Oxenford Studios, which was also used as the venue for the table tennis events at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.


2018 Oceania Table Tennis Championships, Schedule
The competition featured 14 events: seven for senior players and seven for under-21 players.


2018 Oceania Table Tennis Championships, Schedule
The schedule below was released by the International Table Tennis Federation.


2018 Oceania Women's Sevens Championship
The 2018 Oceania Women's Sevens Championship was the eighth Oceania Women's Sevens tournament. It was held in Suva, Fiji on 9–10 November 2018.


2018 Oceania Women's Sevens Championship
Australia won the tournament by defeating defending champions New Zealand in a thrilling final, 14-10. While host Fiji beat Papua New Guinea for third place. Papua New Guinea as the highest ranked non-core team for the 2018–19 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series qualified for the 2019 Sydney Women's Sevens and 2019 Hong Kong Women's Sevens.


2018 Oceania Youth Handball Championship
The 2018 Men's Oceania Youth Handball Championship is to be held at the L'Arene du Sud, New Caledonia between 10 - 15 June 2018.


2018 Oceania Youth Handball Championship
This is the first championship since 2011. The competition participants were defending champions New Zealand, Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, hosts New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea.


2018 Oceania Youth Handball Championship
New Zealand successfully defended their title, beating out New Caledonia for first place. Third was Australia followed by Fiji, Papua New Guinea and The Cook Islands.


2018 Oceania Youth Olympic Games Qualifier (boys' field hockey)
The 2018 Oceania Youth Olympic Games Qualifier for boys' field hockey was held from the 25 to 28 April 2018 in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. The tournament also served as a direct qualifier for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics, with the winner, runner-up and third placed team qualifying.


2018 Oceania Youth Olympic Games Qualifier (boys' field hockey), Format
The four teams will each play each other two times, having played six games in total. The top two teams advance to the final, while the bottom two teams play for the third and fourth place.


2018 Oceania Youth Olympic Games Qualifier (girls' field hockey)
The 2018 Oceania Youth Olympic Games Qualifier for girls' field hockey was held from 25 to 28 April 2018 in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. The tournament also served as a direct qualifier for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics, with the winner and runner-up qualifying.


2018 Oceania Youth Olympic Games Qualifier (girls' field hockey), Format
The four teams will each play each other two times, having played six games in total. The top two teams advance to the final, while the bottom two teams play for the third and fourth place.


2018 Odds BK season
Odds Ballklubb, commonly known as Odd, is a Norwegian football club from Skien. Originally the football section of a multi-sports club, founded in 1894 nine years after the club's founding. All other sports than football were discontinued and the club became dedicated to football only. Odd plays in the Norwegian top division, Tippeligaen, and holds the record winning the Norwegian Football Cup the most times, the last coming in 2000. The club was known as Odd Grenland between 1994 and 2012. During the 2018 season the club will be participating in the Eliteserien and NM Cupen.


2018 Odds BK season, Squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2018 Odds BK season, Transfers, Winter
In:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2018 Odds BK season, Transfers, Winter
Out:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2018 Odds BK season, Transfers, Summer
In:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2018 Odds BK season, Transfers, Summer
Out:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2018 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open
The 2018 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the thirteenth (ATP) and sixteenth (ITF) editions of the tournament and was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2018 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on 13–19 August 2018.


2018 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:


2018 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry into the singles main draw using protected rankings:


2018 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open, Men's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry into the singles main draw as special exempts:


2018 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open, Women's singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw:


2018 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open – Men's Doubles
James Cerretani and Neal Skupski were the defending champions but only Skupski chose to defend his title, partnering Luke Bambridge. Skupski successfully defended his title.


2018 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open – Men's Doubles
Bambridge and Skupski won the title after defeating Marc Polmans and Max Purcell 4–6, 6–3, [10–6] in the final.


2018 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open – Men's Singles
Cedrik-Marcel Stebe was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title.


2018 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open – Men's Singles
Dan Evans won the title after defeating Jason Kubler 4–6, 7–5, 7–6(7–3) in the final.


2018 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open – Women's Doubles
Jessica Moore and Jocelyn Rae were the defending champions, however Rae retired from professional tennis in December 2017, while Moore decided not to participate.


2018 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open – Women's Doubles
Desirae Krawczyk and Giuliana Olmos won the title, defeating Kateryna Kozlova and Arantxa Rus in the final, 6–2, 7–5.


2018 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open – Women's Singles
Maryna Zanevska was the defending champion, but lost to Nao Hibino in the second round.


2018 Odlum Brown Vancouver Open – Women's Singles
Misaki Doi won the title after defeating Heather Watson 6–7(4–7), 6–1, 6–4 in the final.


2018 Offaly Senior Football Championship
The 2018 Offaly Senior Football Championship was the 121st edition of Offaly GAA's premier gaelic football competition for senior graded clubs in County Offaly, Ireland. Eight teams compete, with the winner representing Offaly in the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship.


2018 Offaly Senior Football Championship
The championship starts a league stage and progresses to a knockout stage.


2018 Offaly Senior Football Championship
Rhode were the defending champions after they defeated Clara in the previous years final, and they successfully defended their title to claim a "3-in-a-row" when defeating Ferbane in the final.


2018 Offaly Senior Football Championship
This was Durrow's return to the senior grade after claiming the 2017 Offaly Senior 'B' Football Championship title, however they were relegated back to Senior 'B' for 2019 when suffering relegation at the hands of Durrow.


2018 Offaly Senior Football Championship, Team Changes
The following teams have changed division since the 2017 championship season.


2018 Offaly Senior Football Championship, League Phase
The top two in the group go directly to the semi final. The third through sixth place teams will contest the quarter finals. The two bottom finishers will qualify for the Relegation Final.


2018 Offaly Senior Football Championship, Relegation Play Off
The two bottom placed teams from each group play off in the relegation final with the loser relegated to the 2019 Senior 'B' Championship.


2018 Ohio Attorney General election
The 2018 Ohio Attorney General election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the attorney general of Ohio.


2018 Ohio Attorney General election
Incumbent Attorney General Mike DeWine was term-limited and ran for governor. Republican nominee and Ohio State Auditor Dave Yost defeated Democratic nominee and former US Attorney Steve Dettelbach in the general election.


2018 Ohio Attorney General election, Republican primary
Dave Yost won the Republican primary unopposed on May 8, 2018.


2018 Ohio Attorney General election, Democratic primary
Steve Dettelbach won the Democratic primary unopposed on May 8, 2018.


2018 Ohio Attorney General election, General election, Results
Dave Yost won the general election by a 4.4% margin of victory.


2018 Ohio Bobcats football team
The 2018 Ohio Bobcats football team represented Ohio University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They were led by 14th-year head coach Frank Solich and played their home games at Peden Stadium in Athens, Ohio as members of the East Division of the Mid-American Conference. They finished the season 9–4, 6–2 in MAC play to finish in a tie for second place in the East division. They were invited to the Frisco Bowl where they defeated San Diego State.


2018 Ohio Bobcats football team, Previous season
The Bobcats finished the 2017 season 9–4, 5–3 in MAC play to finish in second play in the East Division. They received an invitation to the Bahamas Bowl where they defeated UAB.


2018 Ohio Bobcats football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll
The MAC released their preseason media poll on July 24, 2018, with the Bobcats predicted to finish as champions of the East Division.


2018 Ohio House of Representatives election
An election was held on November 6, 2018 to elect all 99 members to Ohio's House of Representatives. The election coincided with the elections for other offices, including U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, state governor and state senate. The primary election was held on May 8, 2018.


2018 Ohio House of Representatives election
Republicans retained a supermajority in the House despite a net loss of four seats, winning 62 seats compared to 37 seats for the Democrats.


2018 Ohio House of Representatives election, Results by district, Detailed results
Results of the 2018 Ohio House of Representatives election by district:


2018 Ohio Machine season
The 2018 Ohio Machine season is the seventh season for the Ohio Machine of Major League Lacrosse. The reigning champion Machine come into the year looking to repeat as Steinfeld Cup Champions. They would be the first team since the Chesapeake Bayhawks in 2012 and 2013 to do so.


2018 Ohio Machine season
The Machine opened their title defense on April 29 with a historic output from Marcus Holman, who scored a league record 11 goals in a 25-13 victory over the New York Lizards. The team took a hard fall, though, losing ten of their last 11 games and finishing with a league-worst 3-11 record.


2018 Ohio Senate election
The 2018 Ohio Senate election was held on November 6, 2018, with the primary election held on May 8, 2018. Ohio voters elected state senators in the 17 odd-numbered Ohio Senate districts. State senators elected in 2018 are eligible to serve a four-year term beginning January 2019 and ending December 2022. These elections coincided with elections for Ohio Governor, the Ohio House, the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, and other statewide offices.


2018 Ohio Senate election
Despite a moderate statewide swing that allowed the Democrats to win the popular vote, the Republicans retained their supermajority of 24 seats in the Senate, compared to the Democrats' 9 seats.


2018 Ohio State Buckeyes football team
The 2018 Ohio State Buckeyes football team represented Ohio State University during the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Buckeyes played their home games at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. This was the Buckeyes' 129th overall season and 106th as a member of the Big Ten Conference. They were led by head coach Urban Meyer in his seventh and final season at Ohio State.


2018 Ohio State Buckeyes football team
Shortly before the season, head coach Urban Meyer was placed on administrative leave due to allegations that he was aware of domestic violence incidents involving former wide receivers coach Zach Smith. Ryan Day was named acting head coach. After a lengthy investigation, Meyer was suspended for three games for poor handling of the situation. Day acted as the head coach during Meyer's suspension.


2018 Ohio State Buckeyes football team
The Buckeyes won each of their three games under Ryan Day to open the season, including a victory over then-No. 15 TCU in AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. After Urban Meyer's return, Ohio State won their following four games, including a close win on the road over then-No. 9 Penn State. Ohio State rose to second in the AP Poll, but suffered a devastating loss on the road to Purdue, 49–20. The Buckeyes won their remaining regular season games, however, and secured a spot in the 2018 Big Ten Football Championship Game after defeating rival No. 4 Michigan 62–39.


2018 Ohio State Buckeyes football team
Ohio State defeated West Division champion Northwestern in that game convincingly, 45–24, but in the final College Football Playoff rankings of the year, the Buckeyes were ranked sixth, leaving them just outside the playoff for the second consecutive year. The team was invited to the Rose Bowl to play Pac-12 Conference champion Washington. In the weeks before the game, Urban Meyer announced that he would retire at the end of the season, and the Rose Bowl would be his final game as head coach. The Buckeyes won the game to finish the year at 13–1, and were ranked third in the final polls.


2018 Ohio State Buckeyes football team
The team was led offensively by quarterback Dwayne Haskins, who led FBS with 4,831 passing yards and 50 passing touchdowns, both of which set school records by wide margins. Haskins was named Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year and was a finalist for the Heisman Trophy, finishing in third. On the ground, running backs J. K. Dobbins and Mike Weber combined for over 2,000 yards rushing. Wide receiver Parris Campbell led the team with 1,063 receiving yards and a Big Ten-leading 12 receiving touchdowns. Defensive star and pre-season All-American lineman Nick Bosa suffered a groin injury during the game against TCU. He underwent surgery and elected not to return to the team, instead focusing on recovering for the 2019 NFL Draft.


2018 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, Previous season
The Buckeyes finished the 2017 season 12–2, 8–1 in Big Ten play to win the East division. They defeated Wisconsin in the Big Ten Championship 27–21. However, despite an 11–2 record, they failed to receive an invitation to the College Football Playoff. Instead, they received a bid to the Cotton Bowl Classic where they defeated USC 24–7.


2018 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, Recruiting, Recruiting class
The Buckeyes signed a total of 26 recruits. The class was rated as the second best in the country behind Georgia by the 247Sports Composite, and the best class in the Big Ten Conference. Headlining the class were consensus five star recruits Nicholas Petit-Frere (offensive tackle), Taron Vincent (defensive tackle), and Tyreke Johnson (safety).


2018 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, Game summaries, at Maryland
at Capital One Field at Maryland Stadium • College Park, Maryland


2018 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, Awards and honors
*The NCAA and Ohio State only recognize the AP, AFCA, FWAA, Sporting News and WCFF All-American teams to determine if a player is a Consensus or Unanimous All-American. To be named a Consensus All-American, a player must be named first team in three polls and to be Unanimous, they must be named first team in all five.


2018 Ohio Valley Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2018 Ohio Valley Conference Baseball Tournament will be held from May 22–27. The top eight regular season finishers met in the double-elimination tournament, held at Choccolocco Park in Oxford, Alabama. As tournament champion, Morehead State earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament  Among current members, Austin Peay has won the most championships, with six, while Belmont (joined in 2012), SIU Edwardsville (joined in 2008),and Tennessee–Martin (joined in 1992) have never won championships. The Tournament began in 1979.


2018 Ohio Valley Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding and format
The top eight regular season finishers will be seeded by conference winning percentage. After a play-in round between the bottom two seeds, the remaining seven teams will play a double-elimination tournament, with the top seed receiving a single bye.


2018 Ohio Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2018 Ohio Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament that completed the 2017–18 season in the Ohio Valley Conference. The tournament was held February 28 through March 3, 2018 at Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana.


2018 Ohio Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Regular-season champion Murray State defeated Belmont in the championship game to win the tournament and received conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.


2018 Ohio Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
Only the top eight teams in the conference qualified for the Tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the division and conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference The No. 1 and No. 2 seeds received double byes to the semifinals under the merit-based format. The No. 3 and No. 4 seeds received a single bye to the quarterfinals. records.


2018 Ohio Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
Southeast Missouri State, despite finishing in seventh place, was ineligible for the tournament due to Academic Progress Rate violations.


2018 Ohio Valley Conference Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2018 Ohio Valley Conference Women's Basketball Tournament ended the 2017–18 season of Ohio Valley Conference women's basketball. The tournament was held February 28–March 3 at Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana. Regular-season champion Belmont won the tournament and with it the OVC's automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament.


2018 Ohio Valley Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, Format
The OVC women's tournament is a traditional single-elimination tournament featuring the top eight teams in the conference regular-season standings. This differs from the format used in the OVC men's tournament; while that tournament also involves only eight of the league's 12 members, it has a radically different format, consisting of two stepladder brackets that produce the tournament finalists. The women's tournament is seeded so that the #8 seed faces the #1 seed in the first round, #7 faces #2, and so on. There is no reseeding, so if the #8 team were to defeat the #1 seed it would continue in the tournament playing the team which would have faced the #1 seed in the subsequent round (winner of #4 vs. #5).


2018 Ohio Valley Conference Women's Soccer Tournament
The 2018 Ohio Valley Conference Women's Soccer Tournament was the postseason women's soccer tournament for the Ohio Valley Conference held from October 26 through November 4, 2018. The first round and quarterfinals of the tournament were held at campus sites hosted by the #3 and #4 seeds, while the semifinals and final took place at Skyhawk Soccer Field in Martin, Tennessee. The eight-team single-elimination tournament consisted of four rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play. The Murray State Racers were the defending champions and successfully defended their title with a 2–1 win over the Tennessee-Martin Skyhawks in the final. The conference tournament title was the fourth for the Murray State women's soccer program and the third for head coach Jeremy Groves.


2018 Ohio elections
The Ohio general elections, 2018, were held on November 6, 2018, throughout Ohio.


2018 Ohio elections, Federal, Senate
Democratic U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown—the only elected Democratic statewide officeholder in Ohio as of July 2017—won re-election to a third term, defeating Republican U.S. Representative Jim Renacci in the general election.


2018 Ohio elections, Federal, House of Representatives
All of Ohio's 16 seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election in 2018.


2018 Ohio elections, State, Governor and Lieutenant Governor
Incumbent Republican governor John Kasich and Lieutenant Governor Mary Taylor are term-limited and cannot run for a third consecutive term.


2018 Ohio elections, State, Attorney General
Incumbent Republican Attorney General Mike DeWine is term-limited and cannot run for a third term as attorney general. DeWine instead ran for governor.


2018 Ohio elections, State, Secretary of State
Incumbent Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted is term-limited and cannot run for a third term as secretary of state.


2018 Ohio elections, State, Treasurer
Incumbent Republican State Treasurer Josh Mandel is term-limited and cannot run for a third term as treasurer.


2018 Ohio elections, State, Auditor
Incumbent Republican State Auditor Dave Yost is term-limited and cannot run for a third term as auditor.


2018 Ohio elections, General Assembly, Senate
The 17 odd-numbered districts out of 33 seats in the Ohio Senate are up for election in 2018. Nine of these seats are currently held by Republicans, seven are held by Democrats, and one is vacant.


2018 Ohio elections, General Assembly, House of Representatives
All 99 seats in the Ohio House of Representatives are up for election in 2018. 65 of these seats are currently held by Republicans, 33 are held by Democrats, and one seat is vacant.


2018 Ohio elections, Judiciary, Supreme Court
While judicial races in Ohio are technically non-partisan (party affiliations are not listed on the ballot), candidates run in party primaries. Terms are six years, and justices may run for re-election an unlimited number of times before their 70th birthday.


2018 Ohio elections, Judiciary, Court of Appeals
The Ohio District Courts of Appeals consists of 69 judges in 12 districts. Judges serve a 6-year term. Approximately 1/3 of these positions were up for election in 2018.


2018 Ohio gubernatorial election
The 2018 Ohio gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the next governor of Ohio, concurrently with the election of Ohio's Class I U.S. Senate seat, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states, elections to the United States House of Representatives, and various Ohio and local elections. Incumbent Republican Governor John Kasich could not seek reelection as Ohio governors are limited to two terms.


2018 Ohio gubernatorial election
Republicans nominated Ohio Attorney General and former U.S. Senator Mike DeWine, while Democrats nominated former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director and former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray. This was the second contest between DeWine and Cordray, following the 2010 attorney general election, which DeWine won, 47.5% to 46.3%.


2018 Ohio gubernatorial election
In 2018, DeWine defeated Cordray 50.4% to 46.7%, in what was considered a minor upset. Despite Cordray's loss, he became the first Democratic gubernatorial candidate to win Cincinnati's Hamilton County since Dick Celeste in 1982. Likewise, DeWine became the first Republican to win in the historically Democratic Monroe County in a gubernatorial election since 2002 as the county took a sharp turn to the right.


2018 Ohio's 12th congressional district special election
A special election for Ohio's 12th congressional district was held August 7, 2018, following the resignation of Republican U.S. Representative Pat Tiberi. The Republican Party nominated State Senator Troy Balderson for the seat while the Democratic Party nominated Franklin County Recorder Danny O'Connor. Balderson led O'Connor in preliminary results; however, the race was not officially called on election night. Counting of outstanding ballots began on August 18 and was completed on August 24. The outstanding ballots did not change the margin enough to trigger an automatic recount, so Balderson was declared the winner on August 24.


2018 Ohio's 12th congressional district special election, Background
On October 19, 2017, nine-term incumbent Republican Representative Pat Tiberi announced that he would leave office before January 31, 2018, in order to lead the Ohio Business Roundtable. On January 3, 2018, he announced that he would officially resign January 15. On January 5, Ohio Governor John Kasich set the primaries for the special election for May 8, and the general election for August 7. The winner of this special election would serve for five months until January 2019, unless also elected in the regularly scheduled November general election.


2018 Ohio's 12th congressional district special election, Background
Ohio's 12th congressional district at the time was located in the central portion of the state and includes Delaware, Licking, and Morrow counties with the addition of portions of Franklin, Marion, Muskingum, and Richland counties. The district had been in Republican hands for all but one term since 1939, and without interruption since 1983.


2018 Ohio's 12th congressional district special election, General election, Results
O'Connor dominated the district's portion of Franklin County, home to the largest share of the district's population. However, he could not overcome a 4,800-vote deficit in normally heavily Republican Delaware County, the largest whole county in the district. Still, this was the closest that a Democrat had come to winning the district since 1982.


2018 Okayama GT 300km
The 2018 Okayama GT 300km was the first round of the 2018 Super GT Series. It was held at the Okayama International Circuit in Mimasaka, Okayama Prefecture, Japan.


2018 Okayama GT 300km
The GT500 category was won by Koudai Tsukakoshi and Takashi Kogure in the #17 Real Racing Honda NSX-GT, whilst Yuhki Nakayama and Takashi Kobayashi won the GT300 category in the #18 Team UpGarage Toyota 86.


2018 Okayama GT 300km, Race Report, Qualifying
Rain affected both qualifying sessions for the GT500 and GT300 categories, which shuffled the grid owing to changing track conditions.


2018 Okayama GT 300km, Race Report, Qualifying, GT500
In a what was tumultuous qualifying session, the #17 Real Racing outfit piloted by Koudai Tsukakoshi and Takashi Kogure achieved pole position, after the #24 Kondō Racing Nissan GT-R of Mitsunori Takaboshi and João Paulo de Oliveira had set the pace in the first qualifying session. 2009 Formula One World Champion Jenson Button qualified fifth on his Super GT debut, whilst Swede Felix Rosenqvist qualified in fourth place, cementing a solid run in his debut. One of the biggest shocks to come out of qualifying was the defending champions Ryō Hirakawa and Nick Cassidy failing to get into the second part of qualifying.


2018 Okayama GT 300km, Race Report, Qualifying, GT300
The qualifying session for the GT300 category was just as hectic. The Toyota 86 MC entries in the GT300 class appeared to be the pace setters throughout the weekend, with the #25 Tsuchiya Engineering entry of Takamitsu Matsui and Sho Tsuboi set the initial pace in Q1 with a time of 1:25.232. But, it was ultimately the #88 JLOC Lamborghini Huracán GT3 of Marco Mapelli and Kazuki Hiramine took the pole with a time of 1:33.925 in Q2.


2018 Okinawa gubernatorial election
A gubernatorial election was held on 30 September 2018 to elect the next Governor of Okinawa. As there is no term limits in Japan, incumbent Governor Takeshi Onaga was eligible for re-election before his death in August 2018. The election was originally scheduled to be held on 9 December 2018, but this was brought forward after Onaga's untimely death. Onaga's deputy, Kiichiro Jahana temporarily assumed his post for three days until being replaced as interim governor by Moritake Tomikawa. This was the first gubernatorial election in Okinawa since the voting age was lowered to 18.


2018 Okinawa gubernatorial election
The relocation of the US air base in Ginowan to Nago was a major issue in the race. The campaign period ran from 13 September until election day.


2018 Okinawa gubernatorial election
The election was won by Denny Tamaki. Tamaki, like Onaga, wants a fundamental reduction of the U.S. presence in Okinawa.


2018 Okinawa gubernatorial election, Campaign
Similar to the previous gubernatorial election, the issue of the relocation of the US air base in Ginowan to Nago dominated the campaign. The two main candidates were on opposing camps on the issue with Tamaki opposing any relocation within the prefecture and Sakima supporting the relocation. Tamaki made the relocation issue the main plank of his campaign. On the other hand, Sakima downplayed the relocation issue and instead focused on the local economy in his pitch. Voters that cited the base relocation as their most important issue mostly supported Tamaki, while those more concerned with the economy supported Sakima.


2018 Okinawa gubernatorial election, Results
The exit poll on election night indicated a large victory for Tamaki and the NHK called the election for Tamaki early during the count. He gained 396,632 votes, the most votes ever obtained by a candidate in an Okinawa-wide election.


2018 Oklahoma City mayoral election
The 2018 Oklahoma City mayoral election took place on February 13, 2018, to elect the Mayor of Oklahoma City. The election was won by David Holt. Since Holt won a majority in the initial round of the election, a runoff was not required.


2018 Oklahoma City mayoral election
Incumbent mayor Mick Cornett did not seek a fifth term as mayor.


2018 Oklahoma Question 788
Oklahoma Question 788, the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Legalization Initiative, was a 2018 ballot measure on the June 26 ballot (alongside primaries for various statewide offices) to legalize medical marijuana in the state of Oklahoma. It passed with over 56% "yes" votes.


2018 Oklahoma Question 788, Contents
This measure amends the Oklahoma State Statutes. A yes vote legalizes the licensed use, sale, and growth of marijuana in Oklahoma for medicinal purposes. A license is required for use and possession of marijuana for medicinal purposes and must be approved by an Oklahoma Board Certified Physician.


2018 Oklahoma Question 788, Contents
The State Department of Health will issue medical marijuana licenses if the applicant is eighteen years of age and an Oklahoma resident. A special exception will be granted to an applicant under the age of eighteen, however these applications must be signed by two physicians and a parent or legal guardian.


2018 Oklahoma Question 788, Contents
The Department will also issue seller, grower, packaging, transportation, research and caregiver licenses. Individual and retail businesses must meet minimal requirements to be licensed to sell marijuana to licensees.


2018 Oklahoma Question 788, Contents
The punishment for unlicensed possession of permitted amounts of marijuana for individuals who can state a medical condition is a fine not exceeding four hundred dollars. Fees and zoning restrictions are established. A seven percent state tax is imposed on medical marijuana sales.


2018 Oklahoma Question 788, Contents
A "YES" vote is a vote in favor of this measure. A "NO" vote is a vote against this measure.


2018 Oklahoma Sooners football team
The 2018 Oklahoma Sooners football team represents the University of Oklahoma in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season, the 124th season for the  Oklahoma Sooners. The team is led by Lincoln Riley, who is in his second year as head coach. They play their home games at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Oklahoma. They are a charter member of the Big 12 Conference.


2018 Oklahoma Sooners football team
Conference play began with a 37–27 win against Iowa State in Ames, Iowa and ended with a 59–56 win against West Virginia in Morgantown, West Virginia. Oklahoma finished conference play with the best record in the conference with an 8–1 record. They went on to play Texas in the 2018 Big 12 Championship Game which they won 39–27 to win their twelfth, and fourth consecutive, Big 12 championship.


2018 Oklahoma Sooners football team
In the final College Football Playoff rankings of the season, Oklahoma was ranked fourth, earning them a spot in the 2018 Orange Bowl, in a national semi-final game against first-seeded Alabama. This was Oklahoma's second consecutive and third overall CFP bid. The Sooners lost to the Crimson Tide, 34–45, marking the sixth consecutive loss for the school in CFP semi-finals or BCS national championship games.


2018 Oklahoma Sooners football team
Sooners quarterback Kyler Murray, following in the wake of Heisman Trophy winner Baker Mayfield, earned several national honors himself, including winning the school's second consecutive and seventh overall Heisman Trophy. This was the first time that quarterbacks from the same school won the award in back to back seasons.


2018 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Previous season
The Sooners finished the season 12–2, 8–1 in Big 12 play. Finishing with the best record in conference play the Sooners clinched a berth in the conference championship game where they defeated TCU 41–17 to win their 11th Big 12 Championship. Oklahoma was selected as the second seed to play in the 2017 College Football playoff against third seed Georgia Bulldogs in the 2018 Rose Bowl, which ended up being a 48–54 loss in double overtime.


2018 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Preseason, Big 12 media poll
The Big 12 media poll was released on July 12, 2018 with the Sooners predicted to win the Big 12.


2018 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Schedule
Oklahoma announced its 2018 football schedule on October 26, 2017. The 2018 schedule consists of 7 home games, 4 away games and 1 neutral-site game in the regular season. The Sooners will host three non-conference games against FAU, UCLA and Army. Oklahoma will host Baylor, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma State and travel to Iowa State, TCU, Texas Tech, West Virginia in regular conference play. Oklahoma will play Texas in Dallas, Texas at the Cotton Bowl Stadium on October 6 in the Red River Showdown, the 113th game played in the series.


2018 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Kansas State
Kansas State has a week off between the previous win against Oklahoma State and their next game against Oklahoma. Oklahoma's new defensive coordinator Ruffin McNeill was able to simplify the defensive plan which helped turn out good results against Texas Christian in the previous week with a Sooner victory 52-27. K-State's Coach Snyder commented: "They're very much the same football team that they were on the defensive side of the ball, on both sides actually, but certainly on the defensive side. I saw some tweaks, a few things, that you might consider to be changes -- don't know if they're changes or are just there and hadn't surfaced previously. But by and large, it's the same defense."


2018 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Kansas State
When the game rolled around, both the offense and the defense for Oklahoma performed to control the game from start to finish, with a final score of 51-14 and an Oklahoma win.


2018 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team
The 2018 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team represented Oklahoma State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Cowboys played their home games at the Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater, Oklahoma and competed in the Big 12 Conference. They were led by 14th-year head coach Mike Gundy. They finished the season 7–6, 3–6 in Big 12 play to finish tied for seventh. They were invited to the Liberty Bowl where they defeated #24 Missouri 38-33, ending the season with a 4-1 record against teams in the top 25.


2018 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team, Previous season
The Cowboys finished the 2017 season 10–3, 6–3 in Big 12 play to finish in third place. They were invited to the Camping World Bowl where they defeated Virginia Tech.


2018 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team, Preseason, Big 12 media poll
The Big 12 media poll was released on July 12, 2018, with the Cowboys predicted to finish in fifth place.


2018 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team, Game summaries, Iowa State
Iowa State's Freshman Brock Purdy replaced Zeb Noland at quarterback and passed 18-for-23 for 318 yards and produced four touchdowns. He then ran for another 84 yards and another score. The final score was a loss for the Cowboys at 48-42.


2018 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team, Game summaries, at Kansas State
The previous week loss against Iowa State put extra pressure on the Cowboys to win coming into the game against Kansas State. Some of the issues the Cowboys bring in to the include lack of discipline, a disconnected defense, and a failure to force turnovers on defense. The 2018 loss to Iowa State had many similarities to the 2017 game between Oklahoma State and Kansas State that resulted in a K-State victory 45-40.


2018 Oklahoma gubernatorial election
The 2018 Oklahoma gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 2018. Republican businessman Kevin Stitt was elected the 28th governor of the state, succeeding fellow Republican Mary Fallin, who was term-limited. Primary elections occurred on June 26, 2018, with primary runoff elections having occurred on August 28, 2018.


2018 Oklahoma gubernatorial election
The Democratic Party nominated former Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson. The Republican primary eliminated Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb, resulting in a runoff election between former Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett and businessman Kevin Stitt. On August 28, 2018, Stitt won the Republican primary runoff and became the Republican nominee for the office. The Libertarian primary also advanced to a runoff, with Chris Powell, a former chair of the Libertarian Party of Oklahoma, winning the nomination. This was also the first election in which the Libertarian Party has been on the ballot to participate in a gubernatorial election in Oklahoma, and the first time since 1986 that a candidate from the president's party was elected Governor of Oklahoma.


2018 Oklahoma gubernatorial election
A member of the Cherokee Nation, Stitt became the first tribally-enrolled Native American to serve as governor of a U.S. state.


2018 Oklahoma gubernatorial election, General election
Oklahoma determines ballot order by a random drawing which took place for this election cycle on July 12, resulting in the Libertarian Party being listed first, Republicans second, and Democrats third.


2018 Oklahoma gubernatorial election, General election, Results, County results
Stitt won 73 counties, while Edmondson won four. Stitt won 56 counties with at least 60% of the popular vote, 14 counties with at least 70%, and three counties – Beaver, Cimarron, and Ellis – with upwards of 80%. Stitt had the largest margin of victory in Cimarron with 73.09% more votes than Edmondson's 12.27%, the latter's lowest county performance in the election. The largest county per vote count won by Stitt was Tulsa County, home of Tulsa. Oklahoma County, of which Oklahoma City is county seat, was the only county where Stitt failed to acquire three out of every seven votes.


2018 Oklahoma gubernatorial election, General election, Results, County results
Edmondson won Muskogee by a single vote, and had an 11.84% margin of victory – his only margin of victory above 10% – in Oklahoma County. Edmondson won his four counties with typically narrower margins than that of Stitt, having missed 50% of the popular vote in Muskogee.


2018 Oklahoma gubernatorial election, General election, Results, County results
Powell never came close to winning any counties, but won his highest percentage of votes in Washita County, with 4.97%


2018 Oklahoma state elections
The 2018 general election was held in the U.S. state of Oklahoma on November 6, 2018. All of Oklahoma's executive officers were up for election as well as the state's five seats in the United States House of Representatives, half of the 48 seats in the Oklahoma Senate and all 101 seats in the Oklahoma House, and five offices in each of Oklahoma's 77 counties. Voter turnout was 42.5% of the eligible population, a 12.6% increase over the 2014 midterms but still the third lowest in the nation.


2018 Oklahoma state elections
Due to Gary Johnson's results in the 2016 presidential election, the Oklahoma Libertarian Party had ballot status to run candidates in 2018. This was the first time an alternative party has been able to participate in mid-term elections in the state since 1998. Five Independents, led in a loosely coordinated effort by former Oklahoma Democratic Party chair Ivan Holmes, were candidates for statewide executive offices.


2018 Oklahoma state elections
The ballot order was determined by random drawing for placement of candidates by party. Results of the drawing on July 12 were that Libertarian candidates would be placed first, Republicans second, and Democrats third. By statute, Independents are always listed after partisan candidates.


2018 Oklahoma state elections, Governor
Incumbent Republican Governor Mary Fallin was term-limited and could not seek re-election to a third consecutive term.


2018 Oklahoma state elections, Lieutenant governor
In Oklahoma, the governor and lieutenant governor are elected separately. Incumbent Republican lieutenant governor Todd Lamb was term-limited and could not seek re-election to a third consecutive term.


2018 Oklahoma state elections, Attorney general
Incumbent Republican attorney general Scott Pruitt was term-limited and could not run for a third term. Pruitt resigned on February 17, 2017, upon being confirmed as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.


2018 Oklahoma state elections, Treasurer
Incumbent Republican State Treasurer Ken A. Miller is term-limited and cannot run for a third term.


2018 Oklahoma state elections, State Auditor and Inspector
Incumbent Republican State Auditor and Inspector Gary Jones is term-limited and cannot run for a third term.


2018 Oklahoma state elections, Commissioner of Insurance
Incumbent Republican Insurance Commissioner John D. Doak was term-limited and could not run for a third term.


2018 Oklahoma state elections, Commissioner of Labor
Republican labor commissioner Mark Costello, who was re-elected to a second term in 2014, was fatally stabbed on August 23, 2015. Attorney General Scott Pruitt's chief of staff Melissa Houston was appointed to serve for the remainder of the term, but pledged that she would not run for election in 2018.


2018 Oklahoma state elections, Corporation commissioner
One of the three seats on the Oklahoma Corporation Commission are up for election. Incumbent Republican commissioner Bob Anthony, the chairman of the commission, is eligible to run for re-election to a sixth six-year term in office.


2018 Oklahoma state elections, Congress, United States House of Representatives
Oklahoma's five seats in the United States House of Representatives were be up for election in 2018.


2018 Oklahoma state elections, State questions
State questions are ballot propositions to proposed either a legislative measure or an amendment to the Oklahoma Constitution. State questions are filed with the Oklahoma Secretary of State by either order of the legislature (termed a "legislative referendum") or directly by the people of Oklahoma (termed an "initiative petition"). The secretary of state assigns a number to the state question and notifies the State Election Board of the propositions submission. The governor, by executive proclamation, sets the election date for submission of the state questions to the people.


2018 Oklahoma state elections, State questions, State Question 788
Oklahoma State Question 788 was an initiative petition which sought to legalize the licensed use, sale, and growth of marijuana in Oklahoma for medical purposes.


2018 Oklahoma state elections, State questions, State Question 793
Oklahoma State Question 793 was an initiative petition which sought to amend the Oklahoma Constitution to allow optometrists to practice within a mercantile establishment.


2018 Oklahoma state elections, State questions, State Question 794
Oklahoma State Question 794 was a legislative referendum which sought to amend the Oklahoma Constitution to expand the rights of victims of crime.


2018 Oklahoma state elections, State questions, State Question 798
Oklahoma State Question 798 was a legislative referendum which sought to amend the Oklahoma Constitution to provide that the governor and lieutenant governor be jointly elected.


2018 Oklahoma state elections, State questions, State Question 800
Oklahoma State Question 800 was a legislative referendum which sought to amend the Oklahoma Constitution to create a new trust fund consisting of a portion of all taxes collected against the extraction of oil and gas resources.


2018 Oklahoma state elections, State questions, State Question 801
Oklahoma State Question 801 was a legislative referendum which sought to amend the Oklahoma Constitution to allow voters within a local school district to expand the permissible use of property taxes to include school operations rather than just for school buildings.


2018 Oklahoma teachers' strike
The 2018 Oklahoma teachers' strike began on April 2, 2018, with teachers across the state walking out to protest low pay, overcrowded classrooms, and tax cuts that resulted in lower state-wide education spending. It was the first such action in Oklahoma since 1990. The OEA declared an end to the strike on April 12 after an agreement to increase salaries and state funding for education was reached. The call to end the strike faced some objection from teachers and parents who do not believe that enough concessions were made by lawmakers.


2018 Oklahoma teachers' strike
Unlike the similar action in West Virginia, the strike was not a "wildcat" strike, as it received endorsement from union leadership, albeit only after pressure from teachers. The protest occurred concurrent with similar protests in Arizona, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Colorado.


2018 Oklahoma teachers' strike, Background, State of public education in Oklahoma
Since 2008, education spending per student in Oklahoma has fallen 28%. Due to the decrease in funding, twenty percent of schools run on four-day weeks, and many have eliminated art and language classes and shut down sports programs. Gains from last teachers' strike in Oklahoma, in 1990, which resulted in an agreement to lower class sizes, expand kindergarten programs, and increase teacher wages were later reversed due to budget cuts. The decline in funding and subsequent decline in the quality of public education has resulted in the expansion of charter schools in the state.


2018 Oklahoma teachers' strike, Background, Plans for a Walkout
In 2016, State Question 779 was placed on the ballot, but failed to gain enough votes. SQ 779 propsed a one cent increase in sales tax and was estimated to bring in $615 million for education funding (including educator pay raises) in its first year. Failure of SQ 779 left many educators frustrated. Support for a strike began to build in early March of 2018, after another proposal (dubbed the "Step Up" plan) failed to pass the required 75% threshold for tax increases. The "Step Up" plan would have increased certain taxes and boosted teacher pay by $5,000. Both Democrats and Republicans voted for and against the bill. Some Democrats who voted "no" believed the plan did not go far enough to restore funding.


2018 Oklahoma teachers' strike, Background, Plans for a Walkout
Plans for a strike beginning on April 2 were first floated in March. On April 2, schools throughout Oklahoma were scheduled to take standardized tests; preventing these tests from taking place could potentially jeopardize millions in federal funds allocated to Oklahoma. After the Oklahoma legislature passed a tax increase to fund teach pay raises with the required 75% in each body on Friday, March 30, a strike beginning on the 2nd was announced. Thus, even before the walkout, teachers won greater school funding and salary increases, funded in part by increases in the cigarette tax, motor fuel tax, and the gross production tax on petroleum.


2018 Oklahoma teachers' strike, Walkout
The strike lasted from April 2nd to April 12th. Strike leaders had called for the introduction of a capital gains tax to avoid a regressive tax, but the terms were nevertheless accepted. The legislature passed no further tax increases after the walkout began.


2018 Oklahoma teachers' strike, Walkout, Salary demands
Public school teacher salaries in Oklahoma prior to the strike were the third lowest in the United States (after South Dakota and Mississippi), resulting in some teachers and staffers working second or third jobs. An initial offer of a $6,000 wage increase, ratified by the governor, was rejected, as the initial demands were for a $10,000 raise for teachers and a $1250 raise for support staff.


2018 Oklahoma teachers' strike, Reactions from state officials
Governor Mary Fallin likened teacher demands to "...teenager(s) wanting a better car". The quote was appropriated by teachers and used in chants during protests at the Oklahoma State Capitol.


2018 Oklahoma teachers' strike, Reactions from state officials
State representative Kevin McDugle, a Republican, indicated he would not pass any bill or measure to increase education spending due to the protests undertaken by the teachers.


2018 Oklahoma teachers' strike, Results
A survey in 2019 found that the pay raise obtained by the strike had lifted the State's teacher pay ranking to 34th in the nation, higher than the surrounding states of New Mexico, Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas, but still lower than Colorado or Texas.


2018 Oklahoma teachers' strike, Results
Ten Republican representatives who were opposed to raising taxes to increase teacher salaries were up for re-election in 2018. Two, Scott McEachin and Chuck Strohm, were eliminated by other Republican nominees during the initial primary, while a further seven did not gain enough votes to win their primaries uncontested. These seven faced runoff elections in August 2018, and six lost.


2018 Okolo Slovenska
The 2018 Okolo Slovenska (transl. Tour of Slovakia) was a five-stage men's professional road cycling race. The race is the 62nd edition of the Okolo Slovenska. It was rated as a 2.1 event as part of the 2018 UCI Europe Tour. The race started in Poprad on 12 September and finish on 16 September in Galanta.


2018 Okolo Slovenska
The Frenchmen rider Julian Alaphilippe of Quick-Step Floors won the general classification, by taking first place at the summit finish in Štrbské Pleso. He won the race by sixteen seconds overall, from CCC–Sprandi–Polkowice's Jan Tratnik, Benedetti completed the podium.


2018 Okolo Slovenska, Classification leadership
In the 2018 Tour of Slovakia, five jerseys were awarded. The general classification was calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage. The leader of the general classification received a yellow jersey sponsored by national lottery TIPOS. This classification was considered the most important of the 2018 Tour of Slovakia, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.


2018 Okolo Slovenska, Classification leadership
The second classification was the points classification. Riders were awarded points for finishing in the top ten in a stage. Points were also won in intermediate sprints. The leader of the points classification was awarded a white jersey with blue polka-dots sponsored by Škoda.


2018 Okolo Slovenska, Classification leadership
There was also a mountains classification for which points were awarded for reaching the top of a climb before other riders. The climbs were categorized, in order of increasing difficulty, as second and first-category. The leadership of the mountains classification was marked by a white jersey with red polka-dots sponsored by private equity company janom.


2018 Okolo Slovenska, Classification leadership
The fourth jersey represented the under-23 classification, marked by a white jersey sponsored by Minister of Education, Science, Research and Sport. Only riders born after 1 January 1996 were eligible; the under-23 best placed rider in the general classification was the leader of the under 23 classification. Additionally there was also a classification for Slovakian riders, marked by a white, blue and red jersey. Only Slovakian riders were eligible and they were awarded according to their placement in the general classification of the race.


2018 Okolo Slovenska, Classification leadership
There was also a classification for Combativity given after each stage to the rider considered, by the organisers, the most combative rider. The winner wore a red bib for the next stage. The final classification was the team classification, in which the times of the best three cyclists in a team on each stage were added together; the leading team at the end of the race was the team with the lowest cumulative time.


2018 Old Dominion Monarchs football team
The 2018 Old Dominion Monarchs football team represented Old Dominion University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Monarchs played their home games at the Foreman Field in Norfolk, Virginia as members of the East Division of Conference USA (C–USA). They were led by tenth-year head coach Bobby Wilder. They finished the season 4–8, 2–6 in C-USA play to finish in a tie for sixth place in the East Division. ODU's streak of home sell-outs (59 total games) ended with the FIU game. ODU had sold out every home since they restarted the football program in 2009.


2018 Old Dominion Monarchs football team, Previous season
The Monarchs finished the 2017 season 5–7, 3–5 in C-USA play to finish in sixth place.


2018 Old Dominion Monarchs football team, Preseason, Preseason All-CUSA team
Conference USA released their preseason all-CUSA team on July 16, 2018, with the Monarchs having three players selected.


2018 Old Dominion Monarchs football team, Preseason, Preseason media poll
Conference USA released their preseason media poll on July 17, 2018, with the Monarchs predicted to finish in sixth place in the East Division.


2018 Old Dominion Monarchs football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech
This marked Old Dominion's first win over a Power Five program in their FBS history.


2018 Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council election
The 2018 Oldham Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Oldham Council in England. The election took place on the same day as other local elections in England. The election saw the majority Labour Party increase its number of seats by two. The Conservative Party also gained two seats, while the Liberal Democrats lost one seat. UKIP ceased to have representation on the council following this election. The election left Labour with 47 seats, the Liberal Democrats 8 and the Conservatives 4 with the remaining seat being held by an Independent.


2018 Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council election, Ward results
Councillors seeking re-election are denoted with an asterisk. They were elected in 2014 and changes in vote share are compared on that basis.


2018 Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council election, Ward results, Chadderton Central
Due to a vacancy 2 candidates were elected to this ward. The candidate with the most votes received a full 4-year term and the second-placed candidate received the remaining term of the vacated seat.


2018 Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council election, Ward results, Hollinwood
Due to a vacancy 2 candidates were elected to this ward. The candidate with the most votes received a full 4-year term and the second-placed candidate received the remaining term of the vacated seat.


2018 Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council election, Ward results, Saddleworth North
Incumbent councillor Nicola Kirkham did not stand; she was elected as an independent in 2014 before joining Labour in 2016.


2018 Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council election, Changes after this election, Labour party suspensions: September 2018
2 councillors were suspended from the Labour party in September 2018:


2018 Ole Miss Rebels baseball team
The 2018 Ole Miss Rebels baseball team represented the University of Mississippi in the 2018 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Rebels played their home games at Swayze Field.


2018 Ole Miss Rebels football team
The 2018 Ole Miss Rebels football team represented the University of Mississippi in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Rebels  played their home games at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in Oxford, Mississippi and competed in the Western Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). They were led by second-year head coach Matt Luke. They finished the season 5–7, 1–7 in SEC play to finish in sixth place in the Western Division.


2018 Ole Miss Rebels football team
On December 1, 2017, the University of Mississippi was dealt multiple sanctions by the NCAA, including a 2-year post-season ban. As Ole Miss already self-imposed a post-season ban during the 2017 season, 2018 will be the last season without post-season play due to the sanctions. On February 5, 2018, the university submitted a written appeal to the NCAA regarding the penalties, stating: “This Committee should vacate and reverse the penalties and factual findings, because the COI (Committee of Infractions) abused its discretion, departed from precedent, committed procedural errors, and reached factual conclusions inconsistent with the evidence.”


2018 Ole Miss Rebels football team, Previous season
The Rebels finished the 2017 season 6–6, 3–5 in SEC play to finish in sixth place in the Western Division. They did not participate in a bowl game while serving a one year self imposed bowl ban.


2018 Ole Miss Rebels football team, Preseason, SEC media poll
The SEC media poll was released on July 20, 2018 with the Rebels predicted to finish in sixth place.


2018 Ole Miss Rebels football team, Preseason, Preseason All-SEC teams
The Rebels had three players selected to the preseason all-SEC teams.


2018 Ole Miss Rebels football team, Preseason, Recruiting
The Rebels’ 2018 recruiting class was ranked 32nd in the nation and 10th in the SEC by 247Sports.


2018 Ole Miss Rebels football team, Schedule
Ole Miss announced its 2018 football schedule on September 19, 2017. The 2018 schedule consists of 7 home and 5 away games in the regular season. The Rebels will host SEC foes Alabama, Auburn, South Carolina, and Mississippi State, and will travel to LSU, Arkansas (game played in Little Rock), Texas A&M, and Vanderbilt.


2018 Ole Miss Rebels football team, Schedule
The Rebels will be hosting three of their four non-conference opponents, hosting Southern Illinois (FCS), Kent State from the Mid-American Conference, Louisiana–Monroe from the Sun Belt Conference, and will then travel to Houston for their neutral site season opener against Texas Tech from the Big 12 Conference, which is the 2018 edition of the AdvoCare Texas Kickoff.


2018 Olt County referendum
The 2018 Olt County referendum was a referendum held in the Olt County in Romania to rename it to the "Olt-Romanați County" in 6 and 7 October 2018. This referendum was demanded by the inhabitants of the former Romanați County, especially those of its former capital Caracal, as they said it was to defend their identity and to remember the abolished county. The referendum did not attempt to enforce any administrative changes, only changes in the county's name. For it to pass, the voter turnout had to be of 30% or more out of the approximately 300,000 people eligible to vote in the Olt County at the time and the results had to be of 50%+1 votes or more saying "yes".


2018 Olt County referendum
The referendum was held at the same time as the 2018 Romanian constitutional referendum, which sought to prohibit same-sex marriage in Romania, reason for which Olt County voters were given two ballots. The referendum cost about 900,000 Romanian lei, which was seen as an unnecessary expense by many locals.


2018 Olt County referendum
Although the referendum was originally scheduled for 15 October 2017, it was held in the end in 6 and 7 October 2018. The question of the referendum was the following: "Do you agree with the assignment of the name Olt-Romanați to the Olt County?" (Sunteți de acord cu atribuirea denumirii Olt-Romanați județului Olt?). Around 369,000 people signed up for the Olt County's voting lists. The turnout was 27.19%, so the referendum failed. The nationwide referendum regarding same-sex marriage also failed for the same reason. Unlike the nationwide referendum, no official data was released for the Olt County one.


2018 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
The 2018 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad was a road cycling one-day race that took place on 24 February 2018 in Belgium. It was the 73rd edition of the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and the fourth event of the 2018 UCI World Tour. It was won by Danish rider Michael Valgren for the Astana team, soloing to victory by 12 seconds ahead of Team Sky's Łukasz Wiśniowski of Poland, with the podium completed by the highest-placed home rider Sep Vanmarcke (EF Education First–Drapac p/b Cannondale).


2018 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Teams
As the race was only added to the UCI World Tour calendar in 2017, all UCI WorldTeams were invited to the race, but not obligated to compete in the race. As such, seventeen of the eighteen WorldTeams – with the exception of the Movistar Team – competed in the race, up two on 2017. Eight UCI Professional Continental teams competed, completing the 25-team peloton.


2018 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (women's race)
The 13th running of the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad women's race in Belgium was held on 24 February 2018. Widely regarded as the start of the Classics season, it was a 1.1 event of the women's international calendar. The race started in Ghent and, for the first time, finished in Ninove. The total distance was 122.1 km (75.9 mi), covering eight classified climbs in the Flemish Ardennes.


2018 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (women's race)
Danish rider Christina Siggaard claimed a surprise win in the sprint of a 25-strong group. American Alexis Ryan finished second, Italian Maria Giulia Confalonieri third.


2018 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (women's race), Teams
Twenty-four teams participated in the race. Each team had a maximum of six riders:


2018 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts
The 2018 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, the provincial women's curling championship for Southern Ontario, was held January 10 to 14 at the Whitby Curling Club in Whitby, Ontario. The winning team represented Ontario at the 2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Penticton, British Columbia.


2018 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts
The defending champion Rachel Homan rink from Ottawa represented Canada at the 2018 Winter Olympics, and thus will not have the opportunity to defend their provincial crown. Had they not qualified for the Olympics, they still would not have had a chance to defend their title, as they would have represented Team Canada at the 2018 Scotties Tournament of Hearts.


2018 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts
The event had a triple knock out format, rather than the traditional round robin event as was done in previous years. The number of qualified teams increased from 8 to 12.


2018 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Qualification Process
12 teams qualified from two regional qualifiers (three each), a challenge round (three teams), the winner of the Trophy competition, plus the top two southern Ontario teams in the CTRS standings (as of November 12).


2018 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Qualification
East and west regional qualifiers will run November 24–27, 2017. Two teams from each region qualify.


2018 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Qualification, West Qualifier
November 25-26, 2017 at the St. Thomas Curling Club, St. Thomas


2018 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Qualification, Trophy Championship, Regional qualifiers
Qualifiers in bold. Two teams qualify from each event for the provincial Trophy Championship.


2018 Ontario Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Qualification, Challenge Round
December 15, 2017 at the Leaside Curling Club, East York, Toronto


2018 Ontario Tankard
The 2018 Ontario Tankard, known as the Dairy Farmers of Ontario Tankard for sponsorship reasons is the 2018 provincial men's curling championship for Southern Ontario, was held from January 31 to February 4 at the Canada Summit Centre in Huntsville, Ontario. The winning John Epping team represented Ontario at the 2018 Tim Hortons Brier in Regina, Saskatchewan.


2018 Ontario Tankard
The event had a triple knock out format, rather than the traditional round robin event as done in previous years. The number of qualified teams increased from 10 to 12.


2018 Ontario Tankard, Qualification Process
12 teams will qualify from two regional qualifiers (three each), a challenge round (three teams), the winner of the Colts competition, plus the top two southern Ontario teams in the CTRS standings (as of December 10, 2017). The east and west 'provincial qualifiers' are preceded by four regional qualifiers in which three teams qualify for the provincial qualifiers, plus the teams ranked 3-10 on the CTRS standings.


2018 Ontario Tankard, Qualification
The following teams have qualified for the east or west provincial qualifiers based on their ranking on the CTRS standings and will not have to play in the regional qualifiers:


2018 Ontario Tankard, Qualification, Colts Championship, Regional qualifiers
Qualifiers in bold. Two teams qualify from each event for the provincial Colts Championship.


2018 Ontario general election
The 2018 Ontario general election was held on June 7, 2018, to elect the 124 members of the 42nd Parliament of Ontario. The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, led by Doug Ford, won a majority government with 76 of the 124 seats in the legislature. The Ontario New Democratic Party, led by Andrea Horwath, formed the Official Opposition. The Ontario Liberal Party, led by incumbent Premier Kathleen Wynne, lost official party status in recording both the worst result in the party's 161-year history and the worst result for any incumbent governing party in Ontario. The Green Party of Ontario won a seat for the first time in their history, while the Trillium Party of Ontario lost its single seat gained by a floor-crossing during the 41st Parliament.


2018 Ontario general election, Background, Redistribution of seats
The Electoral Boundaries Act, 2015 increased the number of electoral districts from 107 to 122, following the boundaries set out by the federal 2013 Representation Order for Ontario, while preserving the special boundaries of the 11 seats in Northern Ontario set out in the 1996 redistribution.


2018 Ontario general election, Background, Redistribution of seats
The Far North Electoral Boundaries Commission, appointed in 2016, recommended the creation of the additional districts of Kiiwetinoong and Mushkegowuk—James Bay, carved out from the existing Kenora—Rainy River and Timmins—James Bay ridings, which accordingly raised the total number of seats to 124. This was implemented through the Representation Statute Law Amendment Act, 2017.


2018 Ontario general election, Background, Redistribution of seats
The new districts have been criticized as undemocratic, as they have a population of around 30,000 people compared with over 120,000 people in some southern Ontario constituencies. National Post columnist Josh Dehaas suggested that the small population sizes of the ridings might violate the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.


2018 Ontario general election, Background, Redistribution of seats
In September 2017, a research firm analyzed the impact of redistribution if the boundaries had been in effect for the previous election.


2018 Ontario general election, Background, Change of fixed election date
Under legislation passed in 2005, Ontario elections were to be held on "the first Thursday in October in the fourth calendar year following polling day in the most recent general election", subject to the Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario's power to call an election earlier.


2018 Ontario general election, Background, Change of fixed election date
As the current government had a majority, the passage of a non-confidence motion was not a likely option for calling an early election, though Premier Kathleen Wynne stated in June 2015 that she would likely advise to dissolve the Legislature in spring 2018 rather than in October of that year in order to avoid any conflict with municipal elections and take advantage of better weather and longer days.


2018 Ontario general election, Background, Change of fixed election date
To put this on a statutory footing, in October 2016 Attorney General of Ontario Yasir Naqvi introduced a bill in the Legislative Assembly which, in part, included moving the election date to "the first Thursday in June in the fourth calendar year following polling day in the most recent general election", and it came into effect in December 2016.


2018 Ontario general election, Background, Prelude to campaign
The Ontario Liberal Party attempted to win their fifth consecutive general election, dating back to 2003. The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario won their first election since 1999, and the Ontario New Democratic Party attempted to win their second election (having previously won in 1990). Numerous other extra-parliamentary political parties also vied for votes.


2018 Ontario general election, Background, Prelude to campaign
The Liberals under Kathleen Wynne headed into the 2018 campaign trailing far behind the Progressive Conservatives, led by former Toronto City Councillor Doug Ford. The Liberals' standing with voters had been badly hurt when they partially privatized Hydro One in 2015, after campaigning against it in the 2014 election, as well as rising criticism over "ballooning provincial debt, high electricity prices and costly, politically expedient decisions".


2018 Ontario general election, Background, Prelude to campaign
In early April, the CBC published their analysis of aggregate polls showing that Ford and the Progressive Conservatives were ahead of the other parties averaging 42.1% support, compared to 27.2% for the governing Liberals, 23.4% for the NDP and 5.7% for the Greens and with 11 Liberal MPPs announcing they would not be running for re-election or having already resigned their seats in the months leading up to the election.


2018 Ontario general election, Background, Prelude to campaign
According to Wynne, voters were offered a "stark choice", between "cutting and removing supports from people" with "billions in cuts", which she alleged the Progressive Conservatives would do if they won the election, and expanding investments in social programs such as prescription drugs and childcare, which the Liberal platform promised.


2018 Ontario general election, Background, Prelude to campaign
In March 2018, the Liberals tabled a pre-election budget in the provincial legislature which promised billions of dollars in new spending for free childcare and expanded coverage for dental care but replaced the government's previous balanced budget with a $6.7 billion deficit projected to last until 2024–2025. PC leader Doug Ford called the budget a "spending spree".


2018 Ontario general election, Background, Mood of the voters
According to Toronto Star columnist Susan Delacourt, voters were motivated by a desire for change—such desire being more driven by emotion than by ideology—and one researcher estimated that more than half of the electorate was undecided in who they were likely to vote for. The Huffington Post reported that half of voters were basing their vote intentions on how best to block the party they oppose.


2018 Ontario general election, Background, Mood of the voters
In February 2018, Campaign Research conducted a gap analysis on voter intentions in Ontario, and determined the following:


2018 Ontario general election, Background, Mood of the voters
= Not voting for party; not considered  = Not voting for party; shared consideration  = Not voting for party; exclusive consideration  = Will vote for party; others considered  = Will vote for party; no others considered