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=== Sports === In 2014, the [[Wichita Falls Nighthawks]], an [[Indoor American football|indoor football]] team, joined the [[Indoor Football League]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://newstalk1290.com/wichita-falls-nighthawks-join-ifl/ |title=Wichita Falls Nighthawks Officially Join IFL β Indoor Football League [VIDEO] |author=Chris Koettler |date=August 26, 2014 |publisher=Townsquare Media EEO |work=www.newstalk1290.com |access-date=February 18, 2017}}</ref> but suspended operations after the 2017 season. {{citation needed span|The city has also been home to a number of semiprofessional, developmental, and minor league sports teams, including the Wichita Falls Drillers (bankrupt 2002),<!--- not the redirect to the identically named baseball team ---> a semipro football team that won numerous league titles and a national championship; the professional basketball team [[Wichita Falls Texans]] (relocated 1994, bankrupt 1996) of the [[Continental Basketball Association]]; [[Wichita Falls Fever]] (bankrupt 1992) in the [[Lone Star Soccer Alliance]]; the [[Wichita Falls Spudders]] baseball team (bankrupt 1957) in the [[Texas League]]; the [[Wichita Falls Wildcats]] (bankrupt 2017) of the [[North American Hockey League]], an American [[Junior ice hockey#Tier II|Tier II junior]] hockey league; and the Wichita Falls Roughnecks (bankrupt 2008) of the [[Texas Collegiate League]].{{Citation needed|date=October 2010}} The [[Dallas Cowboys]] held training camp in Wichita Falls during the late 1990s.|date=November 2023}} In 2015, it was acknowledged that the sustainability of minor or rookie league sports franchises in the Wichita Falls region had a questionable future.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pecosleague.com/pecosleague.asp?page=28&article_id=2027 |title=Buss: Minor league baseball a long shot for Wichita Falls |publisher=[[Pecos League]] |date=June 25, 2015}}</ref> The [[Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame]] relocated to Wichita Falls from [[Amsterdam, New York]], in November 2015 and closed in 2022.
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