COLUMBUS — One might say Denzel Ward, Marshon Lattimore, Gareon Conley, Eli Apple and Bradley Roby recruited Lejond Cavazos to Ohio State. It wasn’t necessarily anything they said. It was what they did. The former Ohio State cornerbacks played the same position Cavazos wants to play for ...
CLEVELAND — With no end to the coronavirus shutdown in sight and no certainty about baseball’s return this season, the Cleveland Indians will continue to pay minor league players their weekly stipends to help offset any “hardship” during the hiatus. The team also is closing its ...
It has been just one week. That’s all. Just one full week since Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for COVID-19, just one full week since the NBA became the first of the North American pro sports leagues to suspend operations, one week since sports essentially stopped. The NHL ...
CLEVELAND (AP) — The Browns stayed inside their division — and state borders — to add some defensive line help. Cleveland beefed up its front by agreeing to a one-year contract with free agent Andrew Billings, who spent the past three seasons with the Cincinnati Bengals. His agency, ...
PITTSBURGH — Ryan Shazier’s NFL career is over. For now at least. The Steelers placed the inside linebacker on the reserved/retired list on Tuesday. Shazier spent the last two seasons on the Physically Unable to Perform list while recovering from a spinal injury suffered in December 2017. ...
Weirton’s Joanna Bernabei-McNamee has been named the Atlantic Coast Conference Women’s Basketball Coach of the Year in only her second season as the head coach at Boston College. The award was made at the ACC Women’s Tournament the first week of March in Greensboro, ...
PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Steelers turned the opening day of free agency into a family reunion for the Watt family. The team agreed to terms fullback Derek Watt on a three-year contract worth $9.75 million, luring him from the Los Angeles Chargers to Pittsburgh to join All-Pro younger ...
LAWRENCE, Kan. — Kansas coach Bill Self has spent much of the past week mulling ways to commemorate one of the more remarkable seasons in the school’s proud basketball history, one that began with off-the-court distractions too numerous to count and ended in the unprecedented cancellation ...
CLEVELAND — After blasting out of the gate in NFL free agency, the Browns have been relatively quiet the past two days. That doesn’t mean they’re done. On Monday, first-time general manager Andrew Berry showed his resolve to fill some of Cleveland’s numerous holes by agreeing to ...
Softball league looking for teams STEUBENVILLE — The Tri-County Church Softball League is in need of teams for the up- coming season. Games will begin in May and run Tuesday and Friday nights at Belleview Park. For information, contact Orion Beninger at (740) 416-0911 or Mark Reiner at ...
For two decades, Tom Brady was the face of the Patriots, and even of the NFL. When he turns 43 in August, his home address no longer will be in New England. The six-time Super Bowl champion plans to keep playing. But the centerpiece of the Patriots’ dynasty, the most successful quarterback ...
COLUMBUS — Julian Fleming’s first scholarship offer came from Michigan as a freshman in high school. Growing up in northeastern Pennsylvania, the conventional wisdom was that Fleming, rated the No. 1 wide receiver nationally in the 2020 recruiting class, would lean toward Penn State. ...
One by one, some of the world’s grandest sporting events have fallen or faded away to a later spot on the calendar. March Madness. The Masters. Baseball’s opening day. On Tuesday, at least four more huge spectacles were taken down by the coronavirus: the French Open tennis tournament ...
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — The Masters was postponed, and it didn’t take long for speculation to begin on when it would be played. Augusta National closes in mid-May for the summer. The grass effectively turns brown before it gets back into shape for the reopening for its members in ...
COLUMBUS — The Ohio High School Athletic Association will hold a press conference Thursday to provide updates and information about the indefinitely postponed winter sports tournaments and spring sports seasons, OHSAA Executive Director Jerry Snodgrass announced Monday. The press ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Steelers are holding onto outside linebacker Bud Dupree. Ramon Foster is walking away. The team placed the franchise tag on Dupree on Monday, hours before the NFL-mandated deadline for teams to use the designation. Hours later, Foster announced his ...
COLUMBUS — Harrison Central’s Kobe Mitchell was named second team All-Ohio in Division III. Division III and IV boys basketball All-Ohio teams, which were selected by members of the Ohio Prep Sportswriters Association, were announced Monday. Mitchell, a junior, averaged 31.4 points per ...
CLEVELAND (AP) — Free agent right tackle Jack Conklin has agreed to a three-year, $42 million contract with the Cleveland Browns, his agent Drew Rosenhaus told The Associated Press on Monday. Conklin, perhaps the best tackle available on this year’s market, will get $30 million guaranteed ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball pushed back opening day until mid-May at the earliest on Monday because of the new coronavirus after the federal government recommended restricting events of more than 50 people for the next eight weeks. Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred made the ...
(AP) - The NHL is pushing back the possibility of resuming its season by several weeks, if not a month or more. The league and NHL Players’ Association told players Monday they can go home — even out of North America — and must self-isolate through March 27 while the season is on hold ...