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Women’s flag football closes in on NCAA championship status

The next college football power is being built on campuses from coast to coast. Not tackle, but in women's flag football. New programs are game planning and rosters full of new players will be taking snaps this fall into spring to possibly become your NCAA national champion in ...

May wins Milwaukee debut as Brewers beat Pirates

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Dustin May won his Milwaukee debut and Jackson Chourio and Gary Sánchez hit home runs as the Brewers defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-2 on Thursday afternoon. After losing the opener, the Brewers (72-43) won the final three games in the series. May (6-7), acquired from ...

Prep Roundups

BIG RED SWEEPS HOME TRI STEUBENVILLE — The Big Red golf team returned to its home course on Thursday in victorious fashion, topping Indian Creek and Morgan at Steubenville Country Club in a 9-hole tri-match. Big Red carded a team score of 158, 19 better than Creek and 49 ahead of Morgan. Steubenville senior Jaggar Rawson was the match medalist with one-under-par 35 for the low score of the day. Andrew Matzorkis was not far behind for Big Red, turning in a 37. Noah Kokiko shot a 41, Pat Jenkins a 45, Joel Elliott a 46 and Gino Scaffidi a 47. Creek also had two golfers in ...

Nailers to be affiliated with Columbus Blue Jackets

WHEELING — The Wheeling Nailers weren’t NHL orphans for very long. Less than a month after the Pittsburgh Penguins ended their affiliation with the ECHL franchise, the Nailers announced Thursday morning that it has agreed to a new partnership with the Columbus Blue Jackets and the AHL Cleveland Monsters. “We are excited to begin our new partnership with the Columbus Blue Jackets and Cleveland Monsters,” said Nailers President and Governor Brian Komorowski. “Geographically, this makes all of the sense in the world for us. When transactions occur, the travel for the players ...

Trendsetter riding momentum into W.Va. Derby

After Trendsetter won the Grade III Lexington Stakes at Keeneland in mid-April as a 32-1 outsider in a field of nine, trainer Ben Colebrook told the media of his plans for the 3-year-old Modernist gelding in simple terms. “No Kentucky Derby. No Preakness. We didn’t even nominate him,” ...