The Steubenville Pinto baseball team won the 2020 Jackson championship July 19 in Massillon. Members of the team include, from left, front, Jace Wotjas, Nash Newman, Julian Diaz, Sal Pittera, Mason Lowery, Carlo Fuscardo and Colton Davis; middle, Teddy Gorman, Nicco Williams, Ethan Stiltner, ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Zach Aston-Reese pondered the question for a minute. “I’m not exactly sure who is on their first line,” the Penguins forward said when asked how Pittsburgh plans to slow down Montreal’s top line in their best-of-five play-in series that begins Saturday in ...
CLEVELAND (AP) — Carlos Santana hit a three-run homer, Oscar Mercado had a two-run single and the Cleveland Indians beat the Chicago White Sox 5-3 to complete a doubleheader sweep on Tuesday night. Santana's first inning blast helped spoil the return of White Sox pitcher Carlos Rodon (0-1) ...
COLUMBUS (AP) - Ohio State will limit home crowds to about 20,000 and prohibit tailgating if the football season is played this fall. Fans inside Ohio Stadium will be required to wear masks and observe social distancing to help stem the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. Concessions will be ...
HOUSTON (AP) — Benches cleared Tuesday night in the first game between the Astros and Dodgers since it was revealed that Houston stole signs en route to a 2017 World Series championship that came at Los Angeles’ expense. The fracas occurred after Dodgers reliever Joe Kelly threw ...
STEUBENVILLE — Football is a way of life in the Ohio Valley. It’s held in an even higher regard in Steubenville. Tradition-laden Big Red, which owns four state championships, five runner-ups and 18 regional championships since 1984, has prepared all summer for what they hope will be yet ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Eric Sogard doubled home Brock Holt in the 11th inning and the Milwaukee Brewers rallied for a rain-delayed 6-5 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Monday night. The Brewers trailed by four entering the ninth but took advantage of another shaky performance by the Pittsburgh ...
NEW YORK (AP) - Plans for the college football season — if it is played — should start coming into focus this week. They will trickle down from the top of major college football, with Power Five conferences putting in place revised schedules they hope will make it easier to manage ...
NEW YORK (AP) - When the Boston Bruins boarded their flight bound for Toronto, they thought of it as just another long road trip. Sure, they were spaced out and masked up on the plane, but they were en route to compete for the Stanley Cup that they fell one win short of earning last season. ...
ST. LOUIS — Pittsburgh’s Derek Shelton staged baseball’s first major, socially distanced umpire argument, then got his first victory as a big league manager as the Pirates beat the St. Louis Cardinals 5-1 on Sunday. Colin Moran and Jose Osuna homered, and Mitch Keller pitched five solid ...
BETHANY — Bethany College and the Presidents’ Athletic Conference announced Friday that they will suspend most of the fall athletics season until spring because of the COVID-19 pandemic. “This decision was an extremely difficult one, but it was a necessary one that places the health and ...
CLEVELAND — Carlos Carrasco looked toward home plate and clutched the ball in his right hand before firing a 95 mph fastball on the game’s first pitch. It was a beginning and an ending. Carrasco’s comeback from cancer is complete. Starting for the first time since he was diagnosed ...
BLAINE, Minn. — Without a gallery around him on the 18th green, Michael Thompson settled for a subdued victory celebration at the 3M Open with a FaceTime call home to his wife and children in Georgia. The tears came from him and his wife as soon as they saw each other on the ...
ST. LOUIS — Paul Goldschmidt homered, Adam Wainwright pitched six solid innings, and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 9-1 on Saturday. Wainwright (1-0) pitched out of a bases loaded, no-out jam in the second, giving up just one run. He retired 14 of the final 15 batters he ...
ST. LOUIS — Jack Flaherty pitched seven solid innings, Paul DeJong hit a two-run homer and the St. Louis Cardinals opened the season by beating the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-4 on Friday night. Tyler O’Neill and Dexter Fowler added solo homers for St. Louis in the first game of an unprecedented ...
CLEVELAND — From All-Star MVP to ace, and Shane Bieber’s only getting better. Bieber struck out 14 over six scoreless innings as the Indians, making a statement for minorities by wearing their road jerseys with “Cleveland” on the front, took off on a 60-game season sprint by beating ...
This week, I pick the top 10 road stadiums out of the 39 where I’ve seen Ohio State play during the 29 years I’ve covered Buckeyes football for The Lima News. Here are my top 10: ¯ No. 1: Rose Bowl: Location. Location. Location. The San Gabriel mountains overlook the Rose Bowl. The ...
NFL training camps are set to open after the league and the players’ union reached agreement on several issues, including future salary cap mechanisms and how players can opt out of the upcoming season because of the coronavirus. The NFL Players Association’s executive committee and 32 ...
BLAINE, Minn. (AP) — Michael Thompson and Richy Werenski maintained their momentum at the 3M Open. Tony Finau, fresh off a caddie change, put himself in prime position right behind the leaders at the halfway point of the second-year tournament. Thompson and Werenski topped the ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The initial dream died quickly and quietly late in 1993 when surgeons opened up Derek Shelton's mangled right elbow and tried to piece it back together. It didn't take. At least not well enough for Shelton to continue his baseball career as a catcher who relied more on ...