BEREA — From starter to sideline to Seattle in 48 hours. Charlie Frye’s childhood dream of leading the Browns ended with a jolt Tuesday when he was traded to the Seahawks for a sixth-round draft pick. Frye spent six months winning the starting quarterback job in a ragged competition. He lost it in less than [...]

It was a nice story for a while. The local boy gets drafted by his hometown team. Everyone has high hopes and then the dreamscape goes to hell. It turns out that the “competition” between Charlie Frye and Derek Anderson in training camp was a fraud. Phil Savage acknowledged that he has been trying to [...]

CHICAGO — Paul Byrd got his 15th victory and Travis Hafner had three RBIs as the surging Cleveland Indians won for the 15th time in 18 games by beating the Chicago White Sox 8-3 on Tuesday night. Byrd (15-6) allowed three runs and six hits in 61/3 innings, including two homers by Juan Uribe, as [...]

 COLUMBUS — Having fattened their win total and stats on Penguins and Zips, the Ohio State Buckeyes now get to pick on somebody their own size. The 10th-ranked Buckeyes travel to Washington on Saturday, a matchup between 2-0 teams that hope to use the game as a springboard to bigger things. “Everyone in our building [...]

  Ozzie Guillen took the White Sox to a World Series championship two years ago. Now he’s trying to keep them from having the worst record in the major leagues. Sounds like a strange time to give him a new contract, but that’s what the team did Tuesday when it announced Guillen had agreed to [...]

FAIRVIEW PARK — Midview is supposed to be a notorious slow starter. The Middies broke precedent on Tuesday. The first game was their best game.  It was the other three contests that didn’t go so well for Midview in a four-game loss to Fairview in a showdown of unbeaten West Shore Conference teams. The Middies [...]

OLMSTED FALLS — Dawn Moses doesn’t want to get overconfident. Not yet anyway, in spite of her Olmsted Falls Bulldogs taking another step toward this year’s Southwestern Conference volleyball title by defeating Westlake, 25-19, 25-10, and 25-12 Thursday night. With the win, the Bulldogs, 9-1 overall, are 5-0 in league play — two games better [...]

   “Come on. Keep fighting. We can do this.” These are just a few of the hundreds of phrases Elyria Catholic freshman Michelle Mueller said she and fellow freshman Shannon Tomshack conveyed to each other during their marathon march to the second doubles championship at the Lorain County Athletic Administrators Association tournament last weekend. The [...]