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Archive for December 5th, 2007
Sprain to nowhere: Cavaliers drop fourth straight as LeBron misses another game
CLEVELAND - No LeBron James equals no chance for the Cavaliers. No one, it seems, realizes this more than the rest of Cleveland`s players.
With their superstar sidelined for the third straight game due to a sprained left index finger, the talent-challenged Cavaliers fell 100-79 to the very average New Jersey Nets on Tuesday [...]
Varejao gets offer sheet; Cavaliers plan to match
CLEVELAND - The Cavaliers will save some money, while Anderson Varejao will earn the right to become an unrestricted free agent at the end of next season.
Neither side, however, came out a clear winner.
That`s a quick summary of the three-year, $17.4 million offer sheet Varejao signed late Monday with the Charlotte Bobcats, which [...]
Scott Petrak: Browns’ Anderson has shown he’s a keeper at QB
Derek Anderson played arguably his worst game of the season Sunday in the Browns` 27-21 loss in Arizona. He finished with 304 yards, but completed just 51 percent of his passes (21-of-41) and, more importantly, committed three turnovers, two of which led to a 14-0 Arizona lead in the first quarter.
The desert disaster, coupled with [...]
Boys basketball: Morgan, Oberlin flatten Columbia
COLUMBIA TWP. - Kurt Russell says “Morgan is just Morgan” when referring to his star point guard, Morgan Jones.
If Morgan was being Morgan on Tuesday night against Columbia, it`s good to be Morgan.
Jones, Oberlin`s all-county and all-conference junior, scored 22 points and doled out five assists in roughly three quarters as the Phoenix [...]
Boys basketball: Youthful Clearview responds to tough week of practice
LORAIN - After two losses, John Szalay made practices tough on his young Clearview basketball team this week.
He wanted to get a message across.
Then the Clippers took to the court against Brooklyn in their first Patriot Athletic Conference game and nearly blew a nine-point lead in the final minute before securing a 67-65 [...]
Boys basketball: Gentry’s big third quarter lifts Black River past Brookside
SHEFFIELD - David Gentry is only 5-foot-6 but Black River`s junior guard was huge in the third quarter Tuesday night, standing tall over everyone else on the court.
Gentry scored 16 points in the quarter, including four three-pointers, as Black River (2-2) turned a close game into a 59-38 Patriot Athletic Conference rout.
Brookside (0-2) [...]
Boys basketball: Cold Keystone falls to Cloverleaf
Hans Schneider
The Chronicle-Telegram
LODI - Keystone coach Greg Morgan didn`t offer any excuses after Tuesday night`s 56-45 non-conference loss to host Cloverleaf. In fact, he quickly pointed out why his Wildcats dropped to 1-1 on the season.
“I think there were two things that hurt us tonight,” Morgan said. “First, we missed a ton of [...]
Boys basketball: Mistakes costly as Open Door drops first game of the year
ELYRIA - Too many fouls and too many turnovers. Add too and too together and the sum is defeat.
It happened to Open Door`s boys Tuesday night and the result was their first loss of the basketball season.
Despite the mathematical probabilities, the Patriots (2-1) nearly pulled off their third straight win. They fought back [...]
‘Gingerbread Nazi’ artist is back — this time with homicidal snow woman and criminal elf
Click here to see some of Keith McGuckin’s past work, including the “Gingerbread Nazis.”
OBERLIN - It`s that time of year again.
The snow has begun to fall, holiday music is flooding the airwaves and murderous snowmen and drug smuggling elves are popping up in window displays around Oberlin.
BRUCE BISHOP / CHRONICLE
Artist Keith McGuckin puts [...]
Ford unites cities
AVON LAKE - A new product and a flexible body shop await Avon Lake`s Ohio Assembly Plant, and city officials from the three cities the plant straddles are ready to work together as Ford Motor Co. moves forward with plans that could keep thousands of jobs at the plant for years to come.
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