Lorain/Elyria, OH
Archive for April 26th, 2008
Drought finally ends: Indians get first regular-season win over Yankees since 2006
CLEVELAND — The Indians had six tries and still couldn’t beat the Yankees during the 2007 regular season. They needed only one this year. Snapping an eight-game regular-season winless streak against New York that dated back to 2006, the Indians finally hung a pre-October beating on the Bronx Bombers [...]
Indians notes: Cliff Lee staying cool despite his torrid start
CLEVELAND — Judging from his first four starts of the season, Cliff Lee is back and better than ever. Lee, who endured the worst of his four seasons in the majors last year, has returned to the form he displayed as a staple of the Indians’ rotation from 2004-06. The statistics say he’s taken [...]
On the road, but not on the ropes: Still, Cavaliers must find a way to win away from home
WASHINGTON, D.C. — How could the Cavaliers win Game 2 by 30 points and lose Game 3 by 36 to set an NBA record for the biggest two-game point swing in league playoff history? The simplest — and perhaps most accurate — explanation is that one game was at home and the other was [...]
Cavs notes: Trash talking doesn’t appear to be going away anytime soon
WASHINGTON — Teenage recording artist Soulja Boy won’t be at the Verizon Center for Game 4 Sunday afternoon, but Washington Wizards guard DeShawn Stevenson seems determined not to let his “overrated” — and by this time over-reported and over-hyped — feud with LeBron James come to an end. Asked his response Friday to James’ [...]
Browns NFL Draft 2008: History proves there’s plenty of talent to be found in later rounds
The buzz may be missing from the Browns’ draft, but it’s far from meaningless. The Browns aren’t a finished product, and this weekend’s draft is the best way for them to improve before training camp. It will be more difficult without a pick until the fourth round (No. 122 overall), but it’s not impossible. [...]
High school softball: Sullivan’s big day helps Keystone pick up two wins in own tournament
LAGRANGE — Strongsville’s softball team left the annual Prebis Memorial Classic on Friday afternoon thinking it had defeated Canfield, 2-1. The Mustangs will learn differently when they return to Community Park this afternoon for their final two games of the four-game, 10-team invitational tournament. But that’s another story for a later time. [...]
Prep softball notebook: Good mix of veterans, youngsters has Elyria Catholic rolling
Folks wondering where Elyria Catholic came from should be just as interested in where the Panthers are going. It could be deep into the postseason. Despite sleepwalking through a North Coast League loss to St. Peter Chanel on Thursday, EC is off to its best start in years. Even with the 2-1 loss to [...]
Prep baseball notebook: Amherst doesn’t have pie-in-the-sky attitude about new tradition
The Amherst baseball team have ripped a page from the 2007 Cleveland Indians’ playbook. Or maybe both the Comets and the Indians ripped a page from the Three Stooges’ playbook. In any event, the Comets have taken up the practice of shoving pies in the faces of teammates being interviewed on television. The interviews [...]
Off the beat: Standing in the presence of greatness
Chance meetings are all about being in the right place at the right time.That’s what happened to Steve Kerchmar, the 2008 drum major for Elyria High School, on April 19 at the Scarlet and Gray game at The Ohio State University Stadium.
Kerchmar was in Columbus attending a drum major camp being presented by the OSU [...]
Latinos talk housing, Puerto Rico statehood in conference
ELYRIA — More than 40 million Latinos live in the United States, including more than 260,000 in Ohio.
But nobody’s paying much attention to the issues that affect them, said Joel Arredondo of the Coalition for Hispanic/Latino Issues and Progress.
That’s why his organization is stepping up this weekend to talk about how Latinos can cope with [...]