Lorain/Elyria, OH
Archive for June 9th, 2008
Alert: Tree topples onto Prospect Street; power out
This toppling tree wreaked havoc with power in the Eastern Heights area today when it pulled down power lines and forced East Park pool to close.
NBA Finals: Boston hangs on, takes 2-0 series lead
BOSTON — Banner No. 17 is halfway to the rafters. The Celtics are two wins from another NBA championship. And maybe a little lucky to be there. Paul Pierce, darting around the parquet floor with ease, scored 28 points, Boston’s defense mobbed Kobe [...]
Indians: Sowers struggles in another loss to Detroit
DETROIT (AP) — Jim Leyland knows that the Detroit Tigers can’t fix their season overnight. He just wants to keep seeing progress. “We have to go forward slowly, and hopefully we’re starting to do that,” he said after Sunday’s 5-2 win over the Cleveland Indians. The Tigers have won [...]
Elyria Little League: Ryan-St. Marie wins majors city championship
ELYRIA — Give 12-year-old Brodie Stewart a four-run lead, and most often you can expect a big win. Such was the case for Stewart and his Ryan-St. Marie Insurance teammates as they trounced Bay Mechanical 14-0 Sunday in the Little League Majors (11- and 12-year-olds) city championship at Vic Janowicz Park in [...]
NASCAR: Kahne continues hot streak at Pocono
LONG POND, Pa. — Kasey Kahne never thought his start to the season was all that bad, despite how it looked on paper. In hindsight, there was something missing and it took last month’s win in the All-Star race to see it. Now Kahne is on a roll, riding a wave [...]
Boxing: Champ Pavlik says he’s ready for all challengers
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Kelly Pavlik, the homegrown son of working class America, took the mantle of middleweight king without ducking a soul. Seven years after getting started and fresh off a dominant performance in his first title defense, stopping Gary Lockett on Saturday night in the third round at Boardwalk Hall, the [...]
French Open: Nadal dominates Federer for 4th straight title
PARIS — Early in the second set of the French Open final, not quite halfway into what would wind up as Roger Federer’s worst loss in 173 career Grand Slam matches, he watched intently as Rafael Nadal pushed a forehand wide to end a lengthy exchange. Federer saw the ball land out, punched [...]
Golf roundup: Rookie Tseng wins LPGA major
Yani Tseng of Taiwan became the first rookie in 10 years to win a major, beating Maria Hjorth on the fourth hole of a playoff with a 5-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole to win the McDonald’s LPGA Championship in Havre de Grace Md. Tseng, a 19-year-old with a decorated amateur [...]
Horse racing: Still no answers for Big Brown’s Triple Crown failure
NEW YORK — The morning after the Belmont Stakes, Big Brown stopped to pose for photographers as if he had won the Triple Crown. Everyone except the horse knew otherwise. Trainer Rick Dutrow Jr. was a no-show, leaving questions and few answers about what happened to Big Brown in Saturday’s 1½-mile Belmont. The [...]
The launch of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Exhibit at the Inland Seas Maritime Museum recalls hoopla when doomed boat and others first took to the water
VERMILION — Fifty years ago, droves of people flocked to the shores of River Rouge, Mich., to witness the beginning of what would become the greatest tragedy on the Great Lakes.
On June [...]