Lorain/Elyria, OH
Archive for August 19th, 2008
Giants 37, Browns 34: Poor start too much to overcome
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Romeo Crennel’s miserable mood this morning might be matched by that of the suits at ESPN headquarters. Crennel has four days and two practices to get the Browns ready for the Detroit Lions and the “all-important” third preseason game. The regular season follows less than two weeks later. ESPN [...]
Browns notes: Anderson among those injured in loss to Giants
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Besides getting blown out in the first half Monday night versus the Giants, the Browns were hit with a series of injuries. Quarterback Derek Anderson suffered a possible concussion when he was crushed by Osi Umenyiora on a sack. Anderson faked a handoff and was set to roll out, but [...]
High School Golf 2008: Team concept to reign this season
It’s the year of the team in local high school golf. It has to be. The big stars have done a vanishing act. Last year’s elite local players — Alex Treuel of Elyria and Jay Overy of Midview — graduated in June. And this year’s elite local players — Avon residents Kyle [...]
Olympic baseball: Tribe’s LaPorta part of beanball in U.S. victory over China
BEIJING — Injuries, hot tempers, ejections and a beanball war. Not exactly what the crowd of 7,563 mostly Chinese fans thought they’d see when Team USA took on the host country in baseball. They got all that and more as the U.S. notched an emotional 9-1 victory in Olympic round-robin play at Wukesong [...]
High school football 2008: Southview looks to end losing ills
LORAIN — Todd Auvil is by nature a positive individual. “I didn’t either,” Auvil answered when someone told him they didn’t think the Saints would fail to win a game last year. The Southview football coach knows all about the losing streak the Saints have going entering the 2008 football season. “No doubt [...]
Elyrian, OSU star Robert Jabbusch dies at 84
Robert Jabbusch, who played on Ohio State’s 1942 national championship team for legendary coach Paul Brown, has died at the age of 84. A 1973 inductee to the Elyria Hall of Fame, Jabbusch succumbed from heart disease and pancreatic cancer on Friday in San Diego. He is the second Elyria Hall of Fame [...]
High school roundup: Open Door boys open soccer season with a win
SHEFFIELD — Preston Phillips and Kevin Squire scored two goals apiece to lead Open Door to a 6-3 win over Brookside in season-opening boys soccer action Monday. Mitchell Kurtzman scored two goals for the Cardinals.
GOALS: (OD) Preston Phillips 2, Kevin Squire 2, Micah Stoneburner, Tom Kremic; (B) Mitchell Kurtzman 2, Cody Hughes ASSISTS: [...]
Hundreds protest Shoreway Shopping Center`s ‘slumlords`
SHEFFIELD LAKE — The mailboxes of Shoreway Shopping Center owners Marc Levin and James Ratner should soon be stuffed full of mail from Sheffield Lake.
Postcards preprinted with their addresses were passed out to hundreds of Sheffield Lake residents who flocked to the shopping center Monday in an effort to convince the owners to [...]
Olympic Roundup: U.S. men’s basketball team gets past Germany, Australia next up
BEIJING — The U.S. Olympic team put away Dirk Nowitzki and Germany in a hurry. Next up: the only team so far these Americans couldn’t blow out. After destroying Germany 106-57 on Monday, the Americans (5-0) move on to a quarterfinal matchup Wednesday against Australia, the team that’s provided them with [...]
Rosie`s Family Restaurant reopens after ceiling crash
ELYRIA TWP. — More than two months after a ceiling collapse brought business at Rosie’s Family Restaurant to a crashing halt, the restaurant’s doors are set to reopen.
“It’s been tough, but we stuck with it,” said owner Rosie Rogers. “I know everyone’s been anxious to get back to work.”
Rosie’s will be [...]