Lorain/Elyria, OH
Archive for October 26th, 2008
Phillies stay up late to squeak out 5-4 win over Rays, take 2-1 World Series lead
PHILADELPHIA — This was midnight madness, and then some, at the World Series. “Freak things kind of happened there,” Eric Bruntlett said after scoring the winning run for the Philadelphia Phillies at 1:47 a.m. Carlos Ruiz finished off a wacky ninth inning with an infield single with the bases loaded, and [...]
Big letdown … again: Offense stumbles, Pryor fumbles as Ohio State falls short against Penn State
COLUMBUS — Ohio State’s big-game blues have seeped into the Big Ten. A winner in pretty much every pivotal conference matchup since Jim Tressel took over as head coach, the Buckeyes were a loser Saturday night in the most unlikely of places. No. 3 Penn State 13, No. 10 Ohio State 6 — [...]
Offensive woes at heart of Ohio State’s latest loss
COLUMBUS — Perhaps the offensive explosion at Michigan State last week was the aberration. For the third time this year — and the second time in a row at The Horseshoe — Ohio State’s offense failed to produce a touchdown in losing to No. 3-ranked Penn State, 13-6, Saturday in front of [...]
Crennel wants Browns to keep focus on field: But can team really leave distractions behind and just play ball?
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Coach Romeo Crennel spent the week in the eye of the storm. Arguably his best player, tight end Kellen Winslow, was suspended for today’s game against the Jaguars. His boss, general manager Phil Savage, uncorked an emotional rant on the radio but left Crennel to answer the [...]
Boys soccer: Amherst tops Avon Lake, wins first district title
AMHERST — Amherst withstood a wild and woolly ending Saturday and came away with a 3-2 win over Southwestern Conference foe Avon Lake in a Division I boys district soccer final. With their first-ever district championship, the Comets (10-7-2) advance to a regional semifinal [...]
Elyria Catholic’s Coolidge heads to state as regional cross country champ; Panthers, Bay also make state as teams
TIFFIN — One more step for Marty Coolidge. The Elyria Catholic junior added a Division II regional championship to the district title he won a week ago, easily outdistancing the field Saturday at Hedges-Boyer Park, and helped EC win a trip to next week’s boys state meet. The Panthers [...]
Elyria faces deep cuts if tax fails
ELYRIA — The police chief says he’ll lose a fourth of his department. The acting fire chief figures his department will end up staffing only one of its four stations.
Those will be the realities, they say, if voters defeat the city’s effort on the November ballot to renew a longstanding income tax. [...]
Navy veteran gets emotional ride on carrier he served on in the late `50s
ELYRIA — Donald Rothgery remembers his time aboard the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid like it was yesterday.
When he closes his eyes at night, he still dreams about the ship.
That’s why he couldn’t believe his luck when he was chosen to be one of 250 former crew members to be on the [...]
Poll: All tied up in Ohio
John McCain and Barack Obama remain locked in a tight race for Ohio with little more than a week to go in their presidential campaigns, according to a poll released Saturday.
The pair of presidential hopefuls is about even in Ohio, a poll commissioned by the state’s eight largest daily newspapers found. Barack Obama [...]
‘Dreamgirls` star`s mother, brother killed
CHICAGO — It was the cradle of Jennifer Hudson’s greatest triumphs. It’s now the scene of her darkest hour.
The Oscar-winning actress and singer has often credited her rise to fame to her upbringing in the impoverished neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side where she went to grade school and sang in church.
At [...]